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data/ml/ai @ runway in 🗽 formerly spent time in startups, biggish tech, and physics labs www.ethanrosenthal.com

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Nice new DataComp paper for VLMs, especially the part about scaling laws for data mixtures. arxiv.org/abs/2606.28551

DataComp-VLM: Improved Open Datasets for Vision-Language Models arxiv.org
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  • DCVLM assembles 160 datasets and 6T multimodal tokens across image-caption pairs, interleaved documents, text-only, and instruction-tuning data as an open VLM testbed.
  • The testbed spans 1B to 8B parameter models and 6.25B to 200B token budgets, evaluated on up to 52 downstream benchmarks across 9 domains.
  • The authors' experiments find data mixing, not filtering, is key to training quality, with instruction-heavy mixtures scaling better than caption-heavy ones.
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It’s oddly vindicating(?) that our Agentic Age rewards those who invested in software engineering best practices. Tests, CI/CD, platform APIs, infrastructure as code. They’re all very well-aligned with agent utility, which is maybe not surprising; these are all done in the name of automation

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