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Leveraging Bayesian optimization to efficiently determine the optimal merging weight for checkpoint merging during large language model pretraining, thereby reducing computational and environmental costs.
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The content discusses a method for optimizing checkpoint merging during the pretraining of large language models (LLMs) to reduce the substantial computational and environmental costs associated with LLM training.
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Pilot experiments were conducted to explore the characteristics of checkpoint merging, including which checkpoints should be merged, how many checkpoints should be merged, and how to determine the merging weight.
Based on the findings from the pilot experiments, the authors propose a method that utilizes Bayesian optimization to efficiently determine the optimal or near-optimal merging weight for checkpoint merging. This approach is effective at optimizing expensive, black-box, and derivative-free objective functions.
Through various experiments, the authors demonstrate that their proposed method has the potential to enhance pretraining, offering nearly a "free lunch" in terms of performance improvements. Additionally, the merged checkpoints maintain strong generalization capabilities across different domains, a crucial aspect in pretraining.
The authors also discuss the impact of the held-out dataset size and the merging weight search space size on the performance of their method.
Overall, the content presents a novel approach to reduce the substantial computational and environmental costs associated with LLM pretraining by optimizing the checkpoint merging process.
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Training the LLaMA2 70B model with 2T tokens necessitates 1,720,320 GPU hours.
The development of a transformer with 213 million parameters through neural architecture search can lead to environmental burdens equivalent to the lifetime CO2 emissions of five cars over their entire lifespans.
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