CoT-Driven Framework for Short Text Classification: Enhancing and Transferring Capabilities from Large to Smaller Model

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Autori principali: Wu, Hui, Zhang, Yuanben, Han, Zhonghe, Hou, Yingyan, Wang, Lei, Liu, Siye, Gong, Qihang, Ge, Yunping
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author Wu, Hui
Zhang, Yuanben
Han, Zhonghe
Hou, Yingyan
Wang, Lei
Liu, Siye
Gong, Qihang
Ge, Yunping
author_facet Wu, Hui
Zhang, Yuanben
Han, Zhonghe
Hou, Yingyan
Wang, Lei
Liu, Siye
Gong, Qihang
Ge, Yunping
contents Short Text Classification (STC) is crucial for processing and understanding the brief but substantial content prevalent on contemporary digital platforms. The STC encounters difficulties in grasping the semantic and syntactic intricacies, an issue that is apparent in traditional pre-trained language models. Although Graph Convolutional Networks enhance performance by integrating external knowledge bases, these methods are limited by the quality and extent of the knowledge applied. Recently, the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has significantly improved the performance of complex reasoning tasks. However, some studies have highlighted the limitations of their application in fundamental NLP tasks. Consequently, this study first employs CoT to investigate and enhance the capabilities of LLMs in STC tasks. We propose the Syntactic and Semantic Enrichment CoT (SSE-CoT) method, effectively decomposing the STC tasks into four distinct steps: (i) essential concept identification, (ii) common-sense knowledge retrieval, (iii) text rewriting, and (iv) classification. Furthermore, recognizing resource constraints in sectors like finance and healthcare, we then introduce the CoT-Driven Multi-Task Learning (CDMT) framework to extend these capabilities to smaller models. This framework begins by extracting rationales from LLMs and subsequently fine-tunes smaller models to optimize their performance. Extensive experimentation across six short-text benchmarks validated the efficacy of the proposed methods. In particular, SSE-CoT achieved state-of-the-art performance with substantial improvements on all datasets, particularly on the Ohsumed and TagMyNews datasets.
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spellingShingle CoT-Driven Framework for Short Text Classification: Enhancing and Transferring Capabilities from Large to Smaller Model
Wu, Hui
Zhang, Yuanben
Han, Zhonghe
Hou, Yingyan
Wang, Lei
Liu, Siye
Gong, Qihang
Ge, Yunping
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Short Text Classification (STC) is crucial for processing and understanding the brief but substantial content prevalent on contemporary digital platforms. The STC encounters difficulties in grasping the semantic and syntactic intricacies, an issue that is apparent in traditional pre-trained language models. Although Graph Convolutional Networks enhance performance by integrating external knowledge bases, these methods are limited by the quality and extent of the knowledge applied. Recently, the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has significantly improved the performance of complex reasoning tasks. However, some studies have highlighted the limitations of their application in fundamental NLP tasks. Consequently, this study first employs CoT to investigate and enhance the capabilities of LLMs in STC tasks. We propose the Syntactic and Semantic Enrichment CoT (SSE-CoT) method, effectively decomposing the STC tasks into four distinct steps: (i) essential concept identification, (ii) common-sense knowledge retrieval, (iii) text rewriting, and (iv) classification. Furthermore, recognizing resource constraints in sectors like finance and healthcare, we then introduce the CoT-Driven Multi-Task Learning (CDMT) framework to extend these capabilities to smaller models. This framework begins by extracting rationales from LLMs and subsequently fine-tunes smaller models to optimize their performance. Extensive experimentation across six short-text benchmarks validated the efficacy of the proposed methods. In particular, SSE-CoT achieved state-of-the-art performance with substantial improvements on all datasets, particularly on the Ohsumed and TagMyNews datasets.
title CoT-Driven Framework for Short Text Classification: Enhancing and Transferring Capabilities from Large to Smaller Model
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03158