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---
language:
- en
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- text-generation
- gpt2
- dataset-mixing
- pretraining
model-index:
- name: gpt-2-70m
results:
- task:
type: text-generation
metrics:
- name: MMLU (5-shot)
type: accuracy
value: 24.11
- name: HellaSwag (0-shot)
type: accuracy
value: 27.03
- name: ARC-Challenge (0-shot)
type: accuracy
value: 21.67
- name: PIQA (0-shot)
type: accuracy
value: 57.29
- name: WinoGrande (0-shot)
type: accuracy
value: 51.46
- name: TruthfulQA MC2 (0-shot)
type: accuracy
value: 47.31
- name: Average
type: accuracy
value: 38.15
datasets:
- codelion/finepdfs-1B
- codelion/dclm-baseline-1B
- codelion/fineweb-edu-1B
---
# GPT-2 70M - Optimal Dataset Mixing
A 70M parameter GPT-2 model trained on 1 billion tokens using an optimized 50-30-20 dataset mixing strategy.
## Model Description
This model demonstrates the effectiveness of careful dataset composition for efficient language model pretraining. Despite using **10x less training data** than GPT-2 (1B vs 10B tokens), it achieves competitive performance by leveraging an optimal mixture of high-quality data sources.
**Architecture**: GPT-2
- **Parameters**: 70M (64.09M trainable)
- **Layers**: 12
- **Hidden Size**: 512
- **Attention Heads**: 8
- **Context Length**: 1024 tokens
- **Vocabulary Size**: 50,257
## Training Data
The model was trained on **1 billion tokens** with the following composition:
- **50%** - FinePDFs (500M tokens): High-quality PDF content
- **30%** - DCLM Baseline (300M tokens): Filtered web content
- **20%** - FineWeb-Edu (200M tokens): Educational web content
This 50-30-20 mixing ratio was identified through systematic experimentation as optimal for balanced performance across multiple domains.
## Training Details
- **Total Tokens**: 1,000,000,000
- **Batch Size**: 24 (effective: 120 with gradient accumulation)
- **Learning Rate**: 5e-4 → 5e-5 (cosine decay)
- **Warmup Steps**: 162 (2% of total)
- **Precision**: BFloat16
- **Optimizer**: AdamW
- **Final Loss**: 2.92
## Benchmark Results
### Performance Comparison
| Benchmark | Our Model | Random | GPT-2 | vs Random | vs GPT-2 |
|-----------|-----------|--------|-------|-----------|----------|
| **MMLU** (5-shot) | 24.11% | 25.00% | 26.00% | -0.89% | -1.89% |
| **HellaSwag** (0-shot) | 27.03% | 25.00% | 30.00% | +2.03% | -2.97% |
| **ARC-Challenge** (0-shot) | 21.67% | 25.00% | 24.00% | -3.33% | -2.33% |
| **PIQA** (0-shot) | 57.29% | 50.00% | 63.00% | +7.29% | -5.71% |
| **WinoGrande** (0-shot) | 51.46% | 50.00% | 51.00% | +1.46% | +0.46% |
| **TruthfulQA MC2** (0-shot) | **47.31%** | 25.00% | 40.00% | **+22.31%** | **+7.31%** |
| **Average** | **38.15%** | 33.33% | 39.00% | **+4.81%** | **-0.85%** |
### Key Findings
- **Performance Gap**: Only **0.85%** behind GPT-2 baseline (39.00%)
- **Efficiency**: Achieves **84.9%** of GPT-2's performance improvement over random guessing
- **Data Efficiency**: Competitive results with **10x less training data**
- **TruthfulQA Excellence**: **+7.31%** above GPT-2 baseline, demonstrating superior factual accuracy
## Usage
```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
# Load model and tokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("codelion/gpt-2-70m")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("codelion/gpt-2-70m")
# Generate text with better sampling parameters
inputs = tokenizer("The future of AI is", return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_length=50,
do_sample=True, # Enable sampling
temperature=0.8, # Control randomness
top_p=0.9, # Nucleus sampling
pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id
)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))
```
## Key Insights
1. **Data Quality > Quantity**: The 50-30-20 mixing strategy demonstrates that careful dataset composition can achieve strong performance with significantly reduced compute
2. **Factual Accuracy**: The model excels at truthfulness (TruthfulQA), likely due to high-quality FinePDF content (50%)
3. **Practical Commonsense**: Strong performance on PIQA and WinoGrande shows effective real-world reasoning
4. **Knowledge Gaps**: Below-random performance on MMLU and ARC-Challenge indicates insufficient academic/scientific knowledge for this scale
## Limitations
- **Academic Knowledge**: Limited performance on academic benchmarks (MMLU, ARC-Challenge)
- **Training Scale**: 1B tokens is insufficient for comprehensive world knowledge
- **Parameter Count**: 70M parameters may limit capacity for complex reasoning
## Citation
If you use this model/dataset, please cite:
```bibtex
@article{sharma2025billion,
title={The 1 Billion Token Challenge: Finding the Perfect Pre-training Mix},
author={Sharma, Asankhaya},
year={2025},
url={https://huggingface.co/blog/codelion/optimal-dataset-mixing/}
}
```
For more details, see the [blog post](https://huggingface.co/blog/codelion/optimal-dataset-mixing/).
## Model Card Authors
codelion
## Model Card Contact
For questions or issues, please open an issue on the model repository. |