Language Models Adaptation Mechanisms Revealed
Language models adapt tasks through prompting, creating task-specific subspaces & using 2 key mechanisms: context injection & output steering. Larger models adapt more efficiently.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called How Language Models Switch Tasks: New Study Reveals Two Key Adaptation Mechanisms. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow us on Twitter. Overview Research examines how language models adapt to different tasks through prompting Identifies distinct geometric patterns in model activation spaces Shows prompting creates task-specific subspaces in neural networks Demonstrates two key adaptation mechanisms: context injection and output steering Reveals larger models have more efficient ada...