[Question] Is "this" needed in the general prompt?

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[Question] Is "this" needed in the general prompt? #5

Closed alvations closed 9 months ago

alvations commented 9 months ago

The suggested prompt to use with the model is:

Translate this from Chinese to English:

My questions are:

Is "this" needed/complusory in the prompt?
Is the pretrained model trained on variety of prompts like in BigTranslate? https://github.com/ZNLP/BigTranslate#-multilingual-translation-instruction-tuning

fe1ixxu commented 9 months ago

Thanks for your interest!

Is "this" needed/complusory in the prompt?

Yes, "this" is mandatory in the prompt.

Is the pretrained model trained on variety of prompts like in BigTranslate?

No, the prompt template is fixed, i.e., Translate this from <src language> to <target language>:\n<src language>: <src sentence>\n<target language>: