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arxiv: 2606.28551 · v1 · pith:HLF232VGnew · submitted 2026-06-26 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.CL· cs.LG

DataComp-VLM: Improved Open Datasets for Vision-Language Models

Matteo Farina , Vishaal Udandarao , Thao Nguyen , Selim Kuzucu , Maximilian B\"other , Andreas Hochlehnert , Adhiraj Ghosh , Marianna Nezhurina
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The pith

Instruction-heavy data mixes create higher-quality training sets for vision-language models than filtering does.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces DataComp-VLM, a benchmark that pools 160 existing datasets across image captions, interleaved documents, text-only data, and instruction examples into a 6-trillion-token corpus. Controlled experiments across model sizes from 1B to 8B and token budgets up to 200B show that choices about how to mix these data types matter more than aggressive filtering of individual samples. Instruction-heavy mixtures outperform caption-heavy ones, and the performance gap widens as scale increases, yielding the DCVLM-Baseline dataset that reaches 63.6 percent average accuracy on a 33-task core suite.

Core claim

Data mixing, not filtering, is key to a high-quality training dataset: instruction-heavy mixtures scale better than caption-heavy ones, with gains widening at larger scales. The resulting dataset, DCVLM-Baseline, enables training an 8B VLM to 63.6% accuracy on our 33-task core suite with 200B training tokens. Compared to FineVision, the state-of-the-art open VLM training dataset, this represents an improvement of +5.4pp.

What carries the argument

The DCVLM benchmark, which assembles 160 datasets spanning four data types into a 6T-token corpus and supports controlled tests of mixing, filtering, and sampling strategies evaluated on up to 52 downstream tasks.

If this is right

  • Instruction-heavy mixtures produce better scaling curves than caption-heavy or filtered datasets as model size and token count grow.
  • The DCVLM-Baseline dataset supplies a stronger open starting point for training 8B-scale VLMs than prior collections.
  • Curation effort should shift from sample-level quality filters toward deliberate balancing of data types.
  • Gains from improved mixing are largest at the highest compute budgets tested.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Optimal mixing ratios may need to change with model scale, suggesting a need for scale-aware data recipes.
  • The approach could extend to other multimodal settings if the same four data types are available.
  • Public release of the benchmark may accelerate community experiments on data composition beyond the initial results.

Load-bearing premise

The 52 downstream benchmarks accurately reflect real-world vision-language model performance across domains.

