Deep Learning Scaling Laws Relationship

A Deep Learning Scaling Laws Relationship is an AI scaling relationship that describes how performance, efficiency, or other key metrics in deep learning models vary predictably with factors such as model size, dataset size, and compute resources.

• **Context:**
  • It can (typically) illustrate how Transformer Models improve as parameters, data, and compute are scaled up.
  • It can (often) govern performance improvements with respect to Model Size, Dataset Size, and Compute Resources.
  • It can range from being a Linear Relationship to a Power-Law Scaling based on the specific task and architecture.
  • It can analyze how larger Neural Networks become more Sample Efficient compared to smaller ones.
  • It can address diminishing returns when scaling parameters without increasing data or compute.
  • It can inform the optimal allocation of resources to achieve compute-efficient training by balancing model, data, and compute scaling.
  • It can help researchers and engineers predict improvements based on early-stage training through power-law extrapolation.
  • It can provide insights into the Generalization Performance of models when tested on distributions different from their training data.
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• **Example(s):**
  • The 2020_ScalingLawsforNeuralLanguageMod study by Jared Kaplan et al., which demonstrated that Transformer Models exhibit smooth power-law scaling across seven orders of magnitude in model size, data, and compute.
  • A Vision Model that benefits from increased compute and data, resulting in better performance following a power-law trend.
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• **Counter-Example(s):**
  • Non-Scaling Behaviors in models with fixed architectures where performance improvements do not follow power laws due to bottlenecks like compute limitations or overfitting.
  • Shallow Neural Networks, which may not exhibit the same scaling behaviors as Deep Neural Networks.
• **See:** Compute-Efficient Training, Sample Efficiency, Overfitting, Generalization Performance

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