4 papers
Beyond Cosine Decay: On the effectiveness of Infinite Learning Rate Schedule for Continual Pre-training
Vaibhav Singh, Paul Janson, Paria Mehrbod +4
The ever-growing availability of unlabeled data presents both opportunities and challenges for training artificial intelligence systems. While self-supervised learning (SSL) has em…
Why Has Predicting Downstream Capabilities of Frontier AI Models with Scale Remained Elusive?
Rylan Schaeffer, Hailey Schoelkopf, Brando Miranda +6
Predicting changes from scaling advanced AI systems is a desirable property for engineers, economists, governments and industry alike, and, while a well-established literature exis…
Zyda: A 1.3T Dataset for Open Language Modeling
Yury Tokpanov, Beren Millidge, Paolo Glorioso +4
The size of large language models (LLMs) has scaled dramatically in recent years and their computational and data requirements have surged correspondingly. State-of-the-art languag…
Zamba: A Compact 7B SSM Hybrid Model
Paolo Glorioso, Quentin Anthony, Yury Tokpanov +4
In this technical report, we present Zamba, a novel 7B SSM-transformer hybrid model which achieves competitive performance against leading open-weight models at a comparable scale.…