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Uncertainty-aware Self-training for Few-shot Text Classification
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Measured effects reported in the paper
| What was changed | Where | Measured | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| add class-dependent selection with exploration (ablation) | UST (Easy) · Average of 5 datasets | accuracy: 89.78 -> 91.00 | Helped |
| add confident learning (variance-weighted loss) (ablation) | UST (Easy) · Average of 5 datasets | accuracy: 89.96 -> 91.00 | Helped |
| add class-dependent selection with exploration (ablation) | UST (Hard) · Average of 5 datasets | accuracy: 88.27 -> 90.02 | Helped |
| add confident learning (ablation) | UST (Hard) · Average of 5 datasets | accuracy: 89.57 -> 90.02 | Helped |
| uncertainty-based easy sample selection instead of uniform sampling (ablation) | classic self-training · Average of 5 datasets | accuracy: 87.34 -> 91.00 | Helped |
| select easy instead of hard samples (ablation) | UST · Average of 5 datasets | accuracy: 90.02 -> 91.00 | Helped |
| UST vs UDA (no back-translation needed) | BERT-Base few-shot · Average of 5 datasets | accuracy: 89.06 -> 91.00 | Helped |
| UST vs UDA on IMDB | BERT-Base few-shot · IMDB | accuracy: 89.30 -> 89.21 | No clear effect |
| add uncertainty-aware self-training | BERT-Base with 30 labels per class · Average of 5 datasets | accuracy: 80.85 -> 91.00 | Helped |
| remove class-dependent selection (hard variant) on SST (ablation) | UST (Hard) · SST | accuracy: 80.45 -> 88.02 | Helped |
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