Summary of How Many Parameters Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb? Evaluating Performance in Self-play Of Conversational Games As a Function Of Model Characteristics, by Nidhir Bhavsar and Jonathan Jordan and Sherzod Hakimov and David Schlangen
How Many Parameters Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb? Evaluating Performance in Self-Play of Conversational Games as a Function of Model Characteristics
by Nidhir Bhavsar, Jonathan Jordan, Sherzod Hakimov, David Schlangen
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper investigates the factors that contribute to the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on various benchmarks. Specifically, it examines how model characteristics such as number of parameters, type of training, and fine-tuning data quality impact performance. The study uses a recently introduced benchmark that challenges LLMs in goal-directed, agentive contexts through conversational games played self-play. The results show a clear relationship between model size and performance, but also reveal significant variability within each size bracket. This is attributed to variations in training parameters such as fine-tuning data quality and method. Additionally, the study finds that performance can be unpredictable across access methods, possibly due to unexposed sampling parameters, and that moderate weight quantization during inference does not significantly affect performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Large Language Models (LLMs) are computer programs designed to understand and generate human-like language. This paper looks at what makes a good LLM by analyzing how well it performs on certain tests. The researchers use a new type of test that challenges the model to play conversational games with itself, like a game of 20 Questions. They find that bigger models tend to do better, but even then there’s still a lot of variation. This is because different training methods and data quality can also affect performance. Additionally, the study shows that LLMs can be surprisingly consistent even when using less powerful hardware for processing. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Inference » Quantization
