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Aviya Skowron

4 accepted papers

2025

The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) are typically trained on enormous quantities of unlicensed text, a practice that has led to scrutiny due to possible intellectual property infringement and ethical concerns. Training LLMs on openly licensed text presents a first step towards addressing these issues, but…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Position: A Safe Harbor for AI Evaluation and Red Teaming

ICML 2024oral

Independent evaluation and red teaming are critical for identifying the risks posed by generative AI systems. However, the terms of service and enforcement strategies used by prominent AI companies to deter model misuse have disincentives on good faith safety evaluations. This causes some researcher…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2024

Position: On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models

ICML 2024oral

Foundation models are powerful technologies: how they are released publicly directly shapes their societal impact. In this position paper, we focus on *open* foundation models, defined here as those with broadly available model weights (e.g., Llama 3, Stable Diffusion XL). We identify five distincti…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2023

Pythia: A Suite for Analyzing Large Language Models Across Training and Scaling

ICML 2023oral

How do large language models (LLMs) develop and evolve over the course of training? How do these patterns change as models scale? To answer these questions, we introduce *Pythia*, a suite of 16 LLMs all trained on public data seen in the exact same order and ranging in size from 70M to 12B parameter…