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48 results for human instructions

Learning in environments with large state and action spaces, and sparse rewards, can hinder a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent's learning through trial-and-error. For instance, following natural language instructions on the Web (such as booking a flight ticket) leads to RL settings where input vocabulary and number of…

2018-12-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reveals LLM personality patterns but lacks behavioral consistency.

problem Understanding and validating personality traits in LLMs.
method Characterized LLM personality across three dimensions: training dynamics, self-report validity, and intervention effects.
result Self-reported traits do not reliably predict behavior, and instructional alignment affects trait expression but not behavior.

Human communication takes many forms, including speech, text and instructional videos. It typically has an underlying structure, with a starting point, ending, and certain objective steps between them. In this paper, we consider instructional videos where there are tens of millions of them on the Internet. We propose a…

2016-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

The Interactive Minority Game (IMG) is an online version of the traditional Minority Game in which human players can enter into competition with the traditional computer-controlled agents. Through the rich (and, importantly, analytically understood) behaviour of the MG, we can explore humans' behaviour in different kin…

2002-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗

WebGUM learns web navigation from multimodal data, outperforming previous methods.

problem Limited generalization from domain-specific models in web navigation.
method Instruction-following multimodal agent trained on vision-language foundation models.
result Significant improvement in web navigation performance on benchmarks.

Study compares DSPy teleprompter algorithms for aligning LLM evaluations with human annotations.

problem Aligning LLM evaluation metrics with human annotations.
method Comparative analysis of five teleprompter algorithms within the DSPy framework.
result Certain teleprompters outperform others in detecting hallucinations.

Method constructs finance LLMs without instruction data using pretraining and model merging.

problem Developing domain-specific LLMs for finance is resource-intensive.
method Continual pretraining on financial data + model merging of instruction-tuned and domain-specific pretrained vectors.
result Successfully constructs instruction-tuned LLMs for finance without additional instruction data.

New method for RLHF reduces costs by integrating new data in one pass.

problem Continuous integration and re-optimization of models in RLHF leads to high computational and storage costs.
method Proposes a one-pass reward modeling method using online mirror descent with a tailored local norm.
result Achieves constant-time updates per iteration, enhancing both statistical and computational efficiency.

We are increasingly surrounded by artificially intelligent technology that takes decisions and executes actions on our behalf. This creates a pressing need for general means to communicate with, instruct and guide artificial agents, with human language the most compelling means for such communication. To achieve this i…

2017-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

SPPO optimizes language model alignment by treating preferences as a game and achieving state-of-the-art performance.

problem Capturing intransitivity and irrationality in human preferences for accurate language model alignment.
method Self-play-based approach to identify Nash equilibrium policy through iterative policy updates.
result SPPO achieves state-of-the-art win-rate of 28.53% on AlpacaEval 2.0 without external supervision.

BTZSC benchmarks zero-shot text classification across diverse models.

problem Systematically comparing zero-shot text classification across various models.
method Comprehensive benchmark of 22 datasets, comparing NLI cross-encoders, embedding models, rerankers, and instruction-tuned LLMs.
result Rerankers and instruction-tuned LLMs outperform NLI cross-encoders, with rerankers setting a new state-of-the-art.

HIGhER uses language to generate new instructions for better learning from mistakes.

problem Improving instruction following in reinforcement learning environments.
method Hindsight Generation for Experience Replay (HIGhER) that learns from mistakes and relabels episodes.
result HIGhER enhances instruction following in reinforcement learning environments.

Interactive learning with hindsight instruction feedback achieves better performance than traditional methods.

problem Learning with expert supervision of optimal responses is often impractical or requires expert knowledge.
method Study of interactive learning with hindsight instruction feedback, introducing LORIL algorithm.
result LORIL algorithm achieves T\sqrt{T} regret, improving over baselines in domains with low-rank instruction-response distribution.

A method to improve LLMs by automating the construction of a mixture of expert prompts.

problem Limitation of single instruction prompts in covering complex problem spaces.
method Divide the problem space into sub-regions, each governed by a specialized expert with both an instruction and demos. A two-phase process constructs these experts.
result Achieves an average win rate of 81% across major benchmarks.

Improved financial sentiment analysis using simple instruction tuning of LLMs.

problem Lack of accurate financial sentiment analysis by large language models.
method Instruction tuning of general-purpose LLMs with a small portion of financial sentiment data.
result Significant improvement in financial sentiment analysis, especially in complex scenarios.

The paper proposes incentivizing human annotators with 'golden questions' to improve data quality.

problem Ensuring high-quality human annotations for training large language models.
method A principal-agent model is used to incentivize annotators with bonuses based on the maximum likelihood estimators (MLE) of their annotations. Hypothesis testing is applied to monitor the annotators' performance.
result The hypothesis testing rate for the principal-agent model is of Θ(1/nlogn)Θ(1/\sqrt{n \log n}), highlighting the importance of 'golden questions' for monitoring annotators.

