Counterintuitive finding: bigger models make good hparams easier to find
giffmana · x · 2026-09-22
From the random-search result distributions, the paper concludes (surprisingly) that good hyperparameters are easier to find at larger scale, and very hard at the smallest scale. The author argues this needs qualification: it doesn't mean training gets simpler with scale — instabilities grow beyond the paper's range; what it does show is that below 64M you need pretty intensive tuning.
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