Thursday, January 04, 2024

Meet MathPile: A Diverse and High-Quality Math-Centric Corpus Comprising About 9.5 Billion Tokens

Good news! Very exciting stuff! How will machine learning & AI boost our understanding of mathematics?

How will math and AI influence and drive each other? A marriage of convenience or of a deep partnership? Very exciting!

Will the queen of sciences be conquered or seduced by AI? Stay tuned! 😊

Will the universe ever be the same again? Is math perhaps the only science that applies equally throughout the universe while the natural sciences may only generally apply to our Milky Way galaxy not necessarily much beyond?

"... A new study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR) focuses on enhancing the mathematical reasoning capabilities within foundational language models, which could potentially enhance applications in education tools, automated problem-solving, data analysis, code programming, and ultimately enhance user experience. Instead of directly constructing a model, the focus is creating a high-quality and diverse pre-training dataset specifically tailored for the math domain, MATHPILE. ..."

From the abstract:
"High-quality, large-scale corpora are the cornerstone of building foundation models. In this work, we introduce MathPile, a diverse and high-quality math-centric corpus comprising about 9.5 billion tokens. Throughout its creation, we adhered to the principle of less is more, firmly believing in the supremacy of data quality over quantity, even in the pre-training phase. Our meticulous data collection and processing efforts included a complex suite of preprocessing, prefiltering, language identification, cleaning, filtering, and deduplication, ensuring the high quality of our corpus. Furthermore, we performed data contamination detection on downstream benchmark test sets to eliminate duplicates. We hope our MathPile can help to enhance the mathematical reasoning abilities of language models. We plan to open-source different versions of mathpile with the scripts used for processing, to facilitate future developments in this field."

Meet MathPile: A Diverse and High-Quality Math-Centric Corpus Comprising About 9.5 Billion Tokens - MarkTechPost

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