Guideline following Large Language Model for Information Extraction

We present GoLLIE, a Large Language Model trained to follow annotation guidelines. GoLLIE outperforms previous approaches on zero-shot Information Extraction and allows the user to perform inferences with annotation schemas defined on the fly. Different from previous approaches, GoLLIE is able to follow detailed definitions and does not only rely on the knowledge already encoded in the LLM. Code and models are publicly available.

• 📒 Blog Post: GoLLIE: Guideline-following Large Language Model for Information Extraction
• 📖 Paper: GoLLIE: Annotation Guidelines improve Zero-Shot Information-Extraction
• GoLLIE in the 🤗HuggingFace Hub: HiTZ/gollie
• 🚀 Example Jupyter Notebooks: GoLLIE Notebooks

Schema definition and inference example

The labels are represented as Python classes, and the guidelines or instructions are introduced as docstrings. The model start generating after the result = [ line.

Installation

You will need to install the following dependencies to run the GoLLIE codebase:

Pytorch >= 2.0.0 | https://pytorch.org/get-started
We recommend that you install the 2.1.0 version or newer, as it includes important bug fixes.

transformers >= 4.33.1
pip install --upgrade transformers

PEFT >= 0.4.0
pip install --upgrade peft

bitsandbytes >= 0.40.0
pip install --upgrade bitsandbytes

Flash Attention 2.0
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
pip install git+https://github.com/HazyResearch/flash-attention.git#subdirectory=csrc/rotary

You will also need these dependencies

pip install numpy black Jinja2 tqdm rich psutil datasets ruff wandb fschat

Pretrained models

We release three GoLLIE models based on CODE-LLama (7B, 13B, and 34B). The models are available in the 🤗HuggingFace Hub.

Model	Supervised average F1	Zero-shot average F1	🤗HuggingFace Hub
GoLLIE-7B	73.0	55.3	HiTZ/GoLLIE-7B
GoLLIE-13B	73.9	56.0	HiTZ/GoLLIE-13B
GoLLIE-34B	75.0	57.2	HiTZ/GoLLIE-34B

How to use GoLLIE

Please take a look at our 🚀 Example Jupyter Notebooks to learn how to use GoLLIE: GoLLIE Notebooks

Currently supported tasks

This is the list of task used for training and evaluating GoLLIE. However, as demonstrated in the 🚀 Create Custom Task notebook GoLLIE can perform a wide range of unseen tasks. For more info, read our 📖Paper.

We plan to continue adding more tasks to the list. If you want to contribute, please feel free to open a PR or contact us. You can use as example the already implemented tasks in the src/tasks folder.

Generate the GoLLIE dataset

The configuration files used to generate the GoLLIE dataset are available in the configs/data_configs/ folder. You can generate the dataset by running the following command (See bash_scripts/generate_data.sh for more info):

CONFIG_DIR="configs/data_configs"
OUTPUT_DIR="data/processed_w_examples"

python -m src.generate_data \
     --configs \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/ace_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/bc5cdr_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/broadtwitter_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/casie_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/conll03_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/crossner_ai_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/crossner_literature_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/crossner_music_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/crossner_politics_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/crossner_science_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/diann_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/e3c_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/europarl_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/fabner_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/harveyner_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/mitmovie_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/mitrestaurant_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/mitmovie_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/multinerd_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/ncbidisease_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/ontonotes_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/rams_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/tacred_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/wikievents_config.json \
        ${CONFIG_DIR}/wnut17_config.json \
     --output ${OUTPUT_DIR} \
     --overwrite_output_dir \
     --include_examples

We do not redistribute the datasets used to train and evaluate GoLLIE. Not all of them are publicly available; some require a license to access them.

For the datasets available in the HuggingFace Datasets library, the script will download them automatically.

For the following datasets, you must provide the path to the dataset by modifying the corresponding configs/data_configs/ file: ACE05 (Preprocessing script), CASIE, CrossNer, DIANN, E3C, HarveyNER, MitMovie, MitRestaurant, RAMS, TACRED, WikiEvents.

Regarding the ACE05 dataset, you can obtain the splits from the code of OneIE paper: http://blender.cs.illinois.edu/software/oneie/

If you encounter difficulties generating the dataset, please don't hesitate to contact us.

How to train your own GoLLIE

First, you need to generate the GoLLIE dataset. See the previous section for more info.

Second, you must create a configuration file. Please, see the configs/model_configs folder for examples.

Finally, you can train your own GoLLIE by running the following command (See bash_scripts/ folder for more examples):

CONFIGS_FOLDER="configs/model_configs"
python3 -m src.run ${CONFIGS_FOLDER}/GoLLIE+-7B_CodeLLaMA.yaml

How to evaluate a model

First, you need to generate the GoLLIE dataset. See the previous section for more info.

Second, you must create a configuration file. Please, see the configs/model_configs/eval folder for examples.

Finally, you can evaluate your own GoLLIE by running the following command (See bash_scripts/eval folder for more examples):

CONFIGS_FOLDER="configs/model_configs/eval"
python3 -m src.run ${CONFIGS_FOLDER}/GoLLIE+-7B_CodeLLaMA.yaml

Citation

@inproceedings{
    sainz2024gollie,
    title={Go{LLIE}: Annotation Guidelines improve Zero-Shot Information-Extraction},
    author={Oscar Sainz and Iker Garc{\'\i}a-Ferrero and Rodrigo Agerri and Oier Lopez de Lacalle and German Rigau and Eneko Agirre},
    booktitle={The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations},
    year={2024},
    url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=Y3wpuxd7u9}
}