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Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

Why bigger language models often win — and a simple trick to train them smarter

Researchers found a clear and predictable rule for how well language models learn.
As you give a model more size, more data, or more computing power, its performance improves in a smooth way.
This pattern holds across a huge range of scales, which is kinda surprising and helpful.
Tweaks like changing layer depth or width usually change little, so the big drivers are size, data, and compute — not small design tricks.
It turns out bigger models get more from each example, so they're more bigger and more efficient with data than small ones.
With a fixed budget you can get more by building a very large model, training it on a modest amount of data, and stopping before it fully converges.
That strategy saves time and cost, yet still makes smart results.
The idea is simple: use scale wisely, not wastefully, and you often end up with better, cheaper outcomes — even when you thinks it shouldn't work.

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