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Parameterized Synthetic Text Generation with SimpleStories

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arxiv 2504.09184 v3 pith:5NGXKHD4 submitted 2025-04-12 cs.CL cs.AI

classification cs.CLcs.AI
keywords modellanguagedatasetsimplestoriesstorysyntheticablationsabstraction
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We present SimpleStories, a large synthetic story dataset in simple language, consisting of 2 million samples each in English and Japanese. Through parameterizing prompts at multiple levels of abstraction, we achieve control over story characteristics at scale, inducing syntactic and semantic diversity. Ablations on a newly trained model suite show improved sample efficiency and model interpretability compared to the TinyStories dataset. We open-source all constituent parts of model creation, hoping to enable novel ways to study the end-to-end training process. As a byproduct, we move the frontier regarding the fewest-parameter language model that outputs grammatical natural language.

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