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CoDA adapts dynamics models to new physical systems by conditioning on context.

problem Generalizing to new physical systems with shared dynamics but different contexts.
method Context-informed dynamics adaptation (CoDA) using multiple environments and a hypernetwork.
result State-of-the-art generalization results on nonlinear dynamics.

We propose a principle for exploring context in machine learning models. Starting with a simple assumption that each observation may or may not depend on its context, a conditional probability distribution is decomposed into two parts: context-free and context-sensitive. Then by employing the log-linear word production…

2019-01-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New insights into how depth and width affect in-context learning in deep models.

problem Understanding how various resources impact in-context learning in deep models.
method Analyzed linear regression in a deep linear self-attention model, varying resources like depth, width, context length, and training steps.
result Increasing depth improves in-context learning even at infinite context length, contrary to previous findings.

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims at classifying unlabeled objects by leveraging auxiliary knowledge, such as semantic representations. A limitation of previous approaches is that only intrinsic properties of objects, e.g. their visual appearance, are taken into account while their context, e.g. the surrounding objects in …

2019-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Contextualizing financial news improves stock price predictions.

problem Predicting stock prices from financial news requires understanding historical context.
method Proposed a method using a large language model for main articles and a small model for historical context.
result Historical context significantly improves model performance across methods and time horizons.

The profusion of online news articles makes it difficult to find interesting articles, a problem that can be assuaged by using a recommender system to bring the most relevant news stories to readers. However, news recommendation is challenging because the most relevant articles are often new content seen by few users. …

2013-03-04abs ↗pdf ↗

CCM improves context for Meta-RL by contrastive learning.

problem Improving context for Meta-RL to enable task generalization.
method CCM framework using contrastive learning for context encoding and information-gain-based trajectory collection.
result CCM outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in benchmarks and sparse-reward environments.

ICEE learns new RL tasks in less time with a Transformer model.

problem Efficient in-context policy learning for reinforcement learning.
method In-context Exploration-Exploitation (ICEE) algorithm that optimizes efficiency without explicit Bayesian inference.
result ICEE solves Bayesian optimization problems as efficiently as Gaussian process biased methods but in significantly less time.

New analysis shows transformer models can't learn effectively.

problem Transformer models learning in context can't achieve general predictive accuracy.
method Empirical evidence and mathematical analysis of transformer architecture limitations.
result Transformers cannot achieve general predictive accuracy due to architectural limitations.

Transformers learn new tasks from few examples via optimal approximation.

problem Learning new tasks from limited examples using large language models.
method Developed approximation and generalization error bounds for transformers trained on nonparametric regression tasks.
result Transformers achieve minimax optimal estimation risk in context.

Generative Adapter adapts LMs with a single forward pass, reducing inference overhead.

problem Efficient adaptation of large language models for new contexts.
method Generative Adapter directly maps new contexts to low-rank LM adapters via self-supervised learning.
result Significant reduction in inference overhead with no need for fine-tuning.

This study examines how sequential correlations affect in-context learning in sequence models.

problem Understanding how in-context learning works with sequentially correlated data.
method Extended linear regression model to sequentially correlated data, tested on transformer architectures.
result Sequential correlations alter the effective context length and attention architecture effectiveness.

Paper proposes linear transformers for efficient in-context learning without context length limitations.

problem Quadratic complexity of softmax transformers limits data processing speed.
method Investigates linear transformers under domain generalization, showing they learn mappings from context distributions to response functions.
result Linear transformers achieve in-context learning with a linear complexity in context length, offering a dimension-independent convergence rate.

CPR models complex decision processes by breaking them into context-specific policies, improving interpretability and accuracy.

problem Interpreting dynamic human decision-making processes in medical contexts.
method Develops Contextualized Policy Recovery (CPR) framework for multi-task learning, modeling each context-specific policy as a linear map.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance in predicting medical decisions, closing the gap between interpretable and black-box methods.

