Summary of Understanding In-context Learning with a Pelican Soup Framework, by Ting-rui Chiang et al.
Understanding In-Context Learning with a Pelican Soup Framework
by Ting-Rui Chiang, Dani Yogatama
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes the Pelican Soup Framework, a theoretical framework for in-context learning in natural language processing. The framework introduces concepts such as common sense knowledge bases, general formalisms for classification tasks, and meaning associations. These concepts enable the establishment of an O(1/T) loss bound for in-context learning, where T is the number of example-label pairs. The framework also accounts for the effects of verbalizers and instruction tuning on model performance. To demonstrate its efficacy, the authors propose a toy setup called Calcutec and experiment with GPT2-Large on real-world NLP tasks. Results show that the Pelican Soup Framework effectively explains in-context learning. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us understand how computers learn new things by reading text. It proposes a new way of thinking about this process, which they call the Pelican Soup Framework. This framework is like a recipe for teaching computers to learn from context. The authors show that their approach can help explain why computers make mistakes or get it right when learning new things. They tested their ideas using a big language model and some real-world tasks. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Instruction tuning » Language model » Natural language processing » Nlp
