EasyInstruct: An Easy-to-use Instruction Processing Framework for Large Language Models

TL;DR

EasyInstruct is a modular, open-source framework designed to simplify instruction processing for large language models, promoting research and development in instruction data and synthetic data generation.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive, easy-to-use framework that modularizes instruction generation, selection, and prompting, filling the gap of lacking standard open-source tools.

Findings

Framework is publicly available and actively maintained

Includes online demo app and demo video for quick-start

Facilitates research on instruction data and synthetic data

Abstract

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.