Multimodal training needs different scaling recipes for text, vision and audio

Experiments with mixture-of-experts models quantify modality-specific compute allocation, data repetition limits and asymmetric interference.

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Aditi Khandelwal · Ayush K. Tarun · Yixuan Xu · Imanol Schlag · Golnoosh Farnadi · Siva Reddy · +2 more

MILA - Quebec AI Institute · McGill University · EPFL · ETH · University of Washington

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Khandelwal et al.

The authors trained mixture-of-experts models jointly on text, vision and audio, using roughly 300,000 GH200 GPU-hours.

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From MILA - Quebec AI Institute and 4 others

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Scaling laws for multimodal pretraining reveal modality-specific compute optima, asymmetric interference, and saturation of repeated non-text data.

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