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Scaling Laws Are Unreliable for Downstream Tasks: A Reality Check
Nicholas Lourie, Michael Y. Hu, Kyunghyun Cho
Downstream scaling laws aim to predict task performance at larger scales from the model's performance at smaller scales. Whether such prediction should be possible is unclear: some…
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Between Circuits and Chomsky: Pre-pretraining on Formal Languages Imparts Linguistic Biases
Michael Y. Hu, Jackson Petty, Chuan Shi +2
Pretraining language models on formal language can improve their acquisition of natural language. Which features of the formal language impart an inductive bias that leads to effec…