Speak Only About What You Have Read: Can LLMs Generalize Beyond Their Pretraining Data?

Author(s): Salvatore Raieli

Originally published on Towards AI.

Unveiling the Limits and Wonders of In-Context Learning in Large Language Models
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In-context learning is one of the secret weapons that has made Large Language Models so successful, but even today, many points remain unclear. What are the limits of this incredible capability? Where does it come from? Is it the secret ingredient to allows LLMs to bring us closer to artificial general intelligence?

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One of the most amazing capabilities of Large language models (LLMs) is in-context learning (ICL). By simply providing a few examples to a model, it is able to generate a response, mapping input to output. For example, by providing… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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