This week a few more languages have got 1,000 annotations for the educational quality of data from HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2.
Why should you care?
The quality of pre-training data can have a big impact on the performance of downstream language models trained on that data (HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fineweb-v1).
Being able to filter by educational quality is on way of improving the quality of the data you use for training an LLM. Very importantly this approach can also reduce the amount of data needed for pertaining.
Why not use an LLM?
LLMs can be used to annotate educational quality for a subset of data. This data can then be used to train a smaller encoder only model to label the full dataset. However, this may not work well for languages outside of english. This is where fineweb-c (community) comes in.
The community is annotating the educational quality of fineweb2 data. Currently 114 languages have some annotations. These annotations will enable a number of things:
- Evaluate whether an LLM can label the educational quality for texts in that language well - Directly be used for training quality classifiers - Help discover other rules and huerisitcs for refining fineweb2 further for different languages.
How do your annotations for FineWeb2 compare to your teammates'?
I started contributing some annotations to the FineWeb2 collaborative annotation sprint and I wanted to know if my labelling trends were similar to those of my teammates.
I did some analysis and I wasn't surprised to see that I'm being a bit harsher on my evaluations than my mates π
Do you want to see how your annotations compare to others? π Go to this Gradio space: nataliaElv/fineweb2_compare_my_annotations βοΈ Enter the dataset that you've contributed to and your Hugging Face username.
We're so close to reaching 100 languages! Can you help us cover the remaining 200? Check if we're still looking for language leads for your language: nataliaElv/language-leads-dashboard
Would you like to get a high-quality dataset to pre-train LLMs in your language? π
At Hugging Face we're preparing a collaborative annotation effort to build an open-source multilingual dataset as part of the Data is Better Together initiative.
Follow the link below, check if your language is listed and sign up to be a Language Lead!