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20202025
most citedThe Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling

492 citations · 578 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.LG2025

Motivating Next-Gen Accelerators with Flexible (N:M) Activation Sparsity via Benchmarking Lightweight Post-Training Sparsification Approaches

Shirin Alanova, Kristina Kazistova, Ekaterina Galaeva +7

The demand for efficient large language model (LLM) inference has intensified the focus on sparsification techniques. While semi-structured (N:M) pruning is well-established for we…

cs.CL2024

FuxiTranyu: A Multilingual Large Language Model Trained with Balanced Data

Haoran Sun, Renren Jin, Shaoyang Xu +10

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated prowess in a wide range of tasks. However, many LLMs exhibit significant performance discrepancies between high- and low-resource lan…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

Lessons from the Trenches on Reproducible Evaluation of Language Models

Stella Biderman, Hailey Schoelkopf, Lintang Sutawika +27

Reliable evaluation of language models (LMs) remains an open challenge. Re- searchers and engineers face methodological issues such as the sensitivity of models to evaluation setup…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards

Norah Alzahrani, Hisham Abdullah Alyahya, Yazeed Alnumay +9

Large Language Model (LLM) leaderboards based on benchmark rankings are regularly used to guide practitioners in model selection. Often, the published leaderboard rankings are take…

cs.CL2023

BLESS: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Sentence Simplification

Tannon Kew, Alison Chi, Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez +4

We present BLESS, a comprehensive performance benchmark of the most recent state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) on the task of text simplification (TS). We examine how wel…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Interpreting Neural Networks through the Polytope Lens

Sid Black, Lee Sharkey, Leo Grinsztajn +8

Mechanistic interpretability aims to explain what a neural network has learned at a nuts-and-bolts level. What are the fundamental primitives of neural network representations? Pre…

cs.CL2022★ 69 cited

GPT-NeoX-20B: An Open-Source Autoregressive Language Model

Sid Black, Stella Biderman, Eric Hallahan +14

We introduce GPT-NeoX-20B, a 20 billion parameter autoregressive language model trained on the Pile, whose weights will be made freely and openly available to the public through a…

cs.CV2021★ 5 cited

MAGMA -- Multimodal Augmentation of Generative Models through Adapter-based Finetuning

Constantin Eichenberg, Sidney Black, Samuel Weinbach +2

Large-scale pretraining is fast becoming the norm in Vision-Language (VL) modeling. However, prevailing VL approaches are limited by the requirement for labeled data and the use of…

cs.CL2020★ 492 cited

The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling

Leo Gao, Stella Biderman, Sid Black +9

Recent work has demonstrated that increased training dataset diversity improves general cross-domain knowledge and downstream generalization capability for large-scale language mod…