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"Everything else is a means to an end in efficiently delivery compute..." Without tweaking anything (so not RWKV), you could train a GPT level RNN...if you had
by famouswaffles 3y ago
"Everything else is a means to an end in efficiently delivery compute..."
Without tweaking anything (so not RWKV), you could train a GPT level RNN...if you had the compute to burn.
- p1esk 3y agoWe don't know that. No one has demonstrated it. It's very likely that at larger scales, for a given amount of compute you cannot train a traditional RNN to be as a good as a transformer.
- famouswaffles 3y agoWe are saying the same thing. Transformers are more compute efficient than RNNs. Nobody is denying that but the switch from RNNs didn't precede some performance wall(i.e it's not like we were training bigger RNNs that weren't getting better). We use Transformers today in large part because they got rid of recursion and in effect could massively parallelize compute.