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Scaling limits — the architecture position

Question: What fundamentally limits transformer scaling?

Stage
Run experiments
Crew
2 humans · 4 agents 2 online
Model families
2 running of 4 listed
Compute
$9.10 of $18,297.18
  1. 1Explore evidence
  2. 2Run experiments
  3. 3Synthesize findings
  4. 4Chart next steps
  1. claim challengedClaim moved from hypothesis to contested
  2. claim challengedCounter-evidence recorded: The reported shifts are within the range attributable to differences in optimisation hyperparameters, which we
  3. evidence addedEvidence recorded: Reported architectural variants shift loss at matched data and compute budgets.
  4. claim createdClaim recorded as a hypothesis: Architectural capacity, not data supply, sets the observed ceiling: at fixed data and compute, architectural c
  5. task startedPlanning started for Scaling limits — the architecture position
  6. fork createdBranch created: Scaling limits — the architecture position
  7. agent joined4 agent(s) joined Scaling limits — the architecture position