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We present a novel approach to improve the performance of distant supervision relation extraction with Positive and Unlabeled (PU) Learning. This approach first applies reinforcement learning to decide whether a sentence is positive to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Zhengqiu He , Wenliang Chen , Yuyi Wang , Wei zhang , Guanchun Wang , Min Zhang

Meta-learning has emerged as a prominent technology for few-shot text classification and has achieved promising performance. However, existing methods often encounter difficulties in drawing accurate class prototypes from support set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinyue Liu , Yunlong Gao , Linlin Zong , Bo Xu

Existing approaches for disfluency detection typically require the existence of large annotated datasets. However, current datasets for this task are limited, suffer from class imbalance, and lack some types of disfluencies that can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 T. Passali , T. Mavropoulos , G. Tsoumakas , G. Meditskos , S. Vrochidis

The advent of neural-networks in NLP brought with it substantial improvements in supervised relation extraction. However, obtaining a sufficient quantity of training data remains a key challenge. In this work we propose a process for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Matan Eyal , Asaf Amrami , Hillel Taub-Tabib , Yoav Goldberg

Deep learning is usually data starved, and the unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is developed to introduce the knowledge in the labeled source domain to the unlabeled target domain. Recently, deep self-training presents a powerful means…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Lingsheng Kong , Bo Hu , Xiongchang Liu , Jun Lu , Jane You , Xiaofeng Liu

Our work aims at efficiently leveraging ambiguous demonstrations for the training of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent. An ambiguous demonstration can usually be interpreted in multiple ways, which severely hinders the RL-Agent from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Yantian Zha , Lin Guan , Subbarao Kambhampati

Contrastive pre-training on distant supervision has shown remarkable effectiveness in improving supervised relation extraction tasks. However, the existing methods ignore the intrinsic noise of distant supervision during the pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Zhen Wan , Fei Cheng , Qianying Liu , Zhuoyuan Mao , Haiyue Song , Sadao Kurohashi

Due to the semantic complexity of the Relation extraction (RE) task, obtaining high-quality human labelled data is an expensive and noisy process. To improve the sample efficiency of the models, semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods aim to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Komal K. Teru

Self-Taught Reasoners (STaR), synonymously known as Rejection sampling Fine-Tuning (RFT), is an integral part of the training pipeline of self-improving reasoning Language Models (LMs). The self-improving mechanism often employs random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Woosung Koh , Wonbeen Oh , Jaein Jang , MinHyung Lee , Hyeongjin Kim , Ah Yeon Kim , Joonkee Kim , Junghyun Lee , Taehyeon Kim , Se-Young Yun

Present Large Language Models (LLM) self-training methods always under-sample on challenging queries, leading to inadequate learning on difficult problems which limits LLMs' ability. Therefore, this work proposes a difficulty-aware…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Boyang Xue , Qi Zhu , Hongru Wang , Rui Wang , Sheng Wang , Hongling Xu , Fei Mi , Yasheng Wang , Lifeng Shang , Qun Liu , Kam-Fai Wong

Graph self-training is a semi-supervised learning method that iteratively selects a set of unlabeled data to retrain the underlying graph neural network (GNN) model and improve its prediction performance. While selecting highly confident…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Fangxin Wang , Kay Liu , Sourav Medya , Philip S. Yu

In this paper, we address the problem of effectively self-training neural networks in a low-resource setting. Self-training is frequently used to automatically increase the amount of training data. However, in a low-resource scenario, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Debjit Paul , Mittul Singh , Michael A. Hedderich , Dietrich Klakow

Recent advances in large pretrained language models have increased attention to zero-shot text classification. In particular, models finetuned on natural language inference datasets have been widely adopted as zero-shot classifiers due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ariel Gera , Alon Halfon , Eyal Shnarch , Yotam Perlitz , Liat Ein-Dor , Noam Slonim

The task of event extraction has long been investigated in a supervised learning paradigm, which is bound by the number and the quality of the training instances. Existing training data must be manually generated through a combination of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Ying Zeng , Yansong Feng , Rong Ma , Zheng Wang , Rui Yan , Chongde Shi , Dongyan Zhao

Annotation-efficient segmentation of the numerous mitochondria instances from various electron microscopy (EM) images is highly valuable for biological and neuroscience research. Although unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shan Xiong , Jiabao Chen , Ye Wang , Jialin Peng

Despite its popularity in sentence-level relation extraction, distantly supervised data is rarely utilized by existing work in document-level relation extraction due to its noisy nature and low information density. Among its current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiangyu Lin , Weijia Jia , Zhiguo Gong

Annotating multi-class instances is a crucial task in the field of machine learning. Unfortunately, identifying the correct class label from a long sequence of candidate labels is time-consuming and laborious. To alleviate this problem, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Meng Wei , Zhongnian Li , Yong Zhou , Qiaoyu Guo , Xinzheng Xu

Self-training is a powerful approach to deep learning. The key process is to find a pseudo-label for modeling. However, previous self-training algorithms suffer from the over-confidence issue brought by the hard labels, even some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Zijia Wang , Wenbin Yang , Zhisong Liu , Zhen Jia

Existing salient instance detection (SID) methods typically learn from pixel-level annotated datasets. In this paper, we present the first weakly-supervised approach to the SID problem. Although weak supervision has been considered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Xin Tian , Ke Xu , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Rynson W. H. Lau

Continual relation extraction (CRE) requires the model to continually learn new relations from class-incremental data streams. In this paper, we propose a Frustratingly easy but Effective Approach (FEA) method with two learning stages for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Peiyi Wang , Yifan Song , Tianyu Liu , Rundong Gao , Binghuai Lin , Yunbo Cao , Zhifang Sui