4 papers · 1 filter
Beyond Chinchilla-Optimal: Accounting for Inference in Language Model Scaling Laws
Nikhil Sardana, Jacob Portes, Sasha Doubov +1
Large language model (LLM) scaling laws are empirical formulas that estimate changes in model quality as a result of increasing parameter count and training data. However, these fo…
Soup to go: mitigating forgetting during continual learning with model averaging
Anat Kleiman, Gintare Karolina Dziugaite, Jonathan Frankle +2
In continual learning, where task data arrives in a sequence, fine-tuning on later tasks will often lead to performance degradation on earlier tasks. This is especially pronounced…
LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less
Dan Biderman, Jacob Portes, Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz +9
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a widely-used parameter-efficient finetuning method for large language models. LoRA saves memory by training only low rank perturbations to selected w…
Does your data spark joy? Performance gains from domain upsampling at the end of training
Cody Blakeney, Mansheej Paul, Brett W. Larsen +2
Pretraining datasets for large language models (LLMs) have grown to trillions of tokens composed of large amounts of CommonCrawl (CC) web scrape along with smaller, domain-specific…