Recent work has presented intriguing results examining the knowledge contained in language models (LM) by having the LM fill in the blanks of prompts such as "Obama is a by profession". These prompts are usually manually created, and quite possibly suboptimal; another prompt such as "Obama worked as a " may result in more accurately predicting the correct profession. Because of this, given an inappropriate prompt, we might fail to retrieve facts that the LM does know, and thus any given prompt only provides a lower bound estimate of the knowledge contained in an LM. In this paper, we attempt to more accurately estimate the knowledge contained in LMs by automatically discovering better prompts to use in this querying process. Specifically, we propose mining-based and paraphrasing-based methods to automatically generate high-quality and diverse prompts, as well as ensemble methods to combine answers from different prompts. Extensive experiments on the LAMA benchmark for extracting relational knowledge from LMs demonstrate that our methods can improve accuracy from 31.1% to 39.6%, providing a tighter lower bound on what LMs know. We have released the code and the resulting LM Prompt And Query Archive (LPAQA) at https://github. com/jzbjyb/LPAQA.1 Some models we use in this paper, e.g. BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), are bi-directional, and do not directly define probability distribution over text, which is the underlying definition of an LM. Nonetheless, we call them LMs for simplicity.

petroni等。 （2019）证明，可以通过将它们表达为冻结式提示并将模型的预测准确性解释为下限，作为其编码的事实信息量的较低限制，从预先接收的语言模型中检索世界事实。随后的工作已经尝试通过搜索更好的提示来缩回估计，使用不相交的事实作为培训数据。在这项工作中，我们制作两个互补贡献，以更好地了解这些事实探测技术。首先，我们提出了OptiPrompt，一种新颖的和有效的方法，直接在连续嵌入空间中优化。我们发现这种简单的方法能够预测喇嘛基准中的额外6.4％的事实。其次，我们提出了一个更重要的问题：我们真的可以将这些探测结果解释为下限吗？这些提示搜索方法是否有可能从培训数据中学习？我们发现，有些令人惊讶的是，这些方法使用的培训数据包含了潜在的事实分布的某些规则，以及所有现有的提示方法，包括我们的方法，可以利用它们以获得更好的事实预测。我们开展一系列控制实验来解除“学习”从“学习召回”，提供了更详细的图片，不同的提示可以揭示关于预先接受的语言模型。

The remarkable success of pretrained language models has motivated the study of what kinds of knowledge these models learn during pretraining. Reformulating tasks as fillin-the-blanks problems (e.g., cloze tests) is a natural approach for gauging such knowledge, however, its usage is limited by the manual effort and guesswork required to write suitable prompts. To address this, we develop AUTOPROMPT, an automated method to create prompts for a diverse set of tasks, based on a gradient-guided search. Using AUTO-PROMPT, we show that masked language models (MLMs) have an inherent capability to perform sentiment analysis and natural language inference without additional parameters or finetuning, sometimes achieving performance on par with recent state-of-the-art supervised models. We also show that our prompts elicit more accurate factual knowledge from MLMs than the manually created prompts on the LAMA benchmark, and that MLMs can be used as relation extractors more effectively than supervised relation extraction models. These results demonstrate that automatically generated prompts are a viable parameter-free alternative to existing probing methods, and as pretrained LMs become more sophisticated and capable, potentially a replacement for finetuning.

Recent progress in pretraining language models on large textual corpora led to a surge of improvements for downstream NLP tasks. Whilst learning linguistic knowledge, these models may also be storing relational knowledge present in the training data, and may be able to answer queries structured as "fillin-the-blank" cloze statements. Language models have many advantages over structured knowledge bases: they require no schema engineering, allow practitioners to query about an open class of relations, are easy to extend to more data, and require no human supervision to train. We present an in-depth analysis of the relational knowledge already present (without fine-tuning) in a wide range of state-of-theart pretrained language models. We find that (i) without fine-tuning, BERT contains relational knowledge competitive with traditional NLP methods that have some access to oracle knowledge, (ii) BERT also does remarkably well on open-domain question answering against a supervised baseline, and (iii) certain types of factual knowledge are learned much more readily than others by standard language model pretraining approaches. The surprisingly strong ability of these models to recall factual knowledge without any fine-tuning demonstrates their potential as unsupervised open-domain QA systems. The code to reproduce our analysis is available at https: //github.com/facebookresearch/LAMA.