Improves matrix multiplication throughput for asymmetric bit-width operands.

problem Matrix multiplications between asymmetric bit-width operands, especially 8- and 4-bit, are not efficiently handled by existing SIMD instructions.
method Proposes a new SIMD matrix multiplication instruction that uses mixed precision on inputs (8- and 4-bit) and accumulates into 16-bit output, improving throughput.
result Offers 2x improvement in throughput compared to existing symmetric-operand-size instructions, with negligible overflow.

Paper fine-tunes LLaMA-3-8B for financial NER using instruction and LoRA.

problem LLMs struggle with financial NER, especially differentiating entities and amounts.
method Instruction fine-tuning combined with LoRA for parameter-efficient learning.
result Micro-F1 score of 0.894 on financial NER tasks, outperforming other models.

LLMs outperform human analysts in predicting earnings direction.

problem Evaluating financial statements without narrative or industry-specific information.
method Trained GPT4 on standardized, anonymous financial statements and instructed to predict earnings direction.
result LLMs predict earnings directionally with accuracy comparable to narrowly trained ML models.

A cognitive model of human learning provides information about skills a learner must acquire to perform accurately in a task domain. Cognitive models of learning are not only of scientific interest, but are also valuable in adaptive online tutoring systems. A more accurate model yields more effective tutoring through b…

2018-06-21abs ↗pdf ↗

RAG-IT automates financial analysis using LLMs and specialized datasets.

problem Manual financial analysis is time-consuming and requires expertise.
method Retrieval-Augmented Instruction Tuning (RAG-IT) fine-tunes an LLM for financial tasks.
result RAG-IT improves financial report generation performance compared to commercial systems.

Study shows model size inversely affects few-shot instruction accuracy.

problem Understanding how model size impacts few-shot instruction prompting accuracy.
method Introduced DeltaWords dataset to evaluate model's ability to follow instructions.
result Model size inversely affects few-shot instruction accuracy, with larger models performing worse.

Enhances LLMs for predicting stock movements by considering news dissemination and context.

problem Lack of consideration for news dissemination and insufficient contextual data in LLMs for stock price prediction.
method Clusters news for reach assessment, enriches prompts with specific data and instructions, fine-tunes an LLM using the dataset.
result Improves prediction accuracy by 8% compared to existing methods.

Improved robot navigation using multi-head attention for natural language instructions.

problem Improving robot navigation in unfamiliar environments.
method Proposes a multi-head attention mechanism blending layer in a neural network model.
result Significant performance gains in translating instructions for unseen environments.

This paper benchmarks FinGPT for financial datasets using open-source large language models.

problem Challenges in integrating GPT-based models with financial datasets.
method Instruction Tuning paradigm for open-source large language models adapted for financial contexts.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness and adaptability of FinGPT in financial tasks.

This paper proposes a new method to connect language and physical actions in reinforcement learning.

problem Connecting linguistic representations to the physical world in embodied agents.
method Language-conditioned goal generators to decouple sensorimotor learning from language acquisition.
result Agents can demonstrate a diversity of behaviors for any given instruction.

LLM Pro Finance Suite enhances financial NLP with instruction-tuned models.

problem Limited NLP capabilities for financial tasks in generalist models.
method Instruction-tuned large language models fine-tuned on financial data.
result Consistent improvement over state-of-the-art baselines in finance tasks.

SymNoise improves language model fine-tuning by 6.7% over NEFTune, using symmetric noise.

problem Improving performance of language models through noise-based fine-tuning.
method Introducing SymNoise, a new fine-tuning method using symmetric noise in embeddings.
result SymNoise increases model performance by 69.04% on AlpacaEval compared to NEFTune's 64.69%.

InvestLM is a financial domain LLM tuned on LLaMA-65B for investment advice.

problem Improving financial text understanding and advice generation for investment.
method Curated financial instruction dataset, LLaMA-65B, less-is-more-for-alignment approach.
result InvestLM provides comparable responses to state-of-the-art commercial models.

Neuro-symbolic agent learns systematic generalisation from formal instructions.

problem Achieving zero-shot generalisation of formally specified tasks.
method Combines deep reinforcement learning with temporal logic.
result Systematic learning emerges with convolutional layers and abstract operators.

SRPO improves AI alignment with human preferences through self-improvement and task-independent optimization.

problem AI models trained with RLHF lack self-correction mechanisms and struggle with task generalization.
method SRPO formulates the preference learning problem as a min-max objective, optimizing a self-improvement policy and a generative policy in an adversarial fashion, making the solution task-independent.
result SRPO outperforms existing methods, achieving 90% AI Win-Rate on XSum and 56% on Arena-Hard prompts after a single revision.

Curiosity-driven recommendations improve personalized learning efficiency and enjoyment.

problem Improving personalized learning through adaptive strategies.
method Curiosity-driven reinforcement learning with actor-critic neural networks.
result Demonstrated through numeric analyses, the proposed method enhances learning efficiency and enjoyment.