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Validate chat fine-tuning data and estimate cost
Validate JSONL conversation structure, error types, dataset statistics, and token cost before producing a clean training file.
Goal
Validate JSONL conversation structure, error types, dataset statistics, and token cost before producing a clean training file.
Steps
- Validate messages, role/content fields, and unknown keys line by line; classify errors. [source-openai-validate-chat-finetuning-dataset]
- Compute counts, lengths, and token estimates, flagging threshold issues. [source-openai-validate-chat-finetuning-dataset]
- Rerun validation after fixes and sample-review before an owner decides on upload. [source-openai-validate-chat-finetuning-dataset]
How to verify
Check JSONL row totals, accepted/rejected counts, error types, and estimated tokens; confirm the cleaned file contains only valid examples.
Troubleshooting
For rejected rows, use reported line numbers to inspect role order, JSON structure, or message fields; never overwrite the original file.
Permissions
Prerequisites
- Python, OpenAI API account, redacted/approved conversation JSONL; do not submit training automatically.
Permissions
- Reads JSONL locally and may call a tokenizer for estimates; uploading files or creating a fine-tuning job sends training data to the provider and may incur charges, so do so only with separate approval.
Limitations
Run the source on isolated test data, then check outputs and dependency versions before adapting it.
Pinned upstream source
- Repository
- openai/openai-cookbook
- File path
- examples/Chat_finetuning_data_prep.ipynb
- Pinned commit
5bd6cb40b6b84b69b2032d810610aa85064102df- Source checked
- 2026-10-14 · Reviewed against the pinned upstream source
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License: MIT
Main topic
Turn ecommerce campaign materials into a reviewable weekly brief