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title = "Paraphrase Types Elicit Prompt Engineering Capabilities",
author = "Wahle, Jan Philip and
Ruas, Terry and
Xu, Yang and
Gipp, Bela",
editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and
Bansal, Mohit and
Chen, Yun-Nung",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.617",
pages = "11004--11033",
abstract = "Much of the success of modern language models depends on finding a suitable prompt to instruct the model. Until now, it has been largely unknown how variations in the linguistic expression of prompts affect these models. This study systematically and empirically evaluates which linguistic features influence models through paraphrase types, i.e., different linguistic changes at particular positions. We measure behavioral changes for five models across 120 tasks and six families of paraphrases (i.e., morphology, syntax, lexicon, lexico-syntax, discourse, and others). We also control for other prompt engineering factors (e.g., prompt length, lexical diversity, and proximity to training data). Our results show a potential for language models to improve tasks when their prompts are adapted in specific paraphrase types (e.g., 6.7{\%} median gain in Mixtral 8x7B; 5.5{\%} in LLaMA 3 8B). In particular, changes in morphology and lexicon, i.e., the vocabulary used, showed promise in improving prompts. These findings contribute to developing more robust language models capable of handling variability in linguistic expression.",
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%T Paraphrase Types Elicit Prompt Engineering Capabilities
%A Wahle, Jan Philip
%A Ruas, Terry
%A Xu, Yang
%A Gipp, Bela
%Y Al-Onaizan, Yaser
%Y Bansal, Mohit
%Y Chen, Yun-Nung
%S Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2024
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Miami, Florida, USA
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%X Much of the success of modern language models depends on finding a suitable prompt to instruct the model. Until now, it has been largely unknown how variations in the linguistic expression of prompts affect these models. This study systematically and empirically evaluates which linguistic features influence models through paraphrase types, i.e., different linguistic changes at particular positions. We measure behavioral changes for five models across 120 tasks and six families of paraphrases (i.e., morphology, syntax, lexicon, lexico-syntax, discourse, and others). We also control for other prompt engineering factors (e.g., prompt length, lexical diversity, and proximity to training data). Our results show a potential for language models to improve tasks when their prompts are adapted in specific paraphrase types (e.g., 6.7% median gain in Mixtral 8x7B; 5.5% in LLaMA 3 8B). In particular, changes in morphology and lexicon, i.e., the vocabulary used, showed promise in improving prompts. These findings contribute to developing more robust language models capable of handling variability in linguistic expression.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.617
%P 11004-11033
Markdown (Informal)
[Paraphrase Types Elicit Prompt Engineering Capabilities](https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.617) (Wahle et al., EMNLP 2024)
ACL
- Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Yang Xu, and Bela Gipp. 2024. Paraphrase Types Elicit Prompt Engineering Capabilities. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 11004–11033, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.