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Orca-AgentInstruct: Agentic flows can be effective synthetic-data generators 

November 14, 2024 | Arindam Mitra, Ahmed Awadallah, and Yash Lara
Orca-AgentInstruct, from Microsoft Research, can generate diverse, high-quality synthetic data at scale to post-train and fine-tune base LLMs for expanded capabilities, continual learning, and increased performance.

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