Unitxt: Flexible, Shareable and Reusable Data Preparation and Evaluation for Generative AI
Elron Bandel, Yotam Perlitz, Elad Venezian, Roni Friedman, Ofir Arviv, Matan Orbach, Shachar Don-Yehiya, Dafna Sheinwald
Abstract
In the dynamic landscape of generative NLP, traditional text processing pipelines limit research flexibility and reproducibility, as they are tailored to specific dataset, task, and model combinations. The escalating complexity, involving system prompts, model-specific formats, instructions, and more, calls for a shift to a structured, modular, and customizable solution.Addressing this need, we present Unitxt, an innovative library for customizable textual data preparation and evaluation tailored to generative language models. Unitxt natively integrates with common libraries like HuggingFace and LM-eval-harness and deconstructs processing flows into modular components, enabling easy customization and sharing between practitioners. These components encompass model-specific formats, task prompts, and many other comprehensive dataset processing definitions. The Unitxt Catalog centralizes these components, fostering collaboration and exploration in modern textual data workflows. Beyond being a tool, Unitxt is a community-driven platform, empowering users to build, share, and advance their pipelines collaboratively. Join the Unitxt community at https://github.com/IBM/unitxt
BibTeX
@inproceedings{bandel-etal-2024-unitxt,
title = "Unitxt: Flexible, Shareable and Reusable Data Preparation and Evaluation for Generative {AI}",
author = "Bandel, Elron and
Perlitz, Yotam and
Venezian, Elad and
Friedman, Roni and
Arviv, Ofir and
Orbach, Matan and
Don-Yehiya, Shachar and
Sheinwald, Dafna and
Gera, Ariel and
Choshen, Leshem and
Shmueli-Scheuer, Michal and
Katz, Yoav",
editor = "Chang, Kai-Wei and
Lee, Annie and
Rajani, Nazneen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)",
month = jun,
year = "2024",
address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-demo.21/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-demo.21",
pages = "207--215"
}