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1. Computer Science › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

   SPoT: Better Frozen Model Adaptation through Soft Prompt Transfer

   Vu, Lester, Constant, Al‐Rfou and Cer · Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2022

   The paper proposes SPoT, which initialises a task's soft prompt from prompts learned on other tasks, improving Prompt Tuning, and also studies task transferability and a way to pick source tasks.

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   1. UncheckedAcross all model sizes, SPoT matches or beats full Model Tuning on SuperGLUE while using up to 27,000x fewer task-specific parameters.“More remarkably, across all model sizes, SPoT matches or outperforms standard Model Tuning (which fine-tunes all model parameters) on the SuperGLUE benchmark, while using up to 27,000x fewer task-specific parameters.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper reports that SPoT, which starts a task's soft prompt from one learned on other tasks, significantly improves Prompt Tuning across many tasks.“We show that SPoT significantly boosts the performance of Prompt Tuning across many tasks.”
   3. UncheckedIn a study of 26 NLP tasks across 160 source-target combinations, many tasks benefited one another when a learned prompt was transferred between them.“To understand where SPoT is most effective, we conduct a large-scale study on task transferability with 26 NLP tasks in 160 combinations, and demonstrate that many tasks can benefit each other via prompt transfer.”