Finding Influential Instances for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction

Zifeng Wang, Rui Wen, Xi Chen, Shao-Lun Huang, Ningyu Zhang, Yefeng Zheng


Abstract
Distant supervision (DS) is a strong way to expand the datasets for enhancing relation extraction (RE) models but often suffers from high label noise. Current works based on attention, reinforcement learning, or GAN are black-box models so they neither provide meaningful interpretation of sample selection in DS nor stability on different domains. On the contrary, this work proposes a novel model-agnostic instance sampling method for DS by influence function (IF), namely REIF. Our method identifies favorable/unfavorable instances in the bag based on IF, then does dynamic instance sampling. We design a fast influence sampling algorithm that reduces the computational complexity from đť’Ş(mn) to đť’Ş(1), with analyzing its robustness on the selected sampling function. Experiments show that by simply sampling the favorable instances during training, REIF is able to win over a series of baselines which have complicated architectures. We also demonstrate that REIF can support interpretable instance selection.
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2022.coling-1.233
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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2639–2650
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.coling-1.233
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Zifeng Wang, Rui Wen, Xi Chen, Shao-Lun Huang, Ningyu Zhang, and Yefeng Zheng. 2022. Finding Influential Instances for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 2639–2650, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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