Challenge: Recent studies show that PEFT on small pre-trained language models improves multitasking capabilities.
Approach: They propose a multi-task learning framework that enables transfer of prior knowledge across tasks . they attach task descriptions to input samples and map them to task embeddings .
Outcome: The proposed method improves performance on a T5 model and in decoder-only models .

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