databrickslabs/dolly resource

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Dolly is Databricks' instruction-following large language model (dolly-v2-12b), fine-tuned from EleutherAI's Pythia-12b on a ~15k record instruction corpus and licensed for commercial use. The repository provides training code, the dataset, and pointers to the model weights on Hugging Face.

Use cases

• run an instruction-following LLM with a commercial-use license
• fine-tune an open language model on instruction data
• download dolly-v2-12b weights from Hugging Face
• experiment with instruction tuning on Pythia
• build a chatbot from an open-source LLM
• use the databricks-dolly-15k instruction dataset

When to choose

• you need an instruction-tuned LLM whose weights are licensed for commercial use
• you want to study or reproduce instruction fine-tuning on an open base model
• you want the databricks-dolly-15k dataset for your own training

When to avoid

• you need state-of-the-art generation quality or strong coding/math abilities
• you want a maintained model with active development
• you need low hallucination or reliable factual QA
• you want a small model for resource-constrained hardware

Facets

learning-resource · maturity maintenance

llm-training machine-learning chatbot large-language-models artificial-intelligence machine-learning python cloud instruction-tuning pythia huggingface commercial-license databricks fine-tuning open-weights gpu

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