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title = "Few-Shot Text Classification with Triplet Networks, Data Augmentation, and Curriculum Learning",
author = "Wei, Jason and
Huang, Chengyu and
Vosoughi, Soroush and
Cheng, Yu and
Xu, Shiqi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
month = jun,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.434",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.434",
pages = "5493--5500",
abstract = "Few-shot text classification is a fundamental NLP task in which a model aims to classify text into a large number of categories, given only a few training examples per category. This paper explores data augmentation{---}a technique particularly suitable for training with limited data{---}for this few-shot, highly-multiclass text classification setting. On four diverse text classification tasks, we find that common data augmentation techniques can improve the performance of triplet networks by up to 3.0{\%} on average. To further boost performance, we present a simple training strategy called curriculum data augmentation, which leverages curriculum learning by first training on only original examples and then introducing augmented data as training progresses. We explore a two-stage and a gradual schedule, and find that, compared with standard single-stage training, curriculum data augmentation trains faster, improves performance, and remains robust to high amounts of noising from augmentation.",
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%T Few-Shot Text Classification with Triplet Networks, Data Augmentation, and Curriculum Learning
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%A Huang, Chengyu
%A Vosoughi, Soroush
%A Cheng, Yu
%A Xu, Shiqi
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Markdown (Informal)
[Few-Shot Text Classification with Triplet Networks, Data Augmentation, and Curriculum Learning](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.434) (Wei et al., NAACL 2021)
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