Measuring Sample Importance in Data Pruning for Language Models based on Information Entropy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14124v3
• Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:55:45 GMT
• Title: Measuring Sample Importance in Data Pruning for Language Models based on Information Entropy
• Authors: Minsang Kim, Seungjun Baek,
• Abstract summary: We consider a data pruning method based on information entropy. We propose that the samples in the training corpus be ranked in terms of their informativeness. Experiments reveal that the proposed information-based pruning can improve upon various language modeling and downstream tasks.
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• Abstract: Compute-efficient training of language models has become an important issue. We consider data pruning for data-efficient training of LLMs. In this work, we consider a data pruning method based on information entropy. We propose that the samples in the training corpus be ranked in terms of their informativeness which we estimate through entropy functions. The key idea is that, less informative samples are likely to contain redundant information, and thus should be pruned first. We use the entropy functions based on the negative log-likelihood and the average inverse word frequency of a sample as a surrogate to measure its informativeness. Experiments reveal that the proposed information-based pruning can improve upon various language modeling and downstream tasks, and enhance the generalization capability of language models.

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