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Main Authors: Han, Xu, Sun, Yumeng, Huang, Weiqiang, Zheng, Hongye, Du, Junliang
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06145
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author Han, Xu
Sun, Yumeng
Huang, Weiqiang
Zheng, Hongye
Du, Junliang
author_facet Han, Xu
Sun, Yumeng
Huang, Weiqiang
Zheng, Hongye
Du, Junliang
contents Few-shot text classification has important application value in low-resource environments. This paper proposes a strategy that combines adaptive fine-tuning, contrastive learning, and regularization optimization to improve the classification performance of Transformer-based models. Experiments on the FewRel 2.0 dataset show that T5-small, DeBERTa-v3, and RoBERTa-base perform well in few-shot tasks, especially in the 5-shot setting, which can more effectively capture text features and improve classification accuracy. The experiment also found that there are significant differences in the classification difficulty of different relationship categories. Some categories have fuzzy semantic boundaries or complex feature distributions, making it difficult for the standard cross entropy loss to learn the discriminative information required to distinguish categories. By introducing contrastive loss and regularization loss, the generalization ability of the model is enhanced, effectively alleviating the overfitting problem in few-shot environments. In addition, the research results show that the use of Transformer models or generative architectures with stronger self-attention mechanisms can help improve the stability and accuracy of few-shot classification.
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spellingShingle Towards Robust Few-Shot Text Classification Using Transformer Architectures and Dual Loss Strategies
Han, Xu
Sun, Yumeng
Huang, Weiqiang
Zheng, Hongye
Du, Junliang
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Few-shot text classification has important application value in low-resource environments. This paper proposes a strategy that combines adaptive fine-tuning, contrastive learning, and regularization optimization to improve the classification performance of Transformer-based models. Experiments on the FewRel 2.0 dataset show that T5-small, DeBERTa-v3, and RoBERTa-base perform well in few-shot tasks, especially in the 5-shot setting, which can more effectively capture text features and improve classification accuracy. The experiment also found that there are significant differences in the classification difficulty of different relationship categories. Some categories have fuzzy semantic boundaries or complex feature distributions, making it difficult for the standard cross entropy loss to learn the discriminative information required to distinguish categories. By introducing contrastive loss and regularization loss, the generalization ability of the model is enhanced, effectively alleviating the overfitting problem in few-shot environments. In addition, the research results show that the use of Transformer models or generative architectures with stronger self-attention mechanisms can help improve the stability and accuracy of few-shot classification.
title Towards Robust Few-Shot Text Classification Using Transformer Architectures and Dual Loss Strategies
topic Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06145