Project Title
Dolly — A Large Language Model for Instruction Following and Databricks ML Platform
Overview
Dolly is a large language model developed by Databricks, trained on their machine learning platform, and licensed for commercial use. It is based on pythia-12b and fine-tuned on a dataset of instruction-response pairs, exhibiting high-quality instruction following behavior. Dolly stands out for its focus on instruction following and its training on a specialized dataset generated by Databricks employees.
Key Features
- Instruction following capabilities based on a dataset of 15k records
- Fine-tuned on a specialized corpus generated by Databricks employees
- Available on Hugging Face for easy integration and use
Use Cases
- Data scientists and machine learning engineers using Dolly for tasks requiring instruction following and natural language understanding
- Enterprises leveraging Dolly for tasks such as data analysis, summarization, and information extraction within the Databricks ecosystem
- Researchers and developers exploring the capabilities of large language models in a commercial setting
Advantages
- Trained on a unique dataset, providing specialized capabilities in instruction following
- Licensed for commercial use, allowing integration into business applications
- Active development and commitment from Databricks to improve the model
Limitations / Considerations
- Not a state-of-the-art generative language model, with limitations in performance compared to more modern architectures
- Reflects the content and biases of its training corpus, which may include factual errors and typos
- Struggles with syntactically complex prompts and certain types of questions
Similar / Related Projects
- GPT-J: A large language model with a broader pre-training corpus, known for its versatility but less specialized in instruction following.
- EleutherAI’s Pythia-12b: The foundation model upon which Dolly is based, offering a comparison in terms of performance and capabilities.
- Hugging Face’s Transformers: A library of pre-trained models that can be fine-tuned for various NLP tasks, providing a different approach to model training and deployment.
Basic Information
- GitHub: https://github.com/databrickslabs/dolly
- Stars: 10,802
- License: Unknown
- Last Commit: 2025-09-14
📊 Project Information
- Project Name: dolly
- GitHub URL: https://github.com/databrickslabs/dolly
- Programming Language: Python
- ⭐ Stars: 10,802
- 🍴 Forks: 1,151
- 📅 Created: 2023-03-24
- 🔄 Last Updated: 2025-09-14
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