No Robots — LLM Instruction / SFT Dataset
10,000 instructions and demonstrations written entirely by skilled human annotators — zero synthetic data. Modeled after the SFT data described in OpenAI's InstructGPT paper, split into 9.5k train / 500 test examples across categories like generation, open QA, brainstorming, and coding. Small, clean, and diverse: widely considered the best first dataset for learning to fine-tune.
Dataset Details
| Provider | HuggingFace H4 |
| Category | Instruction / SFT |
| Size | 10k Rows |
| License | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
| Downloads | n/a |
| Tags | Human-Written, No-Synthetic, SFT, Beginner-Friendly |
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("HuggingFaceH4/no_robots")
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Estimated VRAM to fine-tune with QLoRA (4-bit base model + LoRA adapters), using conservative defaults:
| 7B QLoRA | ~6GB VRAM |
| 13B QLoRA | ~10GB VRAM |
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Frequently asked questions
Can I use No Robots commercially?
Not in a product — No Robots is released under CC BY-NC 4.0, which restricts use to research and other non-commercial purposes. For commercial fine-tuning, pick a permissively licensed dataset from the same category instead.
How much data does No Robots contain, and do I need all of it?
No Robots contains 10k Rows. You rarely need all of it: for style and format fine-tuning, a few hundred to a few thousand examples are enough — load a slice (e.g. split="train[:1000]") and scale up only if quality plateaus.
What is No Robots best used for?
Your first fine-tune — small, clean, 100% human-written SFT data (non-commercial license). It belongs to the Instruction / SFT section of our dataset hub, where you'll find alternatives and complementary sets.
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