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by logicchains 769 days ago
I thought it was common knowledge that architecture comparisons in papers aren't worth the paper they're printed on; there are so many ways to deliberately or accidentally structure things to favour one architecture over the others. Ultimately the lmsys chatpot arena will be the final judge.
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True, but they normally arent this far off. HGRN claims that they outperform transformer for 1B parameter model trained on the pile. HGRN performing 8ppl worse suggests that its useless.
My experience - many are far off and most of the time published tables of different papers are hard to compare. If you make the assertion here of these results to be flawed, I would like to see more substance (code, reproduction,...). And for balance, for the same reason, hard to verify the accuracy of these results without further insight.
So many papers play tricks with the learning rate schedule: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06440