Dataset curation for language models has long relied on brittle, hand-crafted rules. It's time for a more principled, automated approach.
Enter DataRater: a meta-learning framework that learns to value data based on downstream training efficiency. Great summary by Luisa below 👇
Excited to share our new paper, "DataRater: Meta-Learned Dataset Curation"!
We explore a fundamental question: How can we *automatically* learn which data is most valuable for training foundation models?
Paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17895 to appear
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