diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a298d9f5..3c78c971 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Compared to ChatGLM's [P-Tuning](https://github.com/THUDM/ChatGLM2-6B/tree/main/
 
 [23/12/12] We supported fine-tuning the latest MoE model **[Mixtral 8x7B](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1)** in our framework. See hardware requirement [here](#hardware-requirement).
 
-[23/12/01] We supported downloading pre-trained models from the **[ModelScope Hub](https://modelscope.cn/models)** for Chinese mainland users. See [this tutorial](#use-modelscope-models-optional) for usage.
+[23/12/01] We supported downloading pre-trained models and datasets from the **[ModelScope Hub](https://modelscope.cn/models)** for Chinese mainland users. See [this tutorial](#use-modelscope-hub-optional) for usage.
 
 <details><summary>Full Changelog</summary>
 
@@ -242,9 +242,9 @@ If you want to enable the quantized LoRA (QLoRA) on the Windows platform, you wi
 pip install https://github.com/jllllll/bitsandbytes-windows-webui/releases/download/wheels/bitsandbytes-0.39.1-py3-none-win_amd64.whl
 ```
 
-### Use ModelScope Models (optional)
+### Use ModelScope Hub (optional)
 
-If you have trouble with downloading models from Hugging Face, you can use LLaMA-Factory together with ModelScope in the following manner.
+If you have trouble with downloading models and datasets from Hugging Face, you can use LLaMA-Factory together with ModelScope in the following manner.
 
 ```bash
 export USE_MODELSCOPE_HUB=1 # `set USE_MODELSCOPE_HUB=1` for Windows
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python src/train_bash.py \
     ... # arguments (same as above)
 ```
 
-LLaMA Board also supports using the models on the ModelScope Hub.
+LLaMA Board also supports using the models and datasets on the ModelScope Hub.
 
 ```bash
 CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 USE_MODELSCOPE_HUB=1 python src/train_web.py
diff --git a/README_zh.md b/README_zh.md
index bd221800..a91e2571 100644
--- a/README_zh.md
+++ b/README_zh.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ https://github.com/hiyouga/LLaMA-Factory/assets/16256802/6ba60acc-e2e2-4bec-b846
 
 [23/12/12] 我们支持了微调最新的混合专家模型 **[Mixtral 8x7B](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1)**。硬件需求请查阅[此处](#硬件依赖)。
 
-[23/12/01] 我们支持了从 **[魔搭社区](https://modelscope.cn/models)** 下载预训练模型。详细用法请参照 [此教程](#使用魔搭社区可跳过)。
+[23/12/01] 我们支持了从 **[魔搭社区](https://modelscope.cn/models)** 下载预训练模型和数据集。详细用法请参照 [此教程](#使用魔搭社区可跳过)。
 
 <details><summary>展开日志</summary>
 
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ pip install https://github.com/jllllll/bitsandbytes-windows-webui/releases/downl
 
 ### 使用魔搭社区（可跳过）
 
-如果您在 Hugging Face 模型的下载中遇到了问题，可以通过下述方法使用魔搭社区。
+如果您在 Hugging Face 模型和数据集的下载中遇到了问题，可以通过下述方法使用魔搭社区。
 
 ```bash
 export USE_MODELSCOPE_HUB=1 # Windows 使用 `set USE_MODELSCOPE_HUB=1`
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 python src/train_bash.py \
     ... # 参数同上
 ```
 
-LLaMA Board 同样支持魔搭社区的模型下载。
+LLaMA Board 同样支持魔搭社区的模型和数据集下载。
 
 ```bash
 CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 USE_MODELSCOPE_HUB=1 python src/train_web.py
diff --git a/data/README.md b/data/README.md
index 15d108da..50adbcdb 100644
--- a/data/README.md
+++ b/data/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ If you are using a custom dataset, please provide your dataset definition in the
     "history": "the column name in the dataset containing the histories. (default: None, for alpaca)",
     "messages": "the column name in the dataset containing the messages. (default: conversations, for sharegpt)",
     "role": "the key in the message represents the identity. (default: from, for sharegpt)",
-    "content": "the key in the message represents the content. (default: value, for sharegpt)"
+    "content": "the key in the message represents the content. (default: value, for sharegpt)",
+    "system": "the column name in the dataset containing the system prompts. (default: None, for both)"
   }
 }
 ```
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ Currently we support dataset in **alpaca** or **sharegpt** format, the dataset i
     "instruction": "user instruction (required)",
     "input": "user input (optional)",
     "output": "model response (required)",
+    "system": "system prompt (optional)",
     "history": [
       ["user instruction in the first round (optional)", "model response in the first round (optional)"],
       ["user instruction in the second round (optional)", "model response in the second round (optional)"]
@@ -48,6 +50,7 @@ Regarding the above dataset, the `columns` in `dataset_info.json` should be:
     "prompt": "instruction",
     "query": "input",
     "response": "output",
+    "system": "system",
     "history": "history"
   }
 }
@@ -55,7 +58,7 @@ Regarding the above dataset, the `columns` in `dataset_info.json` should be:
 
