Parameter-Efficient and Prompt Learning for Speech and Language Foundation Models

Agenda: Introduction and Motivation for Studying Parameter-Efficient learning Background: Large-scale Pre-trained and Foundation Models Definition and Theory of parameter-efficient learning Basics of Pre-trained Model Representation Errors Analysis Editing Models with Task Arithmetic Advanced Settings of Task Vectors Multimodal Weights Merging BERT + Hubert for ASR Vit + AST for Acoustic Modeling In-Context Learning Frozen Model Adaptation through long context windows New Approaches on Neural Model Reprogramming Reprogramming for Medical Images and DNA with 1B+ LLM Prompting Large Language Models Connection between prompting and parameter-efficient learning Prompting large language models for reasoning ReAct, Plan-and-Solve, Tree-of-Thought prompting Faithfulness and robustness of LLM reasonings Using LLMs for tool using Automatic evaluation using large language models by prompting LLM evaluation and G-Eval Parameter-Efficient Learning for Speech Processing Adapting text Large Language Models for Speech Processing Adapting text LLM (e.g. LLaMA) for spoken language modeling Prompting and Instruction Tuning on Speech Pre-trained Models Semantic and acoustic tokens for speech language models Prompting and instruction tuning for various speech processing tasks Conclusion and Open Questions Lessons learned: a signal processor wandering in the land of large-scale models Available resources and code for research in parameter-efficient learning