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author Li, Jeffrey
Fang, Alex
Smyrnis, Georgios
Ivgi, Maor
Jordan, Matt
Gadre, Samir
Bansal, Hritik
Guha, Etash
Keh, Sedrick
Arora, Kushal
Garg, Saurabh
Xin, Rui
Muennighoff, Niklas
Heckel, Reinhard
Mercat, Jean
Chen, Mayee
Gururangan, Suchin
Wortsman, Mitchell
Albalak, Alon
Bitton, Yonatan
Nezhurina, Marianna
Abbas, Amro
Hsieh, Cheng-Yu
Ghosh, Dhruba
Gardner, Josh
Kilian, Maciej
Zhang, Hanlin
Shao, Rulin
Pratt, Sarah
Sanyal, Sunny
Ilharco, Gabriel
Daras, Giannis
Marathe, Kalyani
Gokaslan, Aaron
Zhang, Jieyu
Chandu, Khyathi
Nguyen, Thao
Vasiljevic, Igor
Kakade, Sham
Song, Shuran
Sanghavi, Sujay
Faghri, Fartash
Oh, Sewoong
Zettlemoyer, Luke
Lo, Kyle
El-Nouby, Alaaeldin
Pouransari, Hadi
Toshev, Alexander
Wang, Stephanie
Groeneveld, Dirk
Soldaini, Luca
Koh, Pang Wei
Jitsev, Jenia
Kollar, Thomas
Dimakis, Alexandros G.
Carmon, Yair
Dave, Achal
Schmidt, Ludwig
Shankar, Vaishaal
author_facet Li, Jeffrey
Fang, Alex
Smyrnis, Georgios
Ivgi, Maor
Jordan, Matt
Gadre, Samir
Bansal, Hritik
Guha, Etash
Keh, Sedrick
Arora, Kushal
Garg, Saurabh
Xin, Rui
Muennighoff, Niklas
Heckel, Reinhard
Mercat, Jean
Chen, Mayee
Gururangan, Suchin
Wortsman, Mitchell
Albalak, Alon
Bitton, Yonatan
Nezhurina, Marianna
Abbas, Amro
Hsieh, Cheng-Yu
Ghosh, Dhruba
Gardner, Josh
Kilian, Maciej
Zhang, Hanlin
Shao, Rulin
Pratt, Sarah
Sanyal, Sunny
Ilharco, Gabriel
Daras, Giannis
Marathe, Kalyani
Gokaslan, Aaron
Zhang, Jieyu
Chandu, Khyathi
Nguyen, Thao
Vasiljevic, Igor
Kakade, Sham
Song, Shuran
Sanghavi, Sujay
Faghri, Fartash
Oh, Sewoong
Zettlemoyer, Luke
Lo, Kyle
El-Nouby, Alaaeldin
Pouransari, Hadi
Toshev, Alexander
Wang, Stephanie
Groeneveld, Dirk
Soldaini, Luca
Koh, Pang Wei
Jitsev, Jenia
Kollar, Thomas
Dimakis, Alexandros G.
Carmon, Yair
Dave, Achal
Schmidt, Ludwig
Shankar, Vaishaal
contents We introduce DataComp for Language Models (DCLM), a testbed for controlled dataset experiments with the goal of improving language models. As part of DCLM, we provide a standardized corpus of 240T tokens extracted from Common Crawl, effective pretraining recipes based on the OpenLM framework, and a broad suite of 53 downstream evaluations. Participants in the DCLM benchmark can experiment with data curation strategies such as deduplication, filtering, and data mixing at model scales ranging from 412M to 7B parameters. As a baseline for DCLM, we conduct extensive experiments and find that model-based filtering is key to assembling a high-quality training set. The resulting dataset, DCLM-Baseline enables training a 7B parameter language model from scratch to 64% 5-shot accuracy on MMLU with 2.6T training tokens. Compared to MAP-Neo, the previous state-of-the-art in open-data language models, DCLM-Baseline represents a 6.6 percentage point improvement on MMLU while being trained with 40% less compute. Our baseline model is also comparable to Mistral-7B-v0.3 and Llama 3 8B on MMLU (63% & 66%), and performs similarly on an average of 53 natural language understanding tasks while being trained with 6.6x less compute than Llama 3 8B. Our results highlight the importance of dataset design for training language models and offer a starting point for further research on data curation.
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spellingShingle DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models
Li, Jeffrey
Fang, Alex
Smyrnis, Georgios
Ivgi, Maor
Jordan, Matt
Gadre, Samir
Bansal, Hritik
Guha, Etash
Keh, Sedrick
Arora, Kushal
Garg, Saurabh
Xin, Rui
Muennighoff, Niklas
Heckel, Reinhard
Mercat, Jean
Chen, Mayee
Gururangan, Suchin
Wortsman, Mitchell
Albalak, Alon
Bitton, Yonatan
Nezhurina, Marianna
Abbas, Amro
Hsieh, Cheng-Yu
Ghosh, Dhruba
Gardner, Josh
Kilian, Maciej
Zhang, Hanlin
Shao, Rulin
Pratt, Sarah
Sanyal, Sunny
Ilharco, Gabriel
Daras, Giannis
Marathe, Kalyani
Gokaslan, Aaron
Zhang, Jieyu
Chandu, Khyathi
Nguyen, Thao
Vasiljevic, Igor
Kakade, Sham
Song, Shuran
Sanghavi, Sujay
Faghri, Fartash
Oh, Sewoong
Zettlemoyer, Luke
Lo, Kyle
El-Nouby, Alaaeldin
Pouransari, Hadi
Toshev, Alexander
Wang, Stephanie
Groeneveld, Dirk
Soldaini, Luca
Koh, Pang Wei
Jitsev, Jenia
Kollar, Thomas
Dimakis, Alexandros G.
Carmon, Yair
Dave, Achal
Schmidt, Ludwig
Shankar, Vaishaal
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
We introduce DataComp for Language Models (DCLM), a testbed for controlled dataset experiments with the goal of improving language models. As part of DCLM, we provide a standardized corpus of 240T tokens extracted from Common Crawl, effective pretraining recipes based on the OpenLM framework, and a broad suite of 53 downstream evaluations. Participants in the DCLM benchmark can experiment with data curation strategies such as deduplication, filtering, and data mixing at model scales ranging from 412M to 7B parameters. As a baseline for DCLM, we conduct extensive experiments and find that model-based filtering is key to assembling a high-quality training set. The resulting dataset, DCLM-Baseline enables training a 7B parameter language model from scratch to 64% 5-shot accuracy on MMLU with 2.6T training tokens. Compared to MAP-Neo, the previous state-of-the-art in open-data language models, DCLM-Baseline represents a 6.6 percentage point improvement on MMLU while being trained with 40% less compute. Our baseline model is also comparable to Mistral-7B-v0.3 and Llama 3 8B on MMLU (63% & 66%), and performs similarly on an average of 53 natural language understanding tasks while being trained with 6.6x less compute than Llama 3 8B. Our results highlight the importance of dataset design for training language models and offer a starting point for further research on data curation.
title DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11794