arXiv Notify me• May 23, 2025paper

DataRater: Meta-Learned Dataset Curation

Executive Summary

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The computational overhead of the meta-learning process itself could be substantial.
Potential for the method to introduce unforeseen biases by systematically filtering certain types of data.
Scalability and practical application on web-scale, multi-trillion token datasets remains a key question.

Dramatically reduce the financial and environmental costs of training state-of-the-art foundation models.
Enable the creation of smaller, high-potency datasets that accelerate research and development.
Apply the data valuation concept to other areas like continual learning, active learning, and domain adaptation.

Using the DataRater method to filter data results in significantly improved compute efficiency.

DataRater uses meta-learning with 'meta-gradients' with the objective of improving training efficiency on held-out data.

DataRater is a meta-learning method that estimates the value of training on any particular data point.

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