| --- |
| language: |
| - am |
| - en |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| - text-classification |
| - translation |
| - summarization |
| - token-classification |
| pretty_name: Amharic post-training (Walia + multi-turn chat + instruction sets) |
| size_categories: |
| - 100K<n<1M |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/train-* |
| - split: validation |
| path: data/validation-* |
| --- |
| |
| # amh-post-training |
|
|
| Amharic post-training data: the Walia-LLM instruction dataset plus multi-turn conversations and other native instruction sets, in the |
| same row format as `SaarAI/kin-post-training`. |
|
|
| **714,181 train / 3,747 validation rows.** |
|
|
| ## Columns |
| `id`, `source`, `task`, `instruction_lang` (`native` for all rows: instructions are already Amharic), `instruction`, `input`, `output`, |
| `messages` (chat form; multi-turn for the conversation sources). |
|
|
| ## Tasks |
| | task | rows | |
| |---|---| |
| | code_chat | 175,045 | |
| | chat | 152,871 | |
| | document_translation | 90,360 | |
| | instruction_following | 63,410 | |
| | amharic_mt amh-eng | 30,825 | |
| | amharic_mt eng-amh | 30,676 | |
| | amharic_mezmur_completion | 17,888 | |
| | amharic_title_generation | 14,771 | |
| | afrisent | 11,496 | |
| | amharic_spellcheck | 10,852 | |
| | xlsum_summerization | 10,698 | |
| | xlsum_reverse_summerization | 10,695 | |
| | masakhaner | 10,244 | |
| | sentiment_analysis | 10,189 | |
| | dialogue | 10,000 | |
| | text_simplification | 9,998 | |
| | masakhanews | 7,628 | |
| | question_answering | 7,450 | |
| | summarization | 7,254 | |
| | event_linking | 6,586 | |
| | news_topic_classification | 6,225 | |
| | amharic_mezmur_generation | 5,039 | |
| | amharic_poem_completion | 3,776 | |
| | amharicqa | 2,317 | |
| | amharic_story_generation | 1,974 | |
| | roleplay | 1,923 | |
| | story_choice | 1,713 | |
| | story_generation | 1,713 | |
| | amharic_poem_generation | 1,126 | |
| | generation | 1,106 | |
| | translation | 1,035 | |
| | paraphrase_identification | 635 | |
| | amharic_zefen_completion | 264 | |
| | amharic_zefen_generation | 116 | |
| | text_classification | 30 | |
| |
| ## Sources |
| | source key | dataset | note | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | walia_* (17 tasks) | EthioNLP/Amharic_Instruction_dataset (train + validation splits) | Walia-LLM SFT data: native Amharic instructions for sentiment, NER, news classification, MT, summarization, spell-check, QA, title/poem/lyrics/story generation | |
| | multiturn_combined_amh | israel/multiturn_combined (`amharic`) | 6-turn conversations; only the `conversation` column is used | |
| | wikiconversations_amh | israel/WikiConversations (`amharic`) | 6-turn conversations; only the `conversation` column is used | |
| | african_ultrachat_amh | masakhane/african-ultrachat (Amharic train) | multi-turn chat | |
| | amharic_dolly | israel/AmharicDolly | machine-translated Dolly (instruction + optional context -> response) | |
| | amharic_alpaca | israel/AmharicAlpaca | machine-translated Alpaca; rows flagged `error_suspicion` removed | |
| | amharic_storyqa | israel/AmharicStoryQA_instruction-tuning (`amharic`) | story reading-comprehension, multiple choice and generation | |
| | muller_conversations | Muller01/amharic-conversations | multi-turn chat (system turns dropped) | |
| | daily_dialog_amh | abdukuzi45/amharic-daily-dialog-cleaned | long multi-turn everyday dialogue | |
| | kakugo_amh | ptrdvn/kakugo-amh | synthetic chat; English `<think>` blocks removed; rows that are not Amharic were filtered out | |
| | code170k_amh | michsethowusu/Code-170k-amharic | machine-translated code Q&A chat | |
| | addisai_alpaca, addisai_finetome | addisai/FreedomIntelligence-alpaca-amharic, addisai/FineTome-single-turn-dedup-amharic | machine-translated chat (50k sample each) | |
| | amharic_maternal_health | israel/AmharicMaternalHealth | health conversations; English-only conversations filtered out | |
| | tadesse_amharic_qa | Tadesse/amharic_qa | context question answering | |
| | roleplay_amh | jojo-ai-mst/Roleplay-Amharic | translated GPTeacher role-play (Amharic columns) | |
| | aya_human_amh | Henok/aya_amharic_dataset | human-written Aya instructions | |
| | addisgpt_amh | AddisGPT/AddisGPT-Amharic-Instruction | verified Amharic instructions | |
| | amharic_srh_qa | Walelign/Amharic_SRH_Dataset | sexual & reproductive health Q&A (CC-BY-NC) | |
| | afriinstruct_* | KoseiUemura/AfriInstruct-Data-amh (train) | Aya-style mix; FLORES removed; each sub-source capped at 10k | |
| | habtew_mt | habtew/english-amharic-translation (40k sample) | en<->am sentence pairs, with Walia's own MT instructions | |
| | afridocmt_amh | israel/AfriDocMT-instructions | document-level health translation (Amharic as source or target) | |
| |
