From Random to Informed Data Selection: A Diversity-Based Approach to Optimize Human Annotation and Few-Shot Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Alcoforado, Alexandre, Ferraz, Thomas Palmeira, Okamura, Lucas Hideki, Fama, Israel Campos, Lavado, Arnold Moya, Bueno, Bárbara Dias, Veloso, Bruno, Costa, Anna Helena Reali
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author Alcoforado, Alexandre
Ferraz, Thomas Palmeira
Okamura, Lucas Hideki
Fama, Israel Campos
Lavado, Arnold Moya
Bueno, Bárbara Dias
Veloso, Bruno
Costa, Anna Helena Reali
author_facet Alcoforado, Alexandre
Ferraz, Thomas Palmeira
Okamura, Lucas Hideki
Fama, Israel Campos
Lavado, Arnold Moya
Bueno, Bárbara Dias
Veloso, Bruno
Costa, Anna Helena Reali
contents A major challenge in Natural Language Processing is obtaining annotated data for supervised learning. An option is the use of crowdsourcing platforms for data annotation. However, crowdsourcing introduces issues related to the annotator's experience, consistency, and biases. An alternative is to use zero-shot methods, which in turn have limitations compared to their few-shot or fully supervised counterparts. Recent advancements driven by large language models show potential, but struggle to adapt to specialized domains with severely limited data. The most common approaches therefore involve the human itself randomly annotating a set of datapoints to build initial datasets. But randomly sampling data to be annotated is often inefficient as it ignores the characteristics of the data and the specific needs of the model. The situation worsens when working with imbalanced datasets, as random sampling tends to heavily bias towards the majority classes, leading to excessive annotated data. To address these issues, this paper contributes an automatic and informed data selection architecture to build a small dataset for few-shot learning. Our proposal minimizes the quantity and maximizes diversity of data selected for human annotation, while improving model performance.
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spellingShingle From Random to Informed Data Selection: A Diversity-Based Approach to Optimize Human Annotation and Few-Shot Learning
Alcoforado, Alexandre
Ferraz, Thomas Palmeira
Okamura, Lucas Hideki
Fama, Israel Campos
Lavado, Arnold Moya
Bueno, Bárbara Dias
Veloso, Bruno
Costa, Anna Helena Reali
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
A major challenge in Natural Language Processing is obtaining annotated data for supervised learning. An option is the use of crowdsourcing platforms for data annotation. However, crowdsourcing introduces issues related to the annotator's experience, consistency, and biases. An alternative is to use zero-shot methods, which in turn have limitations compared to their few-shot or fully supervised counterparts. Recent advancements driven by large language models show potential, but struggle to adapt to specialized domains with severely limited data. The most common approaches therefore involve the human itself randomly annotating a set of datapoints to build initial datasets. But randomly sampling data to be annotated is often inefficient as it ignores the characteristics of the data and the specific needs of the model. The situation worsens when working with imbalanced datasets, as random sampling tends to heavily bias towards the majority classes, leading to excessive annotated data. To address these issues, this paper contributes an automatic and informed data selection architecture to build a small dataset for few-shot learning. Our proposal minimizes the quantity and maximizes diversity of data selected for human annotation, while improving model performance.
title From Random to Informed Data Selection: A Diversity-Based Approach to Optimize Human Annotation and Few-Shot Learning
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.13229