Label Distribution Learning-Enhanced Dual-KNN for Text Classification

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Main Authors: Yuan, Bo, Chen, Yulin, Tan, Zhen, Jinyan, Wang, Liu, Huan, Zhang, Yin
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author Yuan, Bo
Chen, Yulin
Tan, Zhen
Jinyan, Wang
Liu, Huan
Zhang, Yin
author_facet Yuan, Bo
Chen, Yulin
Tan, Zhen
Jinyan, Wang
Liu, Huan
Zhang, Yin
contents Many text classification methods usually introduce external information (e.g., label descriptions and knowledge bases) to improve the classification performance. Compared to external information, some internal information generated by the model itself during training, like text embeddings and predicted label probability distributions, are exploited poorly when predicting the outcomes of some texts. In this paper, we focus on leveraging this internal information, proposing a dual $k$ nearest neighbor (D$k$NN) framework with two $k$NN modules, to retrieve several neighbors from the training set and augment the distribution of labels. For the $k$NN module, it is easily confused and may cause incorrect predictions when retrieving some nearest neighbors from noisy datasets (datasets with labeling errors) or similar datasets (datasets with similar labels). To address this issue, we also introduce a label distribution learning module that can learn label similarity, and generate a better label distribution to help models distinguish texts more effectively. This module eases model overfitting and improves final classification performance, hence enhancing the quality of the retrieved neighbors by $k$NN modules during inference. Extensive experiments on the benchmark datasets verify the effectiveness of our method.
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spellingShingle Label Distribution Learning-Enhanced Dual-KNN for Text Classification
Yuan, Bo
Chen, Yulin
Tan, Zhen
Jinyan, Wang
Liu, Huan
Zhang, Yin
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Many text classification methods usually introduce external information (e.g., label descriptions and knowledge bases) to improve the classification performance. Compared to external information, some internal information generated by the model itself during training, like text embeddings and predicted label probability distributions, are exploited poorly when predicting the outcomes of some texts. In this paper, we focus on leveraging this internal information, proposing a dual $k$ nearest neighbor (D$k$NN) framework with two $k$NN modules, to retrieve several neighbors from the training set and augment the distribution of labels. For the $k$NN module, it is easily confused and may cause incorrect predictions when retrieving some nearest neighbors from noisy datasets (datasets with labeling errors) or similar datasets (datasets with similar labels). To address this issue, we also introduce a label distribution learning module that can learn label similarity, and generate a better label distribution to help models distinguish texts more effectively. This module eases model overfitting and improves final classification performance, hence enhancing the quality of the retrieved neighbors by $k$NN modules during inference. Extensive experiments on the benchmark datasets verify the effectiveness of our method.
title Label Distribution Learning-Enhanced Dual-KNN for Text Classification
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04869