The LLM Development Workflow: A Data-Centric View

    Introduction: It’s All About the Data The secret to building great language models isn’t just architecture or compute—it’s data. Every decision in the LLM lifecycle revolves around data: What data do we train on? How do we clean and filter it? How do we align the model with human preferences? How do we measure success? Let’s trace the complete journey from raw text to a production-ready model, with data at the center. ...

    February 3, 2025 · 10 min · Rafiul Alam