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clefourrier 
posted an update 19 days ago
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Always surprised that so few people actually read the FineTasks blog, on
✨how to select training evals with the highest signal✨

If you're serious about training models without wasting compute on shitty runs, you absolutely should read it!!

An high signal eval actually tells you precisely, during training, how wel & what your model is learning, allowing you to discard the bad runs/bad samplings/...!

The blog covers in depth prompt choice, metrics, dataset, across languages/capabilities, and my fave section is "which properties should evals have"👌
(to know on your use case how to select the best evals for you)

Blog: HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fine-tasks
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alielfilali01 
posted an update about 1 month ago
clefourrier 
posted an update 3 months ago
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Gemma3 family is out! Reading the tech report, and this section was really interesting to me from a methods/scientific fairness pov.

Instead of doing over-hyped comparisons, they clearly state that **results are reported in a setup which is advantageous to their models**.
(Which everybody does, but people usually don't say)

For a tech report, it makes a lot of sense to report model performance when used optimally!
On leaderboards on the other hand, comparison will be apples to apples, but in a potentially unoptimal way for a given model family (like some user interact sub-optimally with models)

Also contains a cool section (6) on training data memorization rate too! Important to see if your model will output the training data it has seen as such: always an issue for privacy/copyright/... but also very much for evaluation!

Because if your model knows its evals by heart, you're not testing for generalization.
alielfilali01 
posted an update 4 months ago
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🚨 Arabic LLM Evaluation 🚨

Few models join the ranking of https://huggingface.co/spaces/inceptionai/AraGen-Leaderboard Today.

The new MistralAI model, Saba, is quite impressive, Top10 ! Well done @arthurmensch and team.

Sadly Mistral did not follow its strategy about public weights this time, we hope this changes soon and we get the model with a permissive license.

We added other Mistral models and apparently, we have been sleeping on mistralai/Mistral-Large-Instruct-2411 !

Another impressive model that joined the ranking today is ALLaM-AI/ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview. After a long wait finally ALLaM is here and it is IMPRESSIVE given its size !

ALLaM is ranked on OALL/Open-Arabic-LLM-Leaderboard as well.
alielfilali01 
posted an update 5 months ago
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3C3H AraGen Leaderboard welcomes today deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 and 12 other models (including the late gpt-3.5 💀) to the ranking of best LLMs in Arabic !


Observations:
- DeepSeek-v3 ranked 3rd and only Open model among the top 5 !

- A 14B open model ( Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct) outperforms gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 (from last year). This shows how much we came in advancing and supporting Arabic presence within the LLM ecosystem !

- Contrary to what observed in likelihood-acc leaderboards (like OALL/Open-Arabic-LLM-Leaderboard) further finetuned models like maldv/Qwentile2.5-32B-Instruct actually decreased the performance compared to the original model Qwen/Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct.
It's worth to note that the decrease is statiscally insignificant which imply that at best, the out-domain finetuning do not really hurts the model original capabilities acquired during pretraining.
Previous work addressed this (finetuning VS pretraining) but more investigation in this regard is required (any PhDs here ? This could be your question ...)


Check out the latest rankings: https://huggingface.co/spaces/inceptionai/AraGen-Leaderboard
alielfilali01 
posted an update 5 months ago
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~75% on the challenging GPQA with only 40M parameters 🔥🥳

GREAT ACHIEVEMENT ! Or is it ?

This new Work, "Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation", take out the mystery about many models i personally suspected their results. Speacially on leaderboards other than the english one, Like the Open Arabic LLM Leaderbaord OALL/Open-Arabic-LLM-Leaderboard.

The authors of this work, first started by training a model on the GPQA data, which, unsurprisingly, led to the model achieving 100% performance.

Afterward, they trained what they referred to as a 'legitimate' model on legitimate data (MedMCQA). However, they introduced a distillation loss from the earlier, 'cheated' model.

What they discovered was fascinating: the knowledge of GPQA leaked through this distillation loss, even though the legitimate model was never explicitly trained on GPQA during this stage.

This raises important questions about the careful use of distillation in model training, especially when the training data is opaque. As they demonstrated, it’s apparently possible to (intentionally or unintentionally) leak test data through this method.

Find out more: Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation (2412.15255)
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alielfilali01 
posted an update 6 months ago
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Unpopular opinion: Open Source takes courage to do !

Not everyone is brave enough to release what they have done (the way they've done it) to the wild to be judged !
It really requires a high level of "knowing wth are you doing" ! It's kind of a super power !

Cheers to the heroes here who see this!
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