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Re:Google Releases Paper on Embodied LLM (562b parameters) by freeqaz on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:42PM (#35064529)
How does that performance scale though? If you double the inputs you train on, do you get twice the performance? Less? More?

I've heard conflicting things and I'm curious to hear your reasoning!

Re:Google Releases Paper on Embodied LLM (562b parameters) by stevenhuang on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:59PM (#35064645)
The scaling appears linear in relationship, though on some performance metrics it is super linear.

See Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07682

Scaling Laws for Generative Mixed-Modal Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03728

All this demonstrates further the "bitter lesson" http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html that surprising ability emerges from just throwing more data and compute at the problem and is seen more fruitful an endeavor than trying to find a deeper/analytic solution to cognition (like Yann Lecun's research, who has basically become a meme now for how much he poopoos LLMs and insists what we're seeing are LLMs only pretending to reason).

Re:Google Releases Paper on Embodied LLM (562b parameters) by ivalm on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:53PM (#35064608)
Chinchilla paper proposes the following empirical scaling power law

Loss= (N0/N)^a+(D0/D)^b

Where N is number of parameters, D is number of examples, a,b are exponents. N0,D0 are scaling factors.

Re:Google Releases Paper on Embodied LLM (562b parameters) by 152334H on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:54PM (#35064614)
Where A,B,C are empirical constants,

Loss = A/parameters + B/dataset_size + C

Just read the chinchilla paper.

Re:Google Releases Paper on Embodied LLM (562b parameters) by peteradio on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:52PM (#35064606)
I asked ChatGPT, it said: "Uhhh it depends."