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Research: LLMs show significant Chinese data pollution from tokens

A new research paper proposes a method to detect and analyze "Polluted Chinese" (PoC) tokens within Large Language Models (LLMs). These tokens, often associated with pornography or online gambling, are found to be prevalent in many LLMs, with GPT models exhibiting the worst performance, showing over 40% of long Chinese tokens falling into these categories. The study validates its speculation method on datasets like C4 and Pile, and estimates that content related to "Yui Hatano" might constitute around 0.5% of GPT-4o's training data. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential biases and harmful content in LLM training data, necessitating improved data curation and filtering.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new methodology for analyzing LLM training data. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Research: LLMs show significant Chinese data pollution from tokens

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Qingjie Zhang, Di Wang, Haoting Qian, Liu Yan, Tianwei Zhang, Ke Xu, Qi Li, Minlie Huang, Hewu Li, Han Qiu ·

    Speculating LLMs' Chinese Training Data Pollution from Their Tokens

    arXiv:2508.17771v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tokens are basic elements in the datasets for LLM training. It is well-known that many tokens representing Chinese phrases in the vocabulary of GPT (4o/4o-mini/o1/o3/4.5/4.1/o4-mini) are indicating contents like pornography or o…