README.md

ELICIT: LLM Augmentation via External In-Context Capability

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Overview

We propose ELICIT, improving language model performance by:

1. Building a Capability Library: A collection of task-specific capabilities from in-domain datasets.
2. Dynamic Capability Elicitation: Using a trained retriever to dynamically select relevant capabilities for aribitary query.

Experiment Codes

You can find our results here.

Building the Capability Library

The Capability Library is constructed using validation sets from in-domain tasks with 16-shot examples. Follow these steps:

1. Prepare datasets:

   python process_data.py --task <task_name>

   Example:

   python process_data.py --task arc_challenge

2. Collect libraries for different models:

   ./scripts/collect_tv.sh

Dynamic Capability Elicitation

Train the Retriever

We provide a balanced dataset of 10,000 samples to train the retriever:

python train_retriever.py --output_model prompt_classifier_model.pth

Evaluate ELICIT

Once the retriever is trained, you can evaluate ELICIT using the collected library:

./scripts/eval_elicit.sh

To analyze results:

1. Update the evaluation directory in analysis_results.py.
2. Run the script:

   python analysis_results.py

Citation

If you find this project helpful, please consider citing our work:

@inproceedings{
   wang2025elicit,
   title={{ELICIT}: {LLM} Augmentation Via External In-context Capability},
   author={Futing Wang and Jianhao Yan and Yue Zhang and Tao Lin},
   booktitle={The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations},
   year={2025},
   url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=CI4sCBMXjP}
}