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New Method Helps Small AI Models Follow Complex Instructions Like Big Ones

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Overview

  • New method called UltraIF helps language models better follow complex instructions
  • Breaks down complex prompts into simpler components and evaluation criteria
  • Achieves competitive results using smaller 8B parameter models
  • Improves both base and already-instruction-tuned models
  • Works without needing benchmark training data

Plain English Explanation

Think of instruction following in AI models like teaching a student to follow multi-step directions. Current AI assistants from major tech companies are good at this, but open-source versions...

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