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Main Authors: Chen, Zhuowei, Wang, Lianxi, Wu, Yuben, Liao, Xinfeng, Tian, Yujia, Zhong, Junyang
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03203
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author Chen, Zhuowei
Wang, Lianxi
Wu, Yuben
Liao, Xinfeng
Tian, Yujia
Zhong, Junyang
author_facet Chen, Zhuowei
Wang, Lianxi
Wu, Yuben
Liao, Xinfeng
Tian, Yujia
Zhong, Junyang
contents Sentiment classification (SC) often suffers from low-resource challenges such as domain-specific contexts, imbalanced label distributions, and few-shot scenarios. The potential of the diffusion language model (LM) for textual data augmentation (DA) remains unexplored, moreover, textual DA methods struggle to balance the diversity and consistency of new samples. Most DA methods either perform logical modifications or rephrase less important tokens in the original sequence with the language model. In the context of SC, strong emotional tokens could act critically on the sentiment of the whole sequence. Therefore, contrary to rephrasing less important context, we propose DiffusionCLS to leverage a diffusion LM to capture in-domain knowledge and generate pseudo samples by reconstructing strong label-related tokens. This approach ensures a balance between consistency and diversity, avoiding the introduction of noise and augmenting crucial features of datasets. DiffusionCLS also comprises a Noise-Resistant Training objective to help the model generalize. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in various low-resource scenarios including domain-specific and domain-general problems. Ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of our framework's modules, and visualization studies highlight optimal deployment conditions, reinforcing our conclusions.
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spellingShingle An Effective Deployment of Diffusion LM for Data Augmentation in Low-Resource Sentiment Classification
Chen, Zhuowei
Wang, Lianxi
Wu, Yuben
Liao, Xinfeng
Tian, Yujia
Zhong, Junyang
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Sentiment classification (SC) often suffers from low-resource challenges such as domain-specific contexts, imbalanced label distributions, and few-shot scenarios. The potential of the diffusion language model (LM) for textual data augmentation (DA) remains unexplored, moreover, textual DA methods struggle to balance the diversity and consistency of new samples. Most DA methods either perform logical modifications or rephrase less important tokens in the original sequence with the language model. In the context of SC, strong emotional tokens could act critically on the sentiment of the whole sequence. Therefore, contrary to rephrasing less important context, we propose DiffusionCLS to leverage a diffusion LM to capture in-domain knowledge and generate pseudo samples by reconstructing strong label-related tokens. This approach ensures a balance between consistency and diversity, avoiding the introduction of noise and augmenting crucial features of datasets. DiffusionCLS also comprises a Noise-Resistant Training objective to help the model generalize. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in various low-resource scenarios including domain-specific and domain-general problems. Ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of our framework's modules, and visualization studies highlight optimal deployment conditions, reinforcing our conclusions.
title An Effective Deployment of Diffusion LM for Data Augmentation in Low-Resource Sentiment Classification
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03203