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<h1>Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models</h1>
<div class="authors"><span class="author"><a href="https://example.com/alice" class="author-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alice Martin</a><span class="author-affiliation">Hugging Face</span></span><span class="author-sep">, </span><span class="author"><span class="author-name">Bob Chen</span><span class="author-affiliation">Hugging Face, MIT</span></span><span class="author-sep">, </span><span class="author"><span class="author-name">Carol Wu</span><span class="author-affiliation">MIT</span></span></div>
<p class="date">April 13, 2026</p>
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from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model_id = "meta-llama/Llama-3-8B"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
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device_map="auto",
)
prompt = "The future of AI is"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=100)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))</code></pre><h2>Table</h2><table style="min-width: 100px;"><colgroup><col style="min-width: 25px;"><col style="min-width: 25px;"><col style="min-width: 25px;"><col style="min-width: 25px;"></colgroup><tbody><tr><th colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>Model</p></th><th colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>Parameters</p></th><th colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>MMLU</p></th><th colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>HellaSwag</p></th></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>LLaMA 3 8B</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>8B</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>66.6</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>82.0</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>LLaMA 3 70B</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>70B</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>79.5</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>87.3</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>GPT-4</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>~1.8T</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>86.4</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>95.3</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>Mixtral 8x7B</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>46.7B</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>70.6</p></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1"><p>84.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><h2>Mathematics</h2><p>Inline math works with double dollars: the quadratic formula is <span data-latex="x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a}" data-type="inline-math"></span> and Euler's identity is <span data-latex="e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0" data-type="inline-math"></span>.</p><p>Block equations use triple dollars. Here is a standard autoregressive loss:</p><div data-latex="\mathcal{L}(\theta) = -\sum_{t=1}^{T} \log P(x_t \mid x_{<t}; \theta)" data-type="block-math"></div><p>And the full variational trajectory decomposition:</p><div data-latex="\begin{aligned} \log p_\theta(\mathcal{D}) &amp;= \log \sum_{i=0}^N p_\theta((o,a)_i) \\ &amp;= \log \sum_{i=0}^N \int_{\text{supp}(Z)} p_\theta((o,a)_i \mid z)\, p(z) \\ &amp;= \log \sum_{i=0}^N \int_{\text{supp}(Z)} \frac{q_\theta(z \mid (o,a)_i)}{q_\theta(z \mid (o,a)_i)} \cdot p_\theta((o,a)_i \mid z)\, p(z) \\ &amp;= \log \sum_{i=0}^N \mathbb{E}_{z \sim p_\theta(\bullet \mid (o,a)_i)} \left[ \frac{p(z)}{q_\theta(z \mid (o,a)_i)} \cdot p_\theta((o,a)_i \mid z) \right] \end{aligned}" data-type="block-math"></div><h2>Scientific references</h2><p>The editor supports academic citations. The Transformer architecture <span key="vaswani2017" label="[vaswani2017]" data-type="citation" class="citation-node">[vaswani2017]</span> revolutionized natural language processing by introducing the self-attention mechanism. Large-scale pretraining <span key="devlin2019" label="[devlin2019]" data-type="citation" class="citation-node">[devlin2019]</span> demonstrated that unsupervised objectives on massive corpora produce powerful general-purpose representations.</p><p>More recently, scaling laws <span key="kaplan2020" label="[kaplan2020]" data-type="citation" class="citation-node">[kaplan2020]</span> have shown predictable relationships between model size, dataset size, and performance.</p><hr><h2>Horizontal rule</h2><p>Use a horizontal rule to visually separate sections:</p><hr><h2>Nested content</h2><p>Lists can contain multiple levels of formatting. Blockquotes can hold structured content:</p><blockquote><p><strong>Note:</strong> This editor supports real-time collaboration. Open this page in another tab to see cursors sync live.</p></blockquote><h3>A deeper heading level</h3><p>Heading levels go from H1 down to H3, giving you a clear document hierarchy. The floating menu on the left lets you insert any block type, and the bubble toolbar appears when you select text.</p><h2>Custom components</h2><p>The editor supports rich custom components from the research article template. Use the <code>/</code> slash menu to insert them.</p><details data-component="accordion">
