5 papers
DataComp-VLM: Improved Open Datasets for Vision-Language Models
Matteo Farina, Vishaal Udandarao, Thao Nguyen +34
Building performant Vision-Language Models (VLMs) requires carefully curating large-scale training datasets, yet the community lacks systematic benchmarks for evaluating such curat…
Concept-Aware Batch Sampling Improves Language-Image Pretraining
Adhiraj Ghosh, Vishaal Udandarao, Thao Nguyen +7
What data should a vision-language model be trained on? To answer this question, many data curation efforts center on the quality of a dataset. However, most of these existing meth…
Recycling the Web: A Method to Enhance Pre-training Data Quality and Quantity for Language Models
Thao Nguyen, Yang Li, Olga Golovneva +4
Scaling laws predict that the performance of large language models improves with increasing model size and data size. In practice, pre-training has been relying on massive web craw…
Multilingual Diversity Improves Vision-Language Representations
Thao Nguyen, Matthew Wallingford, Sebastin Santy +5
Massive web-crawled image-text datasets lay the foundation for recent progress in multimodal learning. These datasets are designed with the goal of training a model to do well on s…
DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models
Jeffrey Li, Alex Fang, Georgios Smyrnis +56
We introduce DataComp for Language Models (DCLM), a testbed for controlled dataset experiments with the goal of improving language models. As part of DCLM, we provide a standardize…