 where the `prompt` and `response` columns should contain non-empty values, represent instruction and response respectively. The `query` column will be concatenated with the `prompt` column and used as input for the model.
 
-The `history` column is a list consisting string tuples representing query-response pairs in history. Note that the responses **in each round will be used for training**.
+The `system` column will be used as the system prompt in the template. The `history` column is a list consisting string tuples representing query-response pairs in history. Note that the responses **in each round will be used for training**.
 
 For the pre-training datasets, only the `prompt` column will be used for training.
 
@@ -86,7 +89,8 @@ The dataset in sharegpt format should follow the below format:
         "from": "gpt",
         "value": "model response"
       }
-    ]
+    ],
+    "system": "system prompt (optional)"
   }
 ]
 ```
@@ -98,7 +102,8 @@ Regarding the above dataset, the `columns` in `dataset_info.json` should be:
   "columns": {
     "messages": "conversations",
     "role": "from",
-    "content": "value"
+    "content": "value",
+    "system": "system"
   }
 }
 ```
diff --git a/data/README_zh.md b/data/README_zh.md
index a6790f70..135a3b29 100644
--- a/data/README_zh.md
+++ b/data/README_zh.md
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     "history": "数据集代表历史对话的表头名称（默认：None，用于 alpaca 格式）",
     "messages": "数据集代表消息列表的表头名称（默认：conversations，用于 sharegpt 格式）",
     "role": "消息中代表发送者身份的键名（默认：from，用于 sharegpt 格式）",
-    "content": "消息中代表文本内容的键名（默认：value，用于 sharegpt 格式）"
+    "content": "消息中代表文本内容的键名（默认：value，用于 sharegpt 格式）",
+    "system": "数据集代表系统提示的表头名称（默认：None，用于两种格式）"
   }
 }
 ```
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@
     "instruction": "用户指令（必填）",
     "input": "用户输入（选填）",
     "output": "模型回答（必填）",
+    "system": "系统提示词（选填）",
     "history": [
       ["第一轮指令（选填）", "第一轮回答（选填）"],
       ["第二轮指令（选填）", "第二轮回答（选填）"]
@@ -48,6 +50,7 @@
     "prompt": "instruction",
     "query": "input",
     "response": "output",
+    "system": "system",
     "history": "history"
   }
 }
@@ -55,7 +58,7 @@
 
 其中 `prompt` 和 `response` 列应当是非空的字符串，分别代表用户指令和模型回答。`query` 列的内容将会和 `prompt` 列拼接作为模型输入。
 
-`history` 列是由多个字符串二元组构成的列表，分别代表历史消息中每轮的指令和回答。注意每轮的模型回答**均会被用于训练**。
+`system` 为模板中的系统提示词。`history` 列是由多个字符串二元组构成的列表，分别代表历史消息中每轮的指令和回答。注意每轮的模型回答**均会被用于训练**。
 
 对于预训练数据集，仅 `prompt` 列中的内容会用于模型训练。
 
@@ -86,7 +89,8 @@
         "from": "gpt",
         "value": "模型回答"
       }
-    ]
+    ],
+    "system": "系统提示词（选填）"
   }
 ]
 ```
@@ -98,7 +102,8 @@
   "columns": {
     "messages": "conversations",
     "role": "from",
-    "content": "value"
+    "content": "value",
+    "system": "system"
   }
 }
 ```
diff --git a/data/sharegpt_zh_27k.json.REMOVED.git-id b/data/sharegpt_zh_27k.json.REMOVED.git-id
deleted file mode 100644
index a4f6b5f2..00000000
--- a/data/sharegpt_zh_27k.json.REMOVED.git-id
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-38c89869c6aeca2a3af9ea1e09afe460f9b46810
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/llmtuner/chat/chat_model.py b/src/llmtuner/chat/chat_model.py
index 6e4c28e7..5c06109c 100644
--- a/src/llmtuner/chat/chat_model.py
+++ b/src/llmtuner/chat/chat_model.py
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ class ChatModel:
         self.tokenizer.padding_side = "left" if self.can_generate else "right"
         self.model = dispatch_model(self.model)
         self.template = get_template_and_fix_tokenizer(data_args.template, self.tokenizer)
-        self.system_prompt = data_args.system_prompt
 
     def _process_args(
         self,
@@ -39,7 +38,6 @@ class ChatModel:
         system: Optional[str] = None,
         **input_kwargs
     ) -> Tuple[Dict[str, Any], int]:
-        system = system or self.system_prompt
         prompt, _ = self.template.encode_oneturn(
             tokenizer=self.tokenizer, query=query, resp="", history=history, system=system
         )
