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Ben Allal: Recent web dumps improve model benchmarks despite synthetic data
“So what we did is we trained different models on these different dumps, and we then computed their performance on popular like NLP benchmarks, and then we computed the aggregated score. And surprisingly, you can see that the latest dumps are actually even bett…”
Loubna Ben Allal Dec 24, 2024 ▶ 4:12 Best of 2024: Synthetic Data / Smol Models, Loubna Ben Allal, HuggingFace [LS Live! @ NeurIPS 2024]
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Bachman: 90% of documents in web pre-training datasets are under 2k context
“If you take like any old, like the pile or one of the more modern ones, basically any common crawl derived, scrape, open web text, any of these things, you're going to find that almost all documents are very short. There's some long context documents, but the …”
Diego Bachman Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 30:30 ⚡️ Beyond Transformers with Power Retention
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Soldani: Content owners blanket block crawling due to closed AI models
“What they found is, as a reaction to, like, the close like, of the existence of closed models, like OpenAI or Cloud GPT or Cloud a lot of content owners have blanket blocked any type of crawling to their website.”
Luca Soldani Dec 23, 2024 ▶ 18:34 Best of 2024: Open Models [LS LIVE! at NeurIPS 2024]
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Hugging Face finds LLM proxy words jumped in Common Crawl after ChatGPT
“For example, here we measured like these words ratio in different dumps of common crawl, and we can see that like the ratio really increased after chat GPT's release.”
Loubna Ben Allal Dec 24, 2024 ▶ 3:50 Best of 2024: Synthetic Data / Smol Models, Loubna Ben Allal, HuggingFace [LS Live! @ NeurIPS 2024]
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