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About this paper

Honghao Gui, Lin Yuan, Hongbin Ye, Ningyu Zhang, Mengshu Sun, Lei Liang, Huajun Chen

IEPILE, a large-scale bilingual (English and Chinese) schema-based instruction corpus from Zhejiang University and Ant Group, significantly enhances Large Language Models' (LLMs) zero-shot performance in Information Extraction tasks, including NER, RE, and EE, through novel instruction generation strategies. The corpus contains approximately 2 million instruction entries and 0.32 billion tokens, demonstrating improved generalization by mitigating schema query inconsistency and semantic confusion.

Key insights

  • Intelligently structuring instruction data with both positive and carefully selected 'hard negative' schemas is critical for training robust LLMs that can effectively distinguish between semantically similar types.
  • Dynamically varying the number of schema queries presented during instruction tuning is crucial for enabling LLMs to generalize effectively when faced with an inconsistent number of queries during inference.
  • A comprehensive, large-scale, and schema-based instruction corpus can effectively bridge the performance gap of LLMs in complex and diverse Information Extraction tasks across multiple languages.

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