Challenge: In-context Learning (ICL) has proven to be effective in a variety of complex tasks, but the selection of the most beneficial demonstration examples remains an open research problem.
Approach: They propose a demonstration retrieval framework that learns a weighted combination of LLM hidden states where rich semantic information is encoded.
Outcome: Experiments on two popular NL2SQL benchmarks show that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art models.

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Challenge: In-context learning (ICL) is a dominant paradigm in natural language processing.
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GPT-RE: In-context Learning for Relation Extraction using Large Language Models (2023.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing approaches to in-context learning (ICL) are lacking in relation extraction (RE) . emergence of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 represents a significant advancement in natural language processing.
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