A Practice of Post-Training on Llama-3 70B with Optimal Selection of Additional Language Mixture Ratio

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Hauptverfasser: Xi, Ningyuan, Wu, Yetao, Fan, Kun, Chen, Teng, Gu, Qingqing, Ji, Luo
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author Xi, Ningyuan
Wu, Yetao
Fan, Kun
Chen, Teng
Gu, Qingqing
Ji, Luo
author_facet Xi, Ningyuan
Wu, Yetao
Fan, Kun
Chen, Teng
Gu, Qingqing
Ji, Luo
contents Large Language Models (LLM) often need to be Continual Pre-Trained (CPT) to obtain unfamiliar language skills or adapt to new domains. The huge training cost of CPT often asks for cautious choice of key hyper-parameters such as the mixture ratio of extra language or domain corpus. However, there is no systematic study that bridges the gap between the optimal mixture ratio and the actual model performance, and the gap between experimental scaling law and the actual deployment in the full model size. In this paper, we perform CPT on Llama-3 8B and 70B to enhance its Chinese ability. We study the optimal correlation between the Additional Language Mixture Ratio (ALMR) and the Learning Rate (LR) on the 8B size which directly indicates the optimal experimental setup. By thorough choice of hyper-parameter, and subsequent fine-tuning, the model capability is improved not only on the Chinese-related benchmark but also in some specific domains including math, coding, and emotional intelligence. We deploy the final 70B version of LLM on a real-life chat system which obtains satisfying performance.
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spellingShingle A Practice of Post-Training on Llama-3 70B with Optimal Selection of Additional Language Mixture Ratio
Xi, Ningyuan
Wu, Yetao
Fan, Kun
Chen, Teng
Gu, Qingqing
Ji, Luo
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Large Language Models (LLM) often need to be Continual Pre-Trained (CPT) to obtain unfamiliar language skills or adapt to new domains. The huge training cost of CPT often asks for cautious choice of key hyper-parameters such as the mixture ratio of extra language or domain corpus. However, there is no systematic study that bridges the gap between the optimal mixture ratio and the actual model performance, and the gap between experimental scaling law and the actual deployment in the full model size. In this paper, we perform CPT on Llama-3 8B and 70B to enhance its Chinese ability. We study the optimal correlation between the Additional Language Mixture Ratio (ALMR) and the Learning Rate (LR) on the 8B size which directly indicates the optimal experimental setup. By thorough choice of hyper-parameter, and subsequent fine-tuning, the model capability is improved not only on the Chinese-related benchmark but also in some specific domains including math, coding, and emotional intelligence. We deploy the final 70B version of LLM on a real-life chat system which obtains satisfying performance.
title A Practice of Post-Training on Llama-3 70B with Optimal Selection of Additional Language Mixture Ratio
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06624