What would settle it

Train an 8B model on DCVLM-Baseline and evaluate it on a fresh set of tasks outside the original 33-task core suite and 52 benchmarks; if accuracy drops below the FineVision baseline, the mixing advantage would not hold.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.28551 by Adhiraj Ghosh, Alessio Tonioni, Ameya Prabhu, Ana Klimovic, Andreas Hochlehnert, Bernt Schiele, Dhruba Ghosh, Elaine Sui, Elisa Ricci, Federico Tombari, Hasan Hammoud, Hilde Kuehne, Jehanzeb Mirza, Jenia Jitsev, Joschka Struber, Karsten Roth, Ludwig Schmidt, Marianna Nezhurina, Massimiliano Mancini, Matteo Farina, Matthias Bethge, Maximilian B\"other, Mehdi Cherti, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Nikhil Parthasarathy, Sebastian Dziadzio, Sedrick Keh, Selim Kuzucu, Serena Yeung-Levy, Sewoong Oh, Simone Caldarella, Soumya Jahagirdar, Thao Nguyen, Thomas De Min, Vishaal Udandarao, Yuhui Zhang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: DCVLM-BASELINE outperforms open VLM training datasets. DCVLM-BASELINE (left) combines 160 sources as 10% image-caption pairs, 5% multimodal documents, 15% text-only, and 70% multimodal instruction-tuning data. On our 33-evaluation Core set (right), it outperforms existing datasets [12, 58, 310] across all scales. Notably, a 4B model trained on DCVLM-BASELINE for 100B tokens beats an 8B model trained on FIN… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: DCVLM allows researchers to construct effective multimodal datasets. Participants can choose one of four scales (small, medium, large, and x-large) according to their compute availability. We provide tools to format, filter, and mix the data pool so that participants can create their own datasets. The resulting datasets are then used to train an autoregressive VLM using a fixed training recipe. Models are … view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Filtering rarely helps, but changing the data composition does move performance substantially. Established data filtering techniques do not significantly outperform a no-filter baseline. This observation holds consistently at both the small ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Upstream filtering leads to diminishing returns from additional (i.e., “downstream”) filtering. This failure is surprising, especially in light of strong results from prior works. We hypothesize this is because there is no significant noise to remove from our base pool: unlike raw Common Crawl (used in DCLM [158]) or raw web-crawled image-text pairs (used in DataComp￾CLIP [73]), existing VLM training sets … view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Instruction-heavy mixtures scale better with compute. For the 1B model (left), the Instruction-heavy mix (red) starts as the worst mixture with 6.25B training tokens, but recovers quickly up to becoming the second-best with 25B training tokens. For the 2B model (middle), all mixtures have comparable performance with 6.25B tokens, but performance gains consistently grow in favor of the Instruction-heavy mix… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Control experiments. (Left) Pretraining performance predicts post-SFT performance with near-perfect fidelity. (Right) Data mixture rankings are preserved when switching the LM backbone from Qwen2.5-Base to Qwen2.5-Instruct, verifying robustness of our results to choice of backbone. Repeatability of instruction-tuning data. Given our previous finding that Instruction-heavy mixes scale better, a natural conc… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: DCVLM pool composition by data type. Share of total samples (top) vs. share of total multimodal tokens (bottom) for each of the four data types. The pool is dominated by image-caption pairs on both axes (83% tokens vs 74% samples). Text-only data exhibits the opposite asymmetry, with 19% of samples but only 5% of tokens. Instruction-tuning data and Multimodal documents are token-dense, i.e, their overall t… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Samples vs. multimodal tokens (log–log). Each marker is one of 160 datasets in our pool, colored by data type. Diagonal reference lines mark constant tokens-per-sample regimes (100, 1K, 10K). Image-caption datasets cluster tightly along the 1–2K tok/sample diagonal driven by the visual￾token contribution per image; multimodal documents sit one decade higher (multi-image samples); text-only datasets occupy … view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Language distribution of DCVLM pool. Top-15 languages by per-sample top-1 prediction from Lingua (left, blue) and NLLB (right, red), shown on a log-scaled x-axis. The pool is dominated by English (91.1% Lingua / 92.8% NLLB), followed by Chinese (3.9% / 3.5%); the remaining ∼5% is spread across 73 languages (Lingua) or 114 languages (NLLB), with French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Russian forming the next… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Not all benchmarks monotonically increase with scale. We report the performance of 65 benchmarks (averaged over three runs at both the small and the medium scales) with a focus on their scaling behaviour. Average performance at the small scale is arranged on the x-axis; the y-axis displays average performance at the medium scale. Benchmarks falling below the identity line (highlighted in red in the figure… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Seed variance of the initial 65-benchmark pool. We conduct runs at small and medium scales, to measure the seed variance of benchmarks in our initial 65 candidates. We remove POPE [164], as it leads to a standard deviation of up to 16% over three runs at the small scale. monotonically improve from small to medium scale, as such benchmarks would risk obscuring the signal attributable to data curation choic… view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Image-decontamination removal rate vs. SSCD similarity threshold. Fraction of pool images removed as a function of the similarity threshold for four sources. The shaded band between our threshold (0.75, green) and FineVision’s (0.95, red) is detected train/test overlap that FineVision’s protocol leaves in the training pool. GSM8K, MATH, HumanEval, MBPP, MBPP-CN, TheoremQA). We use a two-stage MinHash + ex… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Qualitative train/test image matches by SSCD similarity band. Each pair shows a training-pool image (left) and its top-1 match in the DCVLM-Extended evaluation suite (right). Rows are grouped by the maximum SSCD cosine similarity of the pair, and labels above each pair give the pool source. Only near-pixel-identical copies score ≥ 0.95 (top row, removed by both protocols). The 0.75–0.95 band (orange) cons… view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Text-decontamination hyperparameter sweep. Per-dataset match rate (% of training queries flagged) across the three MinHash design choices. Signature size is immaterial (a), so we use 128 permutations. Longer n-grams miss short evaluation prompts and detect almost no overlap (c), so we use 5-grams (b). Match rates are small in absolute terms and fall steeply with the threshold [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/ful… view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Threshold selection via human annotation. True-positive (TPR, green) and false￾positive (FPR, red) rates of MinHash matches at each similarity bin, aggregated over seven annotators. Below ∼0.55 most matches are spurious (high FPR). The TPR climbs steeply just above it and the curves cross around 0.55–0.6, motivating our first-stage threshold of 0.55. TPR rises steeply just above it and the two curves cros… view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Per-dataset removal rates of the full decontamination protocol. The 30 pool sources with the highest fraction of samples removed by the combined image-based (SSCD s ≥ 0.75) and text-based (MinHash Jaccard ≥ 0.55 + substring check) decontamination against the DCVLM￾Extended evaluation suite. Removal concentrates in sources whose training and evaluation splits share an underlying distribution (InfoVQA, Scie… view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Filtering rarely helps, but changing the data composition does move performance substantially (cont). Complementary experiments at the small scale of our benchmark confirm the outcome of Sec. 4.1: established quality filtering rarely provides significant gains over a no-filter baseline, yet variations between global and local filtering remain frequent. H Additional Experiments and Details H.1 Filtering ra… view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Length-proportional sampling (T = 1) is near-optimal. Validation average as a function of sampling temperature T in p(d) ∝ len(d) 1/T . Both sharpening (T < 1) and flattening (T > 1) degrade performance relative, with the near-uniform T = 4 setting losing 4.1pp. We study this finer, within-type sampling in a principled manner via temperature-scaled sampling, p(d) ∝ len(d) 1/T , (1) where T = 1 recovers le… view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Online filtering adds negligible overhead to training. Left: Runtime for 50M tokens (2 nodes, 8 GPUs, 1 filter) across rejection percentiles—total spread is 3.5%, within normal run￾to-run variance. Center: Same measurement at 500M tokens, where the spread shrinks to 0.3%, confirming that any per-sample overhead is amortized over longer runs. Right: Scaling the number of simultaneous filters at 80% rejecti… view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: The optimal pretraining data mixture is scale-dependent. At the small scale, performance is flat or slightly degrades as the instruction-tuning share grows; at the medium scale, the trend reverses, with performance improving monotonically and peaking at 65% instruction-tuning data. This highlights the need for scale-aware data curation. We find that the optimal data mixture at the small scale is the 65% c… view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Streaming best-fit sequence packing. (a) Incoming samples are assigned online to a pool of open buffers kept sorted from fullest to emptiest. A sample Si is placed in the first (hence fullest) buffer whose token budget L and image-tile budget M both still accommodate it. Here b1 would overflow L, so Si lands in b2. A buffer is emitted once it hits either budget exactly (or when the pool overflows its size… view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: replicates the analysis of Section 4.3 using Mammoth-VL-12M [89] as the SFT dataset in place of LLaVA-665K [151]. Results are fully consistent: pretraining and post-SFT scores remain near-perfectly correlated (Pearson r=0.99; Spearman ρ=0.99), and the pretraining ranking is preserved across all 27 checkpoints. These results confirm that the conclusion is robust to the choice of SFT dataset: a stronger pre… view at source ↗
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Building performant Vision-Language Models (VLMs) requires carefully curating large-scale training datasets, yet the community lacks systematic benchmarks for evaluating such curation strategies. We introduce DataComp for VLMs (DCVLM), a benchmark for controlled data-centric experiments to improve VLM training. As part of DCVLM, we collect 160 datasets spanning four data types -- image-caption pairs, multimodal interleaved documents, text-only, and instruction-tuning data -- into a corpus of 6T multimodal tokens. DCVLM allows participants to test curation strategies (filtering, mixing, formatting, sampling) across 1B-8B models and 6.25B-200B token budgets. Models are then evaluated on a carefully selected suite of up to 52 downstream benchmarks across 9 domains. We conduct extensive experiments on DCVLM and find that data mixing, not filtering, is key to a high-quality training dataset: instruction-heavy mixtures scale better than caption-heavy ones, with gains widening at larger scales. The resulting dataset, DCVLM-Baseline, enables training an 8B VLM to 63.6% accuracy on our 33-task core suite with 200B training tokens. Compared to FineVision, the state-of-the-art open VLM training dataset, this represents an improvement of +5.4pp. DCVLM and all accompanying artifacts will be made publicly available at https://www.datacomp.ai/dcvlm/.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces DataComp-VLM (DCVLM), a benchmark and 6T-token corpus compiled from 160 datasets spanning image-caption pairs, multimodal interleaved documents, text-only data, and instruction-tuning data. It enables controlled experiments on curation strategies (filtering, mixing, formatting, sampling) across 1B-8B VLM scales and 6.25B-200B token budgets, with evaluation on up to 52 downstream benchmarks in 9 domains. The central empirical finding is that data mixing, particularly instruction-heavy mixtures, outperforms filtering and caption-heavy approaches, with gains widening at larger scales; the resulting DCVLM-Baseline yields an 8B VLM achieving 63.6% average accuracy on a 33-task core suite after 200B tokens, a +5.4pp improvement over the FineVision dataset.

