Label Words are Anchors: An Information Flow Perspective for Understanding In-Context Learning – Best Long Paper at EMNLP 2023
At EMNLP 2023, the joint WeChat AI and Peking University paper 'Label Words are Anchors: An Information Flow Perspective for Understanding In-Context Learning' won the Best Long Paper award, revealing that label tokens act as anchors driving information aggregation in shallow layers and prediction flow in deep layers, and proposing methods to improve and diagnose in‑context learning.