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Comment · 1 year ago
The Gemma models are too small to be included in this list.

You're right the T5 stuff is very important historically but they're below 11B and I don't have much to say about them. Definitely a very interesting and important set of models though.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yes but just purely in terms of entropy, you can't make a model better than GPT-4 by training it on GPT-4 outputs. The limit you would converge towards is GPT-4.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is kind of related to the jack morris post https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-are-no-new-ideas-in-ai-only he discusses how the big leaps in LLMs have mostly come - not so much from new training methods or arch. changes as such - but the ability of new archs. to ingest more data.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's extremely interesting how powerful a language model is at compression.

When you train it to be an assistant model, it's better at compressing assistant transcripts than it is general text.

There is an eval which I have a lot of interested in and respect for https://huggingface.co/spaces/Jellyfish042/UncheatableEval called UncheatableEval, which tests how good of a language model an LLM is by applying it on a range of compression tasks.

This task is essentially impossible to 'cheat'. Compression is a benchmark you cannot game!

Comment · 1 year ago
I think that one thing that this chart makes visually very clear is the point I about GPT-3 being such a huge leap, and there being a long gap before anybody was able to match it.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is really awesome. Thank you for creating that. I included a screenshot and link to the chart with credit to you in a comment to my post.
Comment · 1 year ago
I can correct mistakes.

> it somehow merged Llama 4 Maverick's custom Arena chatbot version with Behemoth

I can clarify this part. I wrote 'There was a scandal as facebook decided to mislead people by gaming the lmarena benchmark site - they served one version of llama-4 there and released a different model' which is true.

But it is inside the section about the llama 4 model behemoth. So I see how that could be confusing/misleading.

I could restructure that section a little to improve it.

> Llama 405B was also trained on more than 15 trillion tokens[1],

You're talking about Llama 405B instruct, I'm talking about Llama 405B base. Of course the instruct model has been traiend on more tokens.

> why is there such a focus on token training count?

I tried to include the rough training token count for each model I wrote about - plus additional details about training data mixture if available. Training data is an important part of an LLM.

Comment · 1 year ago
I have corrected that. It was supposed to say "None of this document was written by AI."

Thank you for spotting the error.

Comment · 2 years ago
> Take care of your mental health

How?

Comment · 2 years ago
todsacerdoti is a spambot btw

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