diff --git a/src/llmtuner/data/loader.py b/src/llmtuner/data/loader.py
index 665a6a02..f1fa65ee 100644
--- a/src/llmtuner/data/loader.py
+++ b/src/llmtuner/data/loader.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ def get_dataset(
                 streaming=(data_args.streaming and (dataset_attr.load_from != "file"))
             )
 
-        if data_args.streaming and (dataset_attr.load_from == "file"):
+        if data_args.streaming and (dataset_attr.load_from == "file"): # faster than specifying streaming=True
             dataset = dataset.to_iterable_dataset() # TODO: add num shards parameter
 
         if max_samples is not None: # truncate dataset
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ def get_dataset(
 
         def convert_format(examples: Dict[str, List[Any]]) -> Dict[str, List[Any]]:
             # convert dataset from sharegpt format to alpaca format
-            outputs = {"prompt": [], "query": [], "response": [], "history": []}
-            for msg_list in examples[dataset_attr.messages]:
+            outputs = {"prompt": [], "query": [], "response": [], "history": [], "system": []}
+            for i, msg_list in enumerate(examples[dataset_attr.messages]):
                 msg_list = msg_list[:len(msg_list) // 2 * 2] # should be multiples of 2
                 if len(msg_list) == 0:
                     continue
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ def get_dataset(
                     outputs["query"].append("")
                     outputs["response"].append(msg_pairs[-1][1])
                     outputs["history"].append(msg_pairs[:-1])
+                    outputs["system"].append(examples[dataset_attr.system][i] if dataset_attr.system else "")
 
             return outputs
 
@@ -136,17 +137,10 @@ def get_dataset(
                 **kwargs
             )
         else:
-            for column_name in ["prompt", "query", "response", "history"]: # align dataset
+            for column_name in ["prompt", "query", "response", "history", "system"]: # align dataset
                 if getattr(dataset_attr, column_name) and getattr(dataset_attr, column_name) != column_name:
                     dataset = dataset.rename_column(getattr(dataset_attr, column_name), column_name)
 
-        if dataset_attr.system_prompt: # add system prompt
-            system_prompt = dataset_attr.system_prompt
-            if data_args.streaming:
-                dataset = dataset.map(lambda _: {"system": system_prompt})
-            else:
-                dataset = dataset.add_column("system", [system_prompt] * len(dataset))
-
         all_datasets.append(dataset)
 
     if len(data_args.dataset_list) == 1:
diff --git a/src/llmtuner/hparams/data_args.py b/src/llmtuner/hparams/data_args.py
index f74c3cf0..dd4f2bb9 100644
--- a/src/llmtuner/hparams/data_args.py
+++ b/src/llmtuner/hparams/data_args.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ class DatasetAttr:
     load_from: Literal["hf_hub", "ms_hub", "script", "file"]
     dataset_name: Optional[str] = None
     dataset_sha1: Optional[str] = None
-    system_prompt: Optional[str] = None
     subset: Optional[str] = None
     folder: Optional[str] = None
     ranking: Optional[bool] = False
@@ -30,6 +29,7 @@ class DatasetAttr:
     messages: Optional[str] = "conversations"
     role: Optional[str] = "from"
     content: Optional[str] = "value"
+    system: Optional[str] = None
 
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
         return self.dataset_name
@@ -104,10 +104,6 @@ class DataArguments:
         default=True,
         metadata={"help": "Whether to ignore the tokens corresponding to padded labels in the loss computation or not."}
     )
-    system_prompt: Optional[str] = field(
-        default=None,
-        metadata={"help": "System prompt to add before the user query. Use `|` to separate multiple prompts in training."}
-    )
     val_size: Optional[float] = field(
         default=0,
