"Currently, the technology for 4-bit training does not exists, but research looks promising and I expect the first high performance FP4 Large Language Model (LLM) with competitive predictive performance to be trained in 1-2 years time." (see: https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/16/which-gpu-for-deep-learning/)
Granted, the model must be open source for us to know, so the market will resolve based on publicly available information.
1,000@Gabrielle @Bayesian we got a lesson about this in Discord, here
My executive summary:
There's some evidence that FP4 is 'around the corner' and may demonstrate some of these qualities
But it's not enough to qualify for the market's criteria of:
Open source
Publicly available information
As of 21 January 2025
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Any AI expert can chime in and resolve this market? According to a prompt on chatGPT that I made, this should resolve no
This seems important @typedfemale
Will this resolve YES if scaling laws suggest a 4-bit model would be competitive if compute-matched to a SOTA 16-bit model?
@NoaNabeshima Yes, you need to be better than everything else, but be trained in 4-bit (to some extent)