Higher Quality Small Synthetic Natural Language Text Generation for Interpretability Research

IntroductionSmall simple synthetic natural language datasets suitable for end-to-end training of tiny LLMs serve as an important resource for LLM interpretability researchers. Some well know examples include roneneldan/TinyStories, SimpleStories/SimpleStories, and klusai/ds-tf1-en-3m (TinyFabulist). This post solves key problems that degrade the quality of these datasets, while also offering an efficient accessible pipeline that can be run locally on an NVIDIA 5060 Ti (16GB) graphics card. The c...