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FLAN-UL2 vs. Pythia

A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.

Attribute FLAN-UL2 Pythia
Developer Google EleutherAI, Together
Current generation – –
Initial release 2023-03-03 2023-02-13
Instruct tuned Yes No
Coding No No
Finetuning Yes Yes
Open source Yes Yes
License Apache 2.0 Apache 2.0
Model sizes 20B 1B, 1.4B, 2.8B, 6.9B, 12B
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FLAN-UL2

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.

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Pythia

The most recent (as of May 2023) effort from EleutherAI, Pythia is a set of LLMs trained on The Pile. While it appears to outperform OPT and GPTNeo, its performance against GPT-J is unclear. Versions of Pythia have also been instruct-tuned by the team at Together.

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