Beyond Simple Averaging: Improving NLP Ensemble Performance with Topological-Data-Analysis-Based Weighting

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Auteurs principaux: Proskura, Polina, Zaytsev, Alexey
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author Proskura, Polina
Zaytsev, Alexey
author_facet Proskura, Polina
Zaytsev, Alexey
contents In machine learning, ensembles are important tools for improving the model performance. In natural language processing specifically, ensembles boost the performance of a method due to multiple large models available in open source. However, existing approaches mostly rely on simple averaging of predictions by ensembles with equal weights for each model, ignoring differences in the quality and conformity of models. We propose to estimate weights for ensembles of NLP models using not only knowledge of their individual performance but also their similarity to each other. By adopting distance measures based on Topological Data Analysis (TDA), we improve our ensemble. The quality improves for both text classification accuracy and relevant uncertainty estimation.
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spellingShingle Beyond Simple Averaging: Improving NLP Ensemble Performance with Topological-Data-Analysis-Based Weighting
Proskura, Polina
Zaytsev, Alexey
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
In machine learning, ensembles are important tools for improving the model performance. In natural language processing specifically, ensembles boost the performance of a method due to multiple large models available in open source. However, existing approaches mostly rely on simple averaging of predictions by ensembles with equal weights for each model, ignoring differences in the quality and conformity of models. We propose to estimate weights for ensembles of NLP models using not only knowledge of their individual performance but also their similarity to each other. By adopting distance measures based on Topological Data Analysis (TDA), we improve our ensemble. The quality improves for both text classification accuracy and relevant uncertainty estimation.
title Beyond Simple Averaging: Improving NLP Ensemble Performance with Topological-Data-Analysis-Based Weighting
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14184