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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Branch-Train-Merge: Embarrassingly Parallel Training of Expert Language Models · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2208.03306/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2208.03306/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Branch-Train-Merge: Embarrassingly Parallel Training of Expert Language Models — mentioned by euclaise</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36412094</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2208.03306:36412094</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 23:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;The only paper that I could find using an approach with fully separated experts like this is https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.03306.pdf&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2208.03306/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>Branch-Train-Merge: Embarrassingly Parallel Training of Expert Language Models — mentioned by sanxiyn</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36066319</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2208.03306:36066319</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 02:06:03 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;You can, like, just do weighted average. It works. Branch-Train-Merge: Embarrassingly Parallel Training of Expert Language Models (this is Tim Dettmers&amp;#x27;s previous work!) &amp;gt; These ELMs can be added and removed to update data coverage, ensembled to generalize to new domains, or averaged to collapse back to a single LM for efficient inference. https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03306&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2208.03306/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item></channel></rss>
