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most citedSmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -- Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model

10 citations · 16 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.AI2026

Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Harness

Seth Karten, Alex L. Zhang, Kevin Thomas +8

Language models are sequential processors, but long-horizon agency requires external information and computation beyond model weights and active context. Prime Agent is an open-sou…

cs.CL2026

How Can We Synthesize High-Quality Pretraining Data? A Systematic Study of Prompt Design, Generator Model, and Source Data

Joel Niklaus, Atsuki Yamaguchi, Michal Štefánik +9

Synthetic data is a standard component in training large language models, yet systematic comparisons across design dimensions, including rephrasing strategy, generator model, and s…

cs.CL2025

DRISHTIKON: A Multimodal Multilingual Benchmark for Testing Language Models' Understanding on Indian Culture

Arijit Maji, Raghvendra Kumar, Akash Ghosh +6

We introduce DRISHTIKON, a first-of-its-kind multimodal and multilingual benchmark centered exclusively on Indian culture, designed to evaluate the cultural understanding of genera…

cs.CL2025

The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text

Nikhil Kandpal, Brian Lester, Colin Raffel +24

Large language models (LLMs) are typically trained on enormous quantities of unlicensed text, a practice that has led to scrutiny due to possible intellectual property infringement…

cs.AI2025★ 4 cited

SmolVLM: Redefining small and efficient multimodal models

Andrés Marafioti, Orr Zohar, Miquel Farré +14

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) deliver exceptional performance but require significant computational resources, limiting their deployment on mobile and edge devices. Smaller V…

cs.CL2025★ 10 cited

SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -- Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model

Loubna Ben Allal, Anton Lozhkov, Elie Bakouch +19

While large language models have facilitated breakthroughs in many applications of artificial intelligence, their inherent largeness makes them computationally expensive and challe…

cs.DC2024

INTELLECT-1 Technical Report

Sami Jaghouar, Jack Min Ong, Manveer Basra +9

In this report, we introduce INTELLECT-1, the first 10 billion parameter language model collaboratively trained across the globe, demonstrating that large-scale model training is n…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Scaling Laws and Compute-Optimal Training Beyond Fixed Training Durations

Alexander Hägele, Elie Bakouch, Atli Kosson +3

Scale has become a main ingredient in obtaining strong machine learning models. As a result, understanding a model's scaling properties is key to effectively designing both the rig…