Shaping capabilities with token-level data filtering research paper by Anthropic, 2026
Anthropic · Training and scaling · Jan 29, 2026 · 13 citations · 31 upvotes · unverified
What it shows
Token filtering during pretraining effectively reduces unwanted language model capabilities while maintaining alignment, becoming more effective at larger scales and tolerating noisy labels with sufficient compute.
By Neil Rathi, Alec Radford · arXiv 2601.21571 · PDF · Code
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- 13, 1 influential · Semantic Scholar
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