BLOOM vs. FLAN-UL2
LLM Comparison
BLOOM
Overview
BLOOM is a open source LLM developed as part of the BigScience Workshop by Hugging Face in collaboration with other research organizations.
A model proposed during the BigScience Workshop as an open-source alternative to GPT-3, BLOOM has since been superseded by recent models based on Meta's LLaMA model.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
Further Reading
FLAN-UL2
Overview
Similar to FLAN-T5, FLAN-UL2 is a model based on Google's popular T5 architecture with an upgraded pre-training procedure dubbed UL2. On most NLU benchmarks, FLAN-UL2 outperforms FLAN-T5 by a significant margin.
Initial release: 2023-03-03
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Further Reading
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| License | Open RAIL-M v1 | Apache 2.0 |
| Model Sizes | 1.1B, 1.7B, 3B, 7.1B, 176B | 20B |