@inproceedings{wang-liu-2025-dianchi,
    title = "Dianchi at {S}em{E}val-2025 Task 11: Multilabel Emotion Recognition via Orthogonal Knowledge Distillation",
    author = "Wang, Zhenlan  and
      Liu, Jiaxuan",
    editor = "Rosenthal, Sara  and
      Ros{\'a}, Aiala  and
      Ghosh, Debanjan  and
      Zampieri, Marcos",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2025-08/2025.semeval-1.146/",
    pages = "1108--1112",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-273-2",
    abstract = "This paper presents KDBERT-MLDistill, a novel framework for multi-label emotion recognition developed for SemEval-2025 Task 11. Addressing challenges of fine-grained emotion misdetection and small-data overfitting, the method synergizes BERT-based text encoding with orthogonal knowledge distillation. Key innovations include: (1) Orthogonal regularization on classifier weights to minimize redundant feature correlations, coupled with dynamic pseudo-labeling for periodic data augmentation; (2) A hierarchical distillation mechanism where dual teacher-student models iteratively exchange parameters to balance knowledge retention and exploration."
}