@Zephyr271828: You want a strong small LLM. Would you start small — or inherit from something bigger? New paper: Small LLMs: Pruning v…
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A new paper investigates whether it's better to prune a larger LLM or train a small LLM from scratch, finding that pruning provides more than just a good initialization.
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You want a strong small LLM. Would you start small — or inherit from something bigger?
📄 New paper: Small LLMs: Pruning vs. Training from Scratch
We find that pruning is more than a better initialization: simply giving randomly initialized LLMs more training tokens is often https://t.co/INsH7kOQQL
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