[karalala]

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.

[AIsore]

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.

[logicchains]

So many papers play tricks with the learning rate schedule: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06440