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Scaling Law

Scaling Law is a foundational theoretical concept in large language model research, stating that as model parameter count, training data volume, and computational resources increase, model performance improves in a predictable power-law relationship.

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Oct 1

Leading AI companies are shifting their competitive focus from parameter scale at training time to efficiency and cost-effectiveness at inference time, with price reductions serving as a strategy to capture market share and build an ecosystem moat.

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Sep 17

Scaling Law research has found that model performance continues to improve when compute and data are scaled proportionally, but whether the rate of improvement is diminishing remains a subject of debate

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Sep 12

Improving model capabilities through larger parameters, more data, and greater computing power (Scaling Law) remains one of the core strategies of major laboratories.

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Sep 11

Scaling Laws were formally proposed in 2020 by OpenAI researcher Jared Kaplan and others, establishing that model performance follows a power-law relationship with parameter count, data volume, and compute.

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Sep 10

Since 2024, evidence from multiple directions has suggested that relying solely on pre-training scaling may be encountering diminishing returns, as the available amount of high-quality text is approaching the ceiling of what exists on the internet.

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Sep 7

NYU cognitive scientist Gary Marcus has pointed out that the current path based on Scaling Law may have a fundamental ceiling.

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Sep 4

The neural network scaling laws proposed by Kaplan et al. in 2020 indicate that model performance has a power-law relationship with data volume, parameter count, and compute, where the model's cross-entropy loss L and parameter count N satisfy L ∝ N^(-α).

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Sep 3

Latent space reasoning may shift AI from pursuing larger scale toward better architectures, which is closely related to the industry's reflection on the diminishing marginal returns of Scaling Laws.

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Sep 3

Scaling Laws are empirical relationships observed for specific architectures, objective functions, and datasets—not physical laws—and changing any one of these factors yields a different scaling curve.

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Aug 31

Multiple research institutions have pointed out that high-quality publicly available text generated by humans may be exhausted between 2026 and 2028.

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The Scaling Law proposed by OpenAI reveals that model performance improves in a predictable power-law fashion as the number of parameters, training data volume, and compute increase.

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The Scaling Law was first systematically quantified by Kaplan et al. in 2020 in language model research, pointing out a power-law relationship between model performance and parameter count, data volume, and compute.

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The scaling laws established by Kaplan et al. in 2020 indicate that model performance follows a power-law relationship with parameter count, data volume, and compute.

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Scaling Laws were first systematically proposed and quantified by OpenAI researchers in the 2020 paper "Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models."

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In 2020, OpenAI researchers Kaplan et al. published a paper that first systematically revealed the predictable power-law relationships between language model performance and model parameter count, training data volume, and computational budget (Scaling Law)

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Scaling Law was discovered by OpenAI researchers in 2020 and states that model performance improves predictably when model parameter count, training data volume, and compute scale at specific ratios.

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Scaling Law refers to the predictable and regular improvement in model capability as the number of parameters and the volume of training data increase.

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OpenAI proposed the Scaling Law in 2020, revealing a power-law relationship between model performance and parameter count, data volume, and compute.

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The scaling laws were systematically demonstrated in 2020 by OpenAI researcher Jared Kaplan and others, with the core finding that the cross-entropy loss of language models follows a power-law relationship with model parameter count, training data volume, and compute

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From GPT-1 to GPT-3, the model architecture itself did not undergo fundamental changes; the primary improvements came from the expansion of parameter scale and the increase in training data, confirming the Scaling Law.

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Multiple research institutions have pointed out that high-quality publicly available text generated by humans may be exhausted between 2026 and 2028.

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Scaling Law描述了Transformer模型性能与参数量、数据量、计算量之间存在可预测的幂律关系

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Google翻译团队2006年的论文展示了类似于后来被称为Scaling Law的现象——随着数据量和计算量增加,模型质量呈现规律性提升

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After large models entered the post-pretraining era, the capability gains from simply stacking parameters have become increasingly diminishing, and vendors have turned to the post-training phase in search of breakthroughs.

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The neural network scaling laws proposed by Kaplan et al. in 2020 indicate that model performance has a power-law relationship with data volume, parameter count, and compute, where the model's cross-entropy loss L and parameter count N satisfy L ∝ N^(-α).

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Latent space reasoning may shift AI from pursuing larger scale toward better architectures, which is closely related to the industry's reflection on the diminishing marginal returns of Scaling Laws.

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Scaling Law research found that model performance (measured by cross-entropy loss) has a predictable power-law relationship with model parameter count, dataset size, and computational cost.

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Investing more computational resources at the inference stage can yield performance gains (test-time compute scaling theory), and the gains exhibit a明显 region of diminishing returns.

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Leading AI companies are shifting their competitive focus from parameter scale at training time to efficiency and cost-effectiveness at inference time, with price reductions serving as a strategy to capture market share and build an ecosystem moat.

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Scaling Law research has found that model performance continues to improve when compute and data are scaled proportionally, but whether the rate of improvement is diminishing remains a subject of debate

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