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Pattern-Exploiting Training
Introduced by Timo Schick et al. in Exploiting Cloze Questions for Few Shot Text Classification and Natural Language Inference
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Pattern-Exploiting Training is a semi-supervised training procedure that reformulates input examples as cloze-style phrases to help language models understand a given task. These phrases are then used to assign soft labels to a large set of unlabeled examples. Finally, standard supervised training is performed on the resulting training set.
In the case of PET for sentiment classification, first a number of patterns encoding some form of task description are created to convert training examples to cloze questions; for each pattern, a pretrained language model is finetuned. Secondly, the ensemble of trained models annotates unlabeled data. Lastly, a classifier is trained on the resulting soft-labeled dataset.
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Exploring Data Augmentation Methods on Social Media Corpora 3 Mar 2023 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2303.02198
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Enhancing Tabular Reasoning with Pattern Exploiting Training 21 Oct 2022 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2210.12259
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Quantifying the effect of color processing on blood and damaged tissue detection in Whole Slide Images 26 Sep 2022 · 1 repository
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Few-shot Named Entity Recognition with Cloze Questions 24 Nov 2021 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2111.12421
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Exploiting Cloze-Questions for Few-Shot Text Classification and Natural Language Inference 1 Apr 2021 · 1 repository
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Exploiting Cloze Questions for Few Shot Text Classification and Natural Language Inference 21 Jan 2020 · 6 repositories · arXiv:2001.07676
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