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LLM Finetuning

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LLM Finetuning

With AutoTrain, you can easily finetune large language models (LLMs) on your own data!

AutoTrain supports the following types of LLM finetuning:

  • Causal Language Modeling (CLM)
  • Masked Language Modeling (MLM) [Coming Soon]

Data Preparation

LLM finetuning accepts data in CSV format.

Data Format For SFT / Generic Trainer

For SFT / Generic Trainer, the data should be in the following format:

text
human: hello \n bot: hi nice to meet you
human: how are you \n bot: I am fine
human: What is your name? \n bot: My name is Mary
human: Which is the best programming language? \n bot: Python

An example dataset for this format can be found here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/timdettmers/openassistant-guanaco

For SFT/Generic training, your dataset must have a text column

Data Format For Reward/ORPO Trainer

For Reward/ORPO Trainer, the data should be in the following format:

text rejected_text
human: hello \n bot: hi nice to meet you human: hello \n bot: leave me alone
human: how are you \n bot: I am fine human: how are you \n bot: I am not fine
human: What is your name? \n bot: My name is Mary human: What is your name? \n bot: Whats it to you?
human: Which is the best programming language? \n bot: Python human: Which is the best programming language? \n bot: Javascript

For Reward Trainer, your dataset must have a text column (aka chosen text) and a rejected_text column.

Data Format For DPO Trainer

For DPO Trainer, the data should be in the following format:

prompt text rejected_text
hello hi nice to meet you leave me alone
how are you I am fine I am not fine
What is your name? My name is Mary Whats it to you?
What is your name? My name is Mary I dont have a name
Which is the best programming language? Python Javascript
Which is the best programming language? Python C++
Which is the best programming language? Java C++

For DPO Trainer, your dataset must have a prompt column, a text column (aka chosen text) and a rejected_text column.

For all tasks, you can use both CSV and JSONL files!

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