Technique

Prompt Tuning

Learning a small set of continuous 'soft prompt' embeddings while keeping the model frozen.

Definition

Prompt tuning learns a handful of virtual token embeddings prepended to the input. The base model is unchanged. At scale (10B+ parameters) it matches full fine-tuning on many tasks while training <0.1% of parameters.

Common use cases

  • Multi-task serving
  • Cheap adaptation
  • Few-shot specialisation

Related terms

    Prompt Tuning — AI Glossary | Railwail