Generating Pretraining Tokens from Organic Data for Data-Bound Scaling

arXiv:2605.17849 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-05-18 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-05-18

Updated: 2026-09-05

Comments: Published at COLM 2026

Code: https://github.com/cxcscmu/SynPro

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Synthetic Data Generation — 12× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 8× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Perplexity — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 5× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distillation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• GRPO — 4× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Causal Reasoning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Scaling Laws — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Data Augmentation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Edge Devices — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Influence Functions — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Quality-Based Selective Repetition — 1× in this paper
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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