β‘ A repository for generating synthetic data with LLMs & evaluating LLMs' data generation capabilities π β‘
- [2024/12] We release the Agora and Agora-Bench!
- Agora-Bench covers 9 settings, measuring data generation capabilities across 3 domains and 3 data generation methods.
- Agora is an easily customizable framework for data generation with LLMs.
- Checkout our dataset, checkpoints, leaderboard, and the code!
In ancient Athens, the Agora was a public space where citizens would gather to debate, share news, learn from each other, and listen to famous philosophers.
We made an analogy between data generators and teachers, where different generators teach student models using synthetic data in AgoraBench!
Installation with pip:
pip install data-agora
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βββ agora_scripts/ # Scripts for converting and handling data formats
β βββ prompts/ # Various prompt templates
β βββ run.py # Main execution script
βββ assets/ # Project images and visual assets
βββ libs/ # Core libraries
β βββ data-agora/ # Main data processing library
β βββ data_agora/ # Core data agora implementation
β β βββ core/ # Core functionality (LLMs, parsers, validators)
βββ train/ # Training related code (based on llama-recipes)
βββ LICENSE
- Core implementation for data processing and handling
- Includes LLM integrations (OpenAI, vLLM, etc.)
- Parsers and validators for data processing
- Serving capabilities for deployment
- Tools for data format conversion
- Collection of prompt templates for different use cases
- Main execution script for running the pipeline
- Based on Meta's llama-recipes repository
- Contains training configurations and utilities
Our library is convenient for two types of audiences:
- Testing an LM's Data Generation Capability with AgoraBench: Using the pre-built pipeline, you can easily measure the data generation capabilities of different LLMs.
- Custom Usage: You could customize the pipeline for your own tasks to generate large amounts of synthetic data.
You could simply run the following script:
cd "./agora_scripts"
python3 run.py --method "instance_generation" --domain "math" --model_name "gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18" --max_tokens 4096 --temperature 1.0 --num_instances 10000 --num_threads 4 --api_key ""
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method should be either "instance_generation", "response_generation", or "quality_enhancement".
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domain should be either "math", "general", "code'.
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model_name should be exactly the same with how you call it on OpenAI API, LiteLLM, or vLLM.
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The resulting dataset should look as follows:
[
{
"config": "",
"instruction": "",
"response": ""
},
[...]
]
You could use the following function:
from datasets import DatasetDict
def upload_to_huggingface(data, dataset_name, hf_key):
dataset = Dataset.from_list(data)
dataset_dict = DatasetDict({"train": dataset})
api = HfApi()
dataset_dict.push_to_hub(dataset_name, token=hf_key, private=True)
The following code is modified based on Meta's llama-recipes!
First, install the required packages
cd ./llama-recipes
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
pip3 install -e .
pip3 install wandb
wandb login
huggingface-cli login
Then, launch the following code.
gpu = 4
lr = 1e-5
checkpoint_dir = ""
hf_cache_dir = ""
hf_dataset_name = ""
torchrun --nnodes 1 --nproc_per_node $gpu \
src/llama_recipes/finetuning.py \
--model_name meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B \
--dist_checkpoint_root_folder "${checkpoint_dir}" \
--dist_checkpoint_folder "${hf_dataset_name}" \
--hf_cache_dir "${hf_cache_dir}" \
--dataset "$hf_dataset_name" \
--run_validation True \
--context_length 4096 \
--gradient_accumulation_steps 8 \
--batching_strategy "packing" \
--use_fast_kernels \
--enable_fsdp \
--pure_bf16 \
--low_cpu_fsdp \
--batch_size_training 2 \
--num_epochs $num_epochs \
--lr $lr \
--weight_decay 0.01 \
--use_wandb
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You have to fill in:
- checkpoint_dir (where the checkpoint is saved)
- hf_cache_dir (where huggingface cache is saved)
- hf_dataset_name (the dataset you uploaded on hf from Stage 1)
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For uploading the checkpoint to huggingface, you could refer to this code.
