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1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Learning How to Ask: Querying LMs with Mixtures of Soft Prompts

   Qin and Eisner · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 2021

   The authors learn 'soft' prompts by gradient descent, as mixtures, to draw factual knowledge out of language models, and report that this hugely outperforms earlier prompting methods.

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   1. UncheckedStarting prompt learning from random values gives results nearly as good as starting from prompts written by people, across the tasks and models tested.“Moreover, this knowledge is cheap to elicit: random initialization is nearly as good as informed initialization.”