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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…
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…
BioMedLM: A 2.7B Parameter Language Model Trained On Biomedical Text
Elliot Bolton, Abhinav Venigalla, Michihiro Yasunaga +8
Models such as GPT-4 and Med-PaLM 2 have demonstrated impressive performance on a wide variety of biomedical NLP tasks. However, these models have hundreds of billions of parameter…
MosaicBERT: A Bidirectional Encoder Optimized for Fast Pretraining
Jacob Portes, Alex Trott, Sam Havens +6
Although BERT-style encoder models are heavily used in NLP research, many researchers do not pretrain their own BERTs from scratch due to the high cost of training. In the past hal…
Beyond Chinchilla-Optimal: Accounting for Inference in Language Model Scaling Laws
Nikhil Sardana, Jacob Portes, Sasha Doubov +1
Large language model (LLM) scaling laws are empirical formulas that estimate changes in model quality as a result of increasing parameter count and training data. However, these fo…