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most citedDataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models

7 citations · 11 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CR2026

MIRAGE: Protecting against Malicious Image Editing via False Moderation

Anshul Nasery, Ramnath Kumar, Cho-Jui Hsieh +1

The proliferation of AI-powered image editing systems raises serious concerns because it allows personal images to be arbitrarily manipulated at scale, with minimal effort, and a l…

cs.CV2026

DataComp-VLM: Improved Open Datasets for Vision-Language Models

Matteo Farina, Vishaal Udandarao, Thao Nguyen +33

Building performant Vision-Language Models (VLMs) requires carefully curating large-scale training datasets, yet the community lacks systematic benchmarks for evaluating such curat…

cs.CL2026

Privasis: Synthesizing the Largest "Public" Private Dataset from Scratch

Hyunwoo Kim, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Michael Duan +11

Research involving privacy-sensitive data has always been constrained by data scarcity, standing in sharp contrast to other areas that have benefited from data scaling. This challe…

cs.CV2025

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…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models

Etash Guha, Ryan Marten, Sedrick Keh +47

Reasoning models have made rapid progress on many benchmarks involving math, code, and science. Yet, there are still many open questions about the best training recipes for reasoni…

cs.AI2025

Spurious Rewards: Rethinking Training Signals in RLVR

Rulin Shao, Shuyue Stella Li, Rui Xin +11

We show that reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can elicit strong mathematical reasoning in certain language models even with spurious rewards that have little,…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

A False Sense of Privacy: Evaluating Textual Data Sanitization Beyond Surface-level Privacy Leakage

Rui Xin, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Shuyue Stella Li +6

Sanitizing sensitive text data typically involves removing personally identifiable information (PII) or generating synthetic data under the assumption that these methods adequately…

cs.LG2025

S4S: Solving for a Diffusion Model Solver

Eric Frankel, Sitan Chen, Jerry Li +3

Diffusion models (DMs) create samples from a data distribution by starting from random noise and iteratively solving a reverse-time ordinary differential equation (ODE). Because ea…

cs.CL2024

Better Alignment with Instruction Back-and-Forth Translation

Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey Li, Sewoong Oh +4

We propose a new method, instruction back-and-forth translation, to construct high-quality synthetic data grounded in world knowledge for aligning large language models (LLMs). Giv…

cs.LG2024

PLeaS -- Merging Models with Permutations and Least Squares

Anshul Nasery, Jonathan Hayase, Pang Wei Koh +1

The democratization of machine learning systems has made the process of fine-tuning accessible to practitioners, leading to a wide range of open-source models fine-tuned on special…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

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…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

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…