A library that makes gradient-based training data attribution practical for large language models

dattri-LLM achieves 3.2x speedup over existing tools and scales to 110B-parameter models without modifying training pipelines

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Shixuan Liu · Tongli Zhou · Junwei Deng · Pingbang Hu · Jiaqi W. Ma

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Google

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The authors introduce dattri-LLM, a library for training data attribution (TDA) at LLM scale.

The authors built dattri-LLM around two exact gradient representations (factorized and materialized) and a FLOP-aware cost model that selects the cheaper route per layer and operation, sharing kernels across attribution methods.

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From Google and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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A library called dattri-LLM speeds gradient-based training data attribution by 3.2x and scales to 110B-parameter models.

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