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Status: Unchecked ×Topic: Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning ×Clear all

6 claims from 3 papers

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

   Discernment and Social Learning as a Companion Training Layer

   Ouyang, Wu, Jiang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The authors fine-tuned GPT-3 with human demonstrations and feedback to make InstructGPT models, which they report follow user intent better, with gains in truthfulness and less toxic output.

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   1. UncheckedIn human evaluations on the authors' prompts, a 1.3B-parameter InstructGPT model's outputs were preferred to those of the 175B-parameter GPT-3.“In human evaluations on our prompt distribution, outputs from the 1.3B parameter InstructGPT model are preferred to outputs from the 175B GPT-3, despite having 100x fewer parameters.”
   2. UncheckedInstructGPT models were more truthful and less toxic than GPT-3, with only minimal performance losses on public NLP datasets.“Moreover, InstructGPT models show improvements in truthfulness and reductions in toxic output generation while having minimal performance regressions on public NLP datasets.”

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

   The Power of Scale for Parameter-Efficient Prompt Tuning

   Lester, Al‐Rfou and Constant · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2021

   The paper introduces prompt tuning, which learns soft prompts for frozen language models, and reports it matches full model tuning at large scale and aids robustness to domain transfer.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper says its prompt tuning method, which learns soft prompts for a frozen language model, beats GPT-3's few-shot learning by a large margin.“Our end-to-end learned approach outperforms GPT-3's "few-shot" learning by a large margin.”
   2. UncheckedIn T5 experiments, prompt tuning matches full model tuning once models pass billions of parameters, though it lags behind at smaller sizes.“More remarkably, through ablations on model size using T5, we show that prompt tuning becomes more competitive with scale: as models exceed billions of parameters, our method "closes the gap" and matches the strong performance of model tuning (where all model weights are tuned).”

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

   Composable Sparse Fine-Tuning for Cross-Lingual Transfer

   Alan, Ponti, Korhonen and Vulić · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“Most importantly, it outperforms adapters in zero-shot cross-lingual transfer by a large margin in a series of multilingual benchmarks, including Universal Dependencies, MasakhaNER, and AmericasNLI.”
   2. Unchecked“Based on an in-depth analysis, we additionally find that sparsity is crucial to prevent both 1) interference between the fine-tunings to be composed and 2) overfitting.”