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arxiv:2307.09793

On the Origin of LLMs: An Evolutionary Tree and Graph for 15,821 Large Language Models

Published on Jul 19, 2023
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Abstract

Since late 2022, Large Language Models (LLMs) have become very prominent with LLMs like ChatGPT and Bard receiving millions of users. Hundreds of new LLMs are announced each week, many of which are deposited to Hugging Face, a repository of machine learning models and datasets. To date, nearly 16,000 Text Generation models have been uploaded to the site. Given the huge influx of LLMs, it is of interest to know which LLM backbones, settings, training methods, and families are popular or trending. However, there is no comprehensive index of LLMs available. We take advantage of the relatively systematic nomenclature of Hugging Face LLMs to perform hierarchical clustering and identify communities amongst LLMs using n-grams and term frequency-inverse document frequency. Our methods successfully identify families of LLMs and accurately cluster LLMs into meaningful subgroups. We present a public web application to navigate and explore Constellation, our atlas of 15,821 LLMs. Constellation rapidly generates a variety of visualizations, namely dendrograms, graphs, word clouds, and scatter plots. Constellation is available at the following link: https://constellation.sites.stanford.edu/.

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Check out our Twitter thread about our results: https://twitter.com/itsandrewgao/status/1681888414705266688?s=20

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Radial dendrogram of all Hugging Face LLMs with more than 5,000 downloads!
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Try out our interactive Constellation atlas here: https://constellation.sites.stanford.edu/

btw, we would love to host the Constellation app on Spaces!

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Sounds awesome, would love to learn more: gaodrew@stanford.edu

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From the paper the distance between two models are based on their name. Is that the only distance measure or have you considered model parameters to be a distance measure?

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We split the names into n-grams, and usually model parameters get considered as 2 or 3 grams, i.e. "7B", "65B". We did not include model parameters as a specific measure since we weren't able to obtain them for all the models.

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