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+ ---
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+ language:
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+ - en
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+ tags:
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+ - pytorch
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+ - causal-lm
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+ - pythia
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+ license: apache-2.0
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+ datasets:
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+ - the_pile
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+ ---
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+
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+ The *Pythia Scaling Suite* is a collection of models developed to facilitate
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+ interpretability research. It contains two sets of eight models of sizes
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+ 70M, 160M, 410M, 1B, 1.4B, 2.8B, 6.9B, and 12B. For each size, there are two
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+ models: one trained on the Pile, and one trained on the Pile after the dataset
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+ has been globally deduplicated. All 8 model sizes are trained on the exact
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+ same data, in the exact same order. All Pythia models are available
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+ [on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI).
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+
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+ The Pythia model suite was deliberately designed to promote scientific
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+ research on large language models, especially interpretability research.
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+ Despite not centering downstream performance as a design goal, we find the
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+ models match or exceed the performance of similar and same-sized models,
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+ such as those in the OPT and GPT-Neo suites.
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+
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+ Please note that all models in the *Pythia* suite were renamed in January
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+ 2023. For clarity, a <a href="#naming-convention-and-parameter-count">table
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+ comparing the old and new names</a> is provided in this model card, together
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+ with exact model parameter counts.
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+
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+ ## Pythia-12B
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+
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+ ### Model Details
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+
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+ - Developed by: [EleutherAI](http://eleuther.ai)
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+ - Model type: Transformer-based Language Model
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+ - Language: English
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+ - Learn more: [Pythia's GitHub repository](https://github.com/EleutherAI/pythia)
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+ for training procedure, config files, and details on how to use.
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+ - Library: [GPT-NeoX](https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox)
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+ - License: Apache 2.0
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+ - Contact: to ask questions about this model, join the [EleutherAI
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+ Discord](https://discord.gg/zBGx3azzUn), and post them in `#release-discussion`.
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+ Please read the existing *Pythia* documentation before asking about it in the
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+ EleutherAI Discord. For general correspondence: [contact@eleuther.
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+ ai](mailto:[email protected]).
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+
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+ <figure>
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+
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+ | Pythia model | Non-Embedding Params | Layers | Model Dim | Heads | Batch Size | Learning Rate | Equivalent Models |
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+ | -----------: | -------------------: | :----: | :-------: | :---: | :--------: | :-------------------: | :--------------------: |
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+ | 70M | 18,915,328 | 6 | 512 | 8 | 2M | 1.0 x 10<sup>-3</sup> | — |
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+ | 160M | 85,056,000 | 12 | 768 | 12 | 4M | 6.0 x 10<sup>-4</sup> | GPT-Neo 125M, OPT-125M |
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+ | 410M | 302,311,424 | 24 | 1024 | 16 | 4M | 3.0 x 10<sup>-4</sup> | OPT-350M |
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+ | 1.0B | 805,736,448 | 16 | 2048 | 8 | 2M | 3.0 x 10<sup>-4</sup> | — |
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+ | 1.4B | 1,208,602,624 | 24 | 2048 | 16 | 4M | 2.0 x 10<sup>-4</sup> | GPT-Neo 1.3B, OPT-1.3B |
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+ | 2.8B | 2,517,652,480 | 32 | 2560 | 32 | 2M | 1.6 x 10<sup>-4</sup> | GPT-Neo 2.7B, OPT-2.7B |
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+ | 6.9B | 6,444,163,072 | 32 | 4096 | 32 | 2M | 1.2 x 10<sup>-4</sup> | OPT-6.7B |
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+ | 12B | 11,327,027,200 | 36 | 5120 | 40 | 2M | 1.2 x 10<sup>-4</sup> | — |
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+ <figcaption>Engineering details for the <i>Pythia Suite</i>. Deduped and
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+ non-deduped models of a given size have the same hyperparameters. “Equivalent”
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+ models have <b>exactly</b> the same architecture, and the same number of
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+ non-embedding parameters.</figcaption>
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+ </figure>
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+
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+ ### Uses and Limitations
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+
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+ #### Intended Use
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+
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+ The primary intended use of Pythia is research on the behavior, functionality,
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+ and limitations of large language models. This suite is intended to provide
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+ a controlled setting for performing scientific experiments. To enable the
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+ study of how language models change over the course of training, we provide
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+ 143 evenly spaced intermediate checkpoints per model. These checkpoints are
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+ hosted on Hugging Face as branches. Note that branch `143000` corresponds
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+ exactly to the model checkpoint on the `main` branch of each model.
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+
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+ You may also further fine-tune and adapt Pythia-12B for deployment,
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+ as long as your use is in accordance with the Apache 2.0 license. Pythia
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+ models work with the Hugging Face [Transformers
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+ Library](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/index). If you decide to use
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+ pre-trained Pythia-12B as a basis for your fine-tuned model, please
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+ conduct your own risk and bias assessment.
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+
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+ #### Out-of-scope use
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+
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+ The Pythia Suite is **not** intended for deployment. It is not a in itself
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+ a product and cannot be used for human-facing interactions.
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+
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+ Pythia models are English-language only, and are not suitable for translation
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+ or generating text in other languages.
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+
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+ Pythia-12B has not been fine-tuned for downstream contexts in which
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+ language models are commonly deployed, such as writing genre prose,
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+ or commercial chatbots. This means Pythia-12B will **not**
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+ respond to a given prompt the way a product like ChatGPT does. This is because,
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+ unlike this model, ChatGPT was fine-tuned using methods such as Reinforcement
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+ Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) to better “understand” human instructions.
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+
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+ #### Limitations and biases
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+
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+ The core functionality of a large language model is to take a string of text
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+ and predict the next token. The token deemed statistically most likely by the
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+ model need not produce the most “accurate” text. Never rely on
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+ Pythia-12B to produce factually accurate output.
