高效清理网页数据,提升大模型训练效果
Blu-WERP (Web Extraction and Refinement Pipeline): A Scalable Pipeline for Preprocessing Large Language Model Datasets
- 针对海量网页数据设计过滤与质量评估流程
- 在10亿参数模型上比基线提升9.5%性能
- 适合关注数据质量与训练效率的研究者
高质量训练数据是大语言模型性能的基础,但现有预处理流程在清理网络规模语料中的噪声和非结构化内容方面表现有限。本文提出Blu-WERP,一种专为Common Crawl WARC文件优化的新型数据预处理流水线。该方法对CC WARC数据进行多阶段过滤与质量评估,在150M、400M、530M、750M和1B参数模型上进行全面评测,涵盖世界知识与推理、语言理解、常识推理三类共九个基准。结果表明,Blu-WERP在所有模型规模下均表现更优;在1B参数模型上,相比DCLM和Fineweb分别实现4.0%和9.5%的综合性能提升,同时获得每令牌质量收益。分类分析显示,世界知识与推理提升2.4%,语言理解提升6.2%,常识推理提升4.2%。研究证明,合理的预处理设计显著影响大模型能力,Blu-WERP为提升训练数据质量与降低计算成本提供了有效方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
High-quality training data is fundamental to large language model (LLM) performance, yet existing preprocessing pipelines often struggle to effectively remove noise and unstructured content from web-scale corpora. This paper presents Blu-WERP, a novel data preprocessing pipeline designed to optimize the quality of Common Crawl WARC files for LLM training. We demonstrate that Blu-WERP significantly outperforms established baselines including DCLM across multiple model scales and evaluation benchmarks. Our pipeline processes CC WARC dumps, implementing advanced filtering and quality assessment mechanisms. We conducted comprehensive evaluations using models with 150M, 400M, 530M, 750M, and 1B parameters, testing against nine standard benchmarks categorized as World Knowledge & Reasoning, Language Understanding, and Commonsense Reasoning. Results show Blu-WERP consistently achieved superior performance across all model scales. At the 1B parameter scale, Relatively Blu-WERP demonstrates a 4.0% and 9.5% aggregate improvement over DCLM and Fineweb respectively, while achieving quality-per-token efficiency gain. Categorical analysis reveals 2.4% improvement in World Knowledge & Reasoning, 6.2% improvement in Language Understanding, and 4.2% improvement in Commonsense Reasoning. These results establish Blu-WERP as a state-of-the-art preprocessing pipeline that substantially improves LLM training data quality and downstream model performance with reduced computational cost. Our findings contribute to the growing body of research on data-centric AI, demonstrating that preprocessing pipeline design significantly impacts LLM capabilities. The Blu-WERP pipeline represents a practical advancement in data quality optimization, offering researchers and practitioners an effective solution for improving LLM training efficiency and model performance.
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