Can language models learn from explanations in context?

AK Lampinen, I Dasgupta, SCY Chan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Language Models (LMs) can perform new tasks by adapting to a few in-context examples.
For humans, explanations that connect examples to task principles can improve learning …

Tell me why! explanations support learning relational and causal structure

AK Lampinen, N Roy, I Dasgupta… - International …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Inferring the abstract relational and causal structure of the world is a major challenge for
reinforcement-learning (RL) agents. For humans, language {—} particularly in the form of …