Data Duplication Can Waste Up to 33% of LLM Pretraining Compute
RylanSchaeffer · x · 2026-07-05
It is widely recognized that data duplication harms LLM pretraining. A paper by Chudnovsky further demonstrates that this damage depends on a predictable scaling interaction among model parameter count, the number of duplicated documents, and duplication frequency. A poor combination can severely waste computing power, with losses reaching up to approximately 33%.
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