A multilingual, multi-seed study finds that LLM pre-pretraining gains are highly dependent on setup and random seed, with consistent benefits confined to small models with the Llama tokenizer on 128-Dyck.
Pretraining Language Models with L o RA and Artificial Languages
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Instability of LLM Pre-Pretraining: It Doesn't Always Help. An Investigation on Multiple Languages
A multilingual, multi-seed study finds that LLM pre-pretraining gains are highly dependent on setup and random seed, with consistent benefits confined to small models with the Llama tokenizer on 128-Dyck.