Menglin Jia
2021
When in Doubt: Improving Classification Performance with Alternating Normalization
Menglin Jia
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Austin Reiter
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Ser-Nam Lim
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Yoav Artzi
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Claire Cardie
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
We introduce Classification with Alternating Normalization (CAN), a non-parametric post-processing step for classification. CAN improves classification accuracy for challenging examples by re-adjusting their predicted class probability distribution using the predicted class distributions of high-confidence validation examples. CAN is easily applicable to any probabilistic classifier, with minimal computation overhead. We analyze the properties of CAN using simulated experiments, and empirically demonstrate its effectiveness across a diverse set of classification tasks.
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