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Foundation Model Pretraining Pipeline Framework

| Stage | Required record | |---|---| | Collection | Source classes, acquisition authority, time range, exclusions, and provenance | | Extraction | Parser, encoding, lang

Aug 4, 20261 min readBy Dalton Anderson
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Foundation Model Pretraining Pipeline Framework

StageRequired record
CollectionSource classes, acquisition authority, time range, exclusions, and provenance
ExtractionParser, encoding, language, document boundaries, and failure handling
FilteringQuality, safety, language, domain, code, and classifier rules
DeduplicationURL, document, span, line, or semantic method and thresholds
MixtureCategories, weights, sampling, curriculum, and later annealing
TokenizationTokenizer version, vocabulary, normalization, and language effects
TrainingArtifact, compute, optimizer, schedule, sequence length, and checkpoints
EvaluationHeld-out data, contamination checks, capabilities, safety, and limitations

A disclosed process does not disclose the full dataset. Public sources may describe methods, categories, proportions, or token counts while withholding exact documents, licenses, removals, and lineage.

Sources

Follow the evidence.

  1. Introducing Llama 3.1ai.meta.com
  2. ai.meta.com: the llama 3 herd of modelsai.meta.com
  3. arxiv.org: 1810arxiv.org
  4. crfm.stanford.edu: indexcrfm.stanford.edu
  5. arxiv.org: 2203arxiv.org
  6. open.spotify.com: 0iRBPcPw9iYjpUVAVWSkRCopen.spotify.com
  7. NIST AI Risk Management Frameworknist.gov
  8. github.com: MODEL CARDgithub.com
  9. daltonanderson.ghost.io: metas llama 3 1 inside the ai research paperdaltonanderson.ghost.io
  10. Meta Llama models repositorygithub.com
  11. arxiv.org: 2001arxiv.org
  12. youtu.be: UMhmWCor1kYyoutu.be
  13. github.com: LICENSEgithub.com

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