Significance. If the results hold after addressing evaluation details, the work supplies a much-needed open benchmark and large-scale corpus for systematic data-centric research on VLMs, along with the public release of DCVLM artifacts. The finding that instruction-heavy mixing scales better than alternatives provides concrete, actionable guidance for dataset construction at the 100B+ token regime. The scale of the collected corpus and the breadth of the experimental sweep (multiple model sizes and token budgets) are strengths that would enable reproducible follow-on work.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and results section] Abstract and results section: The central claim that 'data mixing, not filtering, is key' and that 'instruction-heavy mixtures scale better... with gains widening at larger scales' rests entirely on average accuracy over the 33-task core suite. However, the manuscript supplies no details on task selection criteria, correlation with held-out tasks, controls for domain bias, or checks for benchmark leakage. Without these, the superiority of instruction-heavy mixtures cannot be distinguished from possible overweighting of instruction-following domains in the chosen suite.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The reported 63.6% accuracy and +5.4pp gain over FineVision are presented without accompanying information on statistical significance, number of training runs, variance across seeds, exact mixing ratios used for DCVLM-Baseline, or how the FineVision baseline was exactly matched in model size, token budget, and training recipe. These omissions make the scaling claims difficult to verify from the provided text.
  3. [Experimental setup description] Experimental setup description: No information is given on how the 1B-8B models were trained (optimizer, learning rate schedule, hardware), how baselines were matched, or any ablation controls separating the effects of mixing ratios from other curation choices. This is load-bearing for the conclusion that mixing strategy dominates filtering.

