HINT: Hypernetwork Instruction Tuning for Efficient Zero- and Few-Shot Generalisation (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent NLP models have shown the remarkable ability to generalise ‘zero-shot’ to new tasks using only natural language instructions as guidance. |
| Approach: | They introduce Hypernetworks for INstruction Tuning (HINT) which converts task instructions and examples into parameter-efficient modules inserted into an underlying model using a pretrained text encoder. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform strong state-of-the-art models by over 10% when controlling for compute. |
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