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Commonsense question answering (QA) research requires machines to answer questions based on commonsense knowledge. However, this research requires expensive labor costs to annotate data as the basis of research, and models that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Xin Guan , Biwei Cao , Qingqing Gao , Zheng Yin , Bo Liu , Jiuxin Cao

Knowledge graphs (KGs) are the key components of various natural language processing applications. To further expand KGs' coverage, previous studies on knowledge graph completion usually require a large number of training instances for each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Wenhan Xiong , Mo Yu , Shiyu Chang , Xiaoxiao Guo , William Yang Wang

We address the general task of structured commonsense reasoning: given a natural language input, the goal is to generate a graph such as an event -- or a reasoning-graph. To employ large language models (LMs) for this task, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Aman Madaan , Shuyan Zhou , Uri Alon , Yiming Yang , Graham Neubig

Large language models (LLMs) are a promising avenue for machine translation (MT). However, current LLM-based MT systems are brittle: their effectiveness highly depends on the choice of few-shot examples and they often require extra…

Recent prompt-based approaches allow pretrained language models to achieve strong performances on few-shot finetuning by reformulating downstream tasks as a language modeling problem. In this work, we demonstrate that, despite its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Prasetya Ajie Utama , Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Victor Sanh , Iryna Gurevych

Knowledge graph (KG) is an abstraction that can be extracted from text corpora and used for in-depth reasoning. Prior work has leveraged KGs to fine-tune language models (LMs), enabling domain-specific superintelligence. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jake Stephen , Niraj K. Jha

Progress on commonsense reasoning is usually measured from performance improvements on Question Answering tasks designed to require commonsense knowledge. However, fine-tuning large Language Models (LMs) on these specific tasks does not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Daniel Loureiro , Alípio Mário Jorge

Transformer-based large language models exhibit in-context learning, enabling adaptation to downstream tasks via few-shot prompting with demonstrations. In practice, such models are often fine-tuned to improve zero-shot performance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chungpa Lee , Jy-yong Sohn , Kangwook Lee

This article focuses on large language models (LLMs) fine-tuning in the scarce data regime (also known as the "few-shot" learning setting). We propose a method to increase the generalization capabilities of LLMs based on neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Louis Falissard , Vincent Guigue , Laure Soulier

It remains an open question whether incorporating external knowledge benefits commonsense reasoning while maintaining the flexibility of pretrained sequence models. To investigate this question, we develop generated knowledge prompting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jiacheng Liu , Alisa Liu , Ximing Lu , Sean Welleck , Peter West , Ronan Le Bras , Yejin Choi , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Knowledge-enhanced language representation learning has shown promising results across various knowledge-intensive NLP tasks. However, prior methods are limited in efficient utilization of multilingual knowledge graph (KG) data for language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Linlin Liu , Xin Li , Ruidan He , Lidong Bing , Shafiq Joty , Luo Si

While state-of-the-art models that rely upon massively multilingual pretrained encoders achieve sample efficiency in downstream applications, they still require abundant amounts of unlabelled text. Nevertheless, most of the world's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Yaoyiran Li , Edoardo M. Ponti , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen

Multilingual knowledge graph (KG) embeddings provide latent semantic representations of entities and structured knowledge with cross-lingual inferences, which benefit various knowledge-driven cross-lingual NLP tasks. However, precisely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Muhao Chen , Yingtao Tian , Kai-Wei Chang , Steven Skiena , Carlo Zaniolo

Commonsense knowledge is paramount to enable intelligent systems. Typically, it is characterized as being implicit and ambiguous, hindering thereby the automation of its acquisition. To address these challenges, this paper presents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Ikhlas Alhussien , Erik Cambria , Zhang NengSheng

Large language models (LLMs) can learn from a few demonstrations provided at inference time. We study this in-context learning phenomenon through the lens of Gaussian Processes (GPs). We build controlled experiments where models observe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Elif Akata , Konstantinos Voudouris , Vincent Fortuin , Eric Schulz

Prompting language models (LMs) with training examples and task descriptions has been seen as critical to recent successes in few-shot learning. In this work, we show that finetuning LMs in the few-shot setting can considerably reduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Robert L. Logan , Ivana Balažević , Eric Wallace , Fabio Petroni , Sameer Singh , Sebastian Riedel

The common practice for training commonsense models has gone from-human-to-corpus-to-machine: humans author commonsense knowledge graphs in order to train commonsense models. In this work, we investigate an alternative,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Peter West , Chandra Bhagavatula , Jack Hessel , Jena D. Hwang , Liwei Jiang , Ronan Le Bras , Ximing Lu , Sean Welleck , Yejin Choi

Few-shot relational learning on knowledge graph (KGs) aims to perform reasoning over relations with only a few training examples. While current methods have focused primarily on leveraging specific relational information, rich semantics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Han Wu , Jie Yin

Humankind's understanding of the world is fundamentally linked to our perception and cognition, with \emph{human languages} serving as one of the major carriers of \emph{world knowledge}. In this vein, \emph{Large Language Models} (LLMs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Huajun Chen

Language Models (LMs) can perform new tasks by adapting to a few in-context examples. For humans, explanations that connect examples to task principles can improve learning. We therefore investigate whether explanations of few-shot examples…