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Hierarchical Text Classification (HTC) aims to assign texts to structured label hierarchies; however, it faces challenges due to data scarcity and model complexity. This study explores the feasibility of using black box Large Language…

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A hierarchical labeling system for mobile applications (apps) benefits a wide range of downstream businesses that integrate the labeling with their proprietary user data, to improve user modeling. Such a label hierarchy can define more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiawei Guo , Yang Xiao , Weipeng Huang , Guangyuan Piao

Due to the complex label hierarchy and intensive labeling cost in practice, the hierarchical text classification (HTC) suffers a poor performance especially when low-resource or few-shot settings are considered. Recently, there is a growing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Ke Ji , Yixin Lian , Jingsheng Gao , Baoyuan Wang

Hierarchical multi-label text classification (HMTC) has been gaining popularity in recent years thanks to its applicability to a plethora of real-world applications. The existing HMTC algorithms largely focus on the design of classifiers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xinyi Zhang , Jiahao Xu , Charlie Soh , Lihui Chen

Hierarchical multi-label academic text classification (HMTC) is to assign academic texts into a hierarchically structured labeling system. We propose an attention-based hierarchical multi-label classification algorithm of academic texts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yue Wang , Yawen Li , Ang Li

Efficient distributed numerical word representation models (word embeddings) combined with modern machine learning algorithms have recently yielded considerable improvement on automatic document classification tasks. However, the…

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Hierarchical multi-label text classification (HMTC) aims at utilizing a label hierarchy in multi-label classification. Recent approaches to HMTC deal with the problem of imposing an over-constrained premise on the output space by using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Simon Yu , Jie He , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Jeff Z. Pan

Multi-label text classification refers to the problem of assigning each given document its most relevant labels from the label set. Commonly, the metadata of the given documents and the hierarchy of the labels are available in real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yu Zhang , Zhihong Shen , Yuxiao Dong , Kuansan Wang , Jiawei Han

Different from the traditional classification tasks which assume mutual exclusion of labels, hierarchical multi-label classification (HMLC) aims to assign multiple labels to every instance with the labels organized under hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Boli Chen , Xin Huang , Lin Xiao , Zixin Cai , Liping Jing

Hierarchical text classification is a challenging subtask of multi-label classification due to its complex label hierarchy. Existing methods encode text and label hierarchy separately and mix their representations for classification, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Zihan Wang , Peiyi Wang , Lianzhe Huang , Xin Sun , Houfeng Wang

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) depends on taxonomies that organize labels into structured hierarchies. However, many real-world taxonomies introduce ambiguities, such as identical leaf names under similar parent nodes, which prevent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jonas Golde , Nicolaas Jedema , Ravi Krishnan , Phong Le

Hierarchical text classification aims to leverage label hierarchy in multi-label text classification. Existing methods encode label hierarchy in a global view, where label hierarchy is treated as the static hierarchical structure containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Ting Jiang , Deqing Wang , Leilei Sun , Zhongzhi Chen , Fuzhen Zhuang , Qinghong Yang

Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification (LMTC) includes tasks with hierarchical label spaces, such as automatic assignment of ICD-9 codes to discharge summaries. Performance of models in prior art is evaluated with standard precision,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Matúš Falis , Hang Dong , Alexandra Birch , Beatrice Alex

Hierarchical Text Classification (HTC), which aims to predict text labels organized in hierarchical space, is a significant task lacking in investigation in natural language processing. Existing methods usually encode the entire…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Wei Huang , Chen Liu , Yihua Zhao , Xinyun Yang , Zhaoming Pan , Zhimin Zhang , Guiquan Liu

The current state-of-the-art model HiAGM for hierarchical text classification has two limitations. First, it correlates each text sample with all labels in the dataset which contains irrelevant information. Second, it does not consider any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zhongfen Deng , Hao Peng , Dongxiao He , Jianxin Li , Philip S. Yu

The continually increasing number of documents produced each year necessitates ever improving information processing methods for searching, retrieving, and organizing text. Central to these information processing methods is document…

Multi-label classification (MC) is a standard machine learning problem in which a data point can be associated with a set of classes. A more challenging scenario is given by hierarchical multi-label classification (HMC) problems, in which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Eleonora Giunchiglia , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Few-shot Hierarchical Text Classification (few-shot HTC) is a challenging task that involves mapping texts to a predefined tree-structured label hierarchy under data-scarce conditions. While current approaches utilize structural constraints…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Ke Xiong , Qian Wu , Wangjie Gan , Yuke Li , Xuhong Zhang

Hierarchical classification addresses the problem of classifying items into a hierarchy of classes. An important issue in hierarchical classification is the evaluation of different classification algorithms, which is complicated by the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-04-01 Aris Kosmopoulos , Ioannis Partalas , Eric Gaussier , Georgios Paliouras , Ion Androutsopoulos

Conformal prediction (CP) is a powerful framework for quantifying uncertainty in machine learning models, offering reliable predictions with finite-sample coverage guarantees. When applied to classification, CP produces a prediction set of…

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