8 papers
Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Harness
Seth Karten, Alex L. Zhang, Kevin Thomas +8
Language models are sequential processors, but long-horizon agency requires external information and computation beyond model weights and active context. Prime Agent is an open-sou…
How Can We Synthesize High-Quality Pretraining Data? A Systematic Study of Prompt Design, Generator Model, and Source Data
Joel Niklaus, Atsuki Yamaguchi, Michal Štefánik +9
Synthetic data is a standard component in training large language models, yet systematic comparisons across design dimensions, including rephrasing strategy, generator model, and s…
DRISHTIKON: A Multimodal Multilingual Benchmark for Testing Language Models' Understanding on Indian Culture
Arijit Maji, Raghvendra Kumar, Akash Ghosh +6
We introduce DRISHTIKON, a first-of-its-kind multimodal and multilingual benchmark centered exclusively on Indian culture, designed to evaluate the cultural understanding of genera…
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…
SmolVLM: Redefining small and efficient multimodal models
Andrés Marafioti, Orr Zohar, Miquel Farré +14
Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) deliver exceptional performance but require significant computational resources, limiting their deployment on mobile and edge devices. Smaller V…
SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -- Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model
Loubna Ben Allal, Anton Lozhkov, Elie Bakouch +19
While large language models have facilitated breakthroughs in many applications of artificial intelligence, their inherent largeness makes them computationally expensive and challe…