Scaling laws for language encoding models in fMRI.

ABSTRACT: Representations from transformer-based unidirectional language models are known to be effective at predicting brain responses to natural language. However, most studies comparing language models to brains have used GPT-2 or similarly sized language models. Here we tested whether larger open-source models such as those from the OPT and LLaMA families are better at predicting brain responses recorded using fMRI. Mirroring scaling results from other contexts, we found that brain prediction performance scales logarithmically with model size from 125M to 30B parameter models, with ~15% increased encoding performance as measured by correlation with a held-out test set across 3 subjects. Similar logarithmic behavior was observed when scaling the size of the fMRI training set. We also characterize

SUBMITTER: Antonello RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11258918 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature