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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