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20192024
most citedPre-train, Prompt, and Predict: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Methods in Natural Language Processing

519 citations · 789 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Instruction-tuned Language Models are Better Knowledge Learners

Zhengbao Jiang, Zhiqing Sun, Weijia Shi +6

In order for large language model (LLM)-based assistants to effectively adapt to evolving information needs, it must be possible to update their factual knowledge through continued…

cs.CL2023★ 9 cited

Learning to Filter Context for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Zhiruo Wang, Jun Araki, Zhengbao Jiang +2

On-the-fly retrieval of relevant knowledge has proven an essential element of reliable systems for tasks such as open-domain question answering and fact verification. However, beca…

cs.CL2023★ 18 cited

Active Retrieval Augmented Generation

Zhengbao Jiang, Frank F. Xu, Luyu Gao +6

Despite the remarkable ability of large language models (LMs) to comprehend and generate language, they have a tendency to hallucinate and create factually inaccurate output. Augme…

cs.CL2023★ 9 cited

From Zero to Hero: Examining the Power of Symbolic Tasks in Instruction Tuning

Qian Liu, Fan Zhou, Zhengbao Jiang +2

Fine-tuning language models on tasks with instructions has demonstrated potential in facilitating zero-shot generalization to unseen tasks. In this paper, we introduce a straightfo…

cs.CL2023★ 81 cited

GPTScore: Evaluate as You Desire

Jinlan Fu, See-Kiong Ng, Zhengbao Jiang +1

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has enabled the development of sophisticated models that are capable of producing high-caliber text, images, and other outputs through the u…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Retrieval as Attention: End-to-end Learning of Retrieval and Reading within a Single Transformer

Zhengbao Jiang, Luyu Gao, Jun Araki +4

Systems for knowledge-intensive tasks such as open-domain question answering (QA) usually consist of two stages: efficient retrieval of relevant documents from a large corpus and d…

cs.CL2022

SPE: Symmetrical Prompt Enhancement for Fact Probing

Yiyuan Li, Tong Che, Yezhen Wang +3

Pretrained language models (PLMs) have been shown to accumulate factual knowledge during pretrainingng (Petroni et al., 2019). Recent works probe PLMs for the extent of this knowle…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Understanding and Improving Zero-shot Multi-hop Reasoning in Generative Question Answering

Zhengbao Jiang, Jun Araki, Haibo Ding +1

Generative question answering (QA) models generate answers to questions either solely based on the parameters of the model (the closed-book setting) or additionally retrieving rele…

cs.CL2022★ 8 cited

EditEval: An Instruction-Based Benchmark for Text Improvements

Jane Dwivedi-Yu, Timo Schick, Zhengbao Jiang +6

Evaluation of text generation to date has primarily focused on content created sequentially, rather than improvements on a piece of text. Writing, however, is naturally an iterativ…

cs.CL2022★ 44 cited

PEER: A Collaborative Language Model

Timo Schick, Jane Dwivedi-Yu, Zhengbao Jiang +7

Textual content is often the output of a collaborative writing process: We start with an initial draft, ask for suggestions, and repeatedly make changes. Agnostic of this process,…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

OmniTab: Pretraining with Natural and Synthetic Data for Few-shot Table-based Question Answering

Zhengbao Jiang, Yi Mao, Pengcheng He +2

The information in tables can be an important complement to text, making table-based question answering (QA) systems of great value. The intrinsic complexity of handling tables oft…

cs.CL2022★ 19 cited

DocPrompting: Generating Code by Retrieving the Docs

Shuyan Zhou, Uri Alon, Frank F. Xu +3

Publicly available source-code libraries are continuously growing and changing. This makes it impossible for models of code to keep current with all available APIs by simply traini…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Table Retrieval May Not Necessitate Table-specific Model Design

Zhiruo Wang, Zhengbao Jiang, Eric Nyberg +1

Tables are an important form of structured data for both human and machine readers alike, providing answers to questions that cannot, or cannot easily, be found in texts. Recent wo…

cs.CL2021★ 519 cited

Pre-train, Prompt, and Predict: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Methods in Natural Language Processing

Pengfei Liu, Weizhe Yuan, Jinlan Fu +3

This paper surveys and organizes research works in a new paradigm in natural language processing, which we dub "prompt-based learning". Unlike traditional supervised learning, whic…

cs.CL2021

CoRI: Collective Relation Integration with Data Augmentation for Open Information Extraction

Zhengbao Jiang, Jialong Han, Bunyamin Sisman +1

Integrating extracted knowledge from the Web to knowledge graphs (KGs) can facilitate tasks like question answering. We study relation integration that aims to align free-text rela…

cs.CL2020★ 40 cited

How Can We Know When Language Models Know? On the Calibration of Language Models for Question Answering

Zhengbao Jiang, Jun Araki, Haibo Ding +1

Recent works have shown that language models (LM) capture different types of knowledge regarding facts or common sense. However, because no model is perfect, they still fail to pro…

cs.CL2020★ 7 cited

X-FACTR: Multilingual Factual Knowledge Retrieval from Pretrained Language Models

Zhengbao Jiang, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Jun Araki +2

Language models (LMs) have proven surprisingly successful at capturing factual knowledge by completing cloze-style fill-in-the-blank questions such as "Punta Cana is located in _."…

cs.CL2020★ 15 cited

GSum: A General Framework for Guided Neural Abstractive Summarization

Zi-Yi Dou, Pengfei Liu, Hiroaki Hayashi +2

Neural abstractive summarization models are flexible and can produce coherent summaries, but they are sometimes unfaithful and can be difficult to control. While previous studies a…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

Incorporating External Knowledge through Pre-training for Natural Language to Code Generation

Frank F. Xu, Zhengbao Jiang, Pengcheng Yin +2

Open-domain code generation aims to generate code in a general-purpose programming language (such as Python) from natural language (NL) intents. Motivated by the intuition that dev…

cs.CL2019

How Can We Know What Language Models Know?

Zhengbao Jiang, Frank F. Xu, Jun Araki +1

Recent work has presented intriguing results examining the knowledge contained in language models (LM) by having the LM fill in the blanks of prompts such as "Obama is a _ by profe…

cs.LG2019★ 7 cited

Graph-Revised Convolutional Network

Donghan Yu, Ruohong Zhang, Zhengbao Jiang +2

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have received increasing attention in the machine learning community for effectively leveraging both the content features of nodes and the linka…

cs.CL2019★ 2 cited

Generalizing Natural Language Analysis through Span-relation Representations

Zhengbao Jiang, Wei Xu, Jun Araki +1

Natural language processing covers a wide variety of tasks predicting syntax, semantics, and information content, and usually each type of output is generated with specially design…

cs.IR2019

Personalizing Search Results Using Hierarchical RNN with Query-aware Attention

Songwei Ge, Zhicheng Dou, Zhengbao Jiang +2

Search results personalization has become an effective way to improve the quality of search engines. Previous studies extracted information such as past clicks, user topical intere…

cs.CL2019

Improving Open Information Extraction via Iterative Rank-Aware Learning

Zhengbao Jiang, Pengcheng Yin, Graham Neubig

Open information extraction (IE) is the task of extracting open-domain assertions from natural language sentences. A key step in open IE is confidence modeling, ranking the extract…