📄 textual_assistant¶

Note

ID: formats.textual_assistant | Type: SystemFormat

{
    "demo_format": "<|user|>\n{source}\n<|assistant|>\n{target_prefix}{target}\n",
    "model_input_format": "{system_prompt}\n{instruction}\n{demos}<|user|>\n{source}\n<|assistant|>\n{target_prefix}",
    "type": "system_format"
}

Explanation about SystemFormat¶

Generates the whole input to the model, from constant strings that are given as args, and from values found in specified fields of the instance.

SystemFormat expects the input instance to contain: 1. A field named “system_prompt” whose value is a string (potentially empty) that delivers a task independent opening text. 2. A field named “source” whose value is a string verbalizing the original values in the instance (as read from the source dataset), in the context of the underlying task. 3. A field named “instruction” that contains a (non-None) string. 4. A field named with the value in arg ‘demos_field’, containing a list of dicts, each dict with fields “source” and “target”, representing a single demo. 5. A field named “target_prefx” that contains a string to prefix the target in both each demo, and to end the whole generated prompt

SystemFormat formats the above fields into a single string to be inputted to the model. This string overwrites field “source” of the instance. Formatting is driven by two args: ‘demo_format’ and ‘model_input_format’. SystemFormat also pops fields “system_prompt”, “instruction”, “target_prefix”, and the field containing the demos out from the input instance.
Args:
demos_field (str): the name of the field that contains the demos, being a list of dicts, each with “source” and “target” keys demo_format (str): formatting string for a single demo, combining fields “source” and “target” model_input_format (str) overall product format, combining instruction and source (as read from fields “instruction” and “source” of the input instance), together with demos (as formatted into one string) format_args: Dict[str,str]: additional format args to be used when formatting the different format strings

Example:
when input instance:
{
    "source": "1+1",
    "target": "2",
    "instruction": "Solve the math exercises.",
    "demos": [{"source": "1+2", "target": "3"}, {"source": "4-2", "target": "2"}]
}
is processed by
system_format = SystemFormat(
    demos_field="demos",
    demo_format="Input: {source}\nOutput: {target}\n\n",
    model_input_format="Instruction: {instruction}\n\n{demos}Input: {source}\nOutput: ",
)
the resulting instance is:
{
    "target": "2",
    "source": "Instruction: Solve the math exercises.\n\nInput: 1+2\nOutput: 3\n\nInput: 4-2\nOutput: 2\n\nInput: 1+1\nOutput: ",
}