Challenge: Data-to-text generation methods are often limited by data sparsity and lack of training data.
Approach: They propose a retrieval-augmented modular prompt tuning method that generates texts with few hallucinations from structured data inputs.
Outcome: The proposed method generates texts with few hallucinations and achieves state-of-the-art performance on a dataset for drone handover message generation.

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Challenge: Prompt tuning is an effective method for adapting pre-trained language models to downstream tasks.
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Challenge: Pretrained language models (PLMs) have made remarkable progress in text generation tasks via fine-tuning.
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Challenge: Prompt tuning is an important technique for directing model behaviors and eliciting desired responses.
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Challenge: Existing RAG attacks rely on manipulating user queries, but exploit instructional prompts to manipulate RAG outputs covertly.
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