         metadata={"help": "Size of the development set, should be an integer or a float in range `[0,1)`."}
@@ -145,15 +141,11 @@ class DataArguments:
                 raise ValueError("Cannot open {} due to {}.".format(os.path.join(self.dataset_dir, DATA_CONFIG), str(err)))
             dataset_info = None
 
-        prompt_list = self.system_prompt.split("|") if self.system_prompt else [None]
-        prompt_list = prompt_list * (len(dataset_names) // len(prompt_list))
-        assert len(prompt_list) == len(dataset_names), "Number of system prompts should be equal to datasets or 1."
-
         if self.interleave_probs is not None:
             self.interleave_probs = [float(prob.strip()) for prob in self.interleave_probs.split(",")]
 
         self.dataset_list: List[DatasetAttr] = []
-        for i, name in enumerate(dataset_names):
+        for name in dataset_names:
             if name not in dataset_info:
                 raise ValueError("Undefined dataset {} in {}.".format(name, DATA_CONFIG))
 
@@ -191,10 +183,10 @@ class DataArguments:
                 dataset_attr.messages = dataset_info[name]["columns"].get("messages", None)
                 dataset_attr.role = dataset_info[name]["columns"].get("role", None)
                 dataset_attr.content = dataset_info[name]["columns"].get("content", None)
+                dataset_attr.system = dataset_info[name]["columns"].get("system", None)
 
             dataset_attr.subset = dataset_info[name].get("subset", None)
             dataset_attr.folder = dataset_info[name].get("folder", None)
             dataset_attr.ranking = dataset_info[name].get("ranking", False)
             dataset_attr.formatting = dataset_info[name].get("formatting", "alpaca")
-            dataset_attr.system_prompt = prompt_list[i]
             self.dataset_list.append(dataset_attr)
diff --git a/src/llmtuner/model/loader.py b/src/llmtuner/model/loader.py
index f635009c..fb9b08f1 100644
--- a/src/llmtuner/model/loader.py
+++ b/src/llmtuner/model/loader.py
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ def load_model_and_tokenizer(
     # Prepare model for inference
     if not is_trainable:
         model.requires_grad_(False) # fix all model params
-        model = model.to(model_args.compute_dtype) if model_args.quantization_bit is None else model
+        model = model.to(model_args.compute_dtype) if not getattr(model, "quantization_method", None) else model
         model.eval()
     else:
         model.train()
diff --git a/src/llmtuner/webui/chatter.py b/src/llmtuner/webui/chatter.py
index ddf80b27..55b067f4 100644
--- a/src/llmtuner/webui/chatter.py
+++ b/src/llmtuner/webui/chatter.py
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ class WebChatModel(ChatModel):
             finetuning_type=get("top.finetuning_type"),
             quantization_bit=int(get("top.quantization_bit")) if get("top.quantization_bit") in ["8", "4"] else None,
             template=get("top.template"),
-            system_prompt=get("top.system_prompt"),
             flash_attn=get("top.flash_attn"),
             shift_attn=get("top.shift_attn"),
             rope_scaling=get("top.rope_scaling") if get("top.rope_scaling") in ["linear", "dynamic"] else None
diff --git a/src/llmtuner/webui/components/top.py b/src/llmtuner/webui/components/top.py
index 0cbd291a..a2f1a4a7 100644
--- a/src/llmtuner/webui/components/top.py
+++ b/src/llmtuner/webui/components/top.py
@@ -25,16 +25,13 @@ def create_top() -> Dict[str, "Component"]:
 
     with gr.Accordion(label="Advanced config", open=False) as advanced_tab:
         with gr.Row():
-            quantization_bit = gr.Dropdown(choices=["none", "8", "4"], value="none", scale=1)
-            template = gr.Dropdown(choices=list(templates.keys()), value="default", scale=1)
-            system_prompt = gr.Textbox(scale=2)
+            quantization_bit = gr.Dropdown(choices=["none", "8", "4"], value="none")
+            template = gr.Dropdown(choices=list(templates.keys()), value="default")
+            rope_scaling = gr.Radio(choices=["none", "linear", "dynamic"], value="none")
 
-    with gr.Accordion(label="Model config (LLaMA only)", open=False) as llama_tab:
-        with gr.Row():
             with gr.Column():
                 flash_attn = gr.Checkbox(value=False)
                 shift_attn = gr.Checkbox(value=False)
-            rope_scaling = gr.Radio(choices=["none", "linear", "dynamic"], value="none")
 
     model_name.change(
         list_checkpoint, [model_name, finetuning_type], [checkpoints], queue=False
@@ -66,9 +63,7 @@ def create_top() -> Dict[str, "Component"]:
         advanced_tab=advanced_tab,
         quantization_bit=quantization_bit,
         template=template,
-        system_prompt=system_prompt,
-        llama_tab=llama_tab,
+        rope_scaling=rope_scaling,
         flash_attn=flash_attn,
-        shift_attn=shift_attn,
-        rope_scaling=rope_scaling
+        shift_attn=shift_attn
     )
diff --git a/src/llmtuner/webui/locales.py b/src/llmtuner/webui/locales.py
index 8d406659..5e26203b 100644
--- a/src/llmtuner/webui/locales.py
+++ b/src/llmtuner/webui/locales.py
@@ -77,22 +77,12 @@ LOCALES = {
             "info": "构建提示词时使用的模板"
         }
     },
-    "system_prompt": {
+    "rope_scaling": {
         "en": {
-            "label": "System prompt (optional)",
-            "info": "A sequence used as the default system prompt."
+            "label": "RoPE scaling"
         },
         "zh": {
-            "label": "系统提示词（非必填）",
-            "info": "默认使用的系统提示词"
-        }
-    },
-    "llama_tab": {
-        "en": {
-            "label": "Model configurations (LLaMA only)"
-        },
-        "zh": {
-            "label": "模型设置（仅LLaMA）"
+            "label": "RoPE 插值方法"
         }
     },
     "flash_attn": {
@@ -111,14 +101,6 @@ LOCALES = {
             "label": "使用 shift short attention (S^2-Attn)"
         }
     },
-    "rope_scaling": {
-        "en": {
-            "label": "RoPE scaling"
-        },
-        "zh": {
-            "label": "RoPE 插值方法"
-        }
-    },
     "training_stage": {
         "en": {
             "label": "Stage",
diff --git a/src/llmtuner/webui/manager.py b/src/llmtuner/webui/manager.py
index ca067aea..9863d358 100644
--- a/src/llmtuner/webui/manager.py
+++ b/src/llmtuner/webui/manager.py
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ class Manager:
             self.all_elems["top"]["finetuning_type"],
             self.all_elems["top"]["quantization_bit"],
             self.all_elems["top"]["template"],
-            self.all_elems["top"]["system_prompt"],
             self.all_elems["top"]["flash_attn"],
             self.all_elems["top"]["shift_attn"],
             self.all_elems["top"]["rope_scaling"]
diff --git a/src/llmtuner/webui/runner.py b/src/llmtuner/webui/runner.py
index 6b174deb..2a2ed1f2 100644
--- a/src/llmtuner/webui/runner.py
+++ b/src/llmtuner/webui/runner.py
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ class Runner:
             finetuning_type=get("top.finetuning_type"),
             quantization_bit=int(get("top.quantization_bit")) if get("top.quantization_bit") in ["8", "4"] else None,
             template=get("top.template"),
-            system_prompt=get("top.system_prompt"),
             flash_attn=get("top.flash_attn"),
             shift_attn=get("top.shift_attn"),
             rope_scaling=get("top.rope_scaling") if get("top.rope_scaling") in ["linear", "dynamic"] else None,
@@ -176,7 +175,6 @@ class Runner:
             finetuning_type=get("top.finetuning_type"),
             quantization_bit=int(get("top.quantization_bit")) if get("top.quantization_bit") in ["8", "4"] else None,
             template=get("top.template"),
-            system_prompt=get("top.system_prompt"),
             flash_attn=get("top.flash_attn"),
             shift_attn=get("top.shift_attn"),
             rope_scaling=get("top.rope_scaling") if get("top.rope_scaling") in ["linear", "dynamic"] else None,