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What Improves During Pretraining? Tracking Knowledge Acquisition with Point-in-Time Models
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers introduced temporal variability score to track how language models learn different knowledge types during pretraining using point-in-time web snapshots.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers optimizing pretraining curricula and understanding which knowledge types benefit from extended training schedules.
- Watch out
- Findings based on six models and six benchmarks; generalization to larger models, different training data sources, or other domains remains unverified.
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