For evaluating the trained student models, we used the following libraries:
- AlpacaEval 2.0 (Instruction-following): link
- Arena-Hard (Instruction-following): link
- MBPP (Code): link
- Human-Eval (Code): link
For GSM8K (Math) and MATH (Math), we implemented our custom code: TO BE ADDED
For custom usage with different pipelines, parsing mechanisms, and validation logics, Agora supports convenient customization through abstract classes.
placeholder_formats = {
"demonstration_input_placeholder": "<input@>",
"demonstration_output_placeholder": "<output@>",
"test_input_placeholder": "<input>",
"test_output_placeholder": "<output>",
"test_input_trigger": "INPUT:",
"test_output_trigger": "OUTPUT:",
"stop_phrase": "[END]",
"input_theme": "<input_theme>",
}
These will be used in the following classes.
demonstration_input_placeholder
anddemonstration_output_placeholder
is where the in-context demonstrations will be at.test_input_placeholder
andtest_output_placeholder
class CustomPromptLoader(InstanceGenerationPromptLoader):
def __init__(self, prompt_template: str, seed_data: List[Dict], num_fewshot: int, placeholder_formats: Dict[str, str] = None, num_sample_from_seed_data: Optional[int] = None, [...]):
super().__init__(prompt_template, seed_data, num_fewshot, placeholder_formats, num_sample_from_seed_data)
[...]
def prepare(self) -> PromptResult:
[...]
return PromptResult(prompt=prompt, metadata=metadata)
class InstanceGenerationParser(Parser):
"""Parser for instance generation scenario"""
def parse(self, prompt, teacher_model_output, placeholder_formats: Dict[str, str]) -> Dict[str, str]:
instruction = (
teacher_model_output.split(placeholder_formats["test_input_trigger"])[-1]
.split(placeholder_formats["test_output_trigger"])[0]
.strip()
)
response = (
teacher_model_output.split(placeholder_formats["test_output_trigger"])[-1]
.split(placeholder_formats["stop_phrase"])[0]
.strip()
)
return {"instruction": instruction, "response": response}
class CustomValidator(Validator):
def validate(self, instruction: str, response: str, [...]):
[...]
if [...]:
return True
else:
return False
Then, you could write a script that utilizes the custom classes to generate data.
# MODIFY THE PLACEHOLDER FORMATS BASED ON YOUR PROMPT TEMPLATE
# Demonstration related placeholders are only used for instance generation
# Input Theme place holder is an example of a custom placeholder
placeholder_formats = {
"demonstration_input_placeholder": "<input@>",
"demonstration_output_placeholder": "<output@>",
"test_input_placeholder": "<input>",
"test_output_placeholder": "<output>",
"test_input_trigger": "INPUT:",
"test_output_trigger": "OUTPUT:",
"stop_phrase": "[END]",
"input_theme": "<input_theme>",
}
with open("", "r") as f:
seed_data = json.load(f)
with open("", "r") as f:
prompt_template = f.read()
llm = OpenAILLM(model_name="gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18", api_key="")
prompt_loader = CustomPromptLoader(prompt_template=prompt_template, seed_data=seed_data, num_fewshot=3, placeholder_formats=placeholder_formats, num_sample_from_seed_data=2)
parser = CustomParser()
validator = CustomValidator()
sampling_params = {
"max_tokens": args.max_tokens,
"temperature": args.temperature,
"top_p": 0.9,
"stop": placeholder_formats["stop_phrase"]
}
agora = Agora(
llm=llm,
placeholder_formats=placeholder_formats,
prompt_loader=prompt_loader,
parser=parser,
validator=validator,
sampling_params=sampling_params
)
# Use cache_file to resume from previous results: The Agora class will automatically make a cache file "final_result.jsonl" for example
result = agora.run(num_instances=10000, num_threads=16, output_file="./results/final_result.json")
print(result[0])
If you find our work useful, please consider citing our paper!
@misc{kim2024evaluating,
title={Evaluating Language Models as Synthetic Data Generators},
author={Seungone Kim and Juyoung Suk and Xiang Yue and Vijay Viswanathan and Seongyun Lee and Yizhong Wang and Kiril Gashteovski and Carolin Lawrence and Sean Welleck and Graham Neubig},
year={2024},
eprint={2412.03679},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03679},
}