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OpenAI releases GPT-1

Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training

Date
June 11, 2018
Category
Model release
Organization / Model
OpenAI
Evidence
1 source · 1 evidence family

GPT-1 tested generative pretraining followed by downstream fine-tuning as a route to transferable language understanding. It opened the era of pretrained large models.

Curator's note: Cross-checked against OpenAI's official announcement page.

Curated sources · 1

  1. Official announcement · OpenAI2018-06-11

    Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training

    openai.com

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