EasyInstruct: An Easy-to-use Instruction Processing Framework for Large Language Models
This addresses the problem for practitioners and researchers in natural language processing by providing a tool to streamline instruction processing, though it is incremental as it builds on existing methods without introducing a new paradigm.
The authors tackled the lack of a standard open-source framework for instruction processing in large language models by developing EasyInstruct, an easy-to-use framework that modularizes instruction generation, selection, and prompting, which is publicly released and maintained to facilitate research.
In recent years, instruction tuning has gained increasing attention and emerged as a crucial technique to enhance the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). To construct high-quality instruction datasets, many instruction processing approaches have been proposed, aiming to achieve a delicate balance between data quantity and data quality. Nevertheless, due to inconsistencies that persist among various instruction processing methods, there is no standard open-source instruction processing implementation framework available for the community, which hinders practitioners from further developing and advancing. To facilitate instruction processing research and development, we present EasyInstruct, an easy-to-use instruction processing framework for LLMs, which modularizes instruction generation, selection, and prompting, while also considering their combination and interaction. EasyInstruct is publicly released and actively maintained at https://github.com/zjunlp/EasyInstruct, along with an online demo app and a demo video for quick-start, calling for broader research centered on instruction data and synthetic data.