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HERMES: A Multi-Granularity Labeling Substrate for Pre-training Data Mixtures

Ziyun Qiao, Yue Min, Ruining Chen, Yujun Li

Published

Jul 2, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

15% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

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Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

Background context only.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Weak or implicit
Validate from full paper
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

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Abstract

Most data-mixing methods assume the corpus has already been partitioned into groups, and the choice of those groups determines what a mixer can express. Existing labels, including provenance, topic or format taxonomies, and flat embedding clusters, commit to one semantic axis at one granularity; changing the resolution rebuilds the labels. We argue the bottleneck is the label system, not the mixer, and provide a hierarchical one. HERMES is a data-derived labeling substrate: a Learned Semantic Transform followed by 3-stage residual vector quantization annotates each document once into a coarse-to-fine code whose prefix length controls granularity up to approximately 130k cells. At coarse granularity HERMES sits at a plateau with KMeans-family methods on standard clustering metrics, so the contribution is the substrate, not the clusterer. On 1B-parameter, 25B-token pre-training, the hierarchy exposes an interaction fixed-granularity pipelines cannot test: at one prefix length, a combined Stage-2 rule contrast, equal-subbucket coverage versus size-proportional within-bucket quality top-30%, lifts a 16-task capability macro-average by +0.0253; at the next finer level, the same rule loses its measurable edge as candidate pools contract approximately 5x. HERMES reframes data mixture design from choosing among fixed label sets to navigating a reusable, data-derived granularity hierarchy.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Most data-mixing methods assume the corpus has already been partitioned into groups, and the choice of those groups determines what a mixer can express."

Evaluation Modes

missing

None explicit

Validate eval design from full paper text.

"Most data-mixing methods assume the corpus has already been partitioned into groups, and the choice of those groups determines what a mixer can express."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Most data-mixing methods assume the corpus has already been partitioned into groups, and the choice of those groups determines what a mixer can express."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Most data-mixing methods assume the corpus has already been partitioned into groups, and the choice of those groups determines what a mixer can express."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"Most data-mixing methods assume the corpus has already been partitioned into groups, and the choice of those groups determines what a mixer can express."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
Coding
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
None
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
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Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Most data-mixing methods assume the corpus has already been partitioned into groups, and the choice of those groups determines what a mixer can express.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Most data-mixing methods assume the corpus has already been partitioned into groups, and the choice of those groups determines what a mixer can express.
  • Existing labels, including provenance, topic or format taxonomies, and flat embedding clusters, commit to one semantic axis at one granularity; changing the resolution rebuilds the labels.
  • We argue the bottleneck is the label system, not the mixer, and provide a hierarchical one.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • On 1B-parameter, 25B-token pre-training, the hierarchy exposes an interaction fixed-granularity pipelines cannot test: at one prefix length, a combined Stage-2 rule contrast, equal-subbucket coverage versus size-proportional within-bucket…

Why it matters for eval

  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.