EMNLP paper: LLMs learn novel tasks more reliably from rules than from in-context examples
najoungkim · x · 2026-10-06
An EMNLP 2026 Main paper systematically compares whether LLMs learn novel tasks better in-context from rules or from examples, across diverse tasks and models. Finding: LLMs generally learn more reliably from rules than from examples.
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