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Chinchilla

A research paper from DeepMind that proved most large language models were over-sized and under-trained.

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A research paper from DeepMind that proved most large language models were over-sized and under-trained. It showed that given a fixed compute budget, it's better to train a smaller model on more data than a bigger model on less data. Changed how the industry thinks about scaling and influenced LLaMA's design.

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