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arxiv: 2205.01068 · v4 · submitted 2022-05-02 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.LG

OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models

Susan Zhang , Stephen Roller , Naman Goyal , Mikel Artetxe , Moya Chen , Shuohui Chen , Christopher Dewan , Mona Diab
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A suite of open decoder-only transformer models up to 175B parameters matches GPT-3 performance while using only one-seventh the carbon footprint.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces a collection of pre-trained language models called OPT that range in size from 125 million to 175 billion parameters. These models are made available with full weights and training code to allow broad research access. The central demonstration is that the largest version performs similarly to the closed GPT-3 model but requires substantially less energy and emissions to train. This matters because it lowers the barrier for studying and improving large language models beyond a small number of organizations with massive resources.

Core claim

Large language models, which are often trained for hundreds of thousands of compute days, have shown remarkable capabilities for zero- and few-shot learning. Given their computational cost, these models are difficult to replicate without significant capital. For the few that are available through APIs, no access is granted to the full model weights, making them difficult to study. We present Open Pre-trained Transformers (OPT), a suite of decoder-only pre-trained transformers ranging from 125M to 175B parameters, which we aim to fully and responsibly share with interested researchers. We show that OPT-175B is comparable to GPT-3, while requiring only 1/7th the carbon footprint to develop. We

What carries the argument

The OPT suite, a collection of openly released decoder-only pre-trained transformer language models ranging from 125M to 175B parameters that includes full weights, training code, and infrastructure logs.

If this is right

  • Researchers can directly access and modify the full model weights instead of relying on restricted APIs.
  • Large-scale language model development becomes feasible with substantially lower carbon emissions.
  • The released code allows experimentation across the full range of model sizes from 125M to 175B parameters.
  • Infrastructure logs provide concrete details on challenges encountered during training of these models.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Widespread access to the weights could enable more groups to test safety and bias mitigation techniques on models of this scale.
  • Lower training costs may support repeated fine-tuning cycles that were previously impractical for non-industry labs.
  • The open release creates a direct path for third parties to verify the reported performance and emissions numbers.

Load-bearing premise

That the benchmarks and evaluation protocols used to establish comparability between OPT-175B and GPT-3 are fair, comprehensive, and not affected by differences in training data or optimization details.

What would settle it

An independent run of OPT-175B on the same zero- and few-shot benchmarks as GPT-3 that shows a clear performance gap, or a recalculation of training emissions that exceeds one-seventh of the GPT-3 figure.

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Large language models, which are often trained for hundreds of thousands of compute days, have shown remarkable capabilities for zero- and few-shot learning. Given their computational cost, these models are difficult to replicate without significant capital. For the few that are available through APIs, no access is granted to the full model weights, making them difficult to study. We present Open Pre-trained Transformers (OPT), a suite of decoder-only pre-trained transformers ranging from 125M to 175B parameters, which we aim to fully and responsibly share with interested researchers. We show that OPT-175B is comparable to GPT-3, while requiring only 1/7th the carbon footprint to develop. We are also releasing our logbook detailing the infrastructure challenges we faced, along with code for experimenting with all of the released models.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces the OPT suite of decoder-only pre-trained transformer language models with sizes ranging from 125M to 175B parameters. The central claims are that OPT-175B achieves performance comparable to GPT-3 across zero- and few-shot tasks while requiring only 1/7th the carbon footprint to develop, and that the models, training logbook, and code will be released to enable broader research.

Significance. If the performance and carbon claims hold under transparent evaluation, the work is significant for lowering barriers to studying large language models by providing open weights and infrastructure details. The release of code and logs supports reproducibility, and the carbon reduction highlights practical efficiencies in training at scale.

major comments (2)
  1. Abstract and carbon footprint section: The headline claim that OPT-175B requires only 1/7th the carbon footprint of GPT-3 depends on an external third-party estimate for GPT-3 emissions. The manuscript must include a side-by-side table or explicit comparison of all assumptions (TDP, PUE, hardware utilization, effective FLOPs per token, and cluster power draw) used for both models; without this, the scalar ratio is not robust or independently verifiable from the OPT measurements alone.
  2. Evaluation section (results tables): The statement of comparability to GPT-3 is load-bearing but presented without error bars, run-to-run variance, or a complete list of tasks and exact scores in a single consolidated table. This makes it difficult to assess whether differences are statistically meaningful or affected by training data/optimization details, as noted in the weakest assumption.
minor comments (2)
  1. The logbook release is a strength for transparency; however, it would benefit from an index or summary table mapping challenges to specific training stages or model sizes.
  2. Notation for model sizes (e.g., OPT-175B) is clear, but ensure all hyperparameter tables in the appendix explicitly list learning rate schedules, batch sizes, and data mixtures for each scale.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and describe the planned revisions.

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  1. Referee: Abstract and carbon footprint section: The headline claim that OPT-175B requires only 1/7th the carbon footprint of GPT-3 depends on an external third-party estimate for GPT-3 emissions. The manuscript must include a side-by-side table or explicit comparison of all assumptions (TDP, PUE, hardware utilization, effective FLOPs per token, and cluster power draw) used for both models; without this, the scalar ratio is not robust or independently verifiable from the OPT measurements alone.

    Authors: We agree that a transparent comparison of assumptions is necessary to support the carbon claim. In the revised manuscript we will add a side-by-side table in the carbon footprint section that explicitly lists TDP, PUE, hardware utilization, effective FLOPs per token, and cluster power draw for both OPT-175B (our measurements) and the GPT-3 estimate. This will allow readers to inspect the basis of the 1/7th ratio directly. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Evaluation section (results tables): The statement of comparability to GPT-3 is load-bearing but presented without error bars, run-to-run variance, or a complete list of tasks and exact scores in a single consolidated table. This makes it difficult to assess whether differences are statistically meaningful or affected by training data/optimization details, as noted in the weakest assumption.

    Authors: We acknowledge that a consolidated table improves clarity. Due to the prohibitive cost of training at this scale we performed only a single run for OPT-175B and therefore cannot supply run-to-run variance or error bars. We will revise the evaluation section to present all zero- and few-shot results in one consolidated table with exact scores for every task, and we will add explicit text noting the single-run limitation and its implications for statistical comparison. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical training results and external benchmark comparisons

full rationale

The paper presents direct empirical results from training decoder-only transformers (125M to 175B parameters) and evaluates them on standard zero- and few-shot benchmarks against GPT-3. The carbon-footprint comparison (1/7th) relies on an external third-party estimate for GPT-3 rather than any self-derived quantity or fitted parameter. No equations, ansatzes, uniqueness theorems, or self-citations reduce claims to inputs by construction; the derivation chain consists of reported training runs and external references, remaining self-contained.

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