3 papers
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.AI2025
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…
cs.CL2025
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…