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BLOOM vs. FLAN-T5

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BLOOM

Overview

A model proposed during the BigScience Workshop as an open-source alternative to GPT-3, BLOOM has since been superseded by recent models based on Meta's LLaMA model.

Initial release: 2022-07-06

Reference

https://bigscience.huggingface.co/blog/bloom

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FLAN-T5

Overview

FLAN-T5 is a finetuned version of Google's popular T5 model with instruct-finetuning. As stated in the model repository's introduction, compared to T5, FLAN-T5 is "just better at everything." With its permissive license, FLAN-T5 has become a popular option for a starting instruct model.

Initial release: 2022-12-06

Reference

https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/flan-t5

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Open RAIL-M v1 Apache 2.0
Model Sizes 1.1B, 1.7B, 3B, 7.1B, 176B 3B, 11B

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Other FLAN-T5 Comparisons

FLAN-T5 vs. Alpaca FLAN-T5 vs. BLOOM FLAN-T5 vs. Cerebras-GPT FLAN-T5 vs. Dolly FLAN-T5 vs. FLAN-UL2 FLAN-T5 vs. GPT-J FLAN-T5 vs. GPT4All FLAN-T5 vs. GPTNeo FLAN-T5 vs. Koala FLAN-T5 vs. LLaMA FLAN-T5 vs. MPT-7B FLAN-T5 vs. OpenAssistant FLAN-T5 vs. OpenLLaMA FLAN-T5 vs. OPT FLAN-T5 vs. Pythia FLAN-T5 vs. RedPajama-INCITE FLAN-T5 vs. StableLM FLAN-T5 vs. StableVicuna FLAN-T5 vs. Vicuna

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