LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment

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

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3 Training LIMA

  1. What training details distinguish LIMA’s fine-tuning?
    A new end-of-turn token separating speakers (to avoid the pretrained meaning of end-of-sequence); 15 epochs; residual dropout rising from 0 at the bottom layer to 0.3 at the top; and checkpoints chosen by hand on a 50-example development set, because perplexity didn’t correlate with generation quality.
    • Zhou et al., 2023, LIMA (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS 2023)), §3

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