diff --git a/gpt4all/data/preprocess.py b/gpt4all/data/preprocess.py
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+import torch
+
+def tokenize_inputs(config, tokenizer, examples, input_col, target_col):
+    max_length = config["max_length"]
+
+    # hacky backward compatible
+    different_eos = tokenizer.eos_token != "</s>"
+    out = {"labels": [], "input_ids": []}
+    for prompt, response in zip(examples[input_col], examples[target_col]):
+        if different_eos:
+            if response.count("</s> \n") > 0:
+                response = response.replace("</s> \n", f"{tokenizer.eos_token} \n") 
+
+        prompt_len = len(tokenizer(prompt + "\n", return_tensors="pt")["input_ids"][0])
+
+        # hack if our prompt is super long
+        # we need to include some labels so we arbitrarily trunacate at max_length // 2
+        # if the length is too long
+        if prompt_len >= max_length // 2:
+            # if prompt is too long, truncate
+            # but make sure to truncate to at max 1024 tokens
+            new_len = min(max_length // 2, len(prompt) // 2)
+            prompt = prompt[:new_len]
+            # get new prompt length
+            prompt_len = tokenizer(prompt + "\n", return_tensors="pt", max_length=max_length // 2, truncation=True).input_ids.ne(tokenizer.pad_token_id).sum().item()
+
+        assert prompt_len <= max_length // 2, f"prompt length {prompt_len} exceeds max length {max_length}"
+
+        input_tokens = tokenizer(prompt + "\n" + response + tokenizer.eos_token,
+                                 truncation=True, max_length=max_length, return_tensors="pt")["input_ids"].squeeze()
+
+        labels = input_tokens.clone()
+        labels[:prompt_len] = -100
+        if len(labels) < max_length:
+            # pad to max_length with -100
+            labels = torch.cat([labels, torch.full((max_length - len(labels),), -100)])
+
+        assert (labels == -100).sum() < len(labels), f"Labels are all -100, something wrong. prompt length {prompt_len} exceeds max length {max_length}" 
+        
+        if (labels == -100).sum() == len(labels) - 1:
+            print(prompt)
+            print(response)
+            raise
+
+        input_tokens = tokenizer.pad({"input_ids": input_tokens}, padding="max_length", max_length=max_length)["input_ids"]
+        out["labels"].append(labels)
+        out["input_ids"].append(input_tokens)
+
+    out = {k: torch.stack(v) if isinstance(v, list) else v for k, v in out.items()}
+
+    return out
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diff --git a/gpt4all/data/retrieval_dataloader.py b/gpt4all/data/retrieval_dataloader.py
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+from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset
+import os
+from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
+from .preprocess import tokenize_inputs
+from transformers import DefaultDataCollator
+
+
+def load_retrieval_augmented_data(config, tokenizer, split="train", split_dataset=True):
+    dataset_path = config["dataset_path"]
+
+    if os.path.exists(dataset_path):
+        dataset = Dataset.load_from_disk(dataset_path)
+    else:
+        dataset = load_dataset(dataset_path, split=split)
+
+
+    question_col = config["q_column"]
+    answer_col = config["a_column"]
+    encoder_column = config["encoder_column"]
+
+    if config["streaming"] is False:
+        kwargs = {"num_proc": config["num_proc"]}
+    else:
+        kwargs = {}
+
+    # strip any unneccessary whitespace
+    # there's one question that's includes a ton of whitespace
+    dataset = dataset.map(lambda ele: {question_col: [q.strip() for q in ele[question_col]]}, batched=True)
+    # in squad, the data is formatted where each ele in answers is a dict where the key text holds
+    # a list of the answer
+    dataset = dataset.map(lambda ele: {answer_col: [t["text"][0] for t in ele[answer_col]]}, batched=True)
+
+    dataset = dataset.map(
+        lambda ele: tokenize_inputs(config, tokenizer, ele, question_col, answer_col),
+        batched=True,
+        **kwargs
+    )
+
+    # tokenize inputs + labels in teacher-force format
+    # rename encoder hidden states if not already called that
+    if encoder_column != "encoder_hidden_states":
+        dataset = dataset.rename_column(encoder_column, "encoder_hidden_states")
+
+    columns_to_keep = ["input_ids", "labels", "encoder_hidden_states"]
+
+    col_names_to_rm = [col for col in dataset.column_names if col not in columns_to_keep]
+    dataset = dataset.remove_columns(col_names_to_rm)
+
+    if split_dataset:
+        dataset = dataset.train_test_split(test_size=config["pct_test"], seed=config["seed"])
+        train_dataset, val_dataset = dataset["train"], dataset["test"]
+
+        train_dataloader = DataLoader(
+            train_dataset,
+            batch_size=config["batch_size"],
+            collate_fn=DefaultDataCollator(),
+        )
+
+        val_dataloader = DataLoader(
+            val_dataset,
+            batch_size=config["batch_size"],
+            collate_fn=DefaultDataCollator(),
+        )
+
+        return train_dataloader, val_dataloader
+
+    else:
+        dataloader = DataLoader(
+            dataset,
+            batch_size=config["batch_size"],
+            collate_fn=DefaultDataCollator(),
+        )
+
+        return dataloader
+