Huang: Adding one billion tokens cannot teach trillion-token models new knowledge
Mark Huang · How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai · May 31, 2024 · at 31:49
Mark Huang, co-founder of Gradient.ai, explains the limitations of injecting new knowledge during context extension fine-tuning.
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“All models these days are now double-digit trillions, right? So it's kind of a drop in the bucket if you really think I can just put, you know, a billion tokens in there, and I actually think that the model's gonna truly learn new Information.”
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