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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| tags: |
| - scaling-laws |
| - language-models |
| - experimental-design |
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| # Public-checkpoint reanalysis: normalised run tables |
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| Normalised training-loss observations from published language-model studies, used for the |
| public-checkpoint reanalysis accompanying *Tokens-per-Parameter Coverage Is Critical for Robust |
| LLM Scaling Law Extrapolation*. |
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| Every number in that analysis is recomputable from these tables alone, with no need to re-fetch |
| the upstream sources. |
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| ## Files |
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| | File | Rows | Contents | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | `runs_expanded.csv` | 12,531 | Full corpus: all ten qualifying studies, including mid-training checkpoints | |
| | `runs_normalised.csv` | 753 | Terminal-observation corpus used for the primary analysis | |
| | `datadecide_ppl_by_group.csv` | - | DataDecide per-group perplexities with reconstructed token counts | |
| | `farseer_1222_full.csv` | - | Farseer released run table | |
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| ## Schema |
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| `cell` (study/corpus identifier), `run_id`, `N` (non-embedding parameters), `D` (training |
| tokens), `loss`, `loss_smooth`, `loss_val` where released, and `k = D/N` (tokens per parameter). |
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| ## Provenance |
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| Each row derives from the releasing study's own published loss data. Model size and token count |
| are recoverable per run; studies where either could not be recovered, or which span too few |
| distinct model sizes to carve a design from, were screened out and are logged with the |
| requirement they failed in the accompanying analysis package. |
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| Included studies: Farseer, Chinchilla (isoFLOP, digitized), Gemstones (annealed and constant-LR), |
| Gadre et al. over-training, the OLMo ladder, DataDecide, MAD, GPT-3 curves, and OPT trajectories. |
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| The ColPret aggregation (Choshen et al.) is a source for several of these; it is not |
| redistributed here, and the fetch script in the analysis package pulls it from the original |
| release. |
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| ## Reproducing |
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| The analysis code, the pre-registered protocol with its dated amendments, and the screening log |
| accompany the paper. Point the analysis at these tables in place of the fetch step. |
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