Instruction Tuning with GPT-4 - Summary

Researchers present a pioneering approach using GPT-4 to generate instruction-following data for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), achieving superior zero-shot performance on novel tasks compared to previous models. This study underscores the potential of machine-generated instruction-following data in enhancing LLMs' capabilities, specifically through a method called Self-Instruct tuning, which aligns models to human intent by learning from data produced by instruction-tuned teacher LLMs. The paper highlights the success of models like ChatGPT and GPT-4 in improving open-source LLMs, presenting empirical evidence of GPT-4's effectiveness in instruction-tuning. It provides insights into building a versatile instruction-following agent powered by LLMs, offering practical guidance for leveraging GPT-4-generated data, and explores the integration of instruction-tuned LLaMA models and reward models, while emphasizing the significance of public benchmarks and datasets in refining these technologies.