โ๏ธ Ultraset - all-in-one dataset for SFT training in Alpaca format. fluently-sets/ultraset
โ Ultraset is a comprehensive dataset for training Large Language Models (LLMs) using the SFT (instruction-based Fine-Tuning) method. This dataset consists of over 785 thousand entries in eight languages, including English, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese, and Korean.
๐คฏ Ultraset solves the problem faced by users when selecting an appropriate dataset for LLM training. It combines various types of data required to enhance the model's skills in areas such as text writing and editing, mathematics, coding, biology, medicine, finance, and multilingualism.
๐ค For effective use of the dataset, it is recommended to utilize only the "instruction," "input," and "output" columns and train the model for 1-3 epochs. The dataset does not include DPO or Instruct data, making it suitable for training various types of LLM models.
โ๏ธ Ultraset is an excellent tool to improve your language model's skills in diverse knowledge areas.
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Quite excited by the ModernBERT release! 0.15/0.4B small, 2T modern pre-training data and tokenizer with code, 8k context window, great efficient model for embeddings & classification!
This will probably be the basis for many future SOTA encoders! And I can finally stop using DeBERTav3 from 2021 :D
๐ From instruction-following to creative storytelling, dive into 2024's most impactful AI datasets! These gems are shaping everything from scientific research to video understanding.
After 6 years, BERT, the workhorse of encoder models, finally gets a replacement: ๐ช๐ฒ๐น๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐๐๐ฅ๐ง! ๐ค
We talk a lot about โจGenerative AIโจ, meaning "Decoder version of the Transformers architecture", but this is only one of the ways to build LLMs: encoder models, that turn a sentence in a vector, are maybe even more widely used in industry than generative models.
The workhorse for this category has been BERT since its release in 2018 (that's prehistory for LLMs).
It's not a fancy 100B parameters supermodel (just a few hundred millions), but it's an excellent workhorse, kind of a Honda Civic for LLMs.
Many applications use BERT-family models - the top models in this category cumulate millions of downloads on the Hub.
โก๏ธ Now a collaboration between Answer.AI and LightOn just introduced BERT's replacement: ModernBERT.
๐ง๐;๐๐ฅ: ๐๏ธ Architecture changes: โ First, standard modernizations: - Rotary positional embeddings (RoPE) - Replace GeLU with GeGLU, - Use Flash Attention 2 โจ The team also introduced innovative techniques like alternating attention instead of full attention, and sequence packing to get rid of padding overhead.
๐ฅ As a result, the model tops the game of encoder models: It beats previous standard DeBERTaV3 for 1/5th the memory footprint, and runs 4x faster!
๐ฐ๏ธ Llama-3.1-405B took 39 million GPU-hours to train, i.e. about 4.5 thousand years.
๐ด๐ป If they had needed all this time, we would have GPU stories from the time of Pharaoh ๐: "Alas, Lord of Two Lands, the shipment of counting-stones arriving from Cathay was lost to pirates, this shall delay the building of your computing temple by many moons "
๐ ๏ธ But instead, they just parallelized the training on 24k H100s, which made it take just a few months. This required parallelizing across 4 dimensions: data, tensor, context, pipeline. And it is infamously hard to do, making for bloated code repos that hold together only by magic.
๐ค ๐๐๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป'๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ต๐๐ด๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ! Instead of building mega-training codes, Hugging Face colleagues cooked in the other direction, towards tiny 4D parallelism libs. A team has built Nanotron, already widely used in industry. And now a team releases Picotron, a radical approach to code 4D Parallelism in just a few hundred lines of code, a real engineering prowess, making it much easier to understand what's actually happening!
โก ๐๐'๐ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐, ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐น: Counting in MFU (Model FLOPs Utilization, how much the model actually uses all the compute potential), this lib reaches ~50% on SmolLM-1.7B model with 8 H100 GPUs, which is really close to what huge libs would reach. (Caution: the team is leading further benchmarks to verify this)
Did a fun experiment: What are the main themes emerging from the 100+ Nieman Journalism Lab predictions for 2025?
I used natural language processing to cluster and map them โ really helps spot patterns that weren't obvious when reading predictions one by one. So what will shape journalism next year? A lot of AI and US politics (surprise!), but there's also this horizontal axis that spans from industry strategies to deep reflections on how to talk to the public.
Click any dot to explore the original prediction. What themes surprise/interest you the most?
The paper has a lot of experiments (they trained 84 models!) about what makes the video LMs work โฏ๏ธ
Try the demo for best setup here https://huggingface.co/spaces/Apollo-LMMs/Apollo-3B they evaluate sampling strategies, scaling laws for models and datasets, video representation and more! > The authors find out that whatever design decision was applied to small models also scale properly when the model and dataset are scaled ๐ scaling dataset has diminishing returns for smaller models > They evaluate frame sampling strategies, and find that FPS sampling is better than uniform sampling, and they find 8-32 tokens per frame optimal > They also compare image encoders, they try a variation of models from shape optimized SigLIP to DINOv2 they find google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384 to be most powerful ๐ฅ > they also compare freezing different parts of models, training all stages with some frozen parts give the best yield
They eventually release three models, where Apollo-3B outperforms most 7B models and Apollo 7B outperforms 30B models ๐ฅ
Current LLMs process text by first splitting it into tokens. They use a module named "tokenizer", that -spl-it-s- th-e- te-xt- in-to- arbitrary tokens depending on a fixed dictionnary. On the Hub you can find this dictionary in a model's files under tokenizer.json.
โก๏ธ This process is called BPE tokenization. It is suboptimal, everyone says it. It breaks text into predefined chunks that often fail to capture the nuance of language. But it has been a necessary evil in language models since their inception.
๐ฅ In Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), Meta researchers propose an elegant solution by eliminating tokenization entirely, working directly with raw bytes while maintaining efficiency through dynamic "patches."
This had been tried before with different byte-level tokenizations, but it's the first time that an architecture of this type scales as well as BPE tokenization. And it could mean a real paradigm shift! ๐๐
๐๏ธ ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ: Instead of a lightweight tokenizer, BLT has a lightweight encoder that process raw bytes into patches. Then the patches are processed by the main heavy-duty transformers as we do normally (but for patches of bytes instead of tokens), before converting back to bytes.
๐งฉ ๐๐๐ป๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด: Instead of fixed tokens, BLT groups bytes based on their predictability (measured by entropy) - using more compute for complex sequences and efficiently handling simple ones. This allows efficient processing while maintaining byte-level understanding.
I hope this breakthrough is confirmed and we can get rid of all the tokenizer stuff, it will make model handling easier!
Unpopular opinion: Open Source takes courage to do !
Not everyone is brave enough to release what they have done (the way they've done it) to the wild to be judged ! It really requires a high level of "knowing wth are you doing" ! It's kind of a super power !
