GPT-J 6B

Model Description

GPT-J 6B is a transformer model trained using Ben Wang's Mesh Transformer JAX. "GPT-J" refers to the class of model, while "6B" represents the number of trainable parameters.

The model consists of 28 layers with a model dimension of 4096, and a feedforward dimension of 16384. The model dimension is split into 16 heads, each with a dimension of 256. Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) is applied to 64 dimensions of each head. The model is trained with a tokenization vocabulary of 50257, using the same set of BPEs as GPT-2/GPT-3.

Intended Use and Limitations

GPT-J learns an inner representation of the English language that can be used to extract features useful for downstream tasks. The model is best at what it was pretrained for however, which is generating text from a prompt.

Out-of-scope use

GPT-J-6B is not intended for deployment without fine-tuning, supervision, and/or moderation. It is not a in itself a product and cannot be used for human-facing interactions. For example, the model may generate harmful or offensive text. Please evaluate the risks associated with your particular use case.

GPT-J-6B was trained on an English-language only dataset, and is thus not suitable for translation or generating text in other languages.

GPT-J-6B has not been fine-tuned for downstream contexts in which language models are commonly deployed, such as writing genre prose, or commercial chatbots. This means GPT-J-6B will not respond to a given prompt the way a product like ChatGPT does. This is because, unlike this model, ChatGPT was fine-tuned using methods such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) to better “follow” human instructions.

Limitations and Biases

The core functionality of GPT-J is taking a string of text and predicting the next token. While language models are widely used for tasks other than this, there are a lot of unknowns with this work. When prompting GPT-J it is important to remember that the statistically most likely next token is often not the token that produces the most "accurate" text. Never depend upon GPT-J to produce factually accurate output.

GPT-J was trained on the Pile, a dataset known to contain profanity, lewd, and otherwise abrasive language. Depending upon use case GPT-J may produce socially unacceptable text. See Sections 5 and 6 of the Pile paper for a more detailed analysis of the biases in the Pile.

As with all language models, it is hard to predict in advance how GPT-J will respond to particular prompts and offensive content may occur without warning. We recommend having a human curate or filter the outputs before releasing them, both to censor undesirable content and to improve the quality of the results.

How to use

This model can be easily loaded using the AutoModelForCausalLM functionality:

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("EleutherAI/gpt-j-6B")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("EleutherAI/gpt-j-6B")

Training data

GPT-J 6B was trained on the Pile, a large-scale curated dataset created by EleutherAI.

Training procedure

This model was trained for 402 billion tokens over 383,500 steps on TPU v3-256 pod. It was trained as an autoregressive language model, using cross-entropy loss to maximize the likelihood of predicting the next token correctly.

Evaluation results

Citation and Related Information

BibTeX entry

To cite this model:

@misc{gpt-j,
  author = {Wang, Ben and Komatsuzaki, Aran},
  title = {{GPT-J-6B: A 6 Billion Parameter Autoregressive Language Model}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax}},
  year = 2021,
  month = May
}

To cite the codebase that trained this model:

@misc{mesh-transformer-jax,
  author = {Wang, Ben},
  title = {{Mesh-Transformer-JAX: Model-Parallel Implementation of Transformer Language Model with JAX}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/kingoflolz/mesh-transformer-jax}},
  year = 2021,
  month = May
}

If you use this model, we would love to hear about it! Reach out on GitHub, Discord, or shoot Ben an email.

Acknowledgements

This project would not have been possible without compute generously provided by Google through the TPU Research Cloud, as well as the Cloud TPU team for providing early access to the Cloud TPU VM Alpha.

Thanks to everyone who have helped out one way or another (listed alphabetically):

• James Bradbury for valuable assistance with debugging JAX issues.
• Stella Biderman, Eric Hallahan, Kurumuz, and Finetune for converting the model to be compatible with the transformers package.
• Leo Gao for running zero shot evaluations for the baseline models for the table.
• Laurence Golding for adding some features to the web demo.
• Aran Komatsuzaki for advice with experiment design and writing the blog posts.
• Janko Prester for creating the web demo frontend.