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Jiahao Xie, Zhongbin Guo, Qianle Wang, Ruiqi Lu, Dongling Xiao, Wanxuan Sun, Cheng Yang
While data curation for Vision Language Models (VLMs) is increasingly active, public practice for constructing pretraining mixtures remains largely heuristic: practitioners stack datasets that pass quality filters, set cross-domain ratios by intuition, and lack a principled, attributable criterion for admitting new data, while frontier recipes remain undisclosed. We formulate data construction as a systematic mixture-optimization problem and turn it into a reproducible engineering discipline by decoupling the mixture into two orthogonal sub-problems: inter-class ratios across capabilities and intra-class ratios within a category. For inter-class allocation, we use a single-variable iterative search; for intra-class composition, we apply a multidimensional, dataset-level assessment scoring Quality and Difficulty, and formulate selection as a constrained convex optimization with a diversity objective. The DecoupleMix framework delivers two critical capabilities: guiding what data to collect next and rendering dataset validation a controlled, attributable experiment. Experiments show our approach consistently surpasses heuristic baselines. Moreover, optimal ratios discovered on small-scale proxies transfer seamlessly to larger scales without retuning. Using 80B additional multimodal continue-pretraining tokens, our VLM is competitive with strong open-source models trained with substantially larger multimodal budgets.
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@misc{xie2026decouplemix,
title = {DecoupleMix: Decoupled Ratio Search and Convex Allocation for Scalable VLM Data Recipes},
author = {Jiahao Xie and Zhongbin Guo and Qianle Wang and Ruiqi Lu and Dongling Xiao and Wanxuan Sun and Cheng Yang},
year = {2026},
abstract = {While data curation for Vision Language Models (VLMs) is increasingly active, public practice for constructing pretraining mixtures remains largely heuristic: practitioners stack datasets that pass quality filters, set cross-domain ratios by intuition, and lack a principled, attributable criterion for admitting new data, while frontier recipes remain undisclosed. We formulate data construction as a systematic mixture-optimization problem and turn it into a reproducible engineering discipline by },
url = {https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.24516},
keywords = {huggingface daily},
eprint = {2607.24516},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}
{}