NVIDIA-NeMo / NVIDIA-NeMo/Curator

[FEA] Enable Best Fit Packing

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Description

We should look into enabling best fit packing dataset curation feature. This was used by deepseek and seems like we can use our existing bin packing features to enable it so work wise it wont be too big of a lift

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.10830

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Research direction

Start by reading the existing bin packing features and the linked DeepSeek paper to determine how best fit packing should integrate with dataset curation. Done means the best fit packing curation feature is enabled and its behavior is validated against the intended approach.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
data
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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