Evolution of Small Language Models and Critiques of Phi Team

Models that seem totally out of scope from recent open LLMs give us a sneak peek of where the industry will be in 6 to 18 months.
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Source code: https://github.com/natolambert/interconnects-tools
Original post: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/phi-3-and-arctic-llms

0:00 Phi 3 and Arctic: Outlier LMs are hints
1:01 Arctic & open mixture of expert trends
6:10 Phi 3, synthetic data, and small models

Fig 1: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/phi3/img_004.png
Fig 2: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/phi3/img_008.png
Fig 3: https://huggingface.co/datasets/natolambert/interconnects-figures/resolve/main/phi3/img_018.png

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