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Paloma: A Benchmark for Evaluating Language Model Fit
Ian Magnusson, Akshita Bhagia, Valentin Hofmann +13
Evaluations of language models (LMs) commonly report perplexity on monolithic data held out from training. Implicitly or explicitly, this data is composed of domains--varying distr…
AboutMe: Using Self-Descriptions in Webpages to Document the Effects of English Pretraining Data Filters
Li Lucy, Suchin Gururangan, Luca Soldaini +4
Large language models' (LLMs) abilities are drawn from their pretraining data, and model development begins with data curation. However, decisions around what data is retained or r…
OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models
Dirk Groeneveld, Iz Beltagy, Pete Walsh +40
Language models (LMs) have become ubiquitous in both NLP research and in commercial product offerings. As their commercial importance has surged, the most powerful models have beco…
Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research
Luca Soldaini, Rodney Kinney, Akshita Bhagia +33
Information about pretraining corpora used to train the current best-performing language models is seldom discussed: commercial models rarely detail their data, and even open model…