语言模型（LMS）已被证明在各种下游应用程序中很有用，例如摘要，翻译，问答和文本分类。由于它们可以存储的大量信息，LMS正在成为人工智能中越来越重要的工具。在这项工作中，我们提出了道具（提示为探测），该道具利用GPT-3（最初由OpenAI在2020年提出的大型语言模型）来执行知识基础构建任务（KBC）。 Prop实施了一种多步骤方法，该方法结合了各种提示技术来实现这一目标。我们的结果表明，手动提示策划是必不可少的，必须鼓励LM给出可变长度的答案集，特别是包括空的答案集，True/False问题是提高LM生成的建议精度的有用设备。 LM的大小是至关重要的因素，并且实体字典别名提高了LM评分。我们的评估研究表明，这些提出的技术可以大大提高最终预测的质量：Prop赢得了LM-KBC竞争的轨道2，表现优于基线36.4个百分点。我们的实施可在https://github.com/hemile/iswc-challenge上获得。

符号知识图（kgs）是通过昂贵的人众包或特定于域特异性的复杂信息提取管道来构建的。诸如BERT之类的新兴大型语言模型（LMS）已显示出隐式编码的大量知识，可以使用正确设计的提示来查询。但是，与明确的公斤相比，黑盒LMS中的知识通常很难访问或编辑，并且缺乏解释性。在这项工作中，我们旨在从LMS收获符号KG，这是一个由神经LMS的灵活性和可扩展性增强的自动kg构造的新框架。与通常依赖大型人类注释的数据或现有大量KG的先前作品相比，我们的方法仅需要对关系的最小定义作为输入，因此适合于以前无法提取有关丰富新关系的知识。该方法会自动生成多样化的提示，并在给定的LM内执行有效的知识搜索，以进行一致和广泛的输出。与以前的方法相比，使用我们的方法收获的知识要准确得多，如自动和人类评估所示。结果，我们源于多元化的LMS，一个新的KG家族（例如Bertnet和Robertanet），其中包含一套更丰富的常识关系，包括复杂的关系（例如，A对B的能力，但不擅长B”）人类注销的kg（例如概念网）。此外，由此产生的kg也是解释各自的源LMS的工具，从而导致对不同LMS不同知识能力的新见解。

我们在ISWC 2022上对知识图模型的知识形象人群提出了一个用于语言模型的系统，该系统对知识库构建（LM-KBC）挑战进行了评估。我们的系统涉及特定于任务的预培训以改善蒙版的LM表示。对象令牌，促使分解候选对象以及其他高质量检索的方法。我们的系统是基于BERT LM的LM-KBC挑战赛曲目1的获胜者；它在挑战的隐藏测试集中获得了55.0％的F-1得分。

大型基于变压器的预训练的语言模型在各种知识密集的任务上取得了令人印象深刻的表现，并可以在其参数中捕获事实知识。我们认为，考虑到不断增长的知识和资源需求，在模型参数中存储大量知识是亚最佳选择。我们认为，更有效的替代方法是向模型提供对上下文相关的结构化知识的明确访问，并训练它以使用该知识。我们提出了LM核 - 实现这一目标的一般框架 - 允许从外部知识源对语言模型培训的\ textit {解耦}，并允许后者更新而不会影响已经训练的模型。实验结果表明，LM核心获得外部知识，在知识探索任务上的最先进的知识增强语言模型中实现了重要而强大的优于性能。可以有效处理知识更新；并在两个下游任务上表现良好。我们还提出了一个彻底的错误分析，突出了LM核的成功和失败。

