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Open-Domain Question Answering (ODQA) aims to answer questions without explicitly providing specific background documents. This task becomes notably challenging in a zero-shot setting where no data is available to train tailored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Junlong Li , Jinyuan Wang , Zhuosheng Zhang , Hai Zhao

We equip a smaller Language Model to generalise to answering challenging compositional questions that have not been seen in training. To do so we propose a combination of multitask supervised pretraining on up to 93 tasks designed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tim Hartill , Neset Tan , Michael Witbrock , Patricia J. Riddle

Prompt-based learning, with its capability to tackle zero-shot and few-shot NLP tasks, has gained much attention in community. The main idea is to bridge the gap between NLP downstream tasks and language modeling (LM), by mapping these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Yulong Chen , Yang Liu , Li Dong , Shuohang Wang , Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Yue Zhang

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), many researchers are attempting to extract structured information from document-level biomedical literature by fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). However, they face significant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Lei Zhao , Ling Kang , Quan Guo

Social scientists quickly adopted large language models due to their ability to annotate documents without supervised training, an ability known as zero-shot learning. However, due to their compute demands, cost, and often proprietary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Michael Burnham , Kayla Kahn , Ryan Yank Wang , Rachel X. Peng

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been shown to deliver impressive performance in various NLP tasks. To tackle multi-step reasoning tasks, few-shot chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting includes a few manually crafted step-by-step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Lei Wang , Wanyu Xu , Yihuai Lan , Zhiqiang Hu , Yunshi Lan , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Ee-Peng Lim

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

Prompt engineering is an essential technique for enhancing the abilities of large language models (LLMs) by providing explicit and specific instructions. It enables LLMs to excel in various tasks, such as arithmetic reasoning, question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Fobo Shi , Peijun Qing , Dong Yang , Nan Wang , Youbo Lei , Haonan Lu , Xiaodong Lin , Duantengchuan Li

Zero-shot information extraction (IE) aims to build IE systems from the unannotated text. It is challenging due to involving little human intervention. Challenging but worthwhile, zero-shot IE reduces the time and effort that data labeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiang Wei , Xingyu Cui , Ning Cheng , Xiaobin Wang , Xin Zhang , Shen Huang , Pengjun Xie , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Meishan Zhang , Yong Jiang , Wenjuan Han

Despite significant progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their performance on complex, multi-page document comprehension remains inadequate, largely due to the lack of high-quality, document-level datasets. While current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yuchen Duan , Zhe Chen , Yusong Hu , Weiyun Wang , Shenglong Ye , Botian Shi , Lewei Lu , Qibin Hou , Tong Lu , Hongsheng Li , Jifeng Dai , Wenhai Wang

Large language models (LLMs) enable zero-shot approaches in open-domain question answering (ODQA), yet with limited advancements as the reader is compared to the retriever. This study aims at the feasibility of a zero-shot reader that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Sukmin Cho , Jeongyeon Seo , Soyeong Jeong , Jong C. Park

Deep learning algorithms are dependent on the availability of large-scale annotated clinical text datasets. The lack of such publicly available datasets is the biggest bottleneck for the development of clinical Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Sonish Sivarajkumar , Yanshan Wang

Recent methods for visual question answering rely on large-scale annotated datasets. Manual annotation of questions and answers for videos, however, is tedious, expensive and prevents scalability. In this work, we propose to avoid manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Antoine Yang , Antoine Miech , Josef Sivic , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in mathematical and commonsense reasoning tasks using chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting techniques. But can they perform emotional reasoning by concatenating `Let's think…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Ankita Bhaumik , Tomek Strzalkowski

This study investigates the performance of the zero-shot method in classifying data using three large language models, alongside two models with large input token sizes and the two pre-trained models on legal data. Our main dataset comes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hoorieh Sabzevari , Mohammadmostafa Rostamkhani , Sauleh Eetemadi

Despite remarkable advancements in recent voice conversion (VC) systems, enhancing speaker similarity in zero-shot scenarios remains challenging. This challenge arises from the difficulty of generalizing and adapting speaker characteristics…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ha-Yeong Choi , Jaehan Park

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

Recently, dataset-generation-based zero-shot learning has shown promising results by training a task-specific model with a dataset synthesized from large pre-trained language models (PLMs). The final task-specific model often achieves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Jiacheng Ye , Jiahui Gao , Jiangtao Feng , Zhiyong Wu , Tao Yu , Lingpeng Kong

Re-rankers, which order retrieved documents with respect to the relevance score on the given query, have gained attention for the information retrieval (IR) task. Rather than fine-tuning the pre-trained language model (PLM), the large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sukmin Cho , Soyeong Jeong , Jeongyeon Seo , Jong C. Park

Question Generation aims to automatically generate questions based on a given input provided as context. A controllable question generation scheme focuses on generating questions with specific attributes, allowing better control. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Bernardo Leite , Henrique Lopes Cardoso