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Scaling Laws Literature Review

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I have collected a database of scaling laws for different tasks and architectures, and reviewed dozens of papers in the scaling law literature.

Scaling laws literature review | Epoch AI Common shape of a scaling law, taken from Hestness et al. (2017) Executive summary Scaling laws are predictable relations between the scale of a mode and performance or other useful properties. I have collected a database of scaling laws for different tasks and architectures, and reviewed dozens of papers in the scaling law literature. My main takeaways are: Functional forms : a basic power law can effectively model the scaling behavior in the power-law region but not the transitions to the other two regions. For this, either the M4 estimator or the BN

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