Doubt about the TARGET parameter in the dataset

[Igor Lima Rocha]

First I would like to thank you every single person that worked to make this dataset available.

I am studying the repository as well as the papers about FLAN. And I couldn't understand the target parameter.

Do you guys use such parameter to fine tune the language model in supervised way? Similar to what would be a reinforcement learning with human feedback?

For example, when you ask the question to the language models it uses the target value to understand if its response is right or wrong based on the target value? Thus, it can learn its mistakes from the target value?

In general my question is - when does the parameter target comes into place when training the model using the FLAN dataset?