Instruction: Suggest methods to make the training process of large language models more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
Context: This question addresses the candidate's awareness and concern for the environmental footprint of LLM training processes, along with their ability to propose viable sustainability strategies.
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The way I'd approach it in an interview is this: To reduce environmental impact, I would start with efficiency before scale. That means better data curation, more efficient training recipes, right-sized model selection, hardware efficiency, and avoiding retraining when smaller adaptation methods will do.
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