They also trained 3B with 2 trillion tokens.
> The number of training tokens is a crucial factor for LLMs. To test the scalability of BitNet b1.58 in terms of tokens, we trained a BitNet b1.58 model with 2T tokens following the data recipe of StableLM-3B [ TBMR], which is the state-of-the-art open-source 3B model.
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> Our findings shows that BitNet b1.58 achieves a superior performance on all end tasks, indicating that 1.58-bit LLMs also have strong generalization capabilities.