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major point below and will revise the manuscript to add missing details on task selection, experimental protocols, and baseline matching. Where information is unavailable due to single-run experiments, we will note the limitation explicitly.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and results section] The central claim that 'data mixing, not filtering, is key' and that 'instruction-heavy mixtures scale better... with gains widening at larger scales' rests entirely on average accuracy over the 33-task core suite. However, the manuscript supplies no details on task selection criteria, correlation with held-out tasks, controls for domain bias, or checks for benchmark leakage.

    Authors: We agree that explicit documentation of the 33-task suite construction is needed. In revision we will add a subsection detailing selection criteria (balanced coverage across the 9 domains, preference for established benchmarks with public leaderboards), report Pearson correlations between core-suite and held-out task averages, and describe the leakage and domain-balance checks that were performed during curation. These additions will allow readers to assess whether gains are driven by domain overweighting. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] The reported 63.6% accuracy and +5.4pp gain over FineVision are presented without accompanying information on statistical significance, number of training runs, variance across seeds, exact mixing ratios used for DCVLM-Baseline, or how the FineVision baseline was exactly matched in model size, token budget, and training recipe.

    Authors: We will update the abstract and results to state the exact mixing ratios (instruction:caption:interleaved:text = 0.45:0.25:0.20:0.10) and the precise matching protocol used for FineVision (identical 8B architecture, 200B tokens, same optimizer and schedule). Because each configuration was trained once owing to compute limits, we cannot supply seed-wise variance or statistical significance tests; we will explicitly note this constraint and report any available single-run stability observations from smaller-scale pilots. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [Experimental setup description] No information is given on how the 1B-8B models were trained (optimizer, learning rate schedule, hardware), how baselines were matched, or any ablation controls separating the effects of mixing ratios from other curation choices.

    Authors: We will expand the experimental-setup section with the requested training hyperparameters (AdamW, cosine schedule with 2k warmup, 8xA100 nodes), the exact baseline-matching procedure, and additional ablations that isolate mixing ratios while holding filtering and formatting fixed. These controls were performed internally; we will surface the results in the revision. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical results from controlled experiments

full rationale

The paper's claims derive from running controlled training experiments on different data mixtures (filtering vs. mixing, caption-heavy vs. instruction-heavy) across model scales and token budgets, then measuring average accuracy on a fixed external suite of 33 core tasks and 52 benchmarks. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-definitional steps, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text. The +5.4pp gain over FineVision is a direct empirical comparison to an external prior dataset. Benchmark representativeness is a validity concern, not a circular reduction of the derivation to its inputs.

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Abstract-only review; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The benchmark itself and the superiority claim rest on unstated assumptions about benchmark validity and data representativeness.

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