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author Nakamura, Taishi
Mishra, Mayank
Tedeschi, Simone
Chai, Yekun
Stillerman, Jason T
Friedrich, Felix
Yadav, Prateek
Laud, Tanmay
Chien, Vu Minh
Zhuo, Terry Yue
Misra, Diganta
Bogin, Ben
Vu, Xuan-Son
Karpinska, Marzena
Dantuluri, Arnav Varma
Kusa, Wojciech
Furlanello, Tommaso
Yokota, Rio
Muennighoff, Niklas
Pai, Suhas
Adewumi, Tosin
Laippala, Veronika
Yao, Xiaozhe
Junior, Adalberto
Ariyak, Alpay
Drozd, Aleksandr
Clive, Jordan
Gupta, Kshitij
Chen, Liangyu
Sun, Qi
Tsui, Ken
Persaud, Noah
Fahmy, Nour
Chen, Tianlong
Bansal, Mohit
Monti, Nicolo
Dang, Tai
Luo, Ziyang
Bui, Tien-Tung
Navigli, Roberto
Mehta, Virendra
Blumberg, Matthew
May, Victor
Nguyen, Huu
Pyysalo, Sampo
author_facet Nakamura, Taishi
Mishra, Mayank
Tedeschi, Simone
Chai, Yekun
Stillerman, Jason T
Friedrich, Felix
Yadav, Prateek
Laud, Tanmay
Chien, Vu Minh
Zhuo, Terry Yue
Misra, Diganta
Bogin, Ben
Vu, Xuan-Son
Karpinska, Marzena
Dantuluri, Arnav Varma
Kusa, Wojciech
Furlanello, Tommaso
Yokota, Rio
Muennighoff, Niklas
Pai, Suhas
Adewumi, Tosin
Laippala, Veronika
Yao, Xiaozhe
Junior, Adalberto
Ariyak, Alpay
Drozd, Aleksandr
Clive, Jordan
Gupta, Kshitij
Chen, Liangyu
Sun, Qi
Tsui, Ken
Persaud, Noah
Fahmy, Nour
Chen, Tianlong
Bansal, Mohit
Monti, Nicolo
Dang, Tai
Luo, Ziyang
Bui, Tien-Tung
Navigli, Roberto
Mehta, Virendra
Blumberg, Matthew
May, Victor
Nguyen, Huu
Pyysalo, Sampo
contents Pretrained language models are an integral part of AI applications, but their high computational cost for training limits accessibility. Initiatives such as Bloom and StarCoder aim to democratize access to pretrained models for collaborative community development. Despite these efforts, such models encounter challenges such as limited multilingual capabilities, risks of catastrophic forgetting during continual pretraining, and the high costs of training models from scratch, alongside the need to align with AI safety standards and regulatory frameworks. This paper presents Aurora-M, a 15B parameter multilingual open-source model trained on English, Finnish, Hindi, Japanese, Vietnamese, and code. Continually pretrained from StarCoderPlus on 435B additional tokens, Aurora-M surpasses 2T tokens in total training token count. It is the first open-source multilingual model fine-tuned on human-reviewed safety instructions, thus aligning its development not only with conventional red-teaming considerations, but also with the specific concerns articulated in the Biden-Harris Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. We evaluate Aurora-M across a wide range of tasks and languages, showcasing its robustness against catastrophic forgetting and its superior performance in multilingual settings, particularly in safety evaluations. We open-source Aurora-M and its variants to encourage responsible open-source development of large language models at https://huggingface.co/aurora-m.
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spellingShingle Aurora-M: Open Source Continual Pre-training for Multilingual Language and Code
Nakamura, Taishi
Mishra, Mayank
Tedeschi, Simone
Chai, Yekun
Stillerman, Jason T
Friedrich, Felix
Yadav, Prateek
Laud, Tanmay
Chien, Vu Minh
Zhuo, Terry Yue
Misra, Diganta
Bogin, Ben
Vu, Xuan-Son
Karpinska, Marzena
Dantuluri, Arnav Varma
Kusa, Wojciech
Furlanello, Tommaso
Yokota, Rio
Muennighoff, Niklas
Pai, Suhas
Adewumi, Tosin
Laippala, Veronika
Yao, Xiaozhe
Junior, Adalberto
Ariyak, Alpay
Drozd, Aleksandr
Clive, Jordan
Gupta, Kshitij
Chen, Liangyu
Sun, Qi
Tsui, Ken
Persaud, Noah
Fahmy, Nour
Chen, Tianlong
Bansal, Mohit
Monti, Nicolo
Dang, Tai
Luo, Ziyang
Bui, Tien-Tung
Navigli, Roberto
Mehta, Virendra
Blumberg, Matthew
May, Victor
Nguyen, Huu
Pyysalo, Sampo
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Pretrained language models are an integral part of AI applications, but their high computational cost for training limits accessibility. Initiatives such as Bloom and StarCoder aim to democratize access to pretrained models for collaborative community development. Despite these efforts, such models encounter challenges such as limited multilingual capabilities, risks of catastrophic forgetting during continual pretraining, and the high costs of training models from scratch, alongside the need to align with AI safety standards and regulatory frameworks. This paper presents Aurora-M, a 15B parameter multilingual open-source model trained on English, Finnish, Hindi, Japanese, Vietnamese, and code. Continually pretrained from StarCoderPlus on 435B additional tokens, Aurora-M surpasses 2T tokens in total training token count. It is the first open-source multilingual model fine-tuned on human-reviewed safety instructions, thus aligning its development not only with conventional red-teaming considerations, but also with the specific concerns articulated in the Biden-Harris Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. We evaluate Aurora-M across a wide range of tasks and languages, showcasing its robustness against catastrophic forgetting and its superior performance in multilingual settings, particularly in safety evaluations. We open-source Aurora-M and its variants to encourage responsible open-source development of large language models at https://huggingface.co/aurora-m.
title Aurora-M: Open Source Continual Pre-training for Multilingual Language and Code
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00399