Retrieval-Based In-Context Learning: A Domain Adaptation Framework
In-context retrieval (ICR) is a retrieval-based form of in-context learning (ICL) in which demonstrations are retrieved from a source database based on similarity to the query, rather than sampled independently. In this work, we formulate ICR as a type of domain adaptation problem, where the source distribution $P$ of the database may differ from the target distribution $Q$ of the test query-label pair. We investigate the performance of ICR under a flexible class of distributional shifts that substantially extends prior work \citep{li2024fine,guo2025retrieval}, and establish theoretical guarantees that quantify the benefits and pitfalls of this learning paradigm. Our theory is verified by...
| Authors | Yilun Zhu, Naihao Deng, Yingcong Li et al. |
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| Primary category | stat.ML |
| Published | 5 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 12 October 2026 |
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