We present a new recurrent neural network topology to enhance state-of-the-art machine learning systems by incorporating a broader context. Our approach overcomes recent limitations with extended narratives through a multi-layered computational approach to generate an abstract context representation. Therefore, the dev…

2018-07-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Introduces CStrees for modeling context-specific causal models from observational and interventional data.

problem Modeling context-specific causal relationships from mixed data types.
method Introduces CStrees with a novel factorization criterion and graphical characterization for context-specific conditional independence models.
result Derives a graphical characterization of model equivalence for observational CStrees and extends it to CStree models under context-specific interventions.

New estimator uses clustering to improve off-policy evaluation accuracy.

problem Improving off-policy evaluation accuracy when logging and evaluation policies differ.
method Proposes an estimator that shares information across similar contexts using clustering.
result Clustering contexts improves estimation accuracy, especially in deficient information settings.

New algorithm poLinUCB improves online learning in content recommendation platforms.

problem Improving efficiency in content recommendation platforms with post-serving context.
method Novel contextual bandit problem with post-serving contexts and a new algorithm, poLinUCB.
result Achieves tight regret under standard assumptions and significant benefit of utilizing post-serving contexts.

Transformers can predict new tokens based on any number of context tokens, approximating continuous mappings with fixed resources.

problem Handling an arbitrarily large number of context tokens in transformers.
method Mathematical analysis of transformer's expressivity using Wasserstein distance and continuous mappings.
result Deep transformers are universal and can approximate continuous in-context mappings to arbitrary precision, uniformly over compact token domains.

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.

Bayesian analysis reveals epistemic uncertainty as a key diagnostic for delayed generalization in in-context learning.

problem Delayed generalization in in-context learning from few examples.
method Bayesian perspective, modular arithmetic tasks, approximate Bayesian techniques, spectral mechanism analysis.
result Epistemic uncertainty collapses sharply when the model groks, indicating a practical diagnostic of generalization.

Transformers can learn new tasks from diverse pretraining data but struggle with out-of-domain tasks.

problem Transformer models' ability to learn new tasks in-context is limited by their pretraining data coverage.
method Investigation of transformer models trained on (x,f(x))(x, f(x)) pairs, comparing in-context learning capabilities across different task families.
result Transformers can identify and learn within task families in their pretraining data but fail with out-of-domain tasks.

New framework shows cross-attention improves multi-modal in-context learning.

problem Understanding multi-modal in-context learning in neural networks.
method Mathematical framework and linearized cross-attention mechanism.
result Cross-attention mechanism is provably optimal for multi-modal in-context learning.

Transformer learns context and regularization for ICL in inverse problems.

problem Learning context and effective regularization for transformer-based in-context learning (ICL) in inverse problems.
method Introduced a linear transformer to learn inverse mapping from contextual examples to weight vectors, addressing rank-deficient problems.
result Transformer implicitly learns a prior distribution and effective regularization strategy, outperforming traditional methods.

A new approach learns to represent context for nonstationary bandits.

problem Nonstationary contextual bandits where patterns change over time.
method Combines recurrent neural networks with contextual linear bandit algorithm.
result Consistently outperforms handcrafted historical contexts and other methods.

LLMs perform well in financial sentiment analysis without fine-tuning.

problem Challenges in financial terminology, emotions, and ambiguous expressions.
method In-context learning methods for financial document-sentiment pairs.
result LLMs can generalize in-context demonstrations to new financial documents.

Paper studies how few pretraining tasks are needed for a linear model to solve new tasks.

problem How many pretraining tasks are needed for a linear model to solve new tasks?
method Pretrained a linear attention model for linear regression with a Gaussian prior.
result Effective pretraining requires a small number of independent tasks, and the model closely matches Bayes optimal.

New DR-IC estimator reduces bias and variance in OPE.

problem Estimating value of a target policy using logged data from a different policy.
method DR-IC estimator that combines parametric reward model and context-based switching rule.
result DR-IC estimator outperforms state-of-the-art OPE algorithms.