Samuel Albanie

Samuel Albanie

Machine Learning, Computer Vision and NLP Research

BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model



Summary: A description of the the work 'BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model' by Le Scao et al. published on arxiv in November 2022 as part of the BigScience Workshop. This work provides an overview of the BLOOM model and the efforts involved in its creation.
Paper: arxiv link
Topics: foundation models, large language models, multilingual models
Slides: link (pdf)
Code and models: link (Hugging Face)

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