Unsupervised Reinforcement Adaptation for Class-Imbalanced Text Classification

Yuexin Wu, Xiaolei Huang


Abstract
Class imbalance naturally exists when label distributions are not aligned across source and target domains. However, existing state-of-the-art UDA models learn domain-invariant representations across domains and evaluate primarily on class-balanced data. In this work, we propose an unsupervised domain adaptation approach via reinforcement learning that jointly leverages feature variants and imbalanced labels across domains. We experiment with the text classification task for its easily accessible datasets and compare the proposed method with five baselines. Experiments on three datasets prove that our proposed method can effectively learn robust domain-invariant representations and successfully adapt text classifiers on imbalanced classes over domains.
Anthology ID:
2022.starsem-1.27
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, Washington
Editors:
Vivi Nastase, Ellie Pavlick, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Jose Camacho-Collados, Alessandro Raganato
Venue:
*SEM
SIG:
SIGLEX
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
311–322
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.starsem-1.27
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.starsem-1.27
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Cite (ACL):
Yuexin Wu and Xiaolei Huang. 2022. Unsupervised Reinforcement Adaptation for Class-Imbalanced Text Classification. In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pages 311–322, Seattle, Washington. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Unsupervised Reinforcement Adaptation for Class-Imbalanced Text Classification (Wu & Huang, *SEM 2022)
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.starsem-1.27.pdf
Code
 woqingdoua/imbalanceclass