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+
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+ This model was trained on [the Pile](https://pile.eleuther.ai/), a dataset
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+ known to contain profanity and texts that are lewd or otherwise offensive.
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+ See [Section 6 of the Pile paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00027) for a
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+ discussion of documented biases with regards to gender, religion, and race.
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+ Pythia-12B may produce socially unacceptable or undesirable text, *even if*
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+ the prompt itself does not include anything explicitly offensive.
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+
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+ If you plan on using text generated through, for example, the Hosted Inference
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+ API, we recommend having a human curate the outputs of this language model
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+ before presenting it to other people. Please inform your audience that the
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+ text was generated by Pythia-12B.
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+
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+ ### Quickstart
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+
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+ Pythia models can be loaded and used via the following code, demonstrated here
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+ for the third `pythia-70m-deduped` checkpoint:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from transformers import GPTNeoXForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
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+
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+ model = GPTNeoXForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
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+ "EleutherAI/pythia-70m-deduped",
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+ revision="step3000",
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+ cache_dir="./pythia-70m-deduped/step3000",
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+ )
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+
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+ tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
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+ "EleutherAI/pythia-70m-deduped",
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+ revision="step3000",
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+ cache_dir="./pythia-70m-deduped/step3000",
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+ )
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+
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+ inputs = tokenizer("Hello, I am", return_tensors="pt")
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+ tokens = model.generate(**inputs)
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+ tokenizer.decode(tokens[0])
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+ ```
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+
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+ Revision/branch `step143000` corresponds exactly to the model checkpoint on
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+ the `main` branch of each model.
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+
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+ For more information on how to use all Pythia models, see [documentation on
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+ GitHub](https://github.com/EleutherAI/pythia).
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+
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+ ### Training
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+
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+ #### Training data
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+
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+ [The Pile](https://pile.eleuther.ai/) is a 825GiB general-purpose dataset in
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+ English. It was created by EleutherAI specifically for training large language
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+ models. It contains texts from 22 diverse sources, roughly broken down into
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+ five categories: academic writing (e.g. arXiv), internet (e.g. CommonCrawl),
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+ prose (e.g. Project Gutenberg), dialogue (e.g. YouTube subtitles), and
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+ miscellaneous (e.g. GitHub, Enron Emails). See [the Pile
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+ paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00027) for a breakdown of all data sources,
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+ methodology, and a discussion of ethical implications. Consult [the
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+ datasheet](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07311) for more detailed documentation
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+ about the Pile and its component datasets. The Pile can be downloaded from
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+ the [official website](https://pile.eleuther.ai/), or from a [community
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+ mirror](https://the-eye.eu/public/AI/pile/).
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+
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+ The Pile was **not** deduplicated before being used to train Pythia-12B.
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+
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+ #### Training procedure
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+
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+ Pythia uses the same tokenizer as [GPT-NeoX-
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+ 20B](https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-neox-20b).
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+
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+ All models were trained on the exact same data, in the exact same order. Each
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+ model saw 299,892,736,000 tokens during training, and 143 checkpoints for each
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+ model are saved every 2,097,152,000 tokens, spaced evenly throughout training.
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+ This corresponds to training for just under 1 epoch on the Pile for
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+ non-deduplicated models, and about 1.5 epochs on the deduplicated Pile.
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+
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+ All *Pythia* models trained for the equivalent of 143000 steps at a batch size
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+ of 2,097,152 tokens. Two batch sizes were used: 2M and 4M. Models with a batch
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+ size of 4M tokens listed were originally trained for 71500 steps instead, with
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+ checkpoints every 500 steps. The checkpoints on Hugging Face are renamed for
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+ consistency with all 2M batch models, so `step1000` is the first checkpoint
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+ for `pythia-1.4b` that was saved (corresponding to step 500 in training), and
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+ `step1000` is likewise the first `pythia-6.9b` checkpoint that was saved
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+ (corresponding to 1000 “actual” steps).
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+
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+ See [GitHub](https://github.com/EleutherAI/pythia) for more details on training
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+ procedure, including [how to reproduce
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+ it](https://github.com/EleutherAI/pythia/blob/main/README.md#reproducing-training).
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+
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+ ### Evaluations
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+
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+ All 16 *Pythia* models were evaluated using the [LM Evaluation
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+ Harness](https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness). You can access
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+ the results by model and step at `results/json/*` in the [GitHub
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+ repository](https://github.com/EleutherAI/pythia/tree/main/results/json).
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+
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+ February 2023 note: select evaluations and comparison with OPT and BLOOM
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+ models will be added here at a later date.
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+
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+ ### Naming convention and parameter count
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+
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+ *Pythia* models were renamed in January 2023. It is possible that the old
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+ naming convention still persists in some documentation by accident. The
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+ current naming convention (70M, 160M, etc.) is based on total parameter count.
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+
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+ <figure style="width:32em">
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+
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+ | current Pythia suffix | old suffix | total params | non-embedding params |
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+ | --------------------: | ---------: | -------------: | -------------------: |
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+ | 70M | 19M | 70,426,624 | 18,915,328 |
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+ | 160M | 125M | 162,322,944 | 85,056,000 |
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+ | 410M | 350M | 405,334,016 | 302,311,424 |
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+ | 1B | 800M | 1,011,781,632 | 805,736,448 |
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+ | 1.4B | 1.3B | 1,414,647,808 | 1,208,602,624 |
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+ | 2.8B | 2.7B | 2,775,208,960 | 2,517,652,480 |
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+ | 6.9B | 6.7B | 6,857,302,016 | 6,444,163,072 |
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+ | 12B | 13B | 11,846,072,320 | 11,327,027,200 |
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+ </figure>