{"id":32492,"date":"2025-02-04T09:27:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T08:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/when-to-worry-about-data-contamination-in-llm-experiments\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T08:27:27","slug":"when-to-worry-about-data-contamination-in-llm-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/when-to-worry-about-data-contamination-in-llm-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"When To Worry About Data Contamination In LLM Experiments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hey, I am currently preparing my master thesis experiment and was looking for datasets. My experiment will use LLMs as baseline with different RAG variations. Data contamination is a big topic for LLMs, because if the LLM has already been trained on the data I want use, then the whole experiment is pointless. The dataset I found on <a href=\"http:\/\/zenodo.org\/\">zenodo.org<\/a> is for vulnerability detection.<\/p>\n<p>Public and readable datasets are problematic, but what&#8217;s about downloadable datasets that do not have a preview on its side?<\/p>\n<p>Should I be worried ?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Apprehensive_Win662\"> \/u\/Apprehensive_Win662 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1ihcqsq\/when_to_worry_about_data_contamination_in_llm\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1ihcqsq\/when_to_worry_about_data_contamination_in_llm\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-32492 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='32492' data-nonce='614a020375' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-32492 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-32492 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I am currently preparing my master thesis experiment and was looking for datasets. My experiment will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}