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Current methods for few-shot fine-tuning of pretrained masked language models (PLMs) require carefully engineered prompts and verbalizers for each new task to convert examples into a cloze-format that the PLM can score. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi , Luke Zettlemoyer , James Henderson , Marzieh Saeidi , Lambert Mathias , Veselin Stoyanov , Majid Yazdani

Contrastively trained text-image models have the remarkable ability to perform zero-shot classification, that is, classifying previously unseen images into categories that the model has never been explicitly trained to identify. However,…

Prompt tuning has been an extremely effective tool to adapt a pre-trained model to downstream tasks. However, standard prompt-based methods mainly consider the case of sufficient data of downstream tasks. It is still unclear whether the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ping Yu , Wei Wang , Chunyuan Li , Ruiyi Zhang , Zhanpeng Jin , Changyou Chen

In this work, we explore "prompt tuning", a simple yet effective mechanism for learning "soft prompts" to condition frozen language models to perform specific downstream tasks. Unlike the discrete text prompts used by GPT-3, soft prompts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Brian Lester , Rami Al-Rfou , Noah Constant

How can we extend a pre-trained model to many language understanding tasks, without labeled or additional unlabeled data? Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been effective for a wide range of NLP tasks. However, existing approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xuandong Zhao , Siqi Ouyang , Zhiguo Yu , Ming Wu , Lei Li

This paper presents a gradient-informed fine-tuning method for large language models under few-shot conditions. The goal is to enhance task adaptability and training stability when data is limited. The method builds on a base loss function…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hongye Zheng , Yichen Wang , Ray Pan , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Hanlu Zhang

In recent years, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in visual question answering tasks. However, directly applying existing fine-tuning methods to remote sensing (RS) images often leads to issues such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Qigan Sun , Chaoning Zhang , Jianwei Zhang , Xudong Wang , Jiehui Xie , Pengcheng Zheng , Haoyu Wang , Sungyoung Lee , Chi-lok Andy Tai , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Large pre-trained vision language models (VLMs) have shown impressive zero-shot ability on downstream tasks with manually designed prompt. To further adapt VLMs to downstream tasks, soft prompt is proposed to replace manually designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Shuanghao Bai , Yuedi Zhang , Wanqi Zhou , Zhirong Luan , Badong Chen

Conditional natural language generation methods often require either expensive fine-tuning or training a large language model from scratch. Both are unlikely to lead to good results without a substantial amount of data and computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yarik Menchaca Resendiz , Roman Klinger

Automatic short answer scoring (ASAS) helps reduce the grading burden on educators but often lacks detailed, explainable feedback. Existing methods in ASAS with feedback (ASAS-F) rely on fine-tuning language models with limited datasets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Menna Fateen , Bo Wang , Tsunenori Mine

Few-shot prompting and step-by-step reasoning have enhanced the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in tackling complex tasks including code generation. In this paper, we introduce a prompt selection and augmentation algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 On Tai Wu , Frodo Kin Sun Chan , Zunhao Zhang , Yan Nei Law , Benny Drescher , Edmond Shiao Bun Lai

We propose a simple yet a novel approach to improve completion in domain modeling activities. Our approach exploits the power of large language models by using few-shot prompt learning without the need to train or fine-tune those models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Meriem Ben Chaaben , Lola Burgueño , Houari Sahraoui

In prompt tuning, a prefix or suffix text is added to the prompt, and the embeddings (soft prompts) or token indices (hard prompts) of the prefix/suffix are optimized to gain more control over language models for specific tasks. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Shouchang Guo , Sonam Damani , Keng-hao Chang

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

Prompt-based pre-trained language models (PLMs) paradigm have succeeded substantially in few-shot natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, prior discrete prompt optimization methods require expert knowledge to design the base…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Chengzhengxu Li , Xiaoming Liu , Yichen Wang , Duyi Li , Yu Lan , Chao Shen

Existing cross-domain few-shot learning (CDFSL) methods, which develop source-domain training strategies to enhance model transferability, face challenges with large-scale pre-trained models (LMs) due to inaccessible source data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Huali Xu , Li Liu , Tianpeng Liu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Shuzhou Sun , Ming-Ming Cheng

The high cost of acquiring and annotating samples has made the `few-shot' learning problem of prime importance. Existing works mainly focus on improving performance on clean data and overlook robustness concerns on the data perturbed with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Ruchit Rawal , Inder Khatri , Anirban Chakraborty

Event detection (ED) is aimed to identify the key trigger words in unstructured text and predict the event types accordingly. Traditional ED models are too data-hungry to accommodate real applications with scarce labeled data. Besides,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Siyuan Wang , Jianming Zheng , Xuejun Hu , Fei Cai , Chengyu Song , Xueshan Luo

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly reshaped the landscape of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Among the various prompting techniques, few-shot prompting has gained considerable attention for its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Deshan Sumanathilaka , Nicholas Micallef , Julian Hough

Few-shot segmentation is a task to segment objects or regions of novel classes within an image given only a few annotated examples. In the generalized setting, the task extends to segment both the base and the novel classes. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Steve Andreas Immanuel , Hagai Raja Sinulingga