Hyeonju Lee


2024

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SOLAR 10.7B: Scaling Large Language Models with Simple yet Effective Depth Up-Scaling
Sanghoon Kim | Dahyun Kim | Chanjun Park | Wonsung Lee | Wonho Song | Yunsu Kim | Hyeonwoo Kim | Yungi Kim | Hyeonju Lee | Jihoo Kim | Changbae Ahn | Seonghoon Yang | Sukyung Lee | Hyunbyung Park | Gyoungjin Gim | Mikyoung Cha | Hwalsuk Lee | Sunghun Kim
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 6: Industry Track)

We introduce SOLAR 10.7B, a large language model (LLM) with 10.7 billion parameters, demonstrating superior performance in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Inspired by recent efforts to efficiently up-scale LLMs, we present a method for scaling LLMs called depth up-scaling (DUS), which encompasses depthwise scaling and continued pretraining. In contrast to other LLM up-scaling methods that use mixture-of-experts, DUS does not require complex changes to train and inference efficiently. We show experimentally that DUS is simple yet effective in scaling up high-performance LLMs from small ones. Building on the DUS model, we additionally present SOLAR 10.7B-Instruct, a variant fine-tuned for instruction-following capabilities, surpassing Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct. SOLAR 10.7B is publicly available under the Apache 2.0 license, promoting broad access and application in the LLM field.