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GPT-1: Generative Pre-Training

Pre-train on huge amounts of text by predicting the next word, then fine-tune for specific tasks.

117Mparameters

Why it matters

Established the pre-train-then-fine-tune paradigm, and gave GPT its name: Generative Pre-trained Transformer.

Costs and controversy

Small in scale, and outperformed by BERT later that year.

Built on

Transformer

Led to

GPT-2

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