> Qwen2 was explicitly trained on synthetic data from Qwen1.5
~~Where is the evidence for this claim? (Claude 3.5 Sonnet could also not find evidence on one rollout)~~ EDITED TO ADD: “these [Qwen] models are utilized to synthesize high-quality pre-training data” is clear evidence, I am being silly.
All other techinques mentioned here (e.g. filtering and adding more IT data at end of training) still sound like models “trained to predict the next word on the internet” (I don’t think the training samples being IID early and late in training is an important detail)
I’m not disputing that they were trained with next token prediction log loss (if you read the tech reports they claim to do exactly this) — I’m just disputing the “on the internet” part, due to the use of synthetic data and private instruction following examples.
> Qwen2 was explicitly trained on synthetic data from Qwen1.5
~~Where is the evidence for this claim? (Claude 3.5 Sonnet could also not find evidence on one rollout)~~
EDITED TO ADD: “these [Qwen] models are utilized to synthesize high-quality pre-training data” is clear evidence, I am being silly.
All other techinques mentioned here (e.g. filtering and adding more IT data at end of training) still sound like models “trained to predict the next word on the internet” (I don’t think the training samples being IID early and late in training is an important detail)
I’m not disputing that they were trained with next token prediction log loss (if you read the tech reports they claim to do exactly this) — I’m just disputing the “on the internet” part, due to the use of synthetic data and private instruction following examples.