A Survey on Data Selection for LLM Instruction Tuning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05123v1
• Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2024 13:32:01 GMT
• Title: A Survey on Data Selection for LLM Instruction Tuning
• Authors: Jiahao Wang, Bolin Zhang, Qianlong Du, Jiajun Zhang, Dianhui Chu
• Abstract summary: We propose a new taxonomy of the data selection methods and provide a detailed introduction of recent advances. We emphasize the open challenges and present new frontiers of this task.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Instruction tuning is a vital step of training large language models (LLM), so how to enhance the effect of instruction tuning has received increased attention. Existing works indicate that the quality of the dataset is more crucial than the quantity during instruction tuning of LLM. Therefore, recently a lot of studies focus on exploring the methods of selecting high-quality subset from instruction datasets, aiming to reduce training costs and enhance the instruction-following capabilities of LLMs. This paper presents a comprehensive survey on data selection for LLM instruction tuning. Firstly, we introduce the wildly used instruction datasets. Then, we propose a new taxonomy of the data selection methods and provide a detailed introduction of recent advances,and the evaluation strategies and results of data selection methods are also elaborated in detail. Finally, we emphasize the open challenges and present new frontiers of this task.

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