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Harmful Effects of Overly Simplified Instructions on LLM Generalization
Fine-tuning Large Language Models with overly simplified instructions can impair their ability to generalize. The simplification process can lead to a loss of information, increasing the likelihood that the LLM will overfit the fine-tuning data and fail to generalize beyond those specific instructions. This overfitting problem becomes more severe in scenarios that involve a mixture of both complex and simplified instructions during fine-tuning, as the available labeled data is typically limited and accommodating a wide variety of instruction formats is costly.
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Ch.3 Prompting - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models Course
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Harmful Effects of Overly Simplified Instructions on LLM Generalization
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