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David Brandfonbrener

@brandfonbrener.bsky.social
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Research scientist at Meta on the llama team Thinking about language models Past: PhD at NYU, fellow at Harvard’s Kempner Institute

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Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I want to reshare @brandfonbrener.bsky.social's @NeurIPSConf 2024 paper on CoLoR-Filter: A simple yet powerful method for selecting high-quality data for language model pre-training! With @hlzhang109.bsky.social @schwarzjn.bsky.social @shamkakade.bsky.social
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David Brandfonbrener @brandfonbrener.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I’m heading to NeurIPS Wednesday through Sunday. DM me if you want to meet up!
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Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
NEW: we have an exciting opportunity for a tenure-track professor at the #KempnerInstitute and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Read the full description & apply today: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14362 #ML #AI
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David Brandfonbrener @brandfonbrener.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
How does test loss change as we change the training data? And how does this interact with scaling laws? We propose a methodology to approach these questions by showing that we can predict the performance across datasets and losses with simple shifted power law fits.
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