The Foundation Model Development Cheatsheet

Abstraction: Quick-start guide covering full pipeline for responsible open foundation model development

Key points:

• Collaborative resource from EleutherAI with MIT, AI2, Hugging Face, Stanford, Princeton, Masakhane, MLCommons
• Covers entire model development cycle: data collection, training, licensing, and release practices
• Motivated by lack of full-pipeline transparency in most releases; transparency enables auditing and harm assessment
• Pythia (EleutherAI, April 2023) cited as first LLM suite with fully released and reproducible pipeline; LLM360 and OLMo followed
• Available as both a paper and interactive website at fmcheatsheet.org; open for community resource submissions
• Addresses responsible development practices beyond just technical aspects, which often receive disproportionate attention

Connections: Eleutherai · Ai2 · Hugging Face · Pythia · Olmo · Foundation Models · Large Language Models · Responsible AI Development

Source: https://blog.eleuther.ai/fm-dev-cheatsheet/