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Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons
Shayne Longpre, Robert Mahari, Ariel Lee +46
General-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) systems are built on massive swathes of public web data, assembled into corpora such as C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma. To our knowledge, we…
The BigScience ROOTS Corpus: A 1.6TB Composite Multilingual Dataset
Hugo Laurençon, Lucile Saulnier, Thomas Wang +51
As language models grow ever larger, the need for large-scale high-quality text datasets has never been more pressing, especially in multilingual settings. The BigScience workshop,…
Between words and characters: A Brief History of Open-Vocabulary Modeling and Tokenization in NLP
Sabrina J. Mielke, Zaid Alyafeai, Elizabeth Salesky +8
What are the units of text that we want to model? From bytes to multi-word expressions, text can be analyzed and generated at many granularities. Until recently, most natural langu…