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New research disentangles synthetic data scaling methods

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A new research paper from arXiv explores two methods for scaling synthetic data generation: Source Expansion (SE) and Fixed-Source Synthesis (FSS). The study isolates FSS by keeping the source material and teacher model constant while varying the generation budget. The researchers adapted a scaling law to FSS and found that while SE and FSS are comparable at low budgets, SE outperforms FSS at higher budgets when adding more source material is more effective than generating additional responses from a fixed source. The findings suggest FSS is a bounded scaling axis suitable for comparing synthesis protocols. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Xu Guo, Jian Tong, Zhihui Lu, Qipeng Guo ·

    When Does Generating More Help? Disentangling Fixed-Source Synthesis from Source Expansion in Synthetic Data Scaling

    arXiv:2607.01727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic data can be scaled along two routes: Source Expansion (SE), which enlarges the source by adding seed materials or generators, and Fixed-Source Synthesis (FSS), which holds the source fixed and scales the generation budget.…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Qipeng Guo ·

    When Does Generating More Help? Disentangling Fixed-Source Synthesis from Source Expansion in Synthetic Data Scaling

    Synthetic data can be scaled along two routes: Source Expansion (SE), which enlarges the source by adding seed materials or generators, and Fixed-Source Synthesis (FSS), which holds the source fixed and scales the generation budget. Existing scaling studies typically expand the s…

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