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LaFTer: Label-Free Tuning of Zero-shot Classifier using Language and Unlabeled Image Collections

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Recently, large-scale pre-trained Vision and Language (VL) models have set a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) in zero-shot visual classification enabling open-vocabulary recognition of potentially unlimited set of categories defined as simple language prompts. However, despite these great advances, the performance of these zeroshot classifiers still falls short of the results of dedicated (closed category set) classifiers trained with supervised fine-tuning. In this paper we show, for the first time, how to reduce this gap without any labels and without any paired VL data, using an unlabeled image collection and a set of texts auto-generated using a Large Language Model (LLM) describing the categories of interest and effectively substituting labeled visual instances of those categories. Using our label-free approach, we are able to attain significant performance improvements over the zero-shot performance of the base VL model and other contemporary methods and baselines on a wide variety of datasets, demonstrating absolute improvement of up to 11.7% (3.8% on average) in the label-free setting. Moreover, despite our approach being label-free, we observe 1.3% average gains over leading few-shot prompting baselines that do use 5-shot supervision.


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AAdditional Experiments620 Task 1 - Grouping In addition to grouping clue words using token embeddings (discussed in621 the main paper 4), we also ran grouping the words by clustering on'contextual' embeddings. We622 experimentally induce'context' by joining the sixteen (16) word tokens (in a random order) into a623 single pseudo-sentence. The embeddings for each token were different based on the ordering of the624 tokens. We repeat the random ordering sixteen times and report the mean and variance of the results625 obtained in Table 6.626 Mean standard deviation over 16 random seeds is shown. Task 2 - Connections In addition to prompting based results on GPT-4 (discussed in 4), we ran627 experiments on additional LLMs like LLaMa [67] (7B, 13B) using pre-trained configuration weights628 obtained by permission from Meta AI. However, without additional fine-tuning on the specific task,629 these LLMs were unable to solve the task in a meaningful manner.



NATURALPROVER: Grounded Mathematical Proof Generation with Language Models

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Theorem proving in natural mathematical language - the mixture of symbolic and natural language used by humans - plays a central role in mathematical advances and education, and tests aspects of reasoning that are core to intelligence. Yet it has remained underexplored with modern generative models. We study largescale language models on two new generation tasks: suggesting the next step in a mathematical proof, and full proof generation. We develop NATURALPROVER,a language model that generates proofs by conditioning on background references (e.g.


When Domain Experts

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Human Intelligence (HI) excels at combining basic skills to solve complex tasks. This capability is vital for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and should be embedded in comprehensive AIAgents, enabling them to harness expert models for complex task-solving towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Large Language Models (LLMs) show promising learning and reasoning abilities, and can effectively use external models, tools, plugins, or APIs to tackle complex problems. In this work, we introduce OpenAGI, an open-source AGI research and development platform designed for solving multi-step, real-world tasks. Specifically, OpenAGI uses a dual strategy, integrating standard benchmark tasks for benchmarking and evaluation, and open-ended tasks including more expandable models, tools, plugins, or APIs for creative problem-solving. Tasks are presented as natural language queries to the LLM, which then selects and executes appropriate models. We also propose a Reinforcement Learning from Task Feedback (RLTF) mechanism that uses task results to improve the LLM's task-solving ability, which creates a self-improving AI feedback loop. While we acknowledge that AGI is a broad and multifaceted research challenge with no singularly defined solution path, the integration of LLMs with domain-specific expert models, inspired by mirroring the blend of general and specialized intelligence in humans, offers a promising approach towards AGI.



ARelated Work

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Transfer in reinforcement learning aims at solving a new target task with no additional learning or sample-efficiently by exploiting agents and information obtained from source tasks. We review a line of research with relevant approaches. This group of approaches reuses policies learned on source tasks for target tasks. Fernández and Veloso [17] suggest an exploration strategy for the learning of a new policy given a new task and learned source policies, where the gain of using each policy is estimated together on-line and one of the policies in the set is selected probabilistically at each step, based on the gain, but they focus on aiding the training of the target policy with samples from the target task rather than improving the zero-shot transfer performance. On the other hand, Dayan [14] introduce successor representations (SRs), state space occupancy representations disentangled from rewards, which allow linear decomposition of value functions.