Challenge: Prompting has gained tremendous attention as an efficient method for the adaptation of large-scale language models.
Approach: They propose a regularization method that guides a prompt to produce a task context properly.
Outcome: The proposed method improves prediction performance in a zero-shot in-context learning setting without demonstration examples for in-constitu learning.

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Challenge: Recent work has shown that pre-trained language models can perform zero-shot generalization to new tasks without annotated examples.
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PTP: Boosting Stability and Performance of Prompt Tuning with Perturbation-Based Regularizer (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing prompt tuning methods have training instability issues due to large variance of scores . existing prompt tuning algorithms have training stability issues due a slight change of input data .
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PPT: Pre-trained Prompt Tuning for Few-shot Learning (2022.acl-long)

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Challenge: Prompt tuning for pre-trained language models has shown remarkable performance . however, prompt tuning is still not fully explored .
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Exploiting Language Model Prompts Using Similarity Measures: A Case Study on the Word-in-Context Task (2022.acl-short)

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Challenge: Existing few-shot approaches fail on the semantic distinction task of the Word-in-Context dataset.
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Outcome: The proposed technique boosts few-shot performance to the level of fully supervised methods.
Self-supervised Meta-Prompt Learning with Meta-Gradient Regularization for Few-shot Generalization (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing methods for prompt tuning can overfit to few-shot training samples, causing overfitting . authors propose a new framework for prompt learning with supervised meta-learning .
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How Does In-Context Learning Help Prompt Tuning? (2024.findings-eacl)

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Challenge: a growing number of parameter-efficient adaptation methods are needed to fine-tune large language models.
Approach: They propose a method that combines prompt tuning and in-context learning to improve prompt tuning by concatenating a natural language demonstration with learned prompt embeddings.
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Context-Tuning: Learning Contextualized Prompts for Natural Language Generation (2022.coling-1)

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Challenge: Recent studies have shown that pretrained language models (PLMs) lack sufficient consideration of input semantics to generate natural language.
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The Power of Prompt Tuning for Low-Resource Semantic Parsing (2022.acl-short)

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Challenge: Prompt tuning is an effective method for adapting pre-trained language models to downstream tasks.
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The Power of Scale for Parameter-Efficient Prompt Tuning (2021.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Unlike discrete text prompts used by GPT-3, soft prompts are learned through backpropagation and can be tuned to incorporate signals from any number of labeled examples.
Approach: They propose a mechanism for learning "soft prompts" to condition frozen language models to perform specific downstream tasks.
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Avoiding Inference Heuristics in Few-shot Prompt-based Finetuning (2021.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Recent prompt-based approaches allow pretrained language models to achieve strong performances on few-shot finetuning by reformulating downstream task instances as a language modeling problem.
Approach: They propose to reformulate downstream tasks as a language modeling problem and add a regularization that preserves pretraining weights to the model to mitigate the destructive tendency of few-shot finetuning.
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