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Explaining Data Mixing Scaling Laws

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arXiv:2606. 08167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent research has established empirical scaling laws to predict model performance on multi-domain data mixtures.

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Scaling Domain Data Repetition in LLM Pretraining

arXiv:2608. 14071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models scale, their training-token budgets must also increase to maintain an appropriate tokens-per-parameter ratio (\(\mathrm{TPP}\)).

By Jingwei Li, Xinran Gu, Rui Dai, Xintong Hao, Chengyin Xu, Yan Wu, Shuran Zheng, Jingzhao Zhang
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Data Mixing as Mixture Experiment: Response Surface Methodology and Optimal Design for Large Language Model Pretraining

The article proposes treating large language model (LLM) data mixing as a classical mixture experiment, where data domains are components, token shares are proportions, and proxy-training runs serve as design points. Using sparse second‑order Scheffé response‑surface models, the authors construct model‑robust Σ‑optimal designs that efficiently identify optimal data mixtures and reveal strong interaction effects, especially between weak domains and web‑derived text. Empirical results on RegMix show that these designs recover mixture rankings while reducing proxy runs by about 25%, demonstrating that data mixing can be optimized through experimental design rather than solely prediction.

By Yicheng Mao, Hongru Du