Benchmarking General-Purpose In-Context Learning
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17234v5
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:59:40 GMT
- Title: Benchmarking General-Purpose In-Context Learning
- Authors: Fan Wang, Chuan Lin, Yang Cao, Yu Kang,
- Abstract summary: In-context learning (ICL) empowers generative models to address new tasks effectively and efficiently on the fly.
In this paper, we study extending ICL to address a broader range of tasks with an extended learning horizon and higher improvement potential.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) empowers generative models to address new tasks effectively and efficiently on the fly, without relying on any artificially crafted optimization techniques. In this paper, we study extending ICL to address a broader range of tasks with an extended learning horizon and higher improvement potential, namely General-Purpose In-Context Learning (GPICL). To this end, we introduce two lightweight benchmarks specifically crafted to train and evaluate GPICL functionalities. Each benchmark encompasses a vast number of tasks characterized by significant task variance, facilitating meta-training that minimizes inductive bias. These tasks are also crafted to promote long-horizon in-context learning through continuous generation and interaction. These characteristics necessitate the models to leverage contexts and history interactions to enhance their capabilities, across domains such as language modeling, decision-making, and world modeling. Our experiments on the baseline models demonstrate that meta-training with minimal inductive bias and ICL from the ground up is feasible across all the domains we've discussed. Additionally, our findings indicate that the scale of parameters alone may not be crucial for ICL or GPICL, suggesting alternative approaches such as increasing the scale of contexts and memory states.
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