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Zephon: Elastic Determinism for Online, Stateful Foundation Model Data Loading Pipelines
Maximilian Böther, Josh Wills, Ties Robroek +14
Deterministic data loading is important for foundation model development: model researchers need confidence that differences they observe across costly ablations are caused by the…
The Finetuner's Fallacy: When to Pretrain with Your Finetuning Data
Christina Baek, Ricardo Pio Monti, David Schwab +31
Real-world model deployments demand strong performance on narrow domains where data is often scarce. Typically, practitioners finetune models to specialize them, but this risks ove…
ÜberWeb: Insights from Multilingual Curation for a 20-Trillion-Token Dataset
DatologyAI, :, Aldo Gael Carranza +32
Multilinguality is a core capability for modern foundation models, yet training high-quality multilingual models remains challenging due to uneven data availability across language…
DatBench: Discriminative, Faithful, and Efficient VLM Evaluations
DatologyAI, :, Siddharth Joshi +30
Empirical evaluation serves as the primary compass guiding research progress in foundation models. Despite a large body of work focused on training frontier vision-language models…
Luxical: High-Speed Lexical-Dense Text Embeddings
DatologyAI, :, Luke Merrick +31
Frontier language model quality increasingly hinges on our ability to organize web-scale text corpora for training. Today's dominant tools trade off speed and flexibility: lexical…
BeyondWeb: Lessons from Scaling Synthetic Data for Trillion-scale Pretraining
DatologyAI, :, Pratyush Maini +28
Recent advances in large language model (LLM) pretraining have shown that simply scaling data quantity eventually leads to diminishing returns, hitting a data wall. In response, th…
Does your data spark joy? Performance gains from domain upsampling at the end of training
Cody Blakeney, Mansheej Paul, Brett W. Larsen +2
Pretraining datasets for large language models (LLMs) have grown to trillions of tokens composed of large amounts of CommonCrawl (CC) web scrape along with smaller, domain-specific…
Perplexed by Perplexity: Perplexity-Based Data Pruning With Small Reference Models
Zachary Ankner, Cody Blakeney, Kartik Sreenivasan +3
In this work, we investigate whether small language models can determine high-quality subsets of large-scale text datasets that improve the performance of larger language models. W…
LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less
Dan Biderman, Jacob Portes, Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz +9
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a widely-used parameter-efficient finetuning method for large language models. LoRA saves memory by training only low rank perturbations to selected w…
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Improving Training Efficiency with Distillation
Cody Blakeney, Jessica Zosa Forde, Jonathan Frankle +2
Methods for improving the efficiency of deep network training (i.e. the resources required to achieve a given level of model quality) are of immediate benefit to deep learning prac…
Measure Twice, Cut Once: Quantifying Bias and Fairness in Deep Neural Networks
Cody Blakeney, Gentry Atkinson, Nathaniel Huish +3
Algorithmic bias is of increasing concern, both to the research community, and society at large. Bias in AI is more abstract and unintuitive than traditional forms of discriminatio…
Simon Says: Evaluating and Mitigating Bias in Pruned Neural Networks with Knowledge Distillation
Cody Blakeney, Nathaniel Huish, Yan Yan +1
In recent years the ubiquitous deployment of AI has posed great concerns in regards to algorithmic bias, discrimination, and fairness. Compared to traditional forms of bias or disc…
Parallel Blockwise Knowledge Distillation for Deep Neural Network Compression
Cody Blakeney, Xiaomin Li, Yan Yan +1
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been extremely successful in solving many challenging AI tasks in natural language processing, speech recognition, and computer vision nowadays. Ho…