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Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models

At a glance

Examined abilities that appeared in larger language models but were absent in smaller ones.

In one paragraph

Examined tasks where larger language models appeared to gain abilities absent in smaller models, such as arithmetic and answering questions. Called these patterns “emergent abilities” and explored what they might imply for predicting the effects of further scaling.

Authors 16

  1. Jason Wei
  2. Yi Tay
  3. Rishi Bommasani
  4. Colin Raffel
  5. Barret Zoph
  6. Sebastian Borgeaud
  7. Dani Yogatama
  8. Maarten Bosma
  9. Denny Zhou
  10. Donald Metzler
  11. Ed H. Chi
  12. Tatsu Hashimoto
  13. Oriol Vinyals
  14. Percy Liang
  15. Jeff Dean
  16. Liam Fedus

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