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license: llama2
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SLIMER is an instruction-tuned LLM (LLaMA-2-7B based) for NER.
Instructed on a reduced number of samples, it is designed to tackle never-seen-before named entity tags by leveraging a prompt enriched with a definition and guidelines for the NE to be extracted.

<img src="https://huggingface.co/expertai/SLIMER/resolve/main/SLIMER_instruction_prompt.png" width="200">

SLIMER performs comparably to state-of-the-art approaches in out-of-domain zero-shot NER, while being trained on a reduced tag set.

<img src="https://huggingface.co/expertai/SLIMER/resolve/main/OOD_evals.png">