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Facebook released over 100 pages of notes a few months ago detailing their training process for a model that is similar in size. Does anyone have a link? I can'
by dave_sullivan 4y ago
Facebook released over 100 pages of notes a few months ago detailing their training process for a model that is similar in size. Does anyone have a link? I can't seem to find it in my notes, googling links to posts that have been removed or are behind the facebook walled garden.
But I seem to remember they were running 1,000+ 32gb GPUs for 3 months to train it and keeping that infrastructure running day-to-day and tweaking parameters as training continued was the bulk of the 100 pages. It is beyond the reach of anybody but a really big company, at least in the area of very large models, and the large models are where all the recent results are. I wish I was more bullish on algorithm improvements meaning you can get better results on less hardware; there will definitely be some algorithm improvements, but I think we might really need more powerful hardware too. Or pooled resources. Something. These models are huge.
- ninjaranter 4y ago> Facebook released over 100 pages of notes a few months ago detailing their training process for a model that is similar in size. Does anyone have a link? Is https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/blob/main/projects/OPT/chronicles/OPT175B_Logbook.pdf https://github.com/facebookresearch/metaseq/blob/main/projec... what you're referring to?
- dave_sullivan 4y agoYes! Thank you! Very good read for anyone interested in the field.