Best Practices and Lessons Learned on Synthetic Data for Language Models
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07503v1
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:34:17 GMT
- Title: Best Practices and Lessons Learned on Synthetic Data for Language Models
- Authors: Ruibo Liu, Jerry Wei, Fangyu Liu, Chenglei Si, Yanzhe Zhang, Jinmeng Rao, Steven Zheng, Daiyi Peng, Diyi Yang, Denny Zhou, Andrew M. Dai,
- Abstract summary: The success of AI models relies on the availability of large, diverse, and high-quality datasets.
Synthetic data has emerged as a promising solution by generating artificial data that mimics real-world patterns.
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- Abstract: The success of AI models relies on the availability of large, diverse, and high-quality datasets, which can be challenging to obtain due to data scarcity, privacy concerns, and high costs. Synthetic data has emerged as a promising solution by generating artificial data that mimics real-world patterns. This paper provides an overview of synthetic data research, discussing its applications, challenges, and future directions. We present empirical evidence from prior art to demonstrate its effectiveness and highlight the importance of ensuring its factuality, fidelity, and unbiasedness. We emphasize the need for responsible use of synthetic data to build more powerful, inclusive, and trustworthy language models.
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