Towards Better Instruction Following Language Models for Chinese: Investigating the Impact of Training Data and Evaluation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07854v1
• Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 18:37:39 GMT
• Title: Towards Better Instruction Following Language Models for Chinese: Investigating the Impact of Training Data and Evaluation
• Authors: Yunjie Ji, Yan Gong, Yong Deng, Yiping Peng, Qiang Niu, Baochang Ma, Xiangang Li
• Abstract summary: We examine the influence of training data factors, including quantity, quality, and linguistic distribution, on model performance. We assess various models using a evaluation set of 1,000 samples, encompassing nine real-world scenarios. We extend the vocabulary of LLaMA - the model with the closest open-source performance to proprietary language models like GPT-3.
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• Abstract: Recently, significant public efforts have been directed towards developing low-cost models with capabilities akin to ChatGPT, thereby fostering the growth of open-source conversational models. However, there remains a scarcity of comprehensive and in-depth evaluations of these models' performance. In this study, we examine the influence of training data factors, including quantity, quality, and linguistic distribution, on model performance. Our analysis is grounded in several publicly accessible, high-quality instruction datasets, as well as our own Chinese multi-turn conversations. We assess various models using a evaluation set of 1,000 samples, encompassing nine real-world scenarios. Our goal is to supplement manual evaluations with quantitative analyses, offering valuable insights for the continued advancement of open-source chat models. Furthermore, to enhance the performance and training and inference efficiency of models in the Chinese domain, we extend the vocabulary of LLaMA - the model with the closest open-source performance to proprietary language models like GPT-3 - and conduct secondary pre-training on 3.4B Chinese words. We make our model, data, as well as code publicly available.

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