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EleutherAI / pythia

pythia

The hub for EleutherAI's work on interpretability and learning dynamics

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4Mentions
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The hub for EleutherAI's work on interpretability and learning dynamics

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2023-04-05 05:09:49 UTC to 2024-01-18 07:23:19 UTC.

01232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsApr 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 2024

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Apr 20232023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC312
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Jan 20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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You can grep for bad words. What you can't do(unless hoops are jumped through) is to verify that weights came from the same dataset. You can set the same random seed and still get different results. Calculations are not that deterministic. (https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/notes/randomness.html#reprod...). >I am overall skeptical that this is true in the case of LLMs This skepticism seems reasonable. EleutherAI have documentation to reproduce training (https://github.com/EleutherAI/pythia#reproducing-training). So far I haven't seen it leading to anything. Lots of arxiv papers I've seen complain about time and budget constraint even regarding finetunes, forget pretraining.
In If you can't reproduce the model then it's not open-source
The ones I saw mentioned so far were Flan, Cerebras, GPT-J, and RWKV. Not yet mentioned: * Pythia https://github.com/EleutherAI/pythia * GLM-130B https://github.com/THUDM/GLM-130B - see also ChatGLM-6B https://github.com/THUDM/ChatGLM-6B * GPT-NeoX-20B https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-neox-20b * GeoV-9B https://github.com/geov-ai/geov * BLOOM https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom and BLOOMZ https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloomz
In Ask HN: Open source LLM for commercial use?

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