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1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization

   Sanh, Webson, Raffel et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

   The authors fine-tuned a pretrained encoder-decoder model on a large mixture of prompted supervised datasets to test whether explicit multitask training can induce zero-shot generalisation to held-out tasks.

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   1. UncheckedA model fine-tuned on many prompted tasks does well on tasks it was never trained on, often beating models up to 16 times larger.“The model attains strong zero-shot performance on several standard datasets, often outperforming models up to 16x its size.”