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arxiv: 2305.16264 · v5 · pith:7RK4LJX5new · submitted 2023-05-25 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.AI· cs.LG

Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models

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keywords data-constrained scalinglanguage modelsrepeated datascaling lawscompute optimalitydata repetition
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The pith

Repeating training data up to four times has little effect on language model loss for a given compute budget.

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The paper investigates how language models scale when unique training data runs short. Hundreds of runs with models up to 9 billion parameters and budgets up to 900 billion tokens show that repeating the same data up to four times produces loss nearly identical to using fresh data. Beyond four epochs the benefit of extra compute falls sharply toward zero. The authors derive and test a scaling law that predicts optimal compute use once repetition begins to lose value. This matters because total available text may soon cap further scaling.

Core claim

With constrained data for a fixed compute budget, training with up to 4 epochs of repeated data yields negligible changes to loss compared to having unique data. However, with more repetition, the value of adding compute eventually decays to zero. A scaling law for compute optimality is proposed and validated that accounts for the decreasing value of repeated tokens and excess parameters.

What carries the argument

Scaling law for compute optimality that reduces the effective value of repeated tokens and surplus parameters.

If this is right

  • Training runs can reuse the same data up to four epochs with almost no extra loss.
  • Additional compute beyond the optimal repetition point yields no further improvement.
  • Augmenting the dataset with code or relaxing common filters can partially offset data scarcity.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Training recipes may shift toward generating fresh synthetic data once repetition costs rise.
  • Optimal model size may shrink relative to compute when repetition is forced to be high.
  • Similar repetition limits could appear in other domains that also face finite high-quality data.

Load-bearing premise

The loss patterns measured up to 9 billion parameters and a few epochs of repetition continue unchanged at larger scales and with different data sources.

What would settle it

Train a model at 100 billion parameters on data repeated ten or more times and measure whether final loss follows the proposed scaling law or deviates from its predictions.

read the original abstract

The current trend of scaling language models involves increasing both parameter count and training dataset size. Extrapolating this trend suggests that training dataset size may soon be limited by the amount of text data available on the internet. Motivated by this limit, we investigate scaling language models in data-constrained regimes. Specifically, we run a large set of experiments varying the extent of data repetition and compute budget, ranging up to 900 billion training tokens and 9 billion parameter models. We find that with constrained data for a fixed compute budget, training with up to 4 epochs of repeated data yields negligible changes to loss compared to having unique data. However, with more repetition, the value of adding compute eventually decays to zero. We propose and empirically validate a scaling law for compute optimality that accounts for the decreasing value of repeated tokens and excess parameters. Finally, we experiment with approaches mitigating data scarcity, including augmenting the training dataset with code data or removing commonly used filters. Models and datasets from our 400 training runs are freely available at https://github.com/huggingface/datablations.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper investigates scaling of language models under data constraints by running 400 experiments varying data repetition and compute budget, up to 9B parameters and 900B tokens. It claims that for fixed compute, up to 4 epochs of repeated data yields negligible loss change versus unique data, but further repetition causes the value of added compute to decay to zero. The authors propose and empirically validate a scaling law for compute optimality that incorporates the diminishing returns of repeated tokens and excess parameters, and test mitigations such as adding code data or changing filters. Models and datasets are released publicly.

Significance. If the central empirical findings and scaling law hold beyond the tested regime, the work is significant because it directly addresses the emerging bottleneck of high-quality text data for frontier-scale training. The large experimental grid (400 runs) and public release of models/datasets provide a valuable resource for the community and strengthen the empirical basis for the proposed law relating loss to repetition and compute.

major comments (2)
  1. [Experiments and scaling law sections] Experiments and scaling law sections: the 4-epoch threshold and the claim that additional compute value decays to zero are derived from fits on the same experimental grid up to 9B parameters; no separate validation set or out-of-distribution test at larger scales is reported, which is load-bearing for the extrapolation to future frontier runs.
  2. [Proposed scaling law] Proposed scaling law (around Eq. for compute optimality): the repetition-value decay coefficient is introduced as a fitted parameter; the manuscript should clarify whether this coefficient is dataset-specific or intended to be universal, as this directly affects the claimed generality of the law for different data distributions.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and results] The abstract states 'negligible changes to loss'; provide quantitative thresholds or statistical tests used to define 'negligible' in the main text or appendix.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions and axis labels for the scaling plots should explicitly note the range of repetition factors and model sizes tested to aid quick assessment of the empirical support.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for their constructive feedback and recommendation for major revision. We address each major comment point by point below, providing clarifications and indicating revisions to the manuscript where appropriate.

read point-by-point responses
  1. Referee: [Experiments and scaling law sections] Experiments and scaling law sections: the 4-epoch threshold and the claim that additional compute value decays to zero are derived from fits on the same experimental grid up to 9B parameters; no separate validation set or out-of-distribution test at larger scales is reported, which is load-bearing for the extrapolation to future frontier runs.

    Authors: The referee is correct that the 4-epoch threshold and decay-to-zero behavior are identified from fits to our full grid of 400 experiments (up to 9B parameters and 900B tokens). We did not hold out a separate validation set or conduct tests at larger scales. In the revised manuscript we will add a cross-validation analysis (fitting on random subsets of the grid and evaluating predictive accuracy on held-out runs) to demonstrate robustness of the fitted parameters within the tested regime. We will also expand the limitations section to explicitly discuss the risks of extrapolation beyond 9B parameters. However, we lack the resources to run out-of-distribution experiments at frontier scales. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Proposed scaling law] Proposed scaling law (around Eq. for compute optimality): the repetition-value decay coefficient is introduced as a fitted parameter; the manuscript should clarify whether this coefficient is dataset-specific or intended to be universal, as this directly affects the claimed generality of the law for different data distributions.

    Authors: We appreciate the request for clarification. The repetition-value decay coefficient is a fitted parameter obtained from our C4-based experiments and is not presented as a universal constant. In the revised manuscript we will explicitly state that the coefficient is dataset-dependent and should be re-estimated for new data distributions or quality levels. We will also include a short analysis applying the law to our code-augmentation experiments to illustrate its behavior under modest changes in data composition. revision: yes

standing simulated objections not resolved
  • We cannot conduct additional training runs at scales substantially larger than 9B parameters and 900B tokens due to computational resource constraints.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No significant circularity; empirical scaling law fitted to new experimental grid

full rationale

The paper runs a large suite of new experiments (up to 9B parameters, 900B tokens, varying repetition epochs) and directly observes the effect of data repetition on loss. From these observations it proposes and fits a scaling law for compute optimality. This is standard empirical model-building rather than any reduction of a claimed prediction to prior fitted quantities or self-citations by construction. No equations, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are shown to be smuggled in via self-reference; the central claim remains an independent fit to the reported experimental data.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on large-scale empirical measurements rather than new theoretical axioms or postulated entities; the scaling law itself contains fitted parameters whose exact count and values are not stated in the abstract.

free parameters (1)
  • repetition-value decay coefficient
    Parameter inside the proposed compute-optimality scaling law that captures how much less useful each additional epoch of repeated data becomes; fitted to the experimental loss curves.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Loss continues to follow a smooth, predictable function of effective compute even when tokens are repeated.
    Invoked when extrapolating the new scaling law beyond the measured repetition range.

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