11 citations · 35 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for
12 papers
Pretraining Data Can Be Poisoned through Computational Propaganda
Victoria Graf, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Noah A. Smith +2
Poisoning pretraining data can introduce harmful behaviors to LMs that are difficult to detect and mitigate. Prior work on poisoning pretraining data has largely exploited establis…
Rewriting History: A Recipe for Interventional Analyses to Study Data Effects on Model Behavior
Rahul Nadkarni, Yanai Elazar, Hila Gonen +1
We present an experimental recipe for studying the relationship between training data and language model (LM) behavior. We outline steps for intervening on data batches -- i.e., ``…
On Linear Representations and Pretraining Data Frequency in Language Models
Jack Merullo, Noah A. Smith, Sarah Wiegreffe +1
Pretraining data has a direct impact on the behaviors and quality of language models (LMs), but we only understand the most basic principles of this relationship. While most work f…
DataDecide: How to Predict Best Pretraining Data with Small Experiments
Ian Magnusson, Nguyen Tai, Ben Bogin +10
Because large language models are expensive to pretrain on different datasets, using smaller-scale experiments to decide on data is crucial for reducing costs. Which benchmarks and…
Evaluating -Gram Novelty of Language Models Using Rusty-DAWG
William Merrill, Noah A. Smith, Yanai Elazar
How novel are texts generated by language models (LMs) relative to their training corpora? In this work, we investigate the extent to which modern LMs generate -grams from their…
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…
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…
Camels in a Changing Climate: Enhancing LM Adaptation with Tulu 2
Hamish Ivison, Yizhong Wang, Valentina Pyatkin +8
Since the release of TÜLU [Wang et al., 2023b], open resources for instruction tuning have developed quickly, from better base models to new finetuning techniques. We test and inco…
Measuring and Improving Attentiveness to Partial Inputs with Counterfactuals
Yanai Elazar, Bhargavi Paranjape, Hao Peng +5
The inevitable appearance of spurious correlations in training datasets hurts the generalization of NLP models on unseen data. Previous work has found that datasets with paired inp…
What's In My Big Data?
Yanai Elazar, Akshita Bhagia, Ian Magnusson +10
Large text corpora are the backbone of language models. However, we have a limited understanding of the content of these corpora, including general statistics, quality, social fact…
In-context Pretraining: Language Modeling Beyond Document Boundaries
Weijia Shi, Sewon Min, Maria Lomeli +9
Large language models (LMs) are currently trained to predict tokens given document prefixes, enabling them to directly perform long-form generation and prompting-style tasks which…