6 papers
Capability Provenance in Language Models: A Case Study in Social Reasoning
Glenn Matlin, Chandreyi Chakraborty, Saehee Eom +8
We use training-data attribution as an interpretable tool for capability discovery, mapping which regions of the pretraining corpus support social-reasoning versus STEM-reasoning i…
Bergson: An Open Source Library for Data Attribution
Lucia Quirke, Louis Jaburi, David Johnston +6
Data attribution is a promising field in interpretability that aims to explain model behavior through the influence of its training data, with applications including debugging unde…
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…
Bridging the Data Provenance Gap Across Text, Speech and Video
Shayne Longpre, Nikhil Singh, Manuel Cherep +40
Progress in AI is driven largely by the scale and quality of training data. Despite this, there is a deficit of empirical analysis examining the attributes of well-established data…
The Responsible Foundation Model Development Cheatsheet: A Review of Tools & Resources
Shayne Longpre, Stella Biderman, Alon Albalak +20
Foundation model development attracts a rapidly expanding body of contributors, scientists, and applications. To help shape responsible development practices, we introduce the Foun…
Towards Best Practices for Open Datasets for LLM Training
Stefan Baack, Stella Biderman, Kasia Odrozek +36
Many AI companies are training their large language models (LLMs) on data without the permission of the copyright owners. The permissibility of doing so varies by jurisdiction: in…