Synthetic Data Generation in Low-Resource Settings via Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01119v2
• Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 13:09:24 GMT
• Title: Synthetic Data Generation in Low-Resource Settings via Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
• Authors: Jean Kaddour, Qi Liu
• Abstract summary: Large language models can generalize to novel downstream tasks with relatively few labeled examples. Alternatively, smaller models can solve specific tasks if fine-tuned with enough labeled examples. We study synthetic data generation of fine-tuning training data via fine-tuned teacher LLMs to improve the downstream performance of much smaller models.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The in-context learning ability of large language models (LLMs) enables them to generalize to novel downstream tasks with relatively few labeled examples. However, they require enormous computational resources to be deployed. Alternatively, smaller models can solve specific tasks if fine-tuned with enough labeled examples. These examples, however, are expensive to obtain. In pursuit of the best of both worlds, we study synthetic data generation of fine-tuning training data via fine-tuned teacher LLMs to improve the downstream performance of much smaller models. In four text classification and two text generation tasks, we find that both data generation and annotation dramatically improve the respective downstream model's performance, occasionally necessitating only a minor fraction of the original training dataset.

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