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pith:2024:NMCJO3JWVDE6EQQKNGCIAZYYRR

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Scaling Smart: Accelerating Large Language Model Pre-training with Small Model Initialization

Devang Naik, Fartash Faghri, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh Vahid, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Minsik Cho, Mohammad Samragh, Moin Nabi

arxiv:2409.12903 v2 · 2024-09-19 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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arxiv: 2409.12903 · arxiv_version: 2409.12903v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.12903 · pith_short_12: NMCJO3JWVDE6 · pith_short_16: NMCJO3JWVDE6EQQK · pith_short_8: NMCJO3JW

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NMCJO3JWVDE6EQQKNGCIAZYYRR \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
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