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Few-Shot and Zero-Shot Multi-Label Learning for Structured Label Spaces

1 Oct 2018EMNLP 2018 10archive 2025-07-28

Anthony Rios, Ramakanth Kavuluru

Large multi-label datasets contain labels that occur thousands of times (frequent group), those that occur only a few times (few-shot group), and labels that never appear in the training dataset (zero-shot group). Multi-label few- and zero-shot label prediction is mostly unexplored on datasets with large label spaces, especially for text classification. In this paper, we perform a fine-grained evaluation to understand how state-of-the-art methods perform on infrequent labels. Furthermore, we develop few- and zero-shot methods for multi-label text classification when there is a known structure over the label space, and evaluate them on two publicly available medical text datasets: MIMIC II and MIMIC III. For few-shot labels we achieve improvements of 6.2{\%} and 4.8{\%} in R@10 for MIMIC II and MIMIC III, respectively, over prior efforts; the corresponding R@10 improvements for zero-shot labels are 17.3{\%} and 19{\%}.

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General ClassificationMulti Label Text ClassificationMulti-Label ClassificationMulti-Label LearningMulti-Label Text ClassificationText Classificationtext-classification

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