language:
- en
datasets:
- c4
tags:
- deep-narrow
license: apache-2.0
T5-Efficient-XL is a checkpoint of the T5 model architecture.
The checkpoint was released with the paper Scale Efficiently: Insights from Pre-training and Fine-tuning Transformers by Yi Tay, Mostafa Dehghani, Jinfeng Rao, William Fedus, Samira Abnar, Hyung Won Chung, Sharan Narang, Dani Yogatama, Ashish Vaswani, Donald Metzler.
In a nutshell, the paper indicates that a DeepNarrow model architecture is favorable for downstream performance compared to other model architectures of similar parameter count.
To quote the paper:
We generally recommend a DeepNarrow strategy where the model’s depth is preferentially increased before considering any other forms of uniform scaling across other dimensions. This is largely due to how much depth influences the Pareto-frontier as shown in earlier sections of the paper. Specifically, a tall small (deep and narrow) model is generally more efficient compared to the base model. Likewise, a tall base model might also generally more efficient compared to a large model. We generally find that, regardless of size, even if absolute performance might increase as we continue to stack layers, the relative gain of Pareto-efficiency diminishes as we increase the layers, converging at 32 to 36 layers. Finally, we note that our notion of efficiency here relates to any one compute dimension, i.e., params, FLOPs or throughput (speed). We report all three key efficiency metrics (number of params, FLOPS and speed) and leave this decision to the practitioner to decide which compute dimension to consider.
To be more precise, model depth is defined as the number of transformer blocks that are stacked sequentially. A sequence of word embeddings is therefore processed sequentially by each transformer block.
Details model architecture
The conventional T5 architectures are summarized in the following table.
Model | nl | ff | dm | kv | nh | #Params |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tiny | 4/4 | 1024 | 256 | 32 | 4 | 16M |
Mini | 4/4 | 1536 | 384 | 32 | 8 | 31M |
Small | 6/6 | 2048 | 512 | 32 | 8 | 60M |
Base | 12/12 | 3072 | 768 | 64 | 12 | 220M |
Large | 24/24 | 4096 | 1024 | 64 | 16 | 738M |
XL | 24/24 | 16384 | 1024 | 128 | 32 | 3B |
XXL | 24/24 | 65536 | 1024 | 128 | 128 | 11B |
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Pre-Training
The checkpoint was pretrained on the Colossal, Cleaned version of Common Crawl (C4) for 524288 steps using the span-based masked language modeling (MLM) objective.
Downstream Performance
TODO:
Pretraining Dataset: C4