LM-CPPF: Paraphrasing-Guided Data Augmentation for Contrastive Prompt-Based Few-Shot Fine-Tuning (2023.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in pre-trained language models have been limited when fine-tuned on small datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose to add contrastive learning to prompt-based fine-tuning to improve model performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms other methods on multiple text classification benchmarks. |
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