Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Loss falls as a clean power law in size, data, and compute — and tells you how to spend the budget.
Kaplan et al. · arXiv 2020 · Foundations. Read the paper ↗
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- What is Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models?
- Loss falls as a clean power law in size, data, and compute — and tells you how to spend the budget.
- Who published Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models, and where?
- Kaplan et al. — arXiv 2020 (arXiv:2001.08361).
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