Instruction Tuning

Instruction tuning is the process of further training LLMs on a dataset consisting of (instruction, output) pairs in a supervised fashion, which bridges the gap between the next-word prediction objective of LLMs and the users’ objective of having LLMs adhere to human instructions.

Deploy Instruction Tuning Service

Deploy Instruction Tuning Service on Xeon

Refer to the Xeon Guide for detail.

Deploy Instruction Tuning Service on Gaudi

Refer to the Gaudi Guide for detail.

Consume Instruction Tuning Service

1. Upload a training file

Download a training file alpaca_data.json and upload it to the server with below command, this file can be downloaded in here:

# upload a training file
curl http://${your_ip}:8015/v1/files -X POST -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" -F "file=@./alpaca_data.json" -F purpose="fine-tune"

2. Create fine-tuning job

After a training file like alpaca_data.json is uploaded, use the following command to launch a finetuning job using meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf as base model:

# create a finetuning job
curl http://${your_ip}:8015/v1/fine_tuning/jobs \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "training_file": "alpaca_data.json",
    "model": "meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf"
  }'

3. Manage fine-tuning job

Below commands show how to list finetuning jobs, retrieve a finetuning job, cancel a finetuning job and list checkpoints of a finetuning job.

# list finetuning jobs
curl http://${your_ip}:8015/v1/fine_tuning/jobs -X GET

# retrieve one finetuning job
curl http://${your_ip}:8015/v1/fine_tuning/jobs/retrieve -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"fine_tuning_job_id": ${fine_tuning_job_id}}'

# cancel one finetuning job
curl http://${your_ip}:8015/v1/fine_tuning/jobs/cancel -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"fine_tuning_job_id": ${fine_tuning_job_id}}'

# list checkpoints of a finetuning job
curl http://${your_ip}:8015/v1/finetune/list_checkpoints -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"fine_tuning_job_id": ${fine_tuning_job_id}}'