README.md

Rule Distillation

Code&Data for the paper Distilling Rule-based Knowledge into Large Language Models [COLING 2025]

Installation

Our training and evaluation code is mainly based on the open-sourced training platform alpaca-lora. Users can follow the instructions in alpaca-lora to prepare the experimental environment.

Usage

Data

We provide all the training, validation and testing data for all 3 tasks in each k-shot setting under the folder data/. In each file's name, ''_full'' represents that each task sample in this file contains both the input-output pair and the rule description, while ''_no'' represents that each task sample in this file does not contain the textual rule but only has an input-output pair.

Code

Please first download the source code of alpaca-lora into local. We provide the core source code for instruction tuning (w/ and w/o textual rule), rule distillation and inference in finetune.py, distill.py, inference.py, respectively. Users can put these 3 files into the downloaded alpaca-lora folder for further usage. Also, we provide examples of command lines (along with explanations for some key arguments) for running our experiments in examples.sh.

Acknowledgments

We sincerely thank the contributors of alpaca-lora for open-sourcing the platform.

Citation

If you find our code and data useful, please kindly cite as

@misc{yang2024distilling,
      title={Distilling Rule-based Knowledge into Large Language Models}, 
      author={Wenkai Yang and Yankai Lin and Jie Zhou and Ji-Rong Wen},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2311.08883},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08883}, 
}

or

@article{yang2023enabling,
  title={Enabling Large Language Models to Learn from Rules},
  author={Yang, Wenkai and Lin, Yankai and Zhou, Jie and Wen, Jirong},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.08883},
  year={2023}
}