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Prompt tuning has emerged as a key technique for adapting large pre-trained Decision Transformers (DTs) in offline Reinforcement Learning (RL), particularly in multi-task and few-shot settings. The Prompting Decision Transformer (PDT)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Finn Rietz , Oleg Smirnov , Sara Karimi , Lele Cao

Few-shot natural language processing (NLP) refers to NLP tasks that are accompanied with merely a handful of labeled examples. This is a real-world challenge that an AI system must learn to handle. Usually we rely on collecting more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Wenpeng Yin

Standard few-shot benchmarks are often built upon simplifying assumptions on the query sets, which may not always hold in practice. In particular, for each task at testing time, the classes effectively present in the unlabeled query set are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Ségolène Martin , Malik Boudiaf , Emilie Chouzenoux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Ismail Ben Ayed

The effectiveness of prompt learning has been demonstrated in different pre-trained language models. By formulating suitable template and choosing representative label mapping, prompt learning can be used as an efficient knowledge probe.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Jinta Weng , Yue Hu , Jing Qiu , Heyan Huan

Recent work has shown that, under certain assumptions, zero-shot reinforcement learning (RL) methods can generalise to any unseen task in an environment after reward-free pre-training. Access to Markov states is one such assumption, yet, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Scott Jeen , Tom Bewley , Jonathan M. Cullen

The ability to specify robot commands by a non-expert user is critical for building generalist agents capable of solving a large variety of tasks. One convenient way to specify the intended robot goal is by a video of a person demonstrating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Elliot Chane-Sane , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Few-shot abstractive summarization has become a challenging task in natural language generation. To support it, we designed a novel soft prompts architecture coupled with a prompt pre-training plus fine-tuning paradigm that is effective and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Xiaochen Liu , Yang Gao , Yu Bai , Jiawei Li , Yinan Hu , Heyan Huang , Boxing Chen

Most approaches in few-shot learning rely on costly annotated data related to the goal task domain during (pre-)training. Recently, unsupervised meta-learning methods have exchanged the annotation requirement for a reduction in few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Carlos Medina , Arnout Devos , Matthias Grossglauser

Masked language models like BERT can perform text classification in a zero-shot fashion by reformulating downstream tasks as text infilling. However, this approach is highly sensitive to the template used to prompt the model, yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Mozes van de Kar , Mengzhou Xia , Danqi Chen , Mikel Artetxe

In this work, we address the challenge of zero-shot generalization (ZSG) in Reinforcement Learning (RL), where agents must adapt to entirely novel environments without additional training. We argue that understanding and utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tidiane Camaret Ndir , André Biedenkapp , Noor Awad

Recently, a boom of papers has shown extraordinary progress in zero-shot and few-shot learning with various prompt-based models. It is commonly argued that prompts help models to learn faster in the same way that humans learn faster when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Albert Webson , Ellie Pavlick

While large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly adopted for machine translation (MT), their performance for specialist domains such as medicine and law remains an open challenge. Prior work has shown that LLMs can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Bryan Li , Jiaming Luo , Eleftheria Briakou , Colin Cherry

Enhancing the zero-shot performance of instruction-following models requires heavy computation, either by scaling the total number of training datasets or the model size. In this work, we explore how retrieval of soft prompts obtained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Seonghyeon Ye , Joel Jang , Doyoung Kim , Yongrae Jo , Minjoon Seo

We consider the problem of generalization in reinforcement learning where visual aspects of the observations might differ, e.g. when there are different backgrounds or change in contrast, brightness, etc. We assume that our agent has access…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Bonnie Li , Vincent François-Lavet , Thang Doan , Joelle Pineau

Robotic manipulation policies often fail to generalize because they must simultaneously learn where to attend, what actions to take, and how to execute them. We argue that high-level reasoning about where and what can be offloaded to…

The ability to learn new concepts with small amounts of data is a critical aspect of intelligence that has proven challenging for deep learning methods. Meta-learning has emerged as a promising technique for leveraging data from previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Mingzhang Yin , George Tucker , Mingyuan Zhou , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Robots still lag behind humans in their ability to generalize from limited experience, particularly when transferring learned behaviors to long-horizon tasks in unseen environments. We present the first method that enables robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Naman Shah , Jayesh Nagpal , Siddharth Srivastava

Text matching is a fundamental technique in both information retrieval and natural language processing. Text matching tasks share the same paradigm that determines the relationship between two given texts. The relationships vary from task…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Shicheng Xu , Liang Pang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

The advantages of pre-trained large language models (LLMs) are apparent in a variety of language processing tasks. But can a language model's knowledge be further harnessed to effectively disambiguate objects and navigate decision-making…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Connie Jiang , Yiqing Xu , David Hsu

Determinantal point processes (DPPs), which arise in random matrix theory and quantum physics, are natural models for subset selection problems where diversity is preferred. Among many remarkable properties, DPPs offer tractable algorithms…

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