Summary
This is a Thai ??-instructed dataset translated from cleaned version of the original Alpaca Dataset released by Stanford using Google Cloud Translation, contain 52,000 instructions and demonstrations generated by OpenAI's
text-davinci-003
engine.
This instruction data can be used to conduct instruction-tuning for language models and make the language model follow instruction better.
The following issues have been identified in the original release and fixed in this dataset:
Hallucinations:
Many instructions in the original dataset had instructions referencing data on the internet, which just caused GPT3 to hallucinate an answer.
Merged Instructions:
There were many instructions that were merged together in the original dataset for some reason.
Empty outputs:
Some entries in the original dataset had empty outputs.
Empty code examples:
Some descriptions in the original dataset were missing code examples, making it difficult to understand the intended behavior of the code.
Instructions to generate images:
Some descriptions in the original dataset included instructions to generate images, something obviously not possible.
N/A outputs:
Some code snippets in the original dataset had N/A outputs.
Inconsistent input field:
The original dataset had inconsistent usage of the input field when it was supposed to be empty.
Wrong answers:
Some instructions/questions in the original dataset had incorrect answers. About 80% of the math problems are estimated to have incorrect answers.
Non-Sensical/Unclear instructions:
Many instructions are unclear, we try to clarify (or re-write) if instructions are non-sensical. Instructions that are slightly unclear, but where one could deduce the meaning are not altered.
Extraneous escape and control characters:
The original dataset had several entries with extraneous escape and control characters.
Original Alpaca Dataset Summary
Alpaca is a dataset of 52,000 instructions and demonstrations generated by OpenAI's
text-davinci-003
engine. This instruction data can be used to conduct instruction-tuning for language models and make the language model follow instruction better.
The authors built on the data generation pipeline from
Self-Instruct framework
and made the following modifications:
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The
text-davinci-003
engine to generate the instruction data instead of
davinci
.
-
A
new prompt
was written that explicitly gave the requirement of instruction generation to
text-davinci-003
.
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Much more aggressive batch decoding was used, i.e., generating 20 instructions at once, which significantly reduced the cost of data generation.
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The data generation pipeline was simplified by discarding the difference between classification and non-classification instructions.
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Only a single instance was generated for each instruction, instead of 2 to 3 instances as in Self-Instruct.
The authors built on the data generation pipeline from
Self-Instruct framework
and made the following modifications:
-
The
text-davinci-003
engine to generate the instruction data instead of
davinci
.
-
A
new prompt
was written that explicitly gave the requirement of instruction generation to
text-davinci-003
.
-
Much more aggressive batch decoding was used, i.e., generating 20 instructions at once, which significantly reduced the cost of data generation.
-
The data generation pipeline was simplified by discarding the difference between classification and non-classification instructions.
-
Only a single instance was generated for each instruction, instead of 2 to 3 instances as in Self-Instruct.
This produced an instruction-following dataset with 52K examples obtained at a much lower cost (less than $500).
In a preliminary study, the authors also found that the 52K generated data to be much more diverse than the data released by
Self-Instruct
.
Supported Tasks:
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Training LLMs
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Synthetic Data Generation
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Data Augmentation
Languages: Thai
Version: 1.0