Data Mixing as Mixture Experiment: Response Surface Methodology and Optimal Design for Large Language Model Pretraining

arXiv:2608.23922 · cs.AI, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-08-24

Terminology

• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Additivity — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaling Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling

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