Scaling Laws vs Model Architectures: How does Inductive Bias Influence Scaling?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.10551v1
• Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 15:50:22 GMT
• Title: Scaling Laws vs Model Architectures: How does Inductive Bias Influence Scaling?
• Authors: Yi Tay, Mostafa Dehghani, Samira Abnar, Hyung Won Chung, William Fedus, Jinfeng Rao, Sharan Narang, Vinh Q. Tran, Dani Yogatama, Donald Metzler
• Abstract summary: This paper conducts a systematic study of scaling behaviour of ten diverse model architectures. We show that architecture is an important consideration when performing scaling and the best performing model can fluctuate at different scales.
• Score: 91.78878523252897
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: There have been a lot of interest in the scaling properties of Transformer models. However, not much has been done on the front of investigating the effect of scaling properties of different inductive biases and model architectures. Do model architectures scale differently? If so, how does inductive bias affect scaling behaviour? How does this influence upstream (pretraining) and downstream (transfer)? This paper conducts a systematic study of scaling behaviour of ten diverse model architectures such as Transformers, Switch Transformers, Universal Transformers, Dynamic convolutions, Performers, and recently proposed MLP-Mixers. Via extensive experiments, we show that (1) architecture is an indeed an important consideration when performing scaling and (2) the best performing model can fluctuate at different scales. We believe that the findings outlined in this work has significant implications to how model architectures are currently evaluated in the community.

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