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Maximize Your Data's Potential: Enhancing LLM Accuracy with Two-Phase Pretraining
Steven Feng, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Kezhi Kong +4
Pretraining large language models effectively requires strategic data selection, blending and ordering. However, key details about data mixtures especially their scalability to lon…
Nemotron-CC: Transforming Common Crawl into a Refined Long-Horizon Pretraining Dataset
Dan Su, Kezhi Kong, Ying Lin +6
Recent English Common Crawl datasets like FineWeb-Edu and DCLM achieved significant benchmark gains via aggressive model-based filtering, but at the cost of removing 90% of data. T…
MIND: Math Informed syNthetic Dialogues for Pretraining LLMs
Syeda Nahida Akter, Shrimai Prabhumoye, John Kamalu +5
The utility of synthetic data to enhance pretraining data quality and hence to improve downstream task accuracy has been widely explored in recent large language models (LLMs). Yet…
LLM Pruning and Distillation in Practice: The Minitron Approach
Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas, Saurav Muralidharan, Raviraj Joshi +19
We present a comprehensive report on compressing the Llama 3.1 8B and Mistral NeMo 12B models to 4B and 8B parameters, respectively, using pruning and distillation. We explore two…
Reuse, Don't Retrain: A Recipe for Continued Pretraining of Language Models
Jupinder Parmar, Sanjev Satheesh, Mostofa Patwary +2
As language models have scaled both their number of parameters and pretraining dataset sizes, the computational cost for pretraining has become intractable except for the most well…
Compact Language Models via Pruning and Knowledge Distillation
Saurav Muralidharan, Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas, Raviraj Joshi +6
Large language models (LLMs) targeting different deployment scales and sizes are currently produced by training each variant from scratch; this is extremely compute-intensive. In t…
Data, Data Everywhere: A Guide for Pretraining Dataset Construction
Jupinder Parmar, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Joseph Jennings +6
The impressive capabilities of recent language models can be largely attributed to the multi-trillion token pretraining datasets that they are trained on. However, model developers…
Nemotron-4 340B Technical Report
Nvidia, :, Bo Adler +80
We release the Nemotron-4 340B model family, including Nemotron-4-340B-Base, Nemotron-4-340B-Instruct, and Nemotron-4-340B-Reward. Our models are open access under the NVIDIA Open…
StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation
Anton Lozhkov, Raymond Li, Loubna Ben Allal +63
The BigCode project, an open-scientific collaboration focused on the responsible development of Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs), introduces StarCoder2. In partnership wi…
Nemotron-4 15B Technical Report
Jupinder Parmar, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Joseph Jennings +24
We introduce Nemotron-4 15B, a 15-billion-parameter large multilingual language model trained on 8 trillion text tokens. Nemotron-4 15B demonstrates strong performance when assesse…