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by behnamoh 890 days ago
But isn't that something that even smaller GPT-2 models demonstrated already?
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No, and this is covered in the various Phi papers, as well as TinyStories [0]:

> Models with around 125M parameters such as GPT-Neo (small) or GPT-2 (small) can rarely generate coherent and consistent English text beyond a few words even after extensive training.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07759