Enabling Large Language Models to Learn from Rules

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08883v2
• Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:07:24 GMT
• Title: Enabling Large Language Models to Learn from Rules
• Authors: Wenkai Yang, Yankai Lin, Jie Zhou, Jirong Wen
• Abstract summary: We are inspired that humans can learn the new tasks or knowledge in another way by learning from rules. We propose rule distillation, which first uses the strong in-context abilities of LLMs to extract the knowledge from the textual rules. Our experiments show that making LLMs learn from rules by our method is much more efficient than example-based learning in both the sample size and generalization ability.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown incredible performance in completing various real-world tasks. The current knowledge learning paradigm of LLMs is mainly based on learning from examples, in which LLMs learn the internal rule implicitly from a certain number of supervised examples. However, this learning paradigm may not well learn those complicated rules, especially when the training examples are limited. We are inspired that humans can learn the new tasks or knowledge in another way by learning from rules. That is, humans can learn new tasks or grasps new knowledge quickly and generalize well given only a detailed rule and a few optional examples. Therefore, in this paper, we aim to explore the feasibility of this new learning paradigm, which targets on encoding rule-based knowledge into LLMs. We further propose rule distillation, which first uses the strong in-context abilities of LLMs to extract the knowledge from the textual rules, and then explicitly encode the knowledge into the parameters of LLMs by learning from the above in-context signals produced inside the model. Our experiments show that making LLMs learn from rules by our method is much more efficient than example-based learning in both the sample size and generalization ability. Warning: This paper may contain examples with offensive content.

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