Why do small language models underperform? Studying Language Model Saturation via the Softmax Bottleneck

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• The paper examines why small language models (LMs) often underperform compared to larger models, and investigates the role of the "softmax bottleneck" in this phenomenon.


• The softmax bottleneck refers to the final …

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