More Compute Is What You Need

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19484v2
• Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 01:58:15 GMT
• Title: More Compute Is What You Need
• Authors: Zhen Guo,
• Abstract summary: We propose a new scaling law that suggests model performance depends mostly on the amount of compute spent for transformer-based models. We predict that (a) for inference efficiency, training should prioritize smaller model sizes and larger training datasets, and (b) assuming the exhaustion of available web datasets, scaling the model size might be the only way to further improve model performance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large language model pre-training has become increasingly expensive, with most practitioners relying on scaling laws to allocate compute budgets for model size and training tokens, commonly referred to as Compute-Optimal or Chinchilla Optimal. In this paper, we hypothesize a new scaling law that suggests model performance depends mostly on the amount of compute spent for transformer-based models, independent of the specific allocation to model size and dataset size. Using this unified scaling law, we predict that (a) for inference efficiency, training should prioritize smaller model sizes and larger training datasets, and (b) assuming the exhaustion of available web datasets, scaling the model size might be the only way to further improve model performance.

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