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What are neural scaling laws and the Chinchilla compute-optimal result?

Scaling laws explain why bigger models trained on more data predictably get better, and Chinchilla changed how we allocate compute. The signal is the model-size-vs-data tradeoff and that many models were under-trained. Here is the answer.

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Scaling laws explain why bigger models trained on more data predictably get better, and Chinchilla changed how we allocate compute. The signal is the model-size-vs-data tradeoff and that many models were under-trained. Here is the answer.

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