| Row counts per source key: |
| |
| | source | rows | |
| |---|---| |
| | code170k_amh | 175,045 | |
| | afridocmt_amh | 90,360 | |
| | addisai_alpaca | 49,809 | |
| | addisai_finetome | 49,641 | |
| | amharic_alpaca | 46,547 | |
| | habtew_mt | 39,507 | |
| | kakugo_amh | 29,045 | |
| | walia_amharic_mezmur_completion | 17,888 | |
| | amharic_dolly | 14,991 | |
| | walia_amharic_title_generation | 14,771 | |
| | walia_afrisent | 11,496 | |
| | walia_amharic_mt amh-eng | 10,997 | |
| | walia_amharic_mt eng-amh | 10,997 | |
| | walia_amharic_spellcheck | 10,852 | |
| | walia_xlsum_summerization | 10,698 | |
| | walia_xlsum_reverse_summerization | 10,695 | |
| | walia_masakhaner | 10,244 | |
| | afriinstruct_SODA_inst_T | 10,000 | |
| | afriinstruct_AfriSenti | 9,999 | |
| | afriinstruct_Wiki_split_inst_T | 9,998 | |
| | walia_masakhanews | 7,628 | |
| | daily_dialog_amh | 6,834 | |
| | afriinstruct_Xlel_wd_inst_T | 6,586 | |
| | afriinstruct_MasakhaNEWS | 6,225 | |
| | afriinstruct_XL_Sum | 5,746 | |
| | walia_amharic_mezmur_generation | 5,039 | |
| | muller_conversations | 5,000 | |
| | african_ultrachat_amh | 4,529 | |
| | afriinstruct_HotpotQA_T | 3,785 | |
| | walia_amharic_poem_completion | 3,776 | |
| | amharic_storyqa | 3,426 | |
| | multiturn_combined_amh | 3,375 | |
| | tadesse_amharic_qa | 2,617 | |
| | walia_amharicqa | 2,317 | |
| | walia_amharic_story_generation | 1,974 | |
| | roleplay_amh | 1,923 | |
| | afriinstruct_NQ_Open_T | 1,830 | |
| | afriinstruct_CNN_Daily_Mail_T | 1,228 | |
| | aya_human_amh | 1,192 | |
| | walia_amharic_poem_generation | 1,126 | |
| | afriinstruct_MAFAND | 1,035 | |
| | amharic_maternal_health | 1,011 | |
| | wikiconversations_amh | 1,010 | |
| | amharic_srh_qa | 991 | |
| | afriinstruct_Flan_CoT_submix_T | 916 | |
| | addisgpt_amh | 680 | |
| | afriinstruct_PAWS_Wiki_T | 635 | |
| | afriinstruct_Flan_GEM_wiki_lingua_T | 280 | |
| | walia_amharic_zefen_completion | 264 | |
| | afriinstruct_MLQA_en_T | 250 | |
| | afriinstruct_Mintaka_inst_T | 200 | |
| | afriinstruct_AfriSenti_inst | 190 | |
| | afriinstruct_PIQA_T | 170 | |
| | afriinstruct_Dolly_v2_T | 140 | |
| | afriinstruct_Adversarial_QA_T | 120 | |
| | walia_amharic_zefen_generation | 116 | |
| | afriinstruct_Flan_Coqa_T | 70 | |
| | afriinstruct_Flan_lambada_T | 50 | |
| | afriinstruct_WIKI_QA_T | 34 | |
| | afriinstruct_MasakhaNEWS_inst | 30 | |
| |
| ## Known limitations (please read) |
| - Walia's English-script instructions are mixed in only where Walia itself has them (e.g. `amharic_mt` uses "English" inside Amharic |
| instructions). No new templates were written for this dataset; Walia's own instructions are used as-is. |
| - `amharic_alpaca` and `amharic_dolly` are machine-translated and may contain translation errors. `amharic_mt amh-eng` outputs are English. |
| - Chat conversations with a decoding-collapse (a word repeated over and over) were removed from the chat sources (331 UltraChat |
| conversations). The same check was **not** applied to lyrics/poems because they repeat on purpose; a small number of lyrics |
| rows are still repetitive. |
| - Chat sources were also filtered for non-Amharic rows: conversations with a literal "None" answer, or with almost no Ethiopic script |
| (except code chat), were dropped. This removed about a fifth of `kakugo_amh` and about 40% of `amharic_maternal_health` (English answers). |
| Counts are in `stats.json` in the build output; the filter is a script-share heuristic, not a language-ID model. |
| - Not used on purpose: `israel/AmharicMT` (web-crawl pairs with hallucinated translations), FLORES-derived data (benchmark) and the |
| test/validation splits of source datasets. `afriinstruct_*` is a mix of the same upstream corpora as parts of Walia (AfriSenti, |
| MasakhaNEWS, XL-Sum), so some content overlaps; exact duplicates were removed but paraphrased overlap may remain. |
| - `afridocmt_amh` and `habtew_mt` are sentence/document translation pairs of mixed quality (religious and web text); `habtew_mt` outputs |
| for `amh-eng` are English. |
| - `amharic_srh_qa` is CC-BY-NC-4.0, so the dataset as a whole should not be used commercially without removing it. |
| - 7,379 exact duplicate rows were removed in the Walia/Alpaca/Dolly part; near-duplicates and overlap between sources may remain. |
| - The Walia **test split was not used**, so it can still serve as an evaluation set. The Walia **validation** split was used as training data; |
| `validation` here is a random per-task 0.5% holdout of everything. |
| - Some source repos are private, so this repo should stay private unless their licenses and owners allow release. Licenses differ per |
| source (Alpaca- and Dolly-derived data carry their upstream terms); check each before commercial use. |
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