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What is: Pathways Language Model?

SourcePaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways
Year2000
Data SourceCC BY-SA - https://paperswithcode.com

PaLM (Pathways Language Model) uses a standard Transformer model architecture (Vaswani et al., 2017) in a decoder-only setup (i.e., each timestep can only attend to itself and past timesteps), with several modifications. PaLM is trained as a 540 billion parameter, densely activated, autoregressive Transformer on 780 billion tokens. PaLM leverages Pathways (Barham et al., 2022), which enables highly efficient training of very large neural networks across thousands of accelerator chips.

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