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Large language models have shown their ability to become effective few-shot learners with prompting, revolutionizing the paradigm of learning with data scarcity. However, this approach largely depends on the quality of prompt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Xiaoming Liu , Chen Liu , Zhaohan Zhang , Chengzhengxu Li , Longtian Wang , Yu Lan , Chao Shen

Prompt learning has emerged as an efficient alternative for fine-tuning foundational models, such as CLIP, for various downstream tasks. However, there is no work that provides a comprehensive explanation for the working mechanism of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shuailei Ma , Chen-Wei Xie , Ying Wei , Siyang Sun , Jiaqi Fan , Xiaoyi Bao , Yuxin Guo , Yun Zheng

Text style transfer, an important research direction in natural language processing, aims to adapt the text to various preferences but often faces challenges with limited resources. In this work, we introduce a novel method termed Style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Chunzhen Jin , Yongfeng Huang , Yaqi Wang , Peng Cao , Osmar Zaiane

Obtaining labeled data to train a model for a task of interest is often expensive. Prior work shows training models on multitask data augmented with task descriptions (prompts) effectively transfers knowledge to new tasks. Towards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hamish Ivison , Noah A. Smith , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Pradeep Dasigi

Adapter-based tuning has recently arisen as an alternative to fine-tuning. It works by adding light-weight adapter modules to a pretrained language model (PrLM) and only updating the parameters of adapter modules when learning on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ruidan He , Linlin Liu , Hai Ye , Qingyu Tan , Bosheng Ding , Liying Cheng , Jia-Wei Low , Lidong Bing , Luo Si

Recently, pretrained language models (PLMs) have had exceptional success in language generation. To leverage the rich knowledge encoded by PLMs, a simple yet powerful paradigm is to use prompts in the form of either discrete tokens or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Tianyi Tang , Junyi Li , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

This study addresses the generalization limitations commonly observed in large language models under multi-task and cross-domain settings. Unlike prior methods such as SPoT, which depends on fixed prompt templates, our study introduces a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xin Hu , Yue Kang , Guanzi Yao , Tianze Kang , Mengjie Wang , Heyao Liu

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

Pre-trained point cloud models have found extensive applications in 3D understanding tasks like object classification and part segmentation. However, the prevailing strategy of full fine-tuning in downstream tasks leads to large per-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Yaohua Zha , Jinpeng Wang , Tao Dai , Bin Chen , Zhi Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

Pre-trained language models derive substantial linguistic and factual knowledge from the massive corpora on which they are trained, and prompt engineering seeks to align these models to specific tasks. Unfortunately, existing prompt…

There have been many recent investigations into prompt-based training of transformer language models for new text genres in low-resource settings. The prompt-based training approach has been found to be effective in generalizing pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jennifer D'Souza , Moussab Hrou , Sören Auer

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

In this work, we aim to establish a Bayesian adaptive learning framework by focusing on estimating latent variables in deep neural network (DNN) models. Latent variables indeed encode both transferable distributional information and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-26 Hu Hu , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Chin-Hui Lee

Prompting has recently been shown as a promising approach for applying pre-trained language models to perform downstream tasks. We present Multi-Stage Prompting (MSP), a simple and automatic approach for leveraging pre-trained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhixing Tan , Xiangwen Zhang , Shuo Wang , Yang Liu

In recent years, the growing interest in Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced prompt engineering, transitioning from manual design to model-based optimization. Prompts for LLMs generally comprise two components: the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Qinhao Zhou , Xiang Xiang , Kun He , John E. Hopcroft

Deep neural networks require a large amount of labeled training data during supervised learning. However, collecting and labeling so much data might be infeasible in many cases. In this paper, we introduce a source-target selective joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Weifeng Ge , Yizhou Yu

Large pre-trained vision-language (VL) models have shown significant promise in adapting to various downstream tasks. However, fine-tuning the entire network is challenging due to the massive number of model parameters. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jingchen Sun , Jiayu Qin , Zihao Lin , Changyou Chen

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

This paper introduces \textbf{Q-tuning}, a novel approach for continual prompt tuning that enables the lifelong learning of a pre-trained language model. When learning a new task, Q-tuning trains a task-specific prompt by adding it to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yanhui Guo , Shaoyuan Xu , Jinmiao Fu , Jia Liu , Chaosheng Dong , Bryan Wang

The in-context learning capabilities of modern language models have motivated a deeper mathematical understanding of sequence models. A line of recent work has shown that linear attention models can emulate projected gradient descent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Xiangyu Chang , Yingcong Li , Muti Kara , Samet Oymak , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury