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cs.CL2024
Data, Data Everywhere: A Guide for Pretraining Dataset Construction
Jupinder Parmar, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Joseph Jennings +6
The impressive capabilities of recent language models can be largely attributed to the multi-trillion token pretraining datasets that they are trained on. However, model developers…
cs.LG2024
Asynchronous Local-SGD Training for Language Modeling
Bo Liu, Rachita Chhaparia, Arthur Douillard +5
Local stochastic gradient descent (Local-SGD), also referred to as federated averaging, is an approach to distributed optimization where each device performs more than one SGD upda…