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GPT-3 Small (125M, Brown et al. 2020 paper model)

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GPT-3 Small (125M, Brown et al. 2020 paper model) is a closed-weights language model from OpenAI, released May 2020. Its published size is 0.125B parameters. Licence: proprietary.

Catalogue identity notes

The research checkpoint 'GPT-3 Small' of OpenAI's GPT-3 paper (Brown et al., arXiv:2005.14165, Table 2.1: 0.125B parameters, 300B training tokens). Weights never released. Deliberately NOT merged with the API engines (gpt-3-ada/babbage/curie/davinci): OpenAI never officially stated which paper size each API engine is (AI21's Jurassic-1 white paper calls the mapping an estimate and notes the API may be 'a slightly different set of models'). Comparison-only.

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22.3±2.8comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 13 benchmark results across 1 source

Score within the ARC Challenge comparison set only.

$ how it compares

Scored LLMs released closest to GPT-3 Small (125M, Brown et al. 2020 paper model), out of 1182 with a score, then more from OpenAI.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
1063GPT-3 davinci (API base model) OpenAI32±1comparison only2020-06
1116GPT-3 curie (API base model) OpenAI25±1comparison only2020-06
1151GPT-3 babbage (API base model) OpenAI16±1comparison only2020-06
1166GPT-3 ada (API base model) OpenAI8±1comparison only2020-06
1168GPT-2 XL (1.5B) OpenAI7±1local~2.8GB2019-11
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$ what it's good at

other tests13 not in a task · 97% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
HellaSwag lab33.7% ✎█··█·██·████ beats 0/7medium · avg 57%▇▇▇▇▇▇ 16%sharp
COPA lab66.0% ✎█··▄█·▄▄···▄ beats 0/7medium · avg 77%▇▇▇▇ 10%at its level
LAMBADA (OpenAI version), last-word accuracy lab42.7% ✎█··█·█·█████ beats 0/7medium · avg 64%▇▇▇▇ 10%at its level
TriviaQA lab4.2% ✎█·█·██·███·█ beats 0/7hard · avg 22%▇▇▇▇ 10%sharp · too hard for it
Story Cloze Test lab63.3% ✎▄··▄·▄▄·█▄·▄ beats 0/7medium · avg 74%▇▇▇▇ 9.4%at its level
ARC Easy lab43.6% ✎██··██·███·█ beats 0/7medium · avg 55%▇▇▇ 7.1%typical
ARC Challenge lab26.6% ✎█···██·█████ beats 0/7very hard · avg 35%▇▇▇ 7.0%sharp · too hard for it
PIQA lab64.6% ✎█···█·██████ beats 0/7medium · avg 74%▇▇▇ 6.7%at its level
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testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
WinoGrande lab52.0% ✎█·····█·▄▄·█ beats 0/7hard · avg 59%▇▇▇ 6.4%sharp · too hard for it
OpenBookQA lab35.6% ✎▄····▄▄▄▄·▄█ beats 0/7hard · avg 48%▇▇ 5.4%typical
Natural Questions (closed book) lab0.6% ✎▄··▄·▄·▄█▄·▄ beats 0/7very hard · avg 4.0%▇▇ 4.8%sharp · too hard for it
DROP lab9.4% ✎▄···▄▄▄▄·▄·█ beats 0/7hard · avg 16%▇ 3.2%typical
BoolQ lab49.7% ✎▃········▃██ beats 0/7hard · avg 61%▇ 1.7%noisy

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$ how the score was worked out · Language Models are Few-Shot… 97%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

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Language Models are Few-Shot Learners — maker's own results · lab-reported13Factual vendor-reported score (not licensed content)
prior · pull toward the middle
weighted average= 22.3

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