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Re:Meta is inviting researchers to pick apart the flaws in i... by amelius on Monday June 27, 2022 @03:18PM (#31899418)
This all makes me wonder: how reproducible is the final output model?
Re:Meta is inviting researchers to pick apart the flaws in i... by screye on Monday June 27, 2022 @04:48PM (#31900580)
Not this one, but Google's PaLM (which is 4x OPT3) trains semi-deterministically.

These kinds of large transformers can be relatively reproduceable in results and benchmarks. However, making them converge to the exact same parameter set might not be a reasonable expectation.

Re:Meta is inviting researchers to pick apart the flaws in i... by ur-whale on Monday June 27, 2022 @10:51PM (#31903558)
> how reproducible is the final output model?

Not much, but it also depends on what you mean by "reproducible".

Do you expect a similar internal representation (weights) or a similar behavior?

Re:Meta is inviting researchers to pick apart the flaws in i... by dekhn on Monday June 27, 2022 @04:25PM (#31900293)
the details of that specific model they ended up with? Irreproducible, unless the system was carefully designed and every detail required to do a fully reproducible computation was recorded and replayed. But they could easily produce a bunch of models that all sort of end up in roughly the same place and perform the same, ideally reducing the number of things they needed to change ad-hoc during the training.