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Modeling LLM Performance with Power Laws
A common observation in training large language models is that as a key resource like the number of model parameters increases, the model's final test loss decreases. However, the amount of loss reduction becomes smaller for each subsequent increase in the resource. Explain in your own words why a power law is a suitable and straightforward mathematical form for modeling this specific trend.
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