Generating Efficient Training Data via LLM-based Attribute Manipulation
Letian Peng Yuwei Zhang Jingbo Shang
In this paper, we propose a novel method, Chain-of-Thoughts Attribute
Manipulation (CoTAM), to guide few-shot learning by carefully crafted data from
Large Language Models (LLMs). The main idea is to create data with changes only
in the attribute targeted by the task. Inspired by facial attribute
manipulation, our approach generates label-switched data by leveraging LLMs to
manipulate task-specific attributes and reconstruct new sentences in a
controlled manner. Instead of conventional latent representation controlling,
we implement chain-of-thoughts decomposition and reconstruction to adapt the
procedure to LLMs. Extensive results on text classification and other tasks
verify the advantage of CoTAM over other LLM-based text generation methods with
the same number of training examples. Analysis visualizes the attribute
manipulation effectiveness of CoTAM and presents the potential of LLM-guided
learning with even less supervision.