10 papers
Quantifying the Effect of Test Set Contamination on Generative Evaluations
Rylan Schaeffer, Joshua Kazdan, Baber Abbasi +8
As frontier AI systems are pretrained on web-scale data, test set contamination has become a critical concern for accurately assessing their capabilities. While research has thorou…
Pretraining Scaling Laws for Generative Evaluations of Language Models
Rylan Schaeffer, Noam Levi, Brando Miranda +1
Neural scaling laws have driven the field's ever-expanding exponential growth in parameters, data and compute. While scaling behaviors for pretraining losses and discriminative ben…
Evaluating the Robustness of Chinchilla Compute-Optimal Scaling
Rylan Schaeffer, Noam Levi, Andreas Kirsch +4
Hoffman et al (2022)'s Chinchilla paper introduced the principle of compute-optimal scaling, laying a foundation for future scaling of language models. In the years since, however,…
Position: Machine Learning Conferences Should Establish a "Refutations and Critiques" Track
Rylan Schaeffer, Joshua Kazdan, Yegor Denisov-Blanch +11
Science progresses by iteratively advancing and correcting humanity's understanding of the world. In machine learning (ML) research, rapid advancements have led to an explosion of…
Beyond Scale: The Diversity Coefficient as a Data Quality Metric for Variability in Natural Language Data
Brando Miranda, Alycia Lee, Sudharsan Sundar +4
Current trends in pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) primarily focus on the scaling of model and dataset size. While the quality of pre-training data is considered an import…
ZIP-FIT: Embedding-Free Data Selection via Compression-Based Alignment
Elyas Obbad, Iddah Mlauzi, Brando Miranda +4
Data selection is crucial for optimizing language model (LM) performance on specific tasks, yet most existing methods fail to effectively consider the target task distribution. Cur…