Tinker Pre-training

by Samy (Kondasamy Jayaraman) · drawn with Colorfigures by April Zhu

The run with one document copied 10 times into its data.

Chapter 4 of 7

Data is the curriculum

The team reran training with one document, Larkspur’s environmental policy, copied 10 times into the data.

This chapter: What does a model learn from text that repeats?

About this chapter

You will learn

  • Why the data decides what a model learns
  • How a repeated document gets memorised and parroted
  • Why teams remove duplicates before training

Words you’ll meet

Data mix
Which documents go into training, and how often each one appears.
Duplicate
The same text appearing more than once in the training data.

Step 1 of 4

Same model, same steps; only the changed. One document, 10 copies in all.

Predict first.

Both runs finish “Larkspur Supply Co. sells office and warehouse”. What will the run with the copied policy write?