@inproceedings{kho-etal-2023-boosting,
title = "Boosting Prompt-Based Self-Training With Mapping-Free Automatic Verbalizer for Multi-Class Classification",
author = "Kho, Yookyung and
Kim, Jaehee and
Kang, Pilsung",
editor = "Bouamor, Houda and
Pino, Juan and
Bali, Kalika",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023",
month = dec,
year = "2023",
address = "Singapore",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.921",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.921",
pages = "13786--13800",
abstract = "Recently, prompt-based fine-tuning has garnered considerable interest as a core technique for few-shot text classification task. This approach reformulates the fine-tuning objective to align with the Masked Language Modeling (MLM) objective. Leveraging unlabeled data, prompt-based self-training has shown greater effectiveness in binary and three-class classification. However, prompt-based self-training for multi-class classification has not been adequately investigated, despite its significant applicability to real-world scenarios. Moreover, extending current methods to multi-class classification suffers from the verbalizer that extracts the predicted value of manually pre-defined single label word for each class from MLM predictions. Consequently, we introduce a novel, efficient verbalizer structure, named Mapping-free Automatic Verbalizer (MAV). Comprising two fully connected layers, MAV serves as a trainable verbalizer that automatically extracts the requisite word features for classification by capitalizing on all available information from MLM predictions. Experimental results on five multi-class classification datasets indicate MAV{'}s superior self-training efficacy.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Boosting Prompt-Based Self-Training With Mapping-Free Automatic Verbalizer for Multi-Class Classification
%A Kho, Yookyung
%A Kim, Jaehee
%A Kang, Pilsung
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y Pino, Juan
%Y Bali, Kalika
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
%D 2023
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Singapore
%F kho-etal-2023-boosting
%X Recently, prompt-based fine-tuning has garnered considerable interest as a core technique for few-shot text classification task. This approach reformulates the fine-tuning objective to align with the Masked Language Modeling (MLM) objective. Leveraging unlabeled data, prompt-based self-training has shown greater effectiveness in binary and three-class classification. However, prompt-based self-training for multi-class classification has not been adequately investigated, despite its significant applicability to real-world scenarios. Moreover, extending current methods to multi-class classification suffers from the verbalizer that extracts the predicted value of manually pre-defined single label word for each class from MLM predictions. Consequently, we introduce a novel, efficient verbalizer structure, named Mapping-free Automatic Verbalizer (MAV). Comprising two fully connected layers, MAV serves as a trainable verbalizer that automatically extracts the requisite word features for classification by capitalizing on all available information from MLM predictions. Experimental results on five multi-class classification datasets indicate MAV’s superior self-training efficacy.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.921
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.921
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.921
%P 13786-13800
Markdown (Informal)
[Boosting Prompt-Based Self-Training With Mapping-Free Automatic Verbalizer for Multi-Class Classification](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.921) (Kho et al., Findings 2023)
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