Marin 535B switches to cooldown mix: science data up, top-quality bucket at 28%

dlwh · x · 2026-10-24

For the final stretch of Marin's 535B pretraining, the team switched to a cooldown data mix: more natural-science research, with code and agent transcripts still prominent. Natural-science sampling weight rose from 6.9% to 11.3%, general software & web code fell from 4.5% to 3.1%, and the highest classifier-rated quality bucket increased from 22.9% to 28.0% of sampling weight. The recipe spans 40 topic clusters × 5 quality buckets.

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