Prompt Programming for Large Language Models: Beyond the Few-Shot Paradigm

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07350v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:27:55 GMT
• Title: Prompt Programming for Large Language Models: Beyond the Few-Shot Paradigm
• Authors: Laria Reynolds and Kyle McDonell
• Abstract summary: We discuss methods of prompt programming, emphasizing the usefulness of considering prompts through the lens of natural language. We introduce the idea of a metaprompt that seeds the model to generate its own natural language prompts for a range of tasks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Prevailing methods for mapping large generative language models to supervised tasks may fail to sufficiently probe models' novel capabilities. Using GPT-3 as a case study, we show that 0-shot prompts can significantly outperform few-shot prompts. We suggest that the function of few-shot examples in these cases is better described as locating an already learned task rather than meta-learning. This analysis motivates rethinking the role of prompts in controlling and evaluating powerful language models. In this work, we discuss methods of prompt programming, emphasizing the usefulness of considering prompts through the lens of natural language. We explore techniques for exploiting the capacity of narratives and cultural anchors to encode nuanced intentions and techniques for encouraging deconstruction of a problem into components before producing a verdict. Informed by this more encompassing theory of prompt programming, we also introduce the idea of a metaprompt that seeds the model to generate its own natural language prompts for a range of tasks. Finally, we discuss how these more general methods of interacting with language models can be incorporated into existing and future benchmarks and practical applications.

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