**Agenda**

* Quick intro about AI Alliance (5 mins)
* GneissWeb presentation (40 mins)
* Q&A (10 mins)
* Wrapup

**Session: Introducing GneissWeb – a state-of-the-art LLM pre-training dataset**
At IBM, responsible AI implies transparency in training data: Introducing GneissWeb (pronounced “niceWeb”), a state-of-the-art LLM pre-training dataset with ~10 Trillion tokens derived from FineWeb, with open recipes, results, and tools for reproduction!

In this session we will go over how we created GneissWeb and discuss tools and techniques used. We will provide code examples that you can try at your leisure.

> 2% avg improvement in benchmark performance over FineWeb
[Huggingface page](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ibm-granite/GneissWeb)
[Data prep kit detailed recipe](https://github.com/IBM/data-prep-kit/blob/dev/examples/notebooks/GneissWeb/GneissWeb.ipynb)
[Data prep kit bloom filter for quick reproduction](https://github.com/ian-cho/data-prep-kit/blob/dev/transforms/universal/bloom/bloom_python.ipynb)
[Recipe models for reproduction](https://huggingface.co/collections/ibm-granite/granite-data-67acf1780ddf9261f2c12b47)
[announcement](https://research.ibm.com/blog/gneissweb-for-granite-training)
[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14907)

**Session Type**
Presentation

**Audience**
LLM app developers, data scientists, data engineers

**Technical Level**
Beginner – Intermediate

**Prerequisites**
None

**Speaker: Shahrokh Daijavad, Research Scientist @ IBM Almaden Research Center**
Shahrokh Daijavad, a distinguished Research Scientist in the Watsonx Data Engineering group at IBM Almaden Research Center, has a rich background in Edge Computing and Data Engineering. He earned his B.Eng. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from McMaster University and spent years at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. His recent research focuses on AI@Edge and Data Engineering for IBM Watsonx AI offerings.

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