Analyzing Irreducible Error in LLM Scaling
Two research teams are training language models. Team A uses a very large, high-quality, and meticulously cleaned dataset. Team B uses a dataset of similar size but known to contain a moderate level of noise, such as mislabeled examples and inherent ambiguities in the text. Both teams model their test loss using a scaling law that includes an irreducible error term, which represents a performance floor. Which team is likely to find a higher value for this irreducible error term, and why?
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