新公式让模型在数据少时也能准确预测性能,适合算力有限的场景。
Practical Scaling Laws: Converting Compute into Performance in a Data-Constrained World

- 提出新公式分解模型性能受容量、训练时长和数据量影响的三类因素
- 在多领域实验中表现优于旧模型,最高提升23%预测精度
- 可指导实际训练中算力与数据成本的权衡,适合资源受限项目
现代模型训练的缩放规律主要基于数据充足、单次训练场景校准。经典公式Chinchilla在数据稀缺时失效:损失不趋于稳定而发散;无法表达容量超过数据时的过拟合;混淆了总样本数与有效数据量。本文提出闭式扩展公式 $L(N, D, T) = E + (L_0 - E)rac{h}{1+h}$,其中 $h = a/N^α + b/T^β + cN^γ/D^δ$,将损失分解为容量不足、训练不足与过拟合三项。该公式在损失下限 $E$ 和无信息基准 $L_0$ 之间饱和,并在数据充足、单轮训练时还原Chinchilla形式。我们在四组多轮训练实验(涵盖MLP、ResNet、傅里叶神经算子、Transformer)及五个公开大模型缩放网格上验证,其在更高算力与更大数据量下的外推表现均达最优,所有评估大模型网格中均取得最低均方根误差(RMSE)。校准后,该公式支持成本敏感分配策略:当数据免费时回归Chinchilla最优配置,随数据成本上升转向更小语料库与更多轮次。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The scaling laws guiding modern model training were calibrated for a single regime: data-rich, single-epoch pretraining. The dominant such scaling law form, Chinchilla's $L = E + A/N^α+ B/D^β$, has three structural limitations outside that regime: it diverges as unique data shrinks instead of saturating at the uninformed baseline; it cannot represent overfitting when capacity exceeds the data; and it conflates total examples seen with unique examples available. We propose a closed-form extension, $L(N, D, T) = E + (L_0 - E)\,h/(1+h)$ with $h = a/N^α+ b/T^β+ c\,N^γ/D^δ$, that decomposes loss into undercapacity, undertraining, and overfitting terms. It saturates between the irreducible loss $E$ and an uninformed baseline $L_0$ fixed by the loss type, and reduces to Chinchilla in the data-rich, single-epoch limit. We validate it on four multi-epoch experiments spanning four architecture families (MLPs, ResNets, Fourier neural operators, and transformers) across vision, scientific ML, and language domains, and refit it to five published LLM scaling-law grids. Extrapolating to higher compute and larger unique data than seen at fit time, our form achieves state-of-the-art RMSE on every published LLM grid we evaluate and on most cells of our constructed experiments. Once calibrated, the form admits a cost-aware allocation that recovers Chinchilla's optimum when data is free and shifts toward smaller corpora and more epochs as data grows expensive.
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