Context Learning
In-context learning (ICL) is a paradigm shift in machine learning, focusing on enabling models to adapt to new tasks using only a few examples provided within the input, without requiring parameter updates. Current research emphasizes understanding ICL's mechanisms, particularly within transformer-based large language models, and improving its effectiveness through techniques like enhanced example selection, chain-of-thought prompting, and addressing issues such as spurious correlations and copy bias. This research is significant because ICL offers a more efficient and adaptable approach to many machine learning problems, impacting fields ranging from natural language processing and computer vision to scientific computing and beyond.
Papers
Improving In-Context Learning with Prediction Feedback for Sentiment Analysis
Hongling Xu, Qianlong Wang, Yice Zhang, Min Yang, Xi Zeng, Bing Qin, Ruifeng Xu
Exact Conversion of In-Context Learning to Model Weights in Linearized-Attention Transformers
Brian K Chen, Tianyang Hu, Hui Jin, Hwee Kuan Lee, Kenji Kawaguchi
Learning to grok: Emergence of in-context learning and skill composition in modular arithmetic tasks
Tianyu He, Darshil Doshi, Aritra Das, Andrey Gromov
E-ICL: Enhancing Fine-Grained Emotion Recognition through the Lens of Prototype Theory
Zhou Yang, Zhaochun Ren, Chenglong Ye, Yufeng Wang, Haizhou Sun, Chao Chen, Xiaofei Zhu, Yunbing Wu, Xiangwen Liao
Eliciting the Priors of Large Language Models using Iterated In-Context Learning
Jian-Qiao Zhu, Thomas L. Griffiths
In-Context Learning of Physical Properties: Few-Shot Adaptation to Out-of-Distribution Molecular Graphs
Grzegorz Kaszuba, Amirhossein D. Naghdi, Dario Massa, Stefanos Papanikolaou, Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Piotr Sankowski
Universal In-Context Approximation By Prompting Fully Recurrent Models
Aleksandar Petrov, Tom A. Lamb, Alasdair Paren, Philip H.S. Torr, Adel Bibi
Demonstration Augmentation for Zero-shot In-context Learning
Yi Su, Yunpeng Tai, Yixin Ji, Juntao Li, Bowen Yan, Min Zhang
Selectively Answering Visual Questions
Julian Martin Eisenschlos, Hernán Maina, Guido Ivetta, Luciana Benotti