Diverse Few-Shot Text Classification with Multiple Metrics

Mo Yu, Xiaoxiao Guo, Jinfeng Yi, Shiyu Chang, Saloni Potdar, Yu Cheng, Gerald Tesauro, Haoyu Wang, Bowen Zhou


Abstract
We study few-shot learning in natural language domains. Compared to many existing works that apply either metric-based or optimization-based meta-learning to image domain with low inter-task variance, we consider a more realistic setting, where tasks are diverse. However, it imposes tremendous difficulties to existing state-of-the-art metric-based algorithms since a single metric is insufficient to capture complex task variations in natural language domain. To alleviate the problem, we propose an adaptive metric learning approach that automatically determines the best weighted combination from a set of metrics obtained from meta-training tasks for a newly seen few-shot task. Extensive quantitative evaluations on real-world sentiment analysis and dialog intent classification datasets demonstrate that the proposed method performs favorably against state-of-the-art few shot learning algorithms in terms of predictive accuracy. We make our code and data available for further study.
Anthology ID:
N18-1109
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
Month:
June
Year:
2018
Address:
New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:
Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
1206–1215
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-1109
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-1109
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Cite (ACL):
Mo Yu, Xiaoxiao Guo, Jinfeng Yi, Shiyu Chang, Saloni Potdar, Yu Cheng, Gerald Tesauro, Haoyu Wang, and Bowen Zhou. 2018. Diverse Few-Shot Text Classification with Multiple Metrics. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 1206–1215, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Diverse Few-Shot Text Classification with Multiple Metrics (Yu et al., NAACL 2018)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-1109.pdf
Note:
 N18-1109.Notes.pdf
Code
 Gorov/DiverseFewShot_Amazon +  additional community code