现在，通过复杂的神经网络模型（例如蒙版的神经语言模型（MNLM））学习了许多上下文化的单词表示形式，这些模型由巨大的神经网络结构组成，并经过训练以恢复蒙面文本。这样的表示表明在某些阅读理解（RC）任务中表现出超人的表现，这些任务在给出问题的上下文中提取了适当的答案。但是，由于许多模型参数，确定在MNLM中训练的详细知识是具有挑战性的。本文提供了有关MNLMS中包含的常识性知识的新见解和经验分析。首先，我们使用诊断测试来评估常识性知识是否在MNLMS中进行了适当的培训。我们观察到，在MNLMS中没有适当训练很多常识性知识，并且MNLMS并不经常准确地理解关系的语义含义。此外，我们发现基于MNLM的RC模型仍然容易受到需要常识知识的语义变化的影响。最后，我们发现了未经训练的知识的基本原因。我们进一步建议，利用外常识性知识存储库可以是一个有效的解决方案。我们说明了通过在受控实验中以外常识性知识存储库来丰富文本的经文，以克服基于MNLM的RC模型的局限性的可能性。

类比在人类常识推理中起着核心作用。识别类比诸如“眼睛是看到耳朵的声音”之类的类比的能力，有时也称为类比比例，塑造我们如何构建知识和理解语言。但是，令人惊讶的是，在语言模型时代，识别这种类比的任务尚未受到太多关注。在本文中，我们使用从教育环境以及更常用的数据集获得的基准分析了基于变压器的语言模型的功能。我们发现，现成的语言模型可以在一定程度上识别类比，但要与抽象和复杂的关系斗争，结果对模型架构和超参数高度敏感。总体而言，最佳结果是通过GPT-2和Roberta获得的，而使用BERT的配置无法超越单词嵌入模型。我们的结果为未来的工作提出了重要的问题，内容涉及如何以及在何种程度上培训的语言模型捕获有关抽象语义关系的知识。

基于变压器的语言模型最近在许多自然语言任务中取得了显着的结果。但是，通常通过利用大量培训数据来实现排行榜的性能，并且很少通过将明确的语言知识编码为神经模型。这使许多人质疑语言学对现代自然语言处理的相关性。在本文中，我介绍了几个案例研究，以说明理论语言学和神经语言模型仍然相互关联。首先，语言模型通过提供一个客观的工具来测量语义距离，这对语言学家很有用，语义距离很难使用传统方法。另一方面，语言理论通过提供框架和数据源来探究我们的语言模型，以了解语言理解的特定方面，从而有助于语言建模研究。本论文贡献了三项研究，探讨了语言模型中语法 - 听觉界面的不同方面。在论文的第一部分中，我将语言模型应用于单词类灵活性的问题。我将Mbert作为语义距离测量的来源，我提供了有利于将单词类灵活性分析为方向过程的证据。在论文的第二部分中，我提出了一种方法来测量语言模型中间层的惊奇方法。我的实验表明，包含形态句法异常的句子触发了语言模型早期的惊喜，而不是语义和常识异常。最后，在论文的第三部分中，我适应了一些心理语言学研究，以表明语言模型包含了论证结构结构的知识。总而言之，我的论文在自然语言处理，语言理论和心理语言学之间建立了新的联系，以为语言模型的解释提供新的观点。

Language models can be prompted to perform a wide variety of zero- and few-shot learning problems. However, performance varies significantly with the choice of prompt, and we do not yet understand why this happens or how to pick the best prompts. In this work, we analyze the factors that contribute to this variance and establish a new empirical hypothesis: the performance of a prompt is coupled with the extent to which the model is familiar with the language it contains. Over a wide range of tasks, we show that the lower the perplexity of the prompt is, the better the prompt is able to perform the task. As a result, we devise a method for creating prompts: (1) automatically extend a small seed set of manually written prompts by paraphrasing using GPT3 and backtranslation and (2) choose the lowest perplexity prompts to get significant gains in performance.

