Summary of Unraveling the Mechanics Of Learning-based Demonstration Selection For In-context Learning, by Hui Liu et al.
Unraveling the Mechanics of Learning-Based Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning
by Hui Liu, Wenya Wang, Hao Sun, Chris Xing Tian, Chenqi Kong, Xin Dong, Haoliang Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a study on learning-based demonstration selection methods for Large Language Models (LLMs) that exhibit impressive in-context learning capabilities. While these methods have shown benefits, their underlying mechanisms are unclear, making it challenging to address limitations like high training costs and poor generalization. The authors analyze the working mechanisms of these methods and identify two key factors: integrating different levels of task-agnostic text similarities between exemplars and test cases enhances generalization, while incorporating task-specific labels improves performance on specific tasks. They validate these findings across ten datasets and various LLMs, introducing simplified exemplar selection methods that eliminate costly inference overhead. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about how computers learn from a few examples of what to do. It looks at ways to choose the best examples for this learning process. Right now, these methods are not very clear or transparent, which makes it hard to make them better. The researchers studied why these methods work and found two important things: using different levels of similarities between examples and test cases helps computers learn more broadly, while adding labels specific to each task improves performance on that task. They tested their findings with many datasets and computer models, and came up with simpler ways to choose the best examples. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Generalization * Inference
