Tutorial Bundle: Parameter-Efficient and Prompt Learning for Speech and Language Foundation Models (Parts 1-3), ICASSP 2024

Tutorial Bundle: Parameter-Efficient and Prompt Learning for Speech and Language Foundation Models (Parts 1-3), ICASSP 2024

Introduction and Motivation for Studying Parameter-Efficient learning To be presented by Dr. Huck Yang 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 To be presented by Dr. Pin-Yu Chen, IBM Research AI Reprogramming for Medical Images and DNA with 1B+ LLM (ICML 23) Prompting Large Language Models To be presented by Cheng-Han Chiang and Prof. Hung-yi Lee 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 To be presented by Kai-Wei Chang and Prof. Hung-yi Lee 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 To be presented by Prof. Hung-yi Lee Lessons learned: a signal processor wandering in the land of large-scale models Available resources and code for research in parameter-efficient learning