DAIL: Data Augmentation for In-Context Learning via Self-Paraphrase
Dawei Li Yaxuan Li Dheeraj Mekala Shuyao Li Yulin wang Xueqi Wang William Hogan Jingbo Shang
In-Context Learning (ICL) combined with pre-trained large language models has
achieved promising results on various NLP tasks. However, ICL requires
high-quality annotated demonstrations which might not be available in
real-world scenarios. To overcome this limitation, we propose \textbf{D}ata
\textbf{A}ugmentation for \textbf{I}n-Context \textbf{L}earning
(\textbf{DAIL}). DAIL leverages the intuition that large language models are
more familiar with the content generated by themselves. It first utilizes the
language model to generate paraphrases of the test sample and employs majority
voting to determine the final result based on individual predictions. Our
extensive empirical evaluation shows that DAIL outperforms the standard ICL
method and other ensemble-based methods in the low-resource scenario.
Additionally, we explore the use of voting consistency as a confidence score of
the model when the logits of predictions are inaccessible. We believe our work
will stimulate further research on ICL in low-resource settings.