---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 1761506
    num_examples: 25058
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 439663
    num_examples: 6265
  download_size: 1302233
  dataset_size: 2201169
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- it
tags:
- alpaca
- translation
- italian
- machine-translation
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---

# Harmless Alpaca (Italian)

Italian machine translation of [mlabonne/harmless_alpaca](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mlabonne/harmless_alpaca),
itself a repackaging of instructions from [tatsu-lab/alpaca](https://huggingface.co/datasets/tatsu-lab/alpaca).

## Dataset Description

This dataset contains the harmless instructions from the original Alpaca dataset, translated
from English to Italian. It is intended for research use, e.g. building or evaluating Italian-language
instruction-following models.

## Translation Process

Translations were generated using [Helsinki-NLP/Opus-MT](https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-it).

**Note:** translations were produced automatically and have only partially been manually reviewed. As with any
machine-translated dataset, expect occasional errors in idiom, tone, or formatting (especially around code
snippets, placeholders, or unusual sentence structures in the original text). Use accordingly.

## Credits

- **Original dataset:** [tatsu-lab/alpaca](https://huggingface.co/datasets/tatsu-lab/alpaca) — Stanford Alpaca team
- **Repackaged (English) version:** [mlabonne/harmless_alpaca](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mlabonne/harmless_alpaca) — Maxime Labonne
- **Translation model:** [Helsinki-NLP/Opus-MT](https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-it) — Language Technology Research Group, University of Helsinki

## License

This dataset is released under **CC BY-NC 4.0** (non-commercial use only), consistent with the license of
the original Alpaca dataset. Models trained using this data should not be used outside of research purposes.

## Splits

| Split | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| train | Italian-translated training instructions |
| test  | Italian-translated test instructions |