致致辞问题答案（CQA）旨在测试模型是否可以回答有关每个人都知道的勤杂朗语言的问题。结合外部知识库的事先作品已经显示了有希望的结果，但知识库是昂贵的构造，并且通常限于固定的一组关系。在本文中，我们专注于更好地利用\ Texit {隐式知识}存储在预先接受预先接受的语言模型中。虽然研究人员发现嵌入在预先接受预先训练的语言模型中的知识，但可以通过填写仔细设计的提取和文本分类的谨慎设计的空白来提取，但如果我们可以在输入和输入的CQA中采用此范例，仍然不清楚输出采取更灵活的形式。为此，我们调查了四种翻译方法，可以将自然问题转化为渗出风格的句子，从语言模型中更好地征求致辞知识，包括基于句法的模型，无监督的神经模型和两个监督的神经模型。此外，要结合不同的翻译方法，我们建议鼓励模型预测与未标记数据不同翻译问题的一致性。我们展示了我们在零拍摄设置中三个CQA数据集上的方法的有效性。我们表明，我们的方法与知识库改进的模型互补，并结合它们可以导致最先进的零射击性能。分析还揭示了不同的强化翻译方法的明显特征，并为什么结合它们导致巨大改进提供了洞察。

在本文中，我们描述了我们参与Case-2022的子任务1，即与休闲新闻语料库的事件因果关系识别。我们通过在少数带注释的示例（即几次配置）上利用一组简单但互补的技术来解决因果关系识别（CRI）任务。我们遵循一种基于迅速的预测方法，用于微调LMS，其中CRI任务被视为掩盖语言建模问题（MLM）。这种方法允许LMS在MLM问题上进行本地预先训练，可以直接生成对CRI特异性提示的文本响应。我们将此方法的性能与在整个数据集中训练的集合技术进行比较。我们表现​​最佳的提交仅接受了每班256个实例，整个数据集的一小部分培训，但能够获得第二好的精度（0.82），第三好的精度（0.82）和F1得分。 （0.85）非常接近获胜者团队（0.86）的报道。

The recent GPT-3 model (Brown et al., 2020) achieves remarkable few-shot performance solely by leveraging a natural-language prompt and a few task demonstrations as input context. Inspired by their findings, we study few-shot learning in a more practical scenario, where we use smaller language models for which fine-tuning is computationally efficient. We present LM-BFF-better few-shot fine-tuning of language models 1 -a suite of simple and complementary techniques for finetuning language models on a small number of annotated examples. Our approach includes (1) prompt-based fine-tuning together with a novel pipeline for automating prompt generation; and (2) a refined strategy for dynamically and selectively incorporating demonstrations into each context. Finally, we present a systematic evaluation for analyzing few-shot performance on a range of NLP tasks, including classification and regression. Our experiments demonstrate that our methods combine to dramatically outperform standard fine-tuning procedures in this low resource setting, achieving up to 30% absolute improvement, and 11% on average across all tasks. Our approach makes minimal assumptions on task resources and domain expertise, and hence constitutes a strong task-agnostic method for few-shot learning. 2 * The first two authors contributed equally. 1 Alternatively, language models' best friends forever. 2 Our implementation is publicly available at https:// github.com/princeton-nlp/LM-BFF.

在NLP社区中有一个正在进行的辩论，无论现代语言模型是否包含语言知识，通过所谓的探针恢复。在本文中，我们研究了语言知识是否是现代语言模型良好表现的必要条件，我们称之为\ Texit {重新发现假设}。首先，我们展示了语言模型，这是显着压缩的，但在预先磨普目标上表现良好，以便在语言结构探讨时保持良好的分数。这一结果支持重新发现的假设，并导致我们的论文的第二款贡献：一个信息 - 理论框架，与语言建模目标相关。该框架还提供了测量语言信息对字词预测任务的影响的度量标准。我们通过英语综合和真正的NLP任务加固我们的分析结果。

Relation extraction (RE) is a sub-discipline of information extraction (IE) which focuses on the prediction of a relational predicate from a natural-language input unit (such as a sentence, a clause, or even a short paragraph consisting of multiple sentences and/or clauses). Together with named-entity recognition (NER) and disambiguation (NED), RE forms the basis for many advanced IE tasks such as knowledge-base (KB) population and verification. In this work, we explore how recent approaches for open information extraction (OpenIE) may help to improve the task of RE by encoding structured information about the sentences' principal units, such as subjects, objects, verbal phrases, and adverbials, into various forms of vectorized (and hence unstructured) representations of the sentences. Our main conjecture is that the decomposition of long and possibly convoluted sentences into multiple smaller clauses via OpenIE even helps to fine-tune context-sensitive language models such as BERT (and its plethora of variants) for RE. Our experiments over two annotated corpora, KnowledgeNet and FewRel, demonstrate the improved accuracy of our enriched models compared to existing RE approaches. Our best results reach 92% and 71% of F1 score for KnowledgeNet and FewRel, respectively, proving the effectiveness of our approach on competitive benchmarks.

Natural Language Generation (NLG) has improved exponentially in recent years thanks to the development of sequence-to-sequence deep learning technologies such as Transformer-based language models. This advancement has led to more fluent and coherent NLG, leading to improved development in downstream tasks such as abstractive summarization, dialogue generation and data-to-text generation. However, it is also apparent that deep learning based generation is prone to hallucinate unintended text, which degrades the system performance and fails to meet user expectations in many real-world scenarios. To address this issue, many studies have been presented in measuring and mitigating hallucinated texts, but these have never been reviewed in a comprehensive manner before. In this survey, we thus provide a broad overview of the research progress and challenges in the hallucination problem in NLG. The survey is organized into two parts: (1) a general overview of metrics, mitigation methods, and future directions; and (2) an overview of task-specific research progress on hallucinations in the following downstream tasks, namely abstractive summarization, dialogue generation, generative question answering, data-to-text generation, machine translation, and visual-language generation. This survey serves to facilitate collaborative efforts among researchers in tackling the challenge of hallucinated texts in NLG.

GPT-3等大型自回归语言模型是几秒钟的学习者，可以在没有微调的情况下执行各种语言任务。虽然已知这些模型能够共同代表许多不同的语言，但他们的培训数据由英语主导，可能限制了它们的交叉概括。在这项工作中，我们在覆盖多种语言的平衡语料库上培训多语言自回归语言模型，并在广泛的任务中研究他们几乎没有零点的学习能力。我们最大的模型，具有75亿参数，在20多种代表语言中，在几种代表语言中，在几种代表性语言中，在几种代表性语言中，在多语言型号推理中表现出可比大小的GPT-3（在0次设置和0次拍摄设置中的绝对精度改善+ 7.4％ 4-拍摄设置中的9.4％）和自然语言推理（每次拍摄和4次设置中的每一个+ 5.4％）。在Flores-101机器翻译基准测试中，我们的模型优于GPT-3在182个翻译方向上有32个培训例子，同时超过45个方向的官方监督基线。我们介绍了模型成功和失败的位置的详细分析，特别是它尤其显示在某些任务中实现交叉语境的内容学习，而仍然存在改善表面的鲁棒性和适应没有a的任务的余地自然冻结形式。最后，我们评估我们在仇恨语音检测中以五种语言的仇恨语音检测的模型，并发现它具有与可比大小的GPT-3模型类似的限制。

Pre-trained language models (LMs) have shown remarkable reasoning performance using explanations (or ``chain-of-thought'' (CoT)) for in-context learning. On the other hand, these reasoning tasks are usually presumed to be more approachable for symbolic programming. To make progress towards understanding in-context learning, we curate synthetic datasets containing equivalent (natural, symbolic) data pairs, where symbolic examples contain first-order logic rules and predicates from knowledge bases (KBs). Then we revisit neuro-symbolic approaches and use Language Models as Logic Programmer (LMLP) that learns from demonstrations containing logic rules and corresponding examples to iteratively reason over KBs, recovering Prolog's backward chaining algorithm. Comprehensive experiments are included to systematically compare LMLP with CoT in deductive reasoning settings, showing that LMLP enjoys more than 25% higher accuracy than CoT on length generalization benchmarks even with fewer parameters.