FLAN-T5 vs. FLAN-UL2

LLM Comparison

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

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

Reference

https://huggingface.co/google/flan-ul2

Further Reading

https://www.yitay.net/blog/flan-ul2-20b

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	FLAN-T5	FLAN-UL2
Products & Features
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Coding Capability
Customization
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Open Source
License	Apache 2.0	Apache 2.0
Model Sizes	3B, 11B	20B

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