Various large language models (LLMs) have been proposed in recent years, including closed- and open-source ones, continually setting new records on multiple benchmarks. However, the development of LLMs still faces several issues, such as high cost of training models from scratch, and continual pre-training leading to catastrophic forgetting, etc. Although many such issues are addressed along the line of research on LLMs, an important yet practical limitation is that many studies overly pursue enlarging model sizes without comprehensively analyzing and optimizing the use of pre-training data in their learning process, as well as appropriate organization and leveraging of such data in training LLMs under cost-effective settings. In this work, we propose Ziya2, a model with 13 billion parameters adopting LLaMA2 as the foundation model, and further pre-trained on 700 billion tokens, where we focus on pre-training techniques and use data-centric optimization to enhance the learning process of Ziya2 on different stages. We define three data attributes and firstly establish data-centric scaling laws to illustrate how different data impacts LLMs. Experiments show that Ziya2 significantly outperforms other models in multiple benchmarks especially with promising results compared to representative open-source ones. Ziya2 (Base) is released at https://huggingface.co/IDEA-CCNL/Ziya2-13B-Base and https://modelscope.cn/models/Fengshenbang/Ziya2-13B-Base/summary.
Answer-Centric or Reasoning-Driven? Uncovering the Latent Memory Anchor in LLMs
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);UC Merced(加州大学默塞德分校);The University of Queensland(昆士兰大学);Dalian Minzu University(大连民族大学)
OpenThaiGPT 1.6 and R1: Thai-Centric Open Source and Reasoning Large Language Models
Mahidol University(玛希隆大学);iApp Technology Co., Ltd.(iApp科技有限公司);Intelligent Informatics and Service Innovation Research Center(智能信息与服务创新研究中心);Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneur Association of Thailand (AIEAT)(泰国人工智能企业家协会(AIEAT))
RMTBench: Benchmarking LLMs Through Multi-Turn User-Centric Role-Playing
Chinese Information Processing Laboratory, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院软件研究所信息处理实验室);Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴集团);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学)
Order Doesn't Matter, But Reasoning Does: Training LLMs with Order-Centric Augmentation
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Data Science, School of Computer Science, Fudan University(上海数据科学关键实验室,计算机科学学院,复旦大学);School of Data Science, Fudan University(数据科学学院,复旦大学);Ant Group(蚂蚁集团)
Enabling Doctor-Centric Medical AI with LLMs through Workflow-Aligned Tasks and Benchmarks
Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data(大数据研究 institute);National Health Data Institute(国家健康数据研究所);Halmstad University(哈马碧大学);Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology(深圳先进技术大学)
Is Translation All You Need? A Study on Solving Multilingual Tasks with Large Language Models
Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学);DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group(阿里达摩院);Hupan Lab(虎斑实验室);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Shanda AI Research Institute(沙达AI研究院)
Desert Camels and Oil Sheikhs: Arab-Centric Red Teaming of Frontier LLMs
MBZUAI(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学);University of Khartoum(喀土穆大学);Universität des Saarlandes(萨尔大学);University of British Columbia(不列颠哥伦比亚大学);Invertible AI(可逆人工智能公司);Vector Institute(向量研究所)
State Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University(信息处理国家重点实验室,计算机学院,北京大学);StepFun;Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学)
From English-Centric to Effective Bilingual: LLMs with Custom Tokenizers for Underrepresented Languages
OpenBabylon;ARG-Tech, University of Dundee(邓迪大学ARG-Tech公司);Georg-August Universität Göttingen(哥廷根大学);Doha Institute for Graduate Studies(多哈研究生学院);Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies(阿拉伯研究与政策研究中心);Google(谷歌);PolyAgent
Keyword-Centric Prompting for One-Shot Event Detection with Self-Generated Rationale Enhancements
State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University(一般人工智能国家重点实验室,智能科学与技术学院,北京大学)
Data-Centric AI in the Age of Large Language Models
National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Agency for Science, Technology and Research(新加坡科技研究局);Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre(新加坡-麻省理工研究与技术联盟中心);Guangdong Lab of AI and Digital Economy (SZ)(广东人工智能与数字经济实验室(深圳));Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院);Allen Institute for AI(艾伦人工智能研究所);University of Washington(华盛顿大学)
FACT-AUDIT: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Dynamic Fact-Checking Evaluation of Large Language Models
Hong Kong Baptist University(香港浸会大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Singapore Management University(新加坡管理大学);Harbin Institute of Technology(哈尔滨工业大学);Singapore University of Technology and Design(新加坡科技设计大学)
AutoDataBench: A Data-centric Testbed for Accelerating Auto Research
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学);IQuest Research;Shanghai Jiaotong University(上海交通大学);TU Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学);The University of Manchester(曼彻斯特大学);University of Macau(澳门大学);Shanghai University of Finance and Economics(上海财经大学);Beihang University(北京航空航天大学)
Towards Alignment-Centric Paradigm: A Survey of Instruction Tuning in Large Language Models
Department of Informatics, University of Sussex(信息学院,苏塞克斯大学);Pingtan Research Institute, Xiamen University(平潭研究院,厦门大学);Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool(计算机科学系,利物浦大学);Department of Computer Science, Purdue University(计算机科学系,普渡大学);Department of Computer Science, Emory University(计算机科学系,埃默里大学);AI Agent Lab, Vokram Group(AI代理实验室,Vokram集团);Department of Computing, Imperial College London(计算系,帝国理工学院伦敦分校)
OCALM: Object-Centric Assessment with Language Models
LMU Munich(慕尼黑大学);Munich Center of Machine Learning (MCML)(慕尼黑机器学习中心);Technical University of Darmstadt(达姆施塔特工业大学);Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI)(黑森人工智能中心);National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity (Athene)(国家应用网络安全研究中心);Centre for Cognitive Science of Darmstadt(达姆施塔特认知科学中心);German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)(德国人工智能研究中心)
SongSage: A Large Musical Language Model with Lyric Generative Pre-training
School of Computer Science, Wuhan University(武汉大学计算机学院);School of Information Management, Wuhan University(武汉大学信息管理学院);Tsinghua University(清华大学);School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University(武汉大学人工智能学院)
Tracing the Arrow of Time: Diagnosing Temporal Information Flow in Video-LLMs
The University of Osaka(大阪大学);Center for Information and Neural Networks(信息与神经网络中心);National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(信息与通信技术国家研究所);Kyoto University(京都大学);NII LLMC(日本信息处理学会LLMC)
Camellia: Benchmarking Cultural Biases in LLMs for Asian Languages
Georgia Institute of Technology(佐治亚理工学院);Samsung R&D Institute Philippines(三星菲律宾研发院);Sungkyunkwan University(成均馆大学);Tohoku University(东北大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);University of Copenhagen(哥本哈根大学);University of Michigan(密歇根大学);Indian Institute of Technology Delhi(印度理工学院德里);Institute of Science Tokyo(东京科学研究院)