bibtext: @inproceedings{
  zhuang2024structlm,
  title={Struct{LM}: Towards Building Generalist Models for Structured Knowledge Grounding},
  author={Alex Zhuang and Ge Zhang and Tianyu Zheng and Xinrun Du and Junjie Wang and Weiming Ren and Wenhao Huang and Jie Fu and Xiang Yue and Wenhu Chen},
  booktitle={First Conference on Language Modeling},
  year={2024},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=EKBPn7no4y}
  }
abstract: Structured data sources, such as tables, graphs, and databases, are ubiquitous knowledge sources. Despite the demonstrated capabilities of large language models (LLMs) on plain text, their proficiency in interpreting and utilizing structured data remains limited. Our investigation reveals a notable deficiency in LLMs' ability to process structured data, e.g., ChatGPT lags behind state-of-the-art (SoTA) model by an average of 35\%. To augment the Structured Knowledge Grounding (SKG) capabilities in LLMs, we have developed a comprehensive instruction tuning dataset comprising 1.1 million examples. Utilizing this dataset, we train a series of models, referred to as $\texttt{structlm}$, based on Mistral and the CodeLlama model family, ranging from 7B to 34B parameters. Our $\texttt{structlm}$ series surpasses task-specific models~\citep{UnifiedSKG2022} on 16 out of 18 evaluated datasets and establishes new SoTA performance on 8 SKG tasks. Furthermore, $\texttt{structlm}$ demonstrates strong generalization across 6 novel held-out SKG tasks, outperforming TableLlama by an average of 35\% and Flan-UL2 20B by an average of 10\%. Contrary to expectations, we observe that scaling model size offers marginal benefits, with $\texttt{structlm}$-34B showing only slight improvements over $\texttt{structlm}$-7B. This suggests that structured knowledge grounding is still a challenging task and requires more innovative design to push to a new level. We release the model weights and training dataset to the community, along with relevant code on Github.
title: StructLM: Towards Building Generalist Models for Structured Knowledge Grounding
authors: Alex Zhuang Ge Zhang Tianyu Zheng Xinrun Du Junjie Wang Weiming Ren Wenhao Huang Jie Fu Xiang Yue Wenhu Chen