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Large language models (LLMs) rely on pretraining on massive and heterogeneous corpora, where training data composition has a decisive impact on training efficiency and downstream generalization under realistic compute and data budget…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhuo Chen , Yuxuan Miao , Supryadi , Deyi Xiong

The coverage and composition of the pretraining data significantly impacts the generalization ability of Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite its importance, recent LLMs still rely on heuristics and trial and error to increase or reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Simin Fan , Matteo Pagliardini , Martin Jaggi

Domain reweighting is an emerging research area aimed at adjusting the relative weights of different data sources to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of LLM pre-training. We show that data mixtures that perform well at smaller…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Feiyang Kang , Yifan Sun , Bingbing Wen , Si Chen , Dawn Song , Rafid Mahmood , Ruoxi Jia

Training large language models with data collected from various domains can improve their performance on downstream tasks. However, given a fixed training budget, the sampling proportions of these different domains significantly impact the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yajiao Liu , Congliang Chen , Junchi Yang , Ruoyu Sun

Training data mixtures greatly impact the generalization performance of large language models. Existing domain reweighting methods often rely on costly weight computations and require retraining when new data is introduced. To this end, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Wanyun Xie , Francesco Tonin , Volkan Cevher

Data mixing strategies have successfully reduced the costs involved in training language models. While promising, such methods suffer from two flaws. First, they rely on predetermined data domains (e.g., data sources, task types), which may…

In the training of large deep neural networks, there is a need for vast amounts of training data. To meet this need, data is collected from multiple domains, such as Wikipedia and GitHub. These domains are heterogeneous in both data quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Mahdi Salmani , Pratik Worah , Meisam Razaviyayn , Vahab Mirrokni

Pretraining large language models (LLMs) on vast and heterogeneous datasets is crucial for achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse downstream tasks. However, current training paradigms treat all samples equally, overlooking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Daouda Sow , Herbert Woisetschläger , Saikiran Bulusu , Shiqiang Wang , Hans-Arno Jacobsen , Yingbin Liang

Large language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various tasks, primarily attributed to the utilization of diversely sourced data. However, the impact of pretraining data composition on model performance remains poorly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ce Ge , Zhijian Ma , Daoyuan Chen , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding

Optimizing data mixtures for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of large language models (LLMs) is critical for developing general-purpose models, yet this area remains underexplored. In this paper, we frame data mixing as an optimization problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuan Li , Zhengzhong Liu , Eric Xing

Data mixing -- determining the ratios of data from different domains -- is a first-order concern for training language models (LMs). While existing mixing methods show promise, they fall short when applied during real-world LM development.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Mayee F. Chen , Tyler Murray , David Heineman , Matt Jordan , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Christopher Ré , Luca Soldaini , Kyle Lo

The performance of large language models (LLMs) across diverse downstream applications is fundamentally governed by the quality and composition of their pretraining corpora. Existing domain reweighting algorithms primarily optimize data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Simin Fan , Maria Ios Glarou , Martin Jaggi

Continual pre-training on small-scale task-specific data is an effective method for improving large language models in new target fields, yet it risks catastrophic forgetting of their original capabilities. A common solution is to re-weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kailai Yang , Xiao Liu , Lei Ji , Hao Li , Xiao Liang , Zhiwei Liu , Yeyun Gong , Peng Cheng , Mao Yang

Graphs with abundant attributes are essential in modeling interconnected entities and enhancing predictions across various real-world applications. Traditional Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often require re-training for different graph tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yanchao Tan , Hang Lv , Pengxiang Zhan , Shiping Wang , Carl Yang

The integration of large language model (LLM) and data management (DATA) is rapidly redefining both domains. In this survey, we comprehensively review the bidirectional relationships. On the one hand, DATA4LLM, spanning large-scale data…

Recent research has highlighted the importance of dataset size in scaling language models. However, large language models (LLMs) are notoriously token-hungry during pre-training, and high-quality text data on the web is approaching its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Fuzhao Xue , Yao Fu , Wangchunshu Zhou , Zangwei Zheng , Yang You

This paper introduces a multifaceted methodology for fine-tuning and evaluating large language models (LLMs) for specialized monetization tasks. The goal is to balance general language proficiency with domain-specific skills. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zheng Zhang , Chen Zheng , Da Tang , Ke Sun , Yukun Ma , Yingtong Bu , Xun Zhou , Liang Zhao

Contrary to the conventional emphasis on dataset size, we explore the role of data alignment -- an often overlooked aspect of data quality -- in training capable Large Language Models (LLMs). To do so, we use the Task2Vec-based alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Krrish Chawla , Aryan Sahai , Mario DePavia , Sudharsan Sundar , Brando Miranda , Elyas Obbad , Sanmi Koyejo

Existing pretraining data mixing methods for large language models (LLMs) typically follow a domain-wise methodology, a top-down process that first determines domain weights and then performs uniform data sampling across each domain.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xiangyu Xi , Deyang Kong , Jian Yang , Jiawei Yang , Zhengyu Chen , Wei Wang , Jingang Wang , Xunliang Cai , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated immense potential across various tasks. However, research for exploring and improving the capabilities of LLMs in interpreting graph structures remains limited. To address this gap, we conduct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Jie He , Yijun Yang , Wanqiu Long , Deyi Xiong , Victor Gutierrez-Basulto , Jeff Z. Pan
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