Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models: A Survey

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10792v7
• Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:25:48 GMT
• Title: Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models: A Survey
• Authors: Shengyu Zhang, Linfeng Dong, Xiaoya Li, Sen Zhang, Xiaofei Sun, Shuhe Wang, Jiwei Li, Runyi Hu, Tianwei Zhang, Fei Wu, Guoyin Wang,
• Abstract summary: This paper surveys research works in the quickly advancing field of instruction tuning (IT) In this paper, unless specified otherwise, instruction tuning (IT) will be equivalent to supervised fine-tuning (SFT)
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• Abstract: This paper surveys research works in the quickly advancing field of instruction tuning (IT), which can also be referred to as supervised fine-tuning (SFT)\footnote{In this paper, unless specified otherwise, instruction tuning (IT) will be equivalent to supervised fine-tuning (SFT).}, a crucial technique to enhance the capabilities and controllability of large language models (LLMs). Instruction tuning refers to the process of further training LLMs on a dataset consisting of \textsc{(instruction, output)} pairs in a supervised fashion, which bridges the gap between the next-word prediction objective of LLMs and the users' objective of having LLMs adhere to human instructions. In this work, we make a systematic review of the literature, including the general methodology of IT, the construction of IT datasets, the training of IT models, and applications to different modalities, domains and application, along with analysis on aspects that influence the outcome of IT (e.g., generation of instruction outputs, size of the instruction dataset, etc). We also review the potential pitfalls of IT along with criticism against it, along with efforts pointing out current deficiencies of existing strategies and suggest some avenues for fruitful research.Project page: github.com/xiaoya-li/Instruction-Tuning-Survey

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