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Train Smarter, Not Longer: Memorization-Guided Data Reuse for Efficient LLM Training
Jingwei Zuo, Cong Zeng, Ilyas Chahed +6
The training paradigm of large language models has shifted from traditional one-pass training to multi-epoch training, as reasonable reuse of limited high-quality data can improve…
Learnable Multipliers: Freeing the Scale of Language Model Matrix Layers
Maksim Velikanov, Ilyas Chahed, Jingwei Zuo +3
Applying weight decay (WD) to matrix layers is standard practice in large-language-model pretraining. Prior work suggests that stochastic gradient noise induces a Brownian-like exp…
Falcon-H1: A Family of Hybrid-Head Language Models Redefining Efficiency and Performance
Jingwei Zuo, Maksim Velikanov, Ilyas Chahed +24
In this report, we introduce Falcon-H1, a new series of large language models (LLMs) featuring hybrid architecture designs optimized for both high performance and efficiency across…
NeurIPS 2025 E2LM Competition : Early Training Evaluation of Language Models
Mouadh Yagoubi, Yasser Dahou, Billel Mokeddem +12
Existing benchmarks have proven effective for assessing the performance of fully trained large language models. However, we find striking differences in the early training stages o…
Falcon Mamba: The First Competitive Attention-free 7B Language Model
Jingwei Zuo, Maksim Velikanov, Dhia Eddine Rhaiem +4
In this technical report, we present Falcon Mamba 7B, a new base large language model based on the novel Mamba architecture. Falcon Mamba 7B is trained on 5.8 trillion tokens with…
Distributed Inference and Fine-tuning of Large Language Models Over The Internet
Alexander Borzunov, Max Ryabinin, Artem Chumachenko +5
Large language models (LLMs) are useful in many NLP tasks and become more capable with size, with the best open-source models having over 50 billion parameters. However, using thes…
Zephyr: Direct Distillation of LM Alignment
Lewis Tunstall, Edward Beeching, Nathan Lambert +11
We aim to produce a smaller language model that is aligned to user intent. Previous research has shown that applying distilled supervised fine-tuning (dSFT) on larger models signif…
BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model
BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391
Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…
Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-tuning of Large Models
Alexander Borzunov, Dmitry Baranchuk, Tim Dettmers +5
Many NLP tasks benefit from using large language models (LLMs) that often have more than 100 billion parameters. With the release of BLOOM-176B and OPT-175B, everyone can download…
LLM.int8(): 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale
Tim Dettmers, Mike Lewis, Younes Belkada +1
Large language models have been widely adopted but require significant GPU memory for inference. We develop a procedure for Int8 matrix multiplication for feed-forward and attentio…
Do Pedestrians Pay Attention? Eye Contact Detection in the Wild
Younes Belkada, Lorenzo Bertoni, Romain Caristan +2
In urban or crowded environments, humans rely on eye contact for fast and efficient communication with nearby people. Autonomous agents also need to detect eye contact to interact…