At Microsoft, we’re expanding AI capabilities by training small language models to achieve the kind of enhanced reasoning and comprehension typically found only in much larger models.
Progressive Learning: We start with LLaMA-2-7B or LLaMA-2-13B checkpoint and
finetune it on the train split of FLAN-v2 dataset for one epoch. Note that FLAN-v2 dataset
contains both zero-shot and few-shot problems. We then train on 5 million ChatGPT data
from Orca 1 for 3 epochs. Then we train on the combination of 1 million GPT-4 data from
Orca 1 and Orca 2’s 817K data for 4 epochs.