Hugging Face's logo

BigScience Workshop

non-profit
https://bigscience.huggingface.co
bigscienceW
bigscience-workshop
Activity Feed

AI & ML interests

A one-year long research workshop on large language models: the Summer of Language Models 21 🌸

Recent Activity

lvwerra  authored a paper 2 days ago
Towards Best Practices for Open Datasets for LLM Training
salomey  authored a paper 3 days ago
AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages
Jekaterina  authored a paper 19 days ago
INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual Language Understanding with Regional Knowledge
View all activity

bigscience's activity

meg 
posted an update 5 days ago
yjernite 
posted an update 5 days ago
davanstrien 
posted an update 5 days ago
view post
Post
2901
Introducing scandi-fine-web-cleaner davanstrien/scandi-fine-web-cleaner, the first model trained on FineWeb-C community annotations!

FineWeb2 is a massive multilingual dataset for pre-training language models. Like any web-scale dataset, it contains low-quality content. How can we improve it?

Over the past months, an amazing community of 400+ annotators has been labelling content quality (using Argilla) across 23 languages through the FineWeb-C initiative.

Today, I'm happy to share the first classifier trained on this data.

🔍 What we've built:

- A lightweight classifier that efficiently removes low-quality content
- 90%+ precision demonstrated on Danish & Swedish
- Can process the 43M+ documents in Danish FineWeb2 with minimal compute

🌍 Why this matters: The approach can be reproduced for any of the 23 languages in FineWeb-C ( data-is-better-together/fineweb-c). We can improve training data quality at scale without massive compute resources by starting with community annotations and training small, efficient classifiers.

Want to build a classifier for your language? Check out the full blog post with code examples and implementation details: https://danielvanstrien.xyz/posts/2025/FineWeb-c/scandinavian-content-filtering-fineweb.html
  • 1 reply
·
davanstrien 
posted an update 8 days ago
view post
Post
2074
The data-is-better-together/fineweb-c dataset is growing!

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.

This week the following languages where done:

Swedish thanks to: @Lauler @AntonVic @ohallstrom @bjarlestam @menbom @Ekgren @apsod

Ukrainian thanks to: @hannayukhymenko @robinhad @realPivo @RabotiahovDmytro @reciprocate

Assamese thanks to: @moyoor97 @Arpanjyoti @nawaf-helmi123 @pahigogoi1 @aelhence @kishorekashyap

Want to learn more: https://huggingface.co/blog/davanstrien/fineweb2-community

Contribute yourself here: data-is-better-together/fineweb-c
  • 1 reply
·
Skylion007 
authored a paper 8 days ago
albertvillanova 
posted an update 11 days ago
DeividasM 
authored a paper 19 days ago
davanstrien 
posted an update 22 days ago
view post
Post
3166
🇸🇰 Hovorte po slovensky? Help build better AI for Slovak!

We only need 90 more annotations to include Slovak in the next Hugging Face FineWeb2-C dataset ( data-is-better-together/fineweb-c) release!

Your contribution will help create better language models for 5+ million Slovak speakers.

Annotate here: data-is-better-together/fineweb-c.

Read more about why we're doing it: https://huggingface.co/blog/davanstrien/fineweb2-community
  • 3 replies
·
christopher 
in bigscience/bloom-1b1-intermediate 28 days ago

Adding `safetensors` variant of this model
#2 opened 29 days ago by
SFconvertbot
davanstrien 
posted an update 29 days ago
view post
Post
1769
Introducing FineWeb-C 🌐🎓, a community-built dataset for improving language models in ALL languages.

Inspired by FineWeb-Edu the community is labelling the educational quality of texts for many languages.

318 annotators, 32K+ annotations, 12 languages - and growing! 🌍

data-is-better-together/fineweb-c
christopher 
in bigscience/bloom-7b1-intermediate 29 days ago

Adding `safetensors` variant of this model
#4 opened 29 days ago by
SFconvertbot
gentaiscool 
authored 9 papers about 1 month ago