LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment

Zhou et al., 2023, LIMA (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023))

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1 Introduction

  1. What question does LIMA investigate?
    How important the two stages of training a language model are relative to each other: unsupervised pretraining versus large-scale instruction tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback, by aligning a strong pretrained model with only 1,000 examples.
    • Zhou et al., 2023, LIMA (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023)), §1
  2. What is LIMA?
    LLaMA 65B fine-tuned with the ordinary supervised loss on just 1,000 carefully curated prompts and responses, with no reinforcement learning or preference modelling.
    • Zhou et al., 2023, LIMA (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023)), §1

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