GPT-J

GPT-J or GPT-J-6B is an open-source large language model (LLM) developed by EleutherAI in 2021. As the name suggests, it is a generative pre-trained transformer model designed to produce human-like text that continues from a prompt. The optional "6B" in the name refers to the fact that it has 6 billion parameters.

Architecture

GPT-J is a GPT-3-like model with 6 billion parameters. Like GPT-3, it is an autoregressive, decoder-only transformer model designed to solve natural language processing (NLP) tasks by predicting how a piece of text will continue.

Its architecture differs from GPT-3 in three main ways.

• The attention and feedforward neural network were computed in parallel during training, allowing for greater efficiency.
• The GPT-J model uses rotary position embeddings, which has been found to be a superior method of injecting positional information into transformers.
• GPT-J uses dense attention instead of efficient sparse attention, as used in GPT-3.

Beyond that, the model has 28 transformer layers and 16 attention heads. Its vocabulary size is 50257 tokens, the same size as GPT-2's. It has a context window size of 2048 tokens.

It was trained on the Pile dataset, using the Mesh Transformer JAX library in JAX to handle the parallelization scheme.

Performance

GPT-J was designed to generate English text from a prompt. It was not designed for translating or generating text in other languages or for performance without first fine-tuning the model for a specific task. Nonetheless, GPT-J performs reasonably well even without fine-tuning, even in translation (at least from English to French).

When neither is fine-tuned, GPT-J-6B performs almost as well as the 6.7 billion parameter GPT-3 (Curie) on a variety of tasks. It even outperforms the 175 billion parameter GPT-3 (Davinci) on code generation tasks. With fine-tuning, it outperforms an untuned GPT-3 (Davinci) on a number of tasks.

Like all LLMs, it is not programmed to give factually accurate information, only to generate text based on probability.

Applications

The untuned GPT-J is available on EleutherAI's website, NVIDIA's Triton Inference Server, and NLP Cloud's website. Cerebras and Amazon Web Services offer services to fine-tune the GPT-J model for company-specific tasks. Graphcore offers both fine-tuning and hosting services for the untuned GPT-J, as well as offering to host the fine-tuned models after they are produced. CoreWeave offers hosting services for both the untuned GPT-J and fine-tuned variants.

In March 2023, Databricks released Dolly, an Apache-licensed, instruction-following model created by fine-tuning GPT-J on the Stanford Alpaca dataset. NovelAI's Sigurd and Genji-JP 6B models are both fine-tuned versions of GPT-J. They also offer further fine-tuning services to produce and host custom models.

EleutherAI has received praise from Cerebras, GPT-3 Demo, NLP Cloud, and Databricks for making the model open-source, and its open-source status is often cited as a major advantage when choosing which model to use.

References

1. GPT-4
2. ChatGPT
3. Generative pre-trained transformer
4. Large language model
5. GPT4-Chan
6. GPT-2
7. EleutherAI
8. Open-source artificial intelligence
9. ChatGPT in education
10. /pol/
11. OpenAI
12. Cerebras
13. Google Neural Machine Translation
14. AI alignment
15. NovelAI
16. Microsoft Copilot
17. Hallucination (artificial intelligence)
18. General-purpose technology
19. AI boom
20. DALL-E