4 papers
Fine-Tuned In-Context Learners for Efficient Adaptation
Jorg Bornschein, Clare Lyle, Yazhe Li +3
When adapting large language models (LLMs) to a specific downstream task, two primary approaches are commonly employed: (1) prompt engineering, often with in-context few-shot learn…
On the generalization of language models from in-context learning and finetuning: a controlled study
Andrew K. Lampinen, Arslan Chaudhry, Stephanie C. Y. Chan +7
Large language models exhibit exciting capabilities, yet can show surprisingly narrow generalization from finetuning. E.g. they can fail to generalize to simple reversals of relati…
LLMs are Greedy Agents: Effects of RL Fine-tuning on Decision-Making Abilities
Thomas Schmied, Jörg Bornschein, Jordi Grau-Moya +2
The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked interest in various agentic applications. A key hypothesis is that LLMs, leveraging common sense and Chain-of-Thought (CoT)…
How do language models learn facts? Dynamics, curricula and hallucinations
Nicolas Zucchet, Jörg Bornschein, Stephanie Chan +3
Large language models accumulate vast knowledge during pre-training, yet the dynamics governing this acquisition remain poorly understood. This work investigates the learning dynam…