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on number of training tokens of gpt-j-6b and gpt-neox-20b #235

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xiaoda99 opened this issue Jul 31, 2022 · 0 comments
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on number of training tokens of gpt-j-6b and gpt-neox-20b #235

xiaoda99 opened this issue Jul 31, 2022 · 0 comments

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The blog reported that:
"The model was trained on 400B tokens from The Pile dataset with 800GB text."
But I'm confused about this figure, because also in the blog: "Throughput of the 6B GPT-J for training (151k tokens/s) is faster than the 2.7B GPT-Neo (148k tokens/s) on the same hardware (TPU v3-256 pod)", "GPT-J training took roughly five weeks with TPU v3-256."
So shoudn't it be 151k * 3600 * 24 * 7 * 5 = 456G tokens?

I found that the training tokens for gpt-neox-20b also seems to be very small: EleutherAI/gpt-neox#654

Where am I wrong? If gpt-j-6b and gpt-neox-20b were trained with ~1000 times fewer tokens than similar-sized gpt-3 curie (300B tokens), how could they achieve comparable or better eval results than gpt-3 curie?

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