license: apache-2.0
datasets:
- tatsu-lab/alpaca
🍮 🦙 Flan-Alpaca: Instruction Tuning from Humans and Machines
Our repository contains code for extending the Stanford Alpaca synthetic instruction tuning to existing instruction-tuned models such as Flan-T5. The pretrained models and demos are available on HuggingFace 🤗 :
| Model | Parameters | Training GPUs |
|---|---|---|
| Flan-Alpaca-Base | 220M | 1x A6000 |
| Flan-Alpaca-Large | 770M | 1x A6000 |
| Flan-Alpaca-XL | 3B | 1x A6000 |
| Flan-Alpaca-XXL | 11B | 4x A6000 (FSDP) |
Why?
Alpaca represents an exciting new direction to approximate the performance of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT cheaply and easily. Concretely, they leverage an LLM such as GPT-3 to generate instructions as synthetic training data. The synthetic data which covers more than 50k tasks can then be used to finetune a smaller model. However, the original implementation is less accessible due to licensing constraints of the underlying LLaMA model. Furthermore, users have noted potential noise in the synthetic dataset. Hence, it may be better to explore a fully accessible model that is already trained on high-quality (but less diverse) instructions such as Flan-T5.
Usage
from transformers import pipeline
prompt = "Write an email about an alpaca that likes flan"
model = pipeline(model="declare-lab/flan-alpaca-xl")
model(prompt, max_length=128, do_sample=True)
# Dear AlpacaFriend,
# My name is Alpaca and I'm 10 years old.
# I'm excited to announce that I'm a big fan of flan!
# We like to eat it as a snack and I believe that it can help with our overall growth.
# I'd love to hear your feedback on this idea.
# Have a great day!
# Best, AL Paca