# Unitxt: Flexible, Shareable and Reusable Data Preparation and Evaluation for Generative AI

Authors: Elron Bandel, Yotam Perlitz, Elad Venezian, Roni Friedman, Ofir Arviv, Matan Orbach, Shachar Don-Yehiya, Dafna Sheinwald, Ariel Gera, Leshem Choshen, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Yoav Katz
Venue: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: System Demonstrations) (2024)

## Abstract
In the dynamic landscape of generative NLP, traditional text processing pipelines limit research flexibility and reproducibility, as they are tailored to specific dataset, task, and model combinations. The escalating complexity, involving system prompts, model-specific formats, instructions, and more, calls for a shift to a structured, modular, and customizable solution.Addressing this need, we present Unitxt, an innovative library for customizable textual data preparation and evaluation tailored to generative language models. Unitxt natively integrates with common libraries like HuggingFace and LM-eval-harness and deconstructs processing flows into modular components, enabling easy customization and sharing between practitioners. These components encompass model-specific formats, task prompts, and many other comprehensive dataset processing definitions. The Unitxt Catalog centralizes these components, fostering collaboration and exploration in modern textual data workflows. Beyond being a tool, Unitxt is a community-driven platform, empowering users to build, share, and advance their pipelines collaboratively. Join the Unitxt community at https://github.com/IBM/unitxt

## Links
- arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14019
- PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.14019
- HTML: https://arxiv.org/html/2401.14019
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/papers/2401.14019
- alphaXiv: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2401.14019
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-demo.21
- ACL Anthology: https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-demo.21/
- Semantic Scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/267212037
- Publisher: https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-demo.21
- Code: https://github.com/ibm/unitxt

## How to cite
@inproceedings{bandel2024unitxt,
title = "Unitxt: Flexible, Shareable and Reusable Data Preparation and Evaluation for Generative {AI}",
    author = "Bandel, Elron  and
      Perlitz, Yotam  and
      Venezian, Elad  and
      Friedman, Roni  and
      Arviv, Ofir  and
      Orbach, Matan  and
      Don-Yehiya, Shachar  and
      Sheinwald, Dafna  and
      Gera, Ariel  and
      Choshen, Leshem  and
      Shmueli-Scheuer, Michal  and
      Katz, Yoav",
    editor = "Chang, Kai-Wei  and
      Lee, Annie  and
      Rajani, Nazneen",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-demo.21",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-demo.21",
    pages = "207--215",
    abstract = "In the dynamic landscape of generative NLP, traditional text processing pipelines limit research flexibility and reproducibility, as they are tailored to specific dataset, task, and model combinations. The escalating complexity, involving system prompts, model-specific formats, instructions, and more, calls for a shift to a structured, modular, and customizable solution.Addressing this need, we present Unitxt, an innovative library for customizable textual data preparation and evaluation tailored to generative language models. Unitxt natively integrates with common libraries like HuggingFace and LM-eval-harness and deconstructs processing flows into modular components, enabling easy customization and sharing between practitioners. These components encompass model-specific formats, task prompts, and many other comprehensive dataset processing definitions. The Unitxt Catalog centralizes these components, fostering collaboration and exploration in modern textual data workflows. Beyond being a tool, Unitxt is a community-driven platform, empowering users to build, share, and advance their pipelines collaboratively. Join the Unitxt community at https://github.com/IBM/unitxt",
}