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Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer

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lol they didn’t open source the model weights

data is the new oil, what's the analogy for the data industry's impact on society akin climate change?

Surveillance Capitalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism

Re: Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer

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If the model weights aren’t open source, the model isn’t open source in my opinion. It’s not like a switch transformer is that much more complicated to slap into pytorch than any other new research. Also in my personal opinion, while yes this model performs great, it’s ridiculously parameter inefficient. 1.6T parameters is 3.12TB using bfloat 16. I’d rather take 7x longer to train and have a model I can actually put places.

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If the model weights aren’t open source, the model isn’t open source in my opinion. It’s not like a switch transformer is that much more complicated to slap into pytorch than any other new research. Also in my personal opinion, while yes this model performs great, it’s ridiculously parameter inefficient. 1.6T parameters is 3.12TB using bfloat 16. I’d rather take 7x longer to train and have a model I can actually put…

> it’s ridiculously parameter inefficient

How do you know that? Perhaps with this methodology you really need those 3.12TB to reach comparable performance?

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lol they didn’t open source the model weights

If I did the math right it would be 3.12TB of weights, maybe they are trying to upload it to gdrive still. (/s, probably)

They released more data than that for their Google Books n-grams datasets:

https://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv3...

(I don't remember exactly how much it is, but I remember that the old version was already in the terabytes.)

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