Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments
EPFL - EPF Lausanne · ETHZ - ETH Zurich · EPFL - EPF Lausanne, Simon Fraser University and ETHZ - ETH Zurich · Tzafon · Google · EPFL · ETH Zurich · University of La Rochelle · Department of Computer Science, ETHZ - ETH Zurich · ZHAW - Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften · Tufa Labs · University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Sierre (HES-SO Valais) · ETHZ - ETH Zurich and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Max-Planck Institute · Universität Bern · NVIDIA · HSLU - Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts · Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, Sorbonne Université - Faculté des Sciences (Paris VI) · CSCS · Math, Inc. · Anthropic · University of Zurich · Microsoft and EPFL - EPF Lausanne · ETHZ - ETH Zurich and University of Basel · Swiss Federal Institute of Technology · ETHZ - ETH Zurich and ETHZ / CSCS
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摘要
Open LLMs enable AI practitioners to control development costs by building on an existing foundation for downstream applications. While offering substantial promise, current models often fail to meet the needs of users needing open solutions aligned with responsible AI principles, including data compliance, transparency, and inclusivity. In this work, we present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address responsibility shortcomings in today’s open model ecosystem, namely data responsibility and global representation. Unlike many prior models that release weights without reproducible data pipelines or regard for content-owner rights, Apertus models are pretrained exclusively on openly available data, retroactively respecting robots.txt exclusions and filtering for non-permissive, toxic, and personally identifiable content. To mitigate risks of data memorization, we also adopt the Goldfish objective during pretraining, strongly suppressing verbatim recall of data while retaining downstream task performance. Apertus also drastically expands multilingual coverage, training on 15T tokens from over approximately 1800 languages, with about 40% of pretraining data allocated to non-English content. Released at 8B and 70B scales, Apertus approaches state-of-the-art results among fully open models on multilingual benchmarks, rivaling or surpassing open-weight counterparts.