Small Language Model as Data Prospector for Large Language Model

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Main Authors: Ni, Shiwen, Wu, Haihong, Yang, Di, Qu, Qiang, Alinejad-Rokny, Hamid, Yang, Min
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author Ni, Shiwen
Wu, Haihong
Yang, Di
Qu, Qiang
Alinejad-Rokny, Hamid
Yang, Min
author_facet Ni, Shiwen
Wu, Haihong
Yang, Di
Qu, Qiang
Alinejad-Rokny, Hamid
Yang, Min
contents The quality of instruction data directly affects the performance of fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs). Previously, \cite{li2023one} proposed \texttt{NUGGETS}, which identifies and selects high-quality quality data from a large dataset by identifying those individual instruction examples that can significantly improve the performance of different tasks after being learnt as one-shot instances. In this work, we propose \texttt{SuperNUGGETS}, an improved variant of \texttt{NUGGETS} optimised for efficiency and performance. Our \texttt{SuperNUGGETS} uses a small language model (SLM) instead of a large language model (LLM) to filter the data for outstanding one-shot instances and refines the predefined set of tests. The experimental results show that the performance of \texttt{SuperNUGGETS} only decreases by 1-2% compared to \texttt{NUGGETS}, but the efficiency can be increased by a factor of 58. Compared to the original \texttt{NUGGETS}, our \texttt{SuperNUGGETS} has a higher utility value due to the significantly lower resource consumption.
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spellingShingle Small Language Model as Data Prospector for Large Language Model
Ni, Shiwen
Wu, Haihong
Yang, Di
Qu, Qiang
Alinejad-Rokny, Hamid
Yang, Min
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
The quality of instruction data directly affects the performance of fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs). Previously, \cite{li2023one} proposed \texttt{NUGGETS}, which identifies and selects high-quality quality data from a large dataset by identifying those individual instruction examples that can significantly improve the performance of different tasks after being learnt as one-shot instances. In this work, we propose \texttt{SuperNUGGETS}, an improved variant of \texttt{NUGGETS} optimised for efficiency and performance. Our \texttt{SuperNUGGETS} uses a small language model (SLM) instead of a large language model (LLM) to filter the data for outstanding one-shot instances and refines the predefined set of tests. The experimental results show that the performance of \texttt{SuperNUGGETS} only decreases by 1-2% compared to \texttt{NUGGETS}, but the efficiency can be increased by a factor of 58. Compared to the original \texttt{NUGGETS}, our \texttt{SuperNUGGETS} has a higher utility value due to the significantly lower resource consumption.
title Small Language Model as Data Prospector for Large Language Model
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09990