Changze Lv


2023

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Parameter Efficient Multi-task Fine-tuning by Learning to Transfer Token-wise Prompts
Muling Wu | Wenhao Liu | Jianhan Xu | Changze Lv | Zixuan Ling | Tianlong Li | Longtao Huang | Xiaoqing Zheng | Xuanjing Huang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023

Prompt tuning has been proven to be successful on various tasks by incorporating a small number of trainable parameters while freezing large pre-trained language models (PLMs). However, it is still unsettled how to generate more proper prompts for any individual examples and how to extend prompt tuning to multi-task learning scenarios by leveraging cross-task features. To address these challenges, we propose a token-wise prompt tuning (TPT), in which a bank of finer-grained soft prompt tokens is built for multi-task learning by memory network. The tokens are retrieved from the bank against an input example and assembled to an instance-dependent prompt. Extensive experimental results on 14 datasets demonstrated that the models enhanced by our TPT performed far better than full parameter fine-tuned models and achieved state-of-the-art by tuning only 0.035% parameters.