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Main Authors: Dey, Gourab, Ganesan, Adithya V, Lal, Yash Kumar, Shah, Manal, Sinha, Shreyashee, Matero, Matthew, Giorgi, Salvatore, Kulkarni, Vivek, Schwartz, H. Andrew
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01980
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author Dey, Gourab
Ganesan, Adithya V
Lal, Yash Kumar
Shah, Manal
Sinha, Shreyashee
Matero, Matthew
Giorgi, Salvatore
Kulkarni, Vivek
Schwartz, H. Andrew
author_facet Dey, Gourab
Ganesan, Adithya V
Lal, Yash Kumar
Shah, Manal
Sinha, Shreyashee
Matero, Matthew
Giorgi, Salvatore
Kulkarni, Vivek
Schwartz, H. Andrew
contents Social science NLP tasks, such as emotion or humor detection, are required to capture the semantics along with the implicit pragmatics from text, often with limited amounts of training data. Instruction tuning has been shown to improve the many capabilities of large language models (LLMs) such as commonsense reasoning, reading comprehension, and computer programming. However, little is known about the effectiveness of instruction tuning on the social domain where implicit pragmatic cues are often needed to be captured. We explore the use of instruction tuning for social science NLP tasks and introduce Socialite-Llama -- an open-source, instruction-tuned Llama. On a suite of 20 social science tasks, Socialite-Llama improves upon the performance of Llama as well as matches or improves upon the performance of a state-of-the-art, multi-task finetuned model on a majority of them. Further, Socialite-Llama also leads to improvement on 5 out of 6 related social tasks as compared to Llama, suggesting instruction tuning can lead to generalized social understanding. All resources including our code, model and dataset can be found through bit.ly/socialitellama.
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spellingShingle SOCIALITE-LLAMA: An Instruction-Tuned Model for Social Scientific Tasks
Dey, Gourab
Ganesan, Adithya V
Lal, Yash Kumar
Shah, Manal
Sinha, Shreyashee
Matero, Matthew
Giorgi, Salvatore
Kulkarni, Vivek
Schwartz, H. Andrew
Computation and Language
Social science NLP tasks, such as emotion or humor detection, are required to capture the semantics along with the implicit pragmatics from text, often with limited amounts of training data. Instruction tuning has been shown to improve the many capabilities of large language models (LLMs) such as commonsense reasoning, reading comprehension, and computer programming. However, little is known about the effectiveness of instruction tuning on the social domain where implicit pragmatic cues are often needed to be captured. We explore the use of instruction tuning for social science NLP tasks and introduce Socialite-Llama -- an open-source, instruction-tuned Llama. On a suite of 20 social science tasks, Socialite-Llama improves upon the performance of Llama as well as matches or improves upon the performance of a state-of-the-art, multi-task finetuned model on a majority of them. Further, Socialite-Llama also leads to improvement on 5 out of 6 related social tasks as compared to Llama, suggesting instruction tuning can lead to generalized social understanding. All resources including our code, model and dataset can be found through bit.ly/socialitellama.
title SOCIALITE-LLAMA: An Instruction-Tuned Model for Social Scientific Tasks
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01980