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Bolmo: Byteifying the Next Generation of Language Models
Benjamin Minixhofer, Tyler Murray, Tomasz Limisiewicz +6
Recent advances in generative AI have been largely driven by large language models (LLMs), deep neural networks that operate over discrete units called tokens. To represent text, t…
Fluid Language Model Benchmarking
Valentin Hofmann, David Heineman, Ian Magnusson +7
Language model (LM) benchmarking faces several challenges: comprehensive evaluations are costly, benchmarks often fail to measure the intended capabilities, and evaluation quality…
SuperBPE: Space Travel for Language Models
Alisa Liu, Jonathan Hayase, Valentin Hofmann +3
The assumption across nearly all language model (LM) tokenization schemes is that tokens should be subwords, i.e., contained within word boundaries. While providing a seemingly rea…
Signal and Noise: A Framework for Reducing Uncertainty in Language Model Evaluation
David Heineman, Valentin Hofmann, Ian Magnusson +5
Developing large language models is expensive and involves making decisions with small experiments, typically by evaluating on large, multi-task evaluation suites. In this work, we…
Paloma: A Benchmark for Evaluating Language Model Fit
Ian Magnusson, Akshita Bhagia, Valentin Hofmann +13
Evaluations of language models (LMs) commonly report perplexity on monolithic data held out from training. Implicitly or explicitly, this data is composed of domains--varying distr…
Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research
Luca Soldaini, Rodney Kinney, Akshita Bhagia +33
Information about pretraining corpora used to train the current best-performing language models is seldom discussed: commercial models rarely detail their data, and even open model…