Two Examples are Better than One: Context Regularization for Gradient-based Prompt Tuning (2023.findings-acl)
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| 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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