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Transductive Auxiliary Task Self-Training for Neural Multi-Task Models (arxiv.org)
2 points by sel1 on Aug 21, 2019 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: The model learns a main task and a helper task together, then adds test inputs labeled with the helper task by a simpler single-task model to its training. This beat plain multi-task training by up to 13.03 accuracy points on semantic tagging.

Abstract

Multi-task learning and self-training are two common ways to improve a machine learning model's performance in settings with limited training data. Drawing heavily on ideas from those two approaches, we suggest transductive auxiliary task self-training: training a multi-task model on (i) a combination of main and auxiliary task training data, and (ii) test instances with auxiliary task labels which a single-task version of the model has previously generated. We perform extensive experiments on 86 combinations of languages and tasks. Our results are that, on average, transductive auxiliary task self-training improves absolute accuracy by up to 9.56% over the pure multi-task model for dependency relation tagging and by up to 13.03% for semantic tagging.

Johannes Bjerva, Katharina Kann, Isabelle Augenstein
