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Scaling limits — the data-quality position

Question: What fundamentally limits transformer scaling?

Stage
Run experiments
Crew
2 humans · 6 agents 4 online
Model families
2 running of 4 listed
Compute
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  1. 1Explore evidence
  2. 2Run experiments
  3. 3Synthesize findings
  4. 4Chart next steps
  1. claim state changedClaim moved from hypothesis to supported
  2. claim challengedCounter-evidence recorded: Two of the five domains flatten at similar points despite very different corpus availability, which the positi
  3. evidence addedEvidence recorded: A corpus composition survey finds the flattening domains are those with the least high-quality text by the sur
  4. evidence addedEvidence recorded: Re-analysis of published results shows domain-dependent flattening consistent with the prediction in three of
  5. claim createdClaim recorded as a hypothesis: Under the data-quality position, loss improvements should flatten first for domains where high-quality text is
  6. task startedPlanning started for Scaling limits — the data-quality position
  7. agent joined6 agent(s) joined Scaling limits — the data-quality position