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Recent works show that learning contextualized embeddings for words is beneficial for downstream tasks. BERT is one successful example of this approach. It learns embeddings by solving two tasks, which are masked language model (masked LM)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Çağla Aksoy , Alper Ahmetoğlu , Tunga Güngör

Fine-tuned pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved awesome performance on almost all NLP tasks. By using additional prompts to fine-tune PLMs, we can further stimulate the rich knowledge distributed in PLMs to better serve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Xu Han , Weilin Zhao , Ning Ding , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Existing approaches to few-shot learning in NLP rely on large language models (LLMs) and/or fine-tuning of these to generalise on out-of-distribution data. In this work, we propose a novel few-shot learning approach based on soft-label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Avyav Kumar Singh , Ekaterina Shutova , Helen Yannakoudakis

Large-scale pre-trained language models have contributed significantly to natural language processing by demonstrating remarkable abilities as few-shot learners. However, their effectiveness depends mainly on scaling the model parameters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Ningyu Zhang , Luoqiu Li , Xiang Chen , Shumin Deng , Zhen Bi , Chuanqi Tan , Fei Huang , Huajun Chen

Few-shot learning aims at rapidly adapting to novel categories with only a handful of samples at test time, which has been predominantly tackled with the idea of meta-learning. However, meta-learning approaches essentially learn across a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jinhai Yang , Hua Yang , Lin Chen

Few-shot classification aims to adapt to new tasks with limited labeled examples. To fully use the accessible data, recent methods explore suitable measures for the similarity between the query and support images and better high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Kaihui Cheng , Chule Yang , Xiao Liu , Naiyang Guan , Zhiyuan Wang

Recent studies have revealed the intriguing few-shot learning ability of pretrained language models (PLMs): They can quickly adapt to a new task when fine-tuned on a small amount of labeled data formulated as prompts, without requiring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yu Meng , Martin Michalski , Jiaxin Huang , Yu Zhang , Tarek Abdelzaher , Jiawei Han

Recent work on few-shot learning \cite{tian2020rethinking} showed that quality of learned representations plays an important role in few-shot classification performance. On the other hand, the goal of self-supervised learning is to recover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Nathaniel Simard , Guillaume Lagrange

Text classification is a well-studied and versatile building block for many NLP applications. Yet, existing approaches require either large annotated corpora to train a model with or, when using large language models as a base, require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Arth Bohra , Govert Verkes , Artem Harutyunyan , Pascal Weinberger , Giovanni Campagna

Using prompts to utilize language models to perform various downstream tasks, also known as prompt-based learning or prompt-learning, has lately gained significant success in comparison to the pre-train and fine-tune paradigm. Nonetheless,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yi Sun , Yu Zheng , Chao Hao , Hangping Qiu

Prompt-based methods have been successfully applied in sentence-level few-shot learning tasks, mostly owing to the sophisticated design of templates and label words. However, when applied to token-level labeling tasks such as NER, it would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Ruotian Ma , Xin Zhou , Tao Gui , Yiding Tan , Linyang Li , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Prompt tuning, in which a base pretrained model is adapted to each task via conditioning on learned prompt vectors, has emerged as a promising approach for efficiently adapting large language models to multiple downstream tasks. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zhen Wang , Rameswar Panda , Leonid Karlinsky , Rogerio Feris , Huan Sun , Yoon Kim

Few-shot classification is a challenging task which aims to formulate the ability of humans to learn concepts from limited prior data and has drawn considerable attention in machine learning. Recent progress in few-shot classification has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Meiyu Huang , Xueshuang Xiang , Yao Xu

Gradient-based meta-learning techniques aim to distill useful prior knowledge from a set of training tasks such that new tasks can be learned more efficiently with gradient descent. While these methods have achieved successes in various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Mike Huisman , Aske Plaat , Jan N. van Rijn

We propose a shared task on training instance selection for few-shot neural text generation. Large-scale pretrained language models have led to dramatic improvements in few-shot text generation. Nonetheless, almost all previous work simply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Ernie Chang , Xiaoyu Shen , Alex Marin , Vera Demberg

Meta-learning methods have been extensively studied and applied in computer vision, especially for few-shot classification tasks. The key idea of meta-learning for few-shot classification is to mimic the few-shot situations faced at test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Chenghao Liu , Zhihao Wang , Doyen Sahoo , Yuan Fang , Kun Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

Graph few-shot learning is of great importance among various graph learning tasks. Under the few-shot scenario, models are often required to conduct classification given limited labeled samples. Existing graph few-shot learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Song Wang , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

Deploying natural language processing (NLP) models on mobile platforms requires models that can adapt across diverse applications while remaining efficient in memory and computation. We investigate pre-finetuning strategies to enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Junyi Zhu , Savas Ozkan , Andrea Maracani , Sinan Mutlu , Cho Jung Min , Mete Ozay

Meta-learning for few-shot learning entails acquiring a prior over previous tasks and experiences, such that new tasks be learned from small amounts of data. However, a critical challenge in few-shot learning is task ambiguity: even when a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Chelsea Finn , Kelvin Xu , Sergey Levine

Prior work on language models (LMs) shows that training on a large number of diverse tasks improves few-shot learning (FSL) performance on new tasks. We take this to the extreme, automatically extracting 413,299 tasks from internet tables -…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Jun Shern Chan , Michael Pieler , Jonathan Jao , Jérémy Scheurer , Ethan Perez