Sasha Luccioni

The Responsible Foundation Model Development Cheatsheet: A Review of Tools&Resources

Shayne Longpre

Stella Biderman

Alon Albalak

Hailey Schoelkopf

Daniel McDuff

Sayash Kapoor

Kevin Klyman

Kyle Lo

Gabriel Ilharco

Nay San

Maribeth Rauh

Aviya Skowron

Bertie Vidgen

Laura Weidinger

Arvind Narayanan

Victor Sanh

David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Percy Liang

Rishi Bommasani

Peter Henderson … (see 3 more)

Yacine Jernite

Luca Soldaini

2024-12-07

TMLR (accepted)

The Responsible Foundation Model Development Cheatsheet: A Review of Tools & Resources

Shayne Longpre

Stella Biderman

Alon Albalak

Hailey Schoelkopf

Daniel McDuff

Sayash Kapoor

Kevin Klyman

Kyle Lo

Gabriel Ilharco

Nay San

Maribeth Rauh

Aviya Skowron

Bertie Vidgen

Laura Weidinger

Arvind Narayanan

Victor Sanh

David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Percy Liang

Rishi Bommasani

Peter Henderson … (see 3 more)

Yacine Jernite

Luca Soldaini

Foundation model development attracts a rapidly expanding body of contributors, scientists, and applications. To help shape responsible deve… (see more)lopment practices, we introduce the Foundation Model Development Cheatsheet: a growing collection of 250+ tools and resources spanning text, vision, and speech modalities. We draw on a large body of prior work to survey resources (e.g. software, documentation, frameworks, guides, and practical tools) that support informed data selection, processing, and understanding, precise and limitation-aware artifact documentation, efficient model training, advance awareness of the environmental impact from training, careful model evaluation of capabilities, risks, and claims, as well as responsible model release, licensing and deployment practices. We hope this curated collection of resources helps guide more responsible development. The process of curating this list, enabled us to review the AI development ecosystem, revealing what tools are critically missing, misused, or over-used in existing practices. We find that (i) tools for data sourcing, model evaluation, and monitoring are critically under-serving ethical and real-world needs, (ii) evaluations for model safety, capabilities, and environmental impact all lack reproducibility and transparency, (iii) text and particularly English-centric analyses continue to dominate over multilingual and multi-modal analyses, and (iv) evaluation of systems, rather than just models, is needed so that capabilities and impact are assessed in context.

2024-06-24

ArXiv (preprint)

arxiv.org

StarCoder: may the source be with you!

Raymond Li

Loubna Ben allal

Yangtian Zi

Niklas Muennighoff

Denis Kocetkov

Chenghao Mou

Marc Marone

Christopher Akiki

Jia LI

Jenny Chim

Qian Liu

Evgenii Zheltonozhskii

Terry Yue Zhuo

Thomas Wang

Olivier Dehaene

Mishig Davaadorj

Joel Lamy-Poirier

Joao Monteiro

Oleh Shliazhko

Nicolas Gontier … (see 49 more)

Nicholas Meade

Armel Zebaze

Ming-Ho Yee

Logesh Kumar Umapathi

Jian Zhu

Ben Lipkin

Muhtasham Oblokulov

Zhiruo Wang

Rudra Murthy

Jason T Stillerman

Siva Sankalp Patel

Dmitry Abulkhanov

Marco Zocca

Manan Dey

Zhihan Zhang

N. Fahmy

Urvashi Bhattacharyya

Wenhao Yu

Swayam Singh

Paulo Villegas

M. Kunakov

Jan Ebert

Fedor Zhdanov

Manuel Romero

Tony Lee

Nadav Timor

Jennifer Ding

Claire S Schlesinger

Hailey Schoelkopf

Jana Ebert

Tri Dao

Mayank Mishra

Alex Gu

Jennifer Robinson

Sean Hughes

Carolyn Jane Anderson

Brendan Dolan-Gavitt

Danish Contractor

Siva Reddy

Daniel Fried

Dzmitry Bahdanau

Yacine Jernite

Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis

Sean M. Hughes

Thomas Wolf

Arjun Guha

Leandro Von Werra

Harm de Vries

The BigCode community, an open-scientific collaboration working on the responsible development of Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs)… (see more), introduces StarCoder and StarCoderBase: 15.5B parameter models with 8K context length, infilling capabilities and fast large-batch inference enabled by multi-query attention. StarCoderBase is trained on 1 trillion tokens sourced from The Stack, a large collection of permissively licensed GitHub repositories with inspection tools and an opt-out process. We fine-tuned StarCoderBase on 35B Python tokens, resulting in the creation of StarCoder. We perform the most comprehensive evaluation of Code LLMs to date and show that StarCoderBase outperforms every open Code LLM that supports multiple programming languages and matches or outperforms the OpenAI code-cushman-001 model. Furthermore, StarCoder outperforms every model that is fine-tuned on Python and still retains its performance on other programming languages. We take several important steps towards a safe open-access model release, including an improved PII redaction pipeline and a novel attribution tracing tool, and make the StarCoder models publicly available under a more commercially viable version of the Open Responsible AI Model license.

2023-12-17

TMLR (accepted)

The BigScience ROOTS Corpus: A 1.6TB Composite Multilingual Dataset

Hugo Laurençon

Lucile Saulnier

Thomas Wang

Christopher Akiki

Albert Villanova del Moral

Teven Le Scao

Leandro Von Werra

Chenghao Mou

Eduardo González Ponferrada

Huu Nguyen

Jörg Frohberg

Mario Šaško

Quentin Lhoest

Angelina McMillan-Major

Gérard Dupont

Stella Biderman

Anna Rogers

Loubna Ben allal

Francesco De Toni

Giada Pistilli … (see 34 more)

Olivier Nguyen

Somaieh Nikpoor

Maraim Masoud

Pierre Colombo

Javier de la Rosa

Paulo Villegas

Tristan Thrush

Shayne Longpre

Sebastian Nagel

Leon Weber

Manuel Romero Muñoz

Jian Zhu

Daniel Van Strien

Zaid Alyafeai

Khalid Almubarak

Vu Minh Chien

Itziar Gonzalez-Dios

Aitor Soroa

Kyle Lo

Manan Dey

Pedro Ortiz Suarez

Aaron Gokaslan

Shamik Bose

David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Long Phan

Hieu Tran

Ian Yu

Suhas Pai

Jenny Chim

Violette Lepercq

Suzana Ilic

Margaret Mitchell

Yacine Jernite

As language models grow ever larger, the need for large-scale high-quality text datasets has never been more pressing, especially in multili… (see more)ngual settings. The BigScience workshop, a 1-year international and multidisciplinary initiative, was formed with the goal of researching and training large language models as a values-driven undertaking, putting issues of ethics, harm, and governance in the foreground. This paper documents the data creation and curation efforts undertaken by BigScience to assemble the Responsible Open-science Open-collaboration Text Sources (ROOTS) corpus, a 1.6TB dataset spanning 59 languages that was used to train the 176-billion-parameter BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual (BLOOM) language model. We further release a large initial subset of the corpus and analyses thereof, and hope to empower large-scale monolingual and multilingual modeling projects with both the data and the processing tools, as well as stimulate research around this large multilingual corpus.