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Re:OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too by ZhuanXia on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:37PM (#20774337)
Are you going to update your poetry engine now that we have this?
Re:OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too by gwern on Friday August 23, 2019 @10:43AM (#20778133)
Hm, maybe. It depends on how easy their training code is to use and how long retraining would take. It presumably will take at least a week because 345M took about a week, but I'm not sure I want to spend the money on a week of a very large cloud instance (which would be what, $300?) for what is probably a substantial but not stunning improvement in generation quality.

I might rather wait for the next leap, from something like a Sparse Transformer approach which can get global coherency by having a lookback over the entire poem or getting a better poetry corpus with delimited poems (rather than entire books).