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Reddit users debate LLM overfitting and its impact on creativity vs. coding

A discussion on Reddit explores the concept of overfitting in large language models and its potential impact on creativity. The user suggests that current models, trained on massive datasets, may be too specialized and thus less creative, drawing a parallel to the smaller but more creative GPT-2. They question whether intentionally underfitting a model, by adjusting parameters like training epochs and learning rate, could enhance its creative writing abilities at the expense of coding proficiency. AI

IMPACT Raises questions about training methodologies that could foster greater AI creativity.

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Reddit users debate LLM overfitting and its impact on creativity vs. coding

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Expensive-Paint-9490 ·

    Overfitting and creativity

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I remember great creativity from GPT-2. It was trained on a dataset that is orders smaller than current training datasets. </p> <p>The problem with overfitting a model to the training data is that it becomes unable to generalise; it is very good …