Jizhi Zhang


2023

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Robust Prompt Optimization for Large Language Models Against Distribution Shifts
Moxin Li | Wenjie Wang | Fuli Feng | Yixin Cao | Jizhi Zhang | Tat-Seng Chua
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Large Language Model (LLM) has demonstrated significant ability in various Natural Language Processing tasks. However, their effectiveness is highly dependent on the phrasing of the task prompt, leading to research on automatic prompt optimization using labeled task data. We reveal that these prompt optimization techniques are vulnerable to distribution shifts such as subpopulation shifts, which are common for LLMs in real-world scenarios such as customer reviews analysis. In this light, we propose a new problem of robust prompt optimization for LLMs against distribution shifts, which requires the prompt optimized over the labeled source group can simultaneously generalize to an unlabeled target group. To solve this problem, we propose Generalized Prompt Optimization framework , which incorporates the unlabeled data from the target group into prompt optimization. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework with significant performance improvement on the target group and comparable performance on the source group.

2021

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Empowering Language Understanding with Counterfactual Reasoning
Fuli Feng | Jizhi Zhang | Xiangnan He | Hanwang Zhang | Tat-Seng Chua
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021