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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>PaLM 2 Technical Report · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.10403/</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/2305.10403/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>PaLM 2 Technical Report — mentioned by godelski</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36054709</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2305.10403:36054709</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 06:16:47 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; if for each step of improvement you need 10x parameters and 100x training, you quickly run into a brick wall Btw, PALM2 has far fewer parameters than V1. &amp;gt; The largest model in the PaLM 2 family, PaLM 2-L, is significantly smaller than the largest PaLM model but uses more training compute. Our evaluation results show that PaLM 2 models significantly outperform PaLM on a variety of tasks, including natural language generation, translation, and reasoning. These results suggest that model scaling is not the only way to improve performance. From the leak we know that the large version is 340B…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.10403/"&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>PaLM 2 Technical Report — mentioned by evolve7942</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36039430</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2305.10403:36039430</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 03:25:23 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;If you think this is wild, see the PaLM 2 paper with 2.5 pages of 2 column attributions. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.10403.pdf&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.10403/"&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>PaLM 2 Technical Report — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35987123</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2305.10403:35987123</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 12:49:22 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Palm 2 Technical Report&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 1 discussion reply on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2305.10403/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item></channel></rss>
