arXiv:2508. 12116v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As numerous instruction-tuning datasets continue to emerge, dynamically balancing and optimizing their mixtures has become a critical challenge.
By Haebin Shin, Lei Ji, Xiao Liu, Zhiwei Yu, Hyunwoo Yoo, Qi Chen, Yeyun Gong
arXiv:2607. 22769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The training efficacy of large language models (LLMs) is fundamentally constrained by the quality and composition of training data.
By He Zhang
Data mixture selection is critical for Large Language Model pretraining. Existing methods such as RegMix select a single static mixture by fitting a regression model on small-scale proxy runs.
arXiv:2606. 07597v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-training data mixtures are commonly tuned by running small-scale experiments and extrapolating to the target training budget.
By Kevin Zhou, Lisa Alazraki, Kris Cao, Marek Rei
arXiv:2607. 24516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While data curation for Vision Language Models (VLMs) is increasingly active, public practice for constructing pretraining mixtures remains largely heuristic: practitioners stack datasets that pass quality filters, set cross-domain ratios by intuition, and lack a principled, attributable criterion for admitting new data, while frontier recipes remain undisclosed.
By Jiahao Xie, Zhongbin Guo, Qianle Wang, Ruiqi Lu, Dongling Xiao, Wanxuan Sun, Cheng Yang
arXiv:2606. 18650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Model (LLM) datasets scale to trillions of tokens, data selection has emerged as a critical frontier to filter out uninformative noise and construct adaptive learning trajectories.
By Jiaxing Wang, Deping Xiang, Jin Xu, Zirui Liu, Zicheng Zhang, Guoqiang Gong, Jun Fang, Chao Liu, Pengzhang Liu, Tongxuan Liu, Ke Zhang, Qixia Jiang