FewshotQA: A simple framework for few-shot learning of question answering tasks using pre-trained text-to-text models (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing pre-trained models need fine-tuning on tens of thousands of examples to achieve good results. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that leverages pre-trained text-to-text models and aligns them with their pre-training framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms the XLM-Roberta-large on multiple QA benchmarks and is applicable to multilingual situations. |
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