5 papers
Synthetic Mixed Training: Scaling Parametric Knowledge Acquisition Beyond RAG
Seungju Han, Konwoo Kim, Chanwoo Park +5
Synthetic data augmentation helps language models learn new knowledge in data-constrained domains. However, naively scaling existing synthetic data methods by training on more synt…
Data-efficient pre-training by scaling synthetic megadocs
Konwoo Kim, Suhas Kotha, Yejin Choi +3
Synthetic data augmentation has emerged as a promising solution when pre-training is constrained by data rather than compute. We study how to design synthetic data algorithms that…
Replaying pre-training data improves fine-tuning
Suhas Kotha, Percy Liang
To obtain a language model for a target domain (e.g. math), the current paradigm is to pre-train on a vast amount of generic web text and then fine-tune on the relatively limited a…
Pre-training under infinite compute
Konwoo Kim, Suhas Kotha, Percy Liang +1
Since compute grows much faster than web text available for language model pre-training, we ask how one should approach pre-training under fixed data and no compute constraints. We…
Repetition Improves Language Model Embeddings
Jacob Mitchell Springer, Suhas Kotha, Daniel Fried +2
Bidirectional models are considered essential for strong text embeddings. Recent approaches to adapt autoregressive language models (LMs) into strong text embedding models have lar…