Data Darwinism Part I: Unlocking the Value of Scientific Data for Pre-training
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daVinci-origin-3B is a fully transparent, 3-billion parameter foundation model trained from scratch. It serves as a "clean-room" baseline for the research paper Data Darwinism -- Part1: Unlocking the Value of Scientific Data for Pre-training.
Unlike most open-source models, daVinci-origin-3B was explicitly trained on a dataset strictly excluding scientific content (books and research papers). This unique design allows researchers to unambiguously attribute performance gains to specific domain data injection strategies during continued pre-training.