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Multi-prompt learning methods have emerged as an effective approach for facilitating the rapid adaptation of vision-language models to downstream tasks with limited resources. Existing multi-prompt learning methods primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Fei Song , Yi Li , Jiangmeng Li , Rui Wang , Changwen Zheng , Fanjiang Xu , Hui Xiong

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) is widely used for adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) for various tasks. Recently, there has been an increasing demand for fine-tuning a single LLM for multiple tasks because it requires overall…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Anjir Ahmed Chowdhury , Syed Zawad , Xiaolong Ma , Xu Dong , Feng Yan

Prompt-based learning has been an effective paradigm for large pretrained language models (LLM), enabling few-shot or even zero-shot learning. Black-box prompt search has received growing interest recently for its distinctive properties of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Han Zhou , Xingchen Wan , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen

Prompt-based tuning has emerged as a lightweight alternative to full fine-tuning in large vision-language models, enabling efficient adaptation via learned contextual prompts. This paradigm has recently been extended to federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Maozhen Zhang , Mengnan Zhao , Wei Wang , Bo Wang

The surge in intelligent applications driven by large language models (LLMs) has made it increasingly difficult for bandwidth-limited cloud servers to process extensive LLM workloads in real time without compromising user data privacy. To…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yuze Liu , Yunhan Wang , Tiehua Zhang , Zhishu Shen , Cheng Peng , Libing Wu , Feng Xia , Jiong Jin

We propose a diffusion-based framework for prompt optimization that leverages Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) to iteratively refine system prompts through masked denoising. By conditioning on interaction traces, including user queries,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shiyu Wang , Haolin Chen , Liangwei Yang , Jielin Qiu , Rithesh Murthy , Ming Zhu , Zixiang Chen , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong , Shelby Heinecke , Huan Wang

Since the emergence of large language models, prompt learning has become a popular method for optimizing and customizing these models. Special prompts, such as Chain-of-Thought, have even revealed previously unknown reasoning capabilities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Rui Pan , Shuo Xing , Shizhe Diao , Wenhe Sun , Xiang Liu , Kashun Shum , Renjie Pi , Jipeng Zhang , Tong Zhang

Large pre-trained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on natural language understanding (NLU) tasks through fine-tuning. However, fine-tuned models still suffer from overconfident predictions, especially in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Guande He , Jianfei Chen , Jun Zhu

With the emergence of large pre-trained vison-language model like CLIP, transferable representations can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks via prompt tuning. Prompt tuning tries to probe the beneficial information for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Yinghui Xing , Qirui Wu , De Cheng , Shizhou Zhang , Guoqiang Liang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Fine-tuning pretrained language models (PLMs) for downstream tasks is a large-scale optimization problem, in which the choice of the training algorithm critically determines how well the trained model can generalize to unseen test data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Guangliang Liu , Zhiyu Xue , Xitong Zhang , Kristen Marie Johnson , Rongrong Wang

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) methods harness previous experiences to derive an optimal policy, forming the foundation for pre-trained large-scale models (PLMs). When encountering tasks not seen before, PLMs often utilize several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shengchao Hu , Wanru Zhao , Weixiong Lin , Li Shen , Ya Zhang , Dacheng Tao

This paper presents a parameter-efficient prompt tuning method, named PPT, to adapt a large multi-modal model for 3D point cloud understanding. Existing strategies are quite expensive in computation and storage, and depend on time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Hongyu Sun , Yongcai Wang , Wang Chen , Haoran Deng , Deying Li

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

In computer vision, fine-tuning is the de-facto approach to leverage pre-trained vision models to perform downstream tasks. However, deploying it in practice is quite challenging, due to adopting parameter inefficient global update and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Xing Nie , Bolin Ni , Jianlong Chang , Gaomeng Meng , Chunlei Huo , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Qi Tian , Chunhong Pan

Large-scale pre-trained models (PTMs) provide remarkable zero-shot classification capability covering a wide variety of object classes. However, practical applications do not always require the classification of all kinds of objects, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yusuke Kuwana , Yuta Goto , Takashi Shibata , Go Irie

We describe PromptBoosting, a query-efficient procedure for building a text classifier from a neural language model (LM) without access to the LM's parameters, gradients, or hidden representations. This form of "black-box" classifier…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Bairu Hou , Joe O'Connor , Jacob Andreas , Shiyu Chang , Yang Zhang

Direct Prompt Injection (DPI) attacks pose a critical security threat to Large Language Models (LLMs) due to their low barrier of execution and high potential damage. To address the impracticality of existing white-box/gray-box methods and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Minghui Li , Hao Zhang , Yechao Zhang , Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , pei Xiaobing , Jing Wang

We introduce Directional Stimulus Prompting, a novel framework for guiding black-box large language models (LLMs) toward specific desired outputs. Instead of directly adjusting LLMs, our method employs a small tunable policy model (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Zekun Li , Baolin Peng , Pengcheng He , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao , Xifeng Yan

Recent years have witnessed increasing interests in prompt-based learning in which models can be trained on only a few annotated instances, making them suitable in low-resource settings. When using prompt-based learning for text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Hongjing Li , Hanqi Yan , Yanran Li , Li Qian , Yulan He , Lin Gui

It has been shown for English that discrete and soft prompting perform strongly in few-shot learning with pretrained language models (PLMs). In this paper, we show that discrete and soft prompting perform better than finetuning in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Mengjie Zhao , Hinrich Schütze
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