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<div class="accordion-content"><p>The model was fine-tuned using LoRA adapters with rank 16 on 4× A100 GPUs. Training took approximately 12 hours on the full dataset. We used a cosine learning rate schedule with warm-up over the first 10% of steps.</p></div>
</details><div title="Important" emoji="💡" variant="info" data-component="note"><p>All experiments were conducted with mixed-precision (bf16) training. Results may vary slightly with different random seeds.</p></div><div author="Ilya Sutskever" source="NeurIPS 2024 keynote" data-component="quoteBlock"><p>If you have a very large neural network and you train it on a very large dataset, you get very good results. It really is that simple.</p></div><div title="Warning" emoji="⚠️" variant="danger" data-component="note"><p>Do not use these scaling estimates for production capacity planning without accounting for inference overhead and memory constraints.</p></div><div data-component="wide"><p>This content stretches beyond the normal column width, useful for wide tables, figures or visualizations that need extra horizontal space.</p></div><div data-component="fullWidth"><p>This content spans the entire page width. It is ideal for large figures, panoramic images, or full-bleed data visualizations.</p></div><div data-component="sidenote"><p>Scaling laws were first systematically studied in the context of neural machine translation before being generalized to language models.</p></div><div id="fig-scaling" caption="Log-linear relationship between compute budget and model performance across three orders of magnitude." data-component="reference"><p>[ Figure placeholder — insert an image or chart here ]</p></div><div src="d3-scaling-chart.html" title="Interactive scaling law visualization" desc="Explore how model size, data, and compute interact." wide="false" downloadable="true" data-component="htmlEmbed"></div><p>The concept of <span term="Scaling law" definition="A power-law relationship between model size, dataset size, compute budget, and performance." data-type="glossary" class="glossary-node" title="A power-law relationship between model size, dataset size, compute budget, and performance." tabindex="0">Scaling law</span> has become central to modern AI research. Early work<span content="Hestness et al. (2017) observed similar scaling behavior in vision and translation tasks before the scaling laws paper formalized the framework." data-type="footnote" class="footnote-node" title="Hestness et al. (2017) observed similar scaling behavior in vision and translation tasks before the scaling laws paper formalized the framework." tabindex="0"><sup class="footnote-marker">*</sup></span> suggested these relationships hold across modalities.</p><div layout="2-column" gap="medium" data-component="stack"><div data-type="stack-column"><p><strong>Column A</strong></p><p>Multi-column layouts let you place content side by side. Each column is fully editable.</p></div><div data-type="stack-column"><p><strong>Column B</strong></p><p>Use the layout selector in the header to switch between 2, 3, or 4 columns.</p></div></div><div username="tfrere" name="Thibaud Frere" url="https://huggingface.co/tfrere" data-component="hfUser"></div><h2>What's next?</h2><p>Try asking the AI assistant to:</p><ul><li><p>Rewrite a paragraph in a different tone</p></li><li><p>Expand a section with more detail</p></li><li><p>Fix grammar or spelling errors</p></li><li><p>Translate content to another language</p></li><li><p>Add a new section on a specific topic</p></li></ul><p>Select some text and use the quick actions, or type a message in the chat panel. All AI edits can be undone with <code>Cmd+Z</code>.</p><div data-type="bibliography" class="bibliography-block"><h2 class="bibliography-title">References</h2><div class="bibliography-content"><div class="csl-bib-body">
<div data-csl-entry-id="devlin2019" class="csl-entry">Devlin, J., Chang, M.-W., Lee, K., &#38; Toutanova, K. (2019). BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding. <i>Proceedings of NAACL-HLT</i>, 4171–4186. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N19-1423</div>
<div data-csl-entry-id="kaplan2020" class="csl-entry">Kaplan, J., McCandlish, S., Henighan, T., Brown, T. B., Chess, B., Child, R., Gray, S., Radford, A., Wu, J., &#38; Amodei, D. (2020). Scaling laws for neural language models. <i>arXiv Preprint arXiv:2001.08361</i>. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2001.08361</div>
<div data-csl-entry-id="vaswani2017" class="csl-entry">Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, L., &#38; Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. <i>Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems</i>, <i>30</i>. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1706.03762</div>
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