soraki_soladead

soraki_soladead t1_j375igy wrote

Regulating machine learning sounds ridiculous but note that cryptography is regulated and also consists of just math and programming. For example, if you publish an app on the app store with cryptography you need to comply with export regulations: https://help.apple.com/app-store-connect/#/dev88f5c7bf9

Now, that’s for exports and publishing. Regulating personal use is much more difficult but it’s still possible: perhaps requiring a photo ID to download certain libraries or requisition GPUs/TPUs.

Personally, I think it’s unlikely to happen and the benefits of doing so are minimal.

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soraki_soladead OP t1_j0cmgzs wrote

Perfect. Thank you! That explains why I couldn't find it.

EDIT: Spoke too soon. I think this covers some of the same ideas but it isn't the one I'm remembering. There's no method for simplifying the earlier layers of the transformer and exploiting the fact that they primarily learn bigrams. I could have sworn I read about it in an arxiv or openreview paper.

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