This is the code to replicate the instruction tuning experiments in the paper [Fine-tuning Large Language Models with Sequential Instructions]. [cite]

Our implementation is based on the Alpaca-LoRA and LAVIS repository.

For text-only experiments

conda create -n seq_ins python=3.8
conda activate seq_ins
pip install -r requirements.txt

For vision-language experiments

cd LAVIS
conda create -n seq_ins_vl python=3.8
conda activate seq_ins_vl
pip install -e .

Next, prepare train and eval data: for text-only data:

cd construct_data
bash download_all_data.sh

for vision-langauge data:

cd LAVIS
bash download_vqa.sh

Train on text-only data, you can specify your preferred LLM, path of training dataset, training type (baseline or repeat) at ./train/ft_lora.sh

Train on vision-langauge data, you can first specify the pre-trained checkpoint at ./LAVIS/lavis/configs/models/blip2

then you can firstly specify the output models path at ./LAVIS/lavis/projects/instructblip/caption_coco_vicuna7b_train.yaml, then

bash run_scripts/blip2/train/eval_instruct_caption_coco.sh

For text-only experiments, you can configure the path of lora adapters, the task name, training type, model name, and the path of output file in ./eval/infer_eval.sh

Please consider citing us if you use our materials.

@misc{hu2024finetuning,
      title={Fine-tuning Large Language Models with Sequential Instructions}, 
      author={Hanxu Hu and Pinzhen Chen and Edoardo M. Ponti},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2403.07794},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}