Holistic Data Scheduler for LLM Pre-training via Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
Chenhao Dang, Jing Ma, Mingjie Liao
2026Year
Abstract
Performance evaluation of the Holistic Data Scheduler (HDS). All results are from a Pythia-1B model trained for 50 billion tokens on The Pile dataset. (a) Unweighted average validation perplexity across the 22 domains of The Pile. (b) 0-shot accuracy on the MMLU benchmark.
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