Simple few-example prompts match complex methods on natural language inference
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Researchers report that a short, direct prompt with a few examples lets small open LLMs match more complex prompting methods on natural language inference.
The study tested five small models, including Gemma 2 9B, Mistral 7B and Llama 3.1 8B, on three NLI datasets using 0 to 15 examples and no reasoning steps.
According to a post by Rohan Paul summarizing the paper, Mistral 7B reached above 63.4% MNLI accuracy, beating the score a published in-context sampling method achieved with the same model.
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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiXSimple few-example prompts match complex methods on natural language inferenceAIResearchers find that a short, direct prompt with a few examples lets small open LLMs match more complex prompting methods on natural language inference. On three NLI datasets, five small models, including Gemma 2 9B, Mistral 7B and Llama 3.1 8B, were tested with 0 to 15 examples and no reasoning steps. Mistral 7B beat the 63.4% MNLI accuracy that a published in-context sampling method achieved with the same model.

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