diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f76378a..493eb51 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 torch>=2.1.0
 lightning @ git+https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lightning@71aed751f7f0ca8422ddca256e602099070f490b
 jsonargparse[signatures]  # CLI
+jinja2
diff --git a/scripts/prepare_ui_gen_data.py b/scripts/prepare_ui_gen_data.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ac0f51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/prepare_ui_gen_data.py
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+import json
+import logging
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Optional
+
+import torch
+from torch.utils.data import random_split
+from tqdm import tqdm
+
+# support running without installing as a package
+wd = Path(__file__).parent.parent.resolve()
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+sys.path.append(str(wd))
+
+from lit_gpt.tokenizer import Tokenizer
+from jinja2 import Template
+
+COLUMNS = ("instruction", "input", "output")
+
+# The template is specific for ui-gen data, be conscious when using for other data.
+
+TEMPLATE = Template('''<s>
+<|SYSTEM|>The response MUST be a valid JSON. Generate UI-DSL for the below input and context.<|END_SYSTEM|>
+{%- if context -%}<|CONTEXT|>{{ context }}<|END_CONTEXT|>{%- endif -%}
+<|INPUT|>{{ prompt }}<|END_INPUT|>
+<|OUTPUT|>```{{ response }}```<|END_OUTPUT|>
+</s>''')
+
+def prepare(
+    csv_path: Path,
+    destination_path: Path = Path("data/csv"),
+    checkpoint_dir: Path = Path("checkpoints/stabilityai/stablelm-base-alpha-3b"),
+    test_split_fraction: float = 0.1,
+    seed: int = 42,
+    mask_inputs: bool = False,
+    ignore_index: int = -1,
+    max_seq_length: Optional[int] = None,
+) -> None:
+    """Prepare a CSV dataset for instruction tuning.
+
+    The output is a training and test dataset saved as `train.pt` and `test.pt`,
+    which stores the preprocessed and tokenized prompts and labels.
+    """
+    if max_seq_length is None:
+        with open(checkpoint_dir / "lit_config.json", "r") as file:
+            config = json.load(file)
+            max_seq_length = config["block_size"]
+
+    destination_path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    logger.info("Loading data file ...")
+    import pandas as pd
+
+    df = pd.read_csv(csv_path, dtype=str).fillna("")
+    if not (df.columns.values == COLUMNS).all():
+        raise ValueError(f"CSV columns must be {COLUMNS}, found {df.columns.values}")
+    data = json.loads(df.to_json(orient="records", indent=4))
+
+    print("Loading tokenizer...")
+    tokenizer = Tokenizer(checkpoint_dir)
+
+    # Partition the dataset into train and test
+    train_set, test_set = random_split(
+        data, [1.0 - test_split_fraction, test_split_fraction], generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(seed)
+    )
+    train_set, test_set = list(train_set), list(test_set)
+
+    print(f"train has {len(train_set):,} samples")
+    print(f"test has {len(test_set):,} samples")
+
+    print("Processing train split ...")
+    train_set = [
+        prepare_sample(
+            example=sample,
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            max_length=max_seq_length,
+            mask_inputs=mask_inputs,
+            ignore_index=ignore_index,
+        )
+        for sample in tqdm(train_set)
+    ]
+    torch.save(train_set, destination_path / "train.pt")
+
+    print("Processing test split ...")
+    test_set = [
+        prepare_sample(
+            example=sample,
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            max_length=max_seq_length,
+            mask_inputs=mask_inputs,
+            ignore_index=ignore_index,
+        )
+        for sample in tqdm(test_set)
+    ]
+    torch.save(test_set, destination_path / "test.pt")
+
+
+def prepare_sample(example: dict, tokenizer: Tokenizer, max_length: int, mask_inputs: bool, ignore_index: int) -> dict:
+    """Processes a single sample.
+
+    Each sample in the dataset consists of:
+    - instruction: A string describing the task
+    - input: A string holding a special input value for the instruction.
+        This only applies to some samples, and in others this is empty.
+    - output: The response string
+
+    This function processes this data to produce a prompt text and a label for
+    supervised training. The prompt text is formed as a single message including both
+    the instruction and the input. The label/target is the same message but with the
+    response attached.
+
+    Finally, both the prompt and the label get tokenized. If desired, all tokens
+    in the label that correspond to the original input prompt get masked out (default).
+    """
+    full_prompt = generate_prompt(example)
+    full_prompt_and_response = full_prompt + example["output"]
+    encoded_full_prompt = tokenizer.encode(full_prompt, max_length=max_length)
+    encoded_full_prompt_and_response = tokenizer.encode(full_prompt_and_response, eos=True, max_length=max_length)
+
+    # The labels are the full prompt with response, but with the prompt masked out
+    labels = encoded_full_prompt_and_response.clone()
+    if mask_inputs:
+        labels[: len(encoded_full_prompt)] = ignore_index
+
+    return {
+        **example,
+        "input_ids": encoded_full_prompt_and_response,
+        "input_ids_no_response": encoded_full_prompt,
+        "labels": labels,
+    }
+
+
+def generate_prompt(example: dict) -> str:
+    """Generates a standardized message to prompt the model with an instruction, optional input and a
+    'response' field."""
+    return TEMPLATE.render(prompt=example['instruction'], response=example['output'], context=example.get('input', ''))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    from jsonargparse import CLI
+
+    CLI(prepare, as_positional=False)