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most citedConsent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons

13 citations · 23 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

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.AI20244 cited

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…

cs.CL202413 cited

Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons

Shayne Longpre, Robert Mahari, Ariel Lee +46

General-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) systems are built on massive swathes of public web data, assembled into corpora such as C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma. To our knowledge, we…

cs.CV2024

Scalable High-Resolution Pixel-Space Image Synthesis with Hourglass Diffusion Transformers

Katherine Crowson, Stefan Andreas Baumann, Alex Birch +3

We present the Hourglass Diffusion Transformer (HDiT), an image generative model that exhibits linear scaling with pixel count, supporting training at high-resolution (e.g. $1024 \…

cs.CL20236 cited

The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI

Shayne Longpre, Robert Mahari, Anthony Chen +14

The race to train language models on vast, diverse, and inconsistently documented datasets has raised pressing concerns about the legal and ethical risks for practitioners. To reme…

cs.CL2023

YaRN: Efficient Context Window Extension of Large Language Models

Bowen Peng, Jeffrey Quesnelle, Honglu Fan +1

Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE) have been shown to effectively encode positional information in transformer-based language models. However, these models fail to generalize past t…