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In five tasks and two LLMs, sampling from stable subsets chosen by CondAcc and Datamodels raised average accuracy by 7.7% and 6.3% over using the full training set.
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What the paper says, word for word
“Across five tasks and two LLMs, sampling from stable subsets selected by CondAcc and Datamodels improves average accuracy over sampling from the entire training set by 7.7% and 6.3%, respectively.”
From Chang and Jia (2023), arXiv 2212.10378. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 21 Oct 2026.
CondAcc:
A method that scores a training example by its average development-set in-context learning accuracy when it is combined with random other training examples.
Datamodels:
A method that learns linear regressors estimating how the presence of each training example influences the LLM's outputs.
stable subsets:
Selected groups of training examples from which randomly sampled prompts give more consistent in-context learning performance.
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The paper
Data Curation Alone Can Stabilize In-context Learning
Ting-Yun Chang and Robin Jia
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · published 2023 · arXiv 2212.10378
The paper shows that choosing a carefully curated subset of training examples makes in-context learning more stable and more accurate, without changing anything else about how the model is prompted.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 21 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
In-context learning is known to be sensitive to which examples go into the prompt, so random choices can give widely varying results. The claim says that curating the pool of examples beforehand, with no other changes such as prompt retrieval or calibration, gave higher average accuracy. If it holds, better and steadier prompting could come from improving the example pool alone.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 21 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
The story so far
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What the authors did
The authors introduced two ways to score and pick training examples, CondAcc and Datamodels, then compared prompts sampled from the chosen subsets with prompts sampled from the whole training set, across five tasks and two LLMs.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
Curating a subset of training data greatly stabilises in-context learning performance without other changes to the algorithm.
Stable subsets from CondAcc and Datamodels improve average accuracy by 7.7% and 6.3% respectively over sampling from the whole training set.
The stable subset examples are not especially diverse in content or low in perplexity, contrary to other work suggesting those matter.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"Across five tasks and two LLMs, sampling from stable subsets selected by CondAcc and Datamodels improves average accuracy over sampling from the entire training set by 7.7% and 6.3%, respectively."
(Chang et al., Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): In five tasks and two LLMs, sampling from stable subsets chosen by CondAcc and Datamodels raised average accuracy by 7.7% and 6.3% over using the full training set.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if an independent experiment on the same five tasks and two publicly available LLMs, applying CondAcc or Datamodels to select training subsets, yields average accuracy gains less than 7.0% for CondAcc or 6.0% for Datamodels compared with random sampling from the full training set.
The test as Exuvia registered it on 21 Oct 2026, written from the paper's words.
It states the method the paper reports: “The registered test applies CondAcc or Datamodels to select training subsets on the same five tasks and two publicly available LLMs, matching the paper’s method for choosing stable subsets”.
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General, by construction: “CondAcc scores a training example by its average dev‑set ICL accuracy when combined with random training examples, while Datamodels learns linear regressors that estimate how the presence of each training example influences LLM outputs”.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Ting-Yun Chang and Robin Jia (2023), Data Curation Alone Can Stabilize In-context Learning, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Ecdysis, claim ext:6f118865597afbc3. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:6f118865597afbc3
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