ICXML: An In-Context Learning Framework for Zero-Shot Extreme Multi-Label Classification

Yaxin Zhu, Hamed Zamani


Abstract
This paper focuses on the task of Extreme Multi-Label Classification (XMC) whose goal is to predict multiple labels for each instance from an extremely large label space. While existing research has primarily focused on fully supervised XMC, real-world scenarios often lack supervision signals, highlighting the importance of zero-shot settings. Given the large label space, utilizing in-context learning approaches is not trivial. We address this issue by introducing In-Context Extreme Multi-label Learning (ICXML), a two-stage framework that cuts down the search space by generating a set of candidate labels through in-context learning and then reranks them. Extensive experiments suggest that ICXML advances the state of the art on two diverse public benchmarks.
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2024.findings-naacl.134
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024
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June
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2024
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Kevin Duh, Helena Gomez, Steven Bethard
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Yaxin Zhu and Hamed Zamani. 2024. ICXML: An In-Context Learning Framework for Zero-Shot Extreme Multi-Label Classification. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024, pages 2086–2098, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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