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Weight Smuggling Likely Defeats Attempts to Cap FLOPs per Training Run

The paper discusses challenges in regulating AI training through FLOP caps, highlighting that techniques like chaining or aggregating training runs could bypass these limits. It suggests that verification mechanisms might struggle to prevent such methods, making it difficult to enforce FLOP-based regulations.

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This research highlights the difficulty of enforcing FLOP-based regulations due to potential methods for bypassing them, which is important for policy makers and AI developers aiming to control AI training resources.

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