GSoC Week 3 report by Mebin Thattil (#232)

Author: mebinthattil

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+title: "GSoC ’25 Week 03 Update by Mebin J Thattil"
+excerpt: "Re-thinking training dataset structure"
+category: "DEVELOPER NEWS"
+date: "2025-06-21"
+slug: "2025-06-21-gsoc-25-mebinthattil-week3"
+author: "@/constants/MarkdownFiles/authors/mebin-thattil.md"
+tags: "gsoc25,sugarlabs,week03,mebinthattil,speak_activity"
+image: "assets/Images/GSOCxSpeak.png"
+---
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+# Week 03 Progress Report by Mebin J Thattil
+
+**Project:** [Speak Activity](https://github.com/sugarlabs/speak)  
+**Mentors:** [Chihurumnaya Ibiam](https://github.com/chimosky), [Kshitij Shah](https://github.com/kshitijdshah99)  
+**Assisting Mentors:** [Walter Bender](https://github.com/walterbender), [Devin Ulibarri](https://github.com/pikurasa)  
+**Reporting Period:** 2025-06-14 - 2025-06-21  
+
+---
+
+## Goals for This Week
+
+- **Goal 1:** Fix the issue for continious generation of chain of responses from model
+
+---
+
+## This Week’s Achievements
+
+Note: _I'm officially on leave for this week and the next week, but I have however been taking calls and attending meetings, and did some light work in the background._ 
+
+1. **Re-formatted the dataset to avoid generating chain of responses**
+   - Before the dataset had a records of conversations between a student and a teacher. Each record would have around 5-10 back-and-forth questions and interactions between the student and teacher. 
+   - Since we were training on this dataset format, the model would also try to replicate this format - ie. it would start generating a chain of question-answer back and forths between the student and teacher. This is obviously something that we don't want.
+   - I initially kept it this way to teach the model better conversational flow, but this approach does more harm than help.
+   - So I have broken up the conversations and re-structured the conversations. 
+   - I will now fine-tune it again on a subset of the dataset and deploy just to test it (_this is yet to be done_)
+  
+
+---
+
+## Key Learnings
+
+- Structure of dataset needs to be changed, in order to make it more conversational and understand the nuances of a chain of conversations.
+  
+---
+
+## Next Week’s Roadmap
+
+- Train the model and evaluate it
+- Also try to run [my model](https://huggingface.co/MebinThattil/FT-Llama3.2-1B/tree/main) that is on HF via Sugar-AI.
+
+---
+
+## Acknowledgments
+
+Thank you to my mentors, the Sugar Labs community, and fellow GSoC contributors for ongoing support.
+
+---
+