Instance Relation Learning Network with Label Knowledge Propagation for Few-shot Multi-label Intent Detection

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Hauptverfasser: Zhao, Shiman, Li, Shangyuan, Chen, Wei, Wang, Tengjiao, Yao, Jiahui, Zheng, Jiabin, Wong, Kam Fai
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author Zhao, Shiman
Li, Shangyuan
Chen, Wei
Wang, Tengjiao
Yao, Jiahui
Zheng, Jiabin
Wong, Kam Fai
author_facet Zhao, Shiman
Li, Shangyuan
Chen, Wei
Wang, Tengjiao
Yao, Jiahui
Zheng, Jiabin
Wong, Kam Fai
contents Few-shot Multi-label Intent Detection (MID) is crucial for dialogue systems, aiming to detect multiple intents of utterances in low-resource dialogue domains. Previous studies focus on a two-stage pipeline. They first learn representations of utterances with multiple labels and then use a threshold-based strategy to identify multi-label results. However, these methods rely on representation classification and ignore instance relations, leading to error propagation. To solve the above issues, we propose a multi-label joint learning method for few-shot MID in an end-to-end manner, which constructs an instance relation learning network with label knowledge propagation to eliminate error propagation. Concretely, we learn the interaction relations between instances with class information to propagate label knowledge between a few labeled (support set) and unlabeled (query set) instances. With label knowledge propagation, the relation strength between instances directly indicates whether two utterances belong to the same intent for multi-label prediction. Besides, a dual relation-enhanced loss is developed to optimize support- and query-level relation strength to improve performance. Experiments show that we outperform strong baselines by an average of 9.54% AUC and 11.19% Macro-F1 in 1-shot scenarios.
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spellingShingle Instance Relation Learning Network with Label Knowledge Propagation for Few-shot Multi-label Intent Detection
Zhao, Shiman
Li, Shangyuan
Chen, Wei
Wang, Tengjiao
Yao, Jiahui
Zheng, Jiabin
Wong, Kam Fai
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Few-shot Multi-label Intent Detection (MID) is crucial for dialogue systems, aiming to detect multiple intents of utterances in low-resource dialogue domains. Previous studies focus on a two-stage pipeline. They first learn representations of utterances with multiple labels and then use a threshold-based strategy to identify multi-label results. However, these methods rely on representation classification and ignore instance relations, leading to error propagation. To solve the above issues, we propose a multi-label joint learning method for few-shot MID in an end-to-end manner, which constructs an instance relation learning network with label knowledge propagation to eliminate error propagation. Concretely, we learn the interaction relations between instances with class information to propagate label knowledge between a few labeled (support set) and unlabeled (query set) instances. With label knowledge propagation, the relation strength between instances directly indicates whether two utterances belong to the same intent for multi-label prediction. Besides, a dual relation-enhanced loss is developed to optimize support- and query-level relation strength to improve performance. Experiments show that we outperform strong baselines by an average of 9.54% AUC and 11.19% Macro-F1 in 1-shot scenarios.
title Instance Relation Learning Network with Label Knowledge Propagation for Few-shot Multi-label Intent Detection
topic Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07776