Knowledgeable Prompt-tuning: Incorporating Knowledge into Prompt Verbalizer for Text Classification (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies suggest that pre-trained language models have gained rich knowledge during pre-training. |
| Approach: | They propose to tune pre-trained language models with task-specific prompts to improve and stabilize prompttuning. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments on zero and few-shot text classification tasks show that prompt-tuning improves and stabilizes prompttun-ing. |
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