Let's Learn Step by Step: Enhancing In-Context Learning Ability with Curriculum Learning
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| author | Liu, Yinpeng Liu, Jiawei Shi, Xiang Cheng, Qikai Huang, Yong Lu, Wei |
| author_facet | Liu, Yinpeng Liu, Jiawei Shi, Xiang Cheng, Qikai Huang, Yong Lu, Wei |
| contents | Demonstration ordering, which is an important strategy for in-context learning (ICL), can significantly affects the performance of large language models (LLMs). However, most of the current approaches of ordering require high computational costs to introduce the priori knowledge. In this paper, inspired by the human learning process, we propose a simple but effective demonstration ordering method for ICL, named the few-shot In-Context Curriculum Learning (ICCL). The ICCL implies gradually increasing the complexity of prompt demonstrations during the inference process. The difficulty can be assessed by human experts or LLMs-driven metrics, such as perplexity. Then we design extensive experiments to discuss the effectiveness of the ICCL at both corpus-level and instance-level. Moreover, we also investigate the formation mechanism of LLM's ICCL capability. Experimental results demonstrate that ICCL, developed during the instruction-tuning stage, is effective for representative open-source LLMs. To facilitate further research and applications by other scholars, we make the code publicly available. |
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| spellingShingle | Let's Learn Step by Step: Enhancing In-Context Learning Ability with Curriculum Learning Liu, Yinpeng Liu, Jiawei Shi, Xiang Cheng, Qikai Huang, Yong Lu, Wei Computation and Language Demonstration ordering, which is an important strategy for in-context learning (ICL), can significantly affects the performance of large language models (LLMs). However, most of the current approaches of ordering require high computational costs to introduce the priori knowledge. In this paper, inspired by the human learning process, we propose a simple but effective demonstration ordering method for ICL, named the few-shot In-Context Curriculum Learning (ICCL). The ICCL implies gradually increasing the complexity of prompt demonstrations during the inference process. The difficulty can be assessed by human experts or LLMs-driven metrics, such as perplexity. Then we design extensive experiments to discuss the effectiveness of the ICCL at both corpus-level and instance-level. Moreover, we also investigate the formation mechanism of LLM's ICCL capability. Experimental results demonstrate that ICCL, developed during the instruction-tuning stage, is effective for representative open-source LLMs. To facilitate further research and applications by other scholars, we make the code publicly available. |
| title | Let's Learn Step by Step: Enhancing In-Context Learning Ability with Curriculum Learning |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10738 |