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Leader-follower interaction is an important paradigm in human-robot interaction (HRI). Yet, assigning roles in real time remains challenging for resource-constrained mobile and assistive robots. While large language models (LLMs) have shown…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Rafael R. Baptista , André de Lima Salgado , Ricardo V. Godoy , Marcelo Becker , Thiago Boaventura , Gustavo J. G. Lahr

Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) have achieved tremendous success in natural language understanding tasks. While different learning schemes -- fine-tuning, zero-shot, and few-shot learning -- have been widely explored and compared for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Liang Xu , Xiaojing Lu , Chenyang Yuan , Xuanwei Zhang , Huilin Xu , Hu Yuan , Guoao Wei , Xiang Pan , Xin Tian , Libo Qin , Hu Hai

While few-shot learning as a transfer learning paradigm has gained significant traction for scenarios with limited data, it has primarily been explored in the context of building unimodal and unilingual models. Furthermore, a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Aman Chadha , Vinija Jain

Speech-based machine learning (ML) has been heralded as a promising solution for tracking prosodic and spectrotemporal patterns in real-life that are indicative of emotional changes, providing a valuable window into one's cognitive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Kexin Feng , Theodora Chaspari

We study the problem of few-shot Fine-grained Entity Typing (FET), where only a few annotated entity mentions with contexts are given for each entity type. Recently, prompt-based tuning has demonstrated superior performance to standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Jiaxin Huang , Yu Meng , Jiawei Han

We propose the use of conversational GPT models for easy and quick few-shot text classification in the financial domain using the Banking77 dataset. Our approach involves in-context learning with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, which minimizes the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Lefteris Loukas , Ilias Stogiannidis , Prodromos Malakasiotis , Stavros Vassos

Learning with minimal data is one of the key challenges in the development of practical, production-ready goal-oriented dialogue systems. In a real-world enterprise setting where dialogue systems are developed rapidly and are expected to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Igor Shalyminov , Sungjin Lee , Arash Eshghi , Oliver Lemon

Recent work has demonstrated substantial gains on many NLP tasks and benchmarks by pre-training on a large corpus of text followed by fine-tuning on a specific task. While typically task-agnostic in architecture, this method still requires…

Prompts for pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown remarkable performance by bridging the gap between pre-training tasks and various downstream tasks. Among these methods, prompt tuning, which freezes PLMs and only tunes soft…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yuxian Gu , Xu Han , Zhiyuan Liu , Minlie Huang

Prompt-based tuning for pre-trained language models (PLMs) has shown its effectiveness in few-shot learning. Typically, prompt-based tuning wraps the input text into a cloze question. To make predictions, the model maps the output words to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Ganqu Cui , Shengding Hu , Ning Ding , Longtao Huang , Zhiyuan Liu

Conventional text style transfer approaches focus on sentence-level style transfer without considering contextual information, and the style is described with attributes (e.g., formality). When applying style transfer in conversations such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Shamik Roy , Raphael Shu , Nikolaos Pappas , Elman Mansimov , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour , Dan Roth

Detecting social bias in text is challenging due to nuance, subjectivity, and difficulty in obtaining good quality labeled datasets at scale, especially given the evolving nature of social biases and society. To address these challenges, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Shrimai Prabhumoye , Rafal Kocielnik , Mohammad Shoeybi , Anima Anandkumar , Bryan Catanzaro

Prompt-based methods with large pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown impressive unaided performance across many NLP tasks. These models improve even further with the addition of a few labeled in-context exemplars to guide output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Derek Chen , Kun Qian , Zhou Yu

Objective To develop soft prompt-based learning algorithms for large language models (LLMs), examine the shape of prompts, prompt-tuning using frozen/unfrozen LLMs, transfer learning, and few-shot learning abilities. Methods We developed a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Cheng Peng , Xi Yang , Kaleb E Smith , Zehao Yu , Aokun Chen , Jiang Bian , Yonghui Wu

Prompt-based methods have achieved promising results in most few-shot text classification tasks. However, for readability assessment tasks, traditional prompt methods lackcrucial linguistic knowledge, which has already been proven to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Ziyang Wang , Sanwoo Lee , Hsiu-Yuan Huang , Yunfang Wu

Research to improve Automated Short Answer Grading has recently focused on Large Language Models (LLMs) with prompt engineering and no- or few-shot prompting to achieve best results. This is in contrast to the fine-tuning approach, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Joel Walsh , Siddarth Mamidanna , Benjamin Nye , Mark Core , Daniel Auerbach

Collecting human-chatbot dialogues typically demands substantial manual effort and is time-consuming, which limits and poses challenges for research on conversational AI. In this work, we propose DialogueForge - a framework for generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruizhe Zhu , Hao Zhu , Yaxuan Li , Syang Zhou , Shijing Cai , Malgorzata Lazuka , Elliott Ash

Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) have opened the door to in-depth investigation of their potential in tabular data modeling. However, effectively utilizing advanced LLMs in few-shot and even zero-shot scenarios is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Peng Wang , Dongsheng Wang , He Zhao , Hangting Ye , Dandan Guo , Yi Chang

Few-shot learning (FSL) is one of the key future steps in machine learning and has raised a lot of attention. However, in contrast to the rapid development in other domains, such as Computer Vision, the progress of FSL in Nature Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Yutai Hou , Jiafeng Mao , Yongkui Lai , Cheng Chen , Wanxiang Che , Zhigang Chen , Ting Liu

Few-shot learning for open domain multi-hop question answering typically relies on the incontext learning capability of large language models (LLMs). While powerful, these LLMs usually contain tens or hundreds of billions of parameters,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Mingda Chen , Xilun Chen , Wen-tau Yih