From 2fbf0cd9c7e4bcc6a5c917d5a57918b21052681e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: anthology-assist Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:59:17 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Paper Metadata: {2023.findings-acl.706}, closes #3891. --- data/xml/2023.findings.xml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/data/xml/2023.findings.xml b/data/xml/2023.findings.xml index 0ca9816ec8..fd1cbbd68f 100644 --- a/data/xml/2023.findings.xml +++ b/data/xml/2023.findings.xml @@ -11993,9 +11993,9 @@ Revisit Few-shot Intent Classification with <fixed-case>PLM</fixed-case>s: Direct Fine-tuning vs. Continual Pre-training HaodeZhangThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University HaowenLiangThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Li-MingZhanThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Xiao-MingWuHong Kong Polytechnic University + LimingZhanThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University Albert Y.S.LamFano Labs + Xiao-MingWuHong Kong Polytechnic University 11105-11121 We consider the task of few-shot intent detection, which involves training a deep learning model to classify utterances based on their underlying intents using only a small amount of labeled data. The current approach to address this problem is through continual pre-training, i.e., fine-tuning pre-trained language models (PLMs) on external resources (e.g., conversational corpora, public intent detection datasets, or natural language understanding datasets) before using them as utterance encoders for training an intent classifier. In this paper, we show that continual pre-training may not be essential, since the overfitting problem of PLMs on this task may not be as serious as expected. Specifically, we find that directly fine-tuning PLMs on only a handful of labeled examples already yields decent results compared to methods that employ continual pre-training, and the performance gap diminishes rapidly as the number of labeled data increases. To maximize the utilization of the limited available data, we propose a context augmentation method and leverage sequential self-distillation to boost performance. Comprehensive experiments on real-world benchmarks show that given only two or more labeled samples per class, direct fine-tuning outperforms many strong baselines that utilize external data sources for continual pre-training. The code can be found at https://github.com/hdzhang-code/DFTPlus. 2023.findings-acl.706