# allenai/natural-instructions

Expanding natural instructions

Repository: https://github.com/allenai/natural-instructions
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/natural-instructions
Homepage: https://instructions.apps.allenai.org/
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-12-11T12:28:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1910, "days_push": 996, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1046, forks 197 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:21.824218+00:00)

## What it is
A community-built dataset of 1600+ NLP tasks with natural language instructions, from AllenAI. It supports instruction-tuning research like Tk-Instruct.

## Use cases
- train instruction-following language models
- research zero-shot generalization to unseen NLP tasks
- get natural language definitions of NLP tasks
- build multi-task NLP benchmarks

## When to choose
- you need a large collection of tasks with natural language instructions for instruction tuning
- you study cross-task generalization in language models

## When to avoid
- you need a single-task labeled dataset
- you want a maintained library rather than a dataset

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: maintenance
- function: nlp, machine-learning, data-generation
- domain: machine-learning, artificial-intelligence
- platform: python
- tags: instruction-tuning, nlp-tasks, community-dataset, natural-language-processing

## Member repositories
- allenai/natural-instructions (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:21.824218+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:01:56.491977+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/allenai/natural-instructions (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:21.824218+00:00, sha f1ac48fa58de)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.