Deep Language Networks: Joint Prompt Training of Stacked LLMs using
  Variational Inference
We view large language models (LLMs) as stochastic language layers in
a network, where the learnable parameters are the natural language
prompts at each layer. We stack two such layers, feeding the output of
one layer to the next. We call the stacked architecture a Deep Language
Network (DLN). We first show how to effectively perform prompt optimization
for a 1-Layer language network (DLN-1). We then show how to train 2-layer DLNs
(DLN-2), where two prompts must be learnt. We consider the output of the first
layer as a latent variable to marginalize, and devise a variational inference
algorithm for joint prompt training. A DLN-2 reaches higher performance than a
single layer, sometimes comparable to few-shot GPT-4 even when each LLM in the
network is smaller and less powerful. The DLN code is open source:
https://github.com/microsoft/deep-language-networks .
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Deep Language Networks: Joint Prompt Training of Stacked LLMs using
  Variational Inference
We view large language models (LLMs) as stochastic language layers in
a network, where the learnable parameters are the natural language
prompts at each layer. We stack two such layers, feeding the output of
one layer to the next. We call the stacked architecture a Deep Language
Network (DLN). We first show how to effectively perform prompt optimization
for a 1-Layer language network (DLN-1). We then show how to train 2-layer DLNs
(DLN-2), where two prompts must be learnt. We consider the output of the first
layer as a latent variable to marginalize, and devise a variational inference
algorithm for joint prompt training. A DLN-2 reaches higher performance than a
single layer, sometimes comparable to few-shot GPT-4 even when each LLM in the
network is smaller and less powerful. The DLN code is open source:
https://github.com/microsoft/deep-language-networks .
A Deep Language Network (DLN) achieves high performance by stacking language layers and optimizing prompts through variational inference, outperforming single layers and sometimes matching few-shot GPT-4.
Deep Language Network (DLN) language layers prompts prompt optimization variational inference few-shot GPT-4