2023
Schema-learning and rebinding as mechanisms of in-context learning and emergence
Sivaramakrishnan Swaminathan, Antoine Dedieu, Rajkumar Vasudeva Raju, Murray Shanahan, Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla, Dileep George
NeurIPS 2023spotlight
In-context learning (ICL) is one of the most powerful and most unexpected capabilities to emerge in recent transformer-based large language models (LLMs). Yet the mechanisms that underlie it are poorly understood. In this paper, we demonstrate that comparable ICL capabilities can be acquired by an a…