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Recent studies have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) can improve their reasoning performance through self-generated few-shot examples, achieving results comparable to manually curated in-context examples. However, the underlying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Daehoon Gwak , Minseo Jung , Junwoo Park , Minho Park , ChaeHun Park , Junha Hyung , Jaegul Choo

Few-shot methods for accurate modeling under sparse label-settings have improved significantly. However, the applications of few-shot modeling in natural language processing remain solely in the field of document classification. With recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Anton Thielmann , Christoph Weisser , Benjamin Säfken

Large scale vision and language models can achieve impressive zero-shot recognition performance by mapping class specific text queries to image content. Two distinct challenges that remain however, are high sensitivity to the choice of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Sarah Parisot , Yongxin Yang , Steven McDonagh

We consider the problem of zero-shot one-class visual classification, extending traditional one-class classification to scenarios where only the label of the target class is available. This method aims to discriminate between positive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yassir Bendou , Giulia Lioi , Bastien Pasdeloup , Lukas Mauch , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Fabien Cardinaux , Vincent Gripon

Prompt-based tuning has been proven effective for pretrained language models (PLMs). While most of the existing work focuses on the monolingual prompts, we study the multilingual prompts for multilingual PLMs, especially in the zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Lianzhe Huang , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Furu Wei , Houfeng Wang

Recommendation is the task of ranking items (e.g. movies or products) according to individual user needs. Current systems rely on collaborative filtering and content-based techniques, which both require structured training data. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Damien Sileo , Wout Vossen , Robbe Raymaekers

Traditional text classification approaches often require a good amount of labeled data, which is difficult to obtain, especially in restricted domains or less widespread languages. This lack of labeled data has led to the rise of…

Developing models to automatically score students' written responses to science problems is critical for science education. However, collecting and labeling sufficient student responses for training models is time and cost-consuming. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Xuansheng Wu , Xinyu He , Tianming Liu , Ninghao Liu , Xiaoming Zhai

Large language models (LLMs) have shown the ability to produce fluent and cogent content, presenting both productivity opportunities and societal risks. To build trustworthy AI systems, it is imperative to distinguish between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Guangsheng Bao , Yanbin Zhao , Zhiyang Teng , Linyi Yang , Yue Zhang

While metrics available during pre-training, such as perplexity, correlate well with model performance at scaling-laws studies, their predictive capacities at a fixed model size remain unclear, hindering effective model selection and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Hansi Zeng , Kai Hui , Honglei Zhuang , Zhen Qin , Zhenrui Yue , Hamed Zamani , Dana Alon

When adapting large language models (LLMs) to a specific downstream task, two primary approaches are commonly employed: (1) prompt engineering, often with in-context few-shot learning, leveraging the model's inherent generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Jorg Bornschein , Clare Lyle , Yazhe Li , Amal Rannen-Triki , Xu Owen He , Razvan Pascanu

Prompt learning is a new learning paradigm which reformulates downstream tasks as similar pretraining tasks on pretrained models by leveraging textual prompts. Recent works have demonstrated that prompt learning is particularly useful for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yue Zhang , Hongliang Fei , Dingcheng Li , Tan Yu , Ping Li

Continual learning aims to refine model parameters for new tasks while retaining knowledge from previous tasks. Recently, prompt-based learning has emerged to leverage pre-trained models to be prompted to learn subsequent tasks without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jisu Han , Jaemin Na , Wonjun Hwang

Prompt learning is an effective method to customize Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for various downstream tasks, involving tuning very few parameters of input prompt tokens. Recently, prompt pretraining in large-scale dataset (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhenyuan Chen , Lingfeng Yang , Shuo Chen , Zhaowei Chen , Jiajun Liang , Xiang Li

The application of zero-shot learning in computer vision has been revolutionized by the use of image-text matching models. The most notable example, CLIP, has been widely used for both zero-shot classification and guiding generative models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Roni Paiss , Hila Chefer , Lior Wolf

Many recent prompting strategies for large language models (LLMs) query the model multiple times sequentially -- first to produce intermediate results and then the final answer. However, using these methods, both decoder and model are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Luca Beurer-Kellner , Mark Niklas Müller , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

Pretrained language models (LMs) perform well on many tasks even when learning from a few examples, but prior work uses many held-out examples to tune various aspects of learning, such as hyperparameters, training objectives, and natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ethan Perez , Douwe Kiela , Kyunghyun Cho

The zero-shot chain of thought (CoT) approach is often used in question answering (QA) by language models (LMs) for tasks that require multiple reasoning steps. However, some QA tasks hinge more on accessing relevant knowledge than on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiacan Yu , Hannah An , Lenhart K. Schubert

Over-prompting, a phenomenon where excessive examples in prompts lead to diminished performance in Large Language Models (LLMs), challenges the conventional wisdom about in-context few-shot learning. To investigate this few-shot dilemma, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yongjian Tang , Doruk Tuncel , Christian Koerner , Thomas Runkler

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been shown effective for zero-shot (0shot) text classification. 0shot models based on natural language inference (NLI) and next sentence prediction (NSP) employ cross-encoder architecture and infer by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Yu Bai , Chien-Sheng Wu , Wenhao Liu , Nazneen Rajani