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In this work, we explore the application of Large Language Models to zero-shot Lay Summarisation. We propose a novel two-stage framework for Lay Summarisation based on real-life processes, and find that summaries generated with this method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Tomas Goldsack , Carolina Scarton , Chenghua Lin

Large pre-trained language models have brought remarkable progress in NLP. Pre-training and Fine-tuning have given state-of-art performance across tasks in text processing. Data Augmentation techniques have also helped build state-of-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Kshitij Gupta

Zero-shot learning enables models to generalise to unseen classes by leveraging semantic information, bridging the gap between training and testing sets with non-overlapping classes. While much research has focused on zero-shot learning in…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Ysobel Sims , Alexandre Mendes , Stephan Chalup

With the development of large language models, fine-tuning has emerged as an effective method to enhance performance in specific scenarios by injecting domain-specific knowledge. In this context, model merging techniques provide a solution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zijian Li , Xiaocheng Feng , Huixin Liu , Yichong Huang , Ting Liu , Bing Qin

Model merging has emerged as a promising technique for enhancing large language models, though its application in large-scale pre-training remains relatively unexplored. In this paper, we present a comprehensive investigation of model…

This paper narrows the performance gap between small, specialized models and significantly larger general-purpose models through domain adaptation via continual pre-training and merging. We address the scarcity of specialized non-English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Niclas Doll , Jasper Schulze Buschhoff , Shalaka Satheesh , Hammam Abdelwahab , Héctor Allende-Cid , Katrin Klug

Large-scale contrastive vision-language pre-trained models provide the zero-shot model achieving competitive performance across a range of image classification tasks without requiring training on downstream data. Recent works have confirmed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Giung Nam , Byeongho Heo , Juho Lee

Foundation models like CLIP allow zero-shot transfer on various tasks without additional training data. Yet, the zero-shot performance is less competitive than a fully supervised one. Thus, to enhance the performance, fine-tuning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Beier Zhu , Kaihua Tang , Qianru Sun , Hanwang Zhang

Currently available benchmarks for few-shot learning (machine learning with few training examples) are limited in the domains they cover, primarily focusing on image classification. This work aims to alleviate this reliance on image-based…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Calum Heggan , Sam Budgett , Timothy Hospedales , Mehrdad Yaghoobi

Model merging has emerged as an efficient method to combine multiple single-task fine-tuned models. The merged model can enjoy multi-task capabilities without expensive training. While promising, merging into a single model often suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Akash Dhasade , Divyansh Jhunjhunwala , Milos Vujasinovic , Gauri Joshi , Anne-Marie Kermarrec

Federated learning is an effective way of extracting insights from different user devices while preserving the privacy of users. However, new classes with completely unseen data distributions can stream across any device in a federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Gautham Krishna Gudur , Satheesh K. Perepu

Large language models trained primarily in a monolingual setting have demonstrated their ability to generalize to machine translation using zero- and few-shot examples with in-context learning. However, even though zero-shot translations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Weiting Tan , Haoran Xu , Lingfeng Shen , Shuyue Stella Li , Kenton Murray , Philipp Koehn , Benjamin Van Durme , Yunmo Chen

Audio-Language Models (ALMs), trained on paired audio-text data, are designed to process, understand, and reason about audio-centric multimodal content. Unlike traditional supervised approaches that use predefined labels, ALMs leverage…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yi Su , Jisheng Bai , Qisheng Xu , Kele Xu , Yong Dou

Domain shift, caused by variations in imaging modalities and acquisition protocols, limits model generalization in medical image segmentation. While foundation models (FMs) trained on diverse large-scale data hold promise for zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Soumitri Chattopadhyay , Basar Demir , Marc Niethammer

Certifying the IID generalisation ability of deep networks is the first of many requirements for trusting AI in high-stakes applications from medicine to security. However, when instantiating generalisation bounds for deep networks it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Taehoon Kim , Henry Gouk , Minyoung Kim , Timothy Hospedales

We present a methodology for improving the accuracy of faithfulness evaluation in Large Language Models (LLMs). The proposed methodology is based on the combination of elementary faithfulness metrics into a combined (fused) metric, for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Ben Malin , Tatiana Kalganova , Nikolaos Boulgouris

Advancements in Natural Language Processing have enabled specialized language models, but integrating domain-specific knowledge into general-purpose models in multilingual settings remains challenging, particularly for technical vocabulary.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Thibault Rousset , Taisei Kakibuchi , Yusuke Sasaki , Yoshihide Nomura

Future deep learning systems call for techniques that can deal with the evolving nature of temporal data and scarcity of annotations when new problems occur. As a step towards this goal, we present FUSION (Few-shot UnSupervIsed cONtinual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Alessia Bertugli , Stefano Vincenzi , Simone Calderara , Andrea Passerini

As open-weight large language models (LLMs) achieve ever more impressive performances across a wide range of tasks in English, practitioners aim to adapt these models to different languages. However, such language adaptation is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Anton Alexandrov , Veselin Raychev , Mark Niklas Müller , Ce Zhang , Martin Vechev , Kristina Toutanova

Model merging integrates multiple task-specific models into a single consolidated one. Recent research has made progress in improving merging performance for in-distribution or multi-task scenarios, but domain generalization in model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Levy Chaves , Chao Zhou , Rebekka Burkholz , Eduardo Valle , Sandra Avila