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Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?

Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?

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AuthorRylan Schaeffer, Brando Miranda, Sanmi Koyejo
DateMay 1, 2023
URLhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.15004.pdf
Note createdMay 1, 2023

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For a fixed task and a fixed model family, the researcher can choose a metric to create an emergent ability or choose a metric to ablate an emergent ability. Ergo, emergent abilities may be creations ofthe researcher’s choices, not a fundamental property ofthe model family on the specific task.

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