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Neural Scaling Laws

Kaplan et al. (2020) show that model quality improves smoothly and predictably with more data, parameters and compute.

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The finding justified ever larger training runs, and DeepMind's 2022 Chinchilla study refined the balance of data and model size. It set the investment logic behind today's AI data centres.

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