In plain words: A big locked chat model is paired with a small model you train yourself; the small one's guesses go into the big one's prompt, letting it use many more training examples. It beat the best specially trained models and steadied the big model's answers.
Abstract · Small Models are Valuable Plug-ins for Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and GPT-4 are powerful but their weights are often publicly unavailable and their immense sizes make the models difficult to be tuned with common hardware. As a result, effectively tuning these models with large-scale supervised data can be challenging. As an alternative, In-Context Learning (ICL) can only use a small number of supervised examples due to context length limits. In this paper, we propose Super In-Context Learning (SuperICL) which allows black-box LLMs to work with locally fine-tuned smaller models, resulting in superior performance on supervised tasks. Our experiments demonstrate that SuperICL can improve performance beyond state-of-the-art fine-tuned models while addressing the instability problem of in-context learning. Furthermore, SuperICL can enhance the capabilities of smaller models, such as multilinguality and interpretability.
Canwen Xu, Yichong Xu, Shuohang Wang, Yang Liu, Chenguang Zhu, Julian McAuley
arXiv:2305.08848 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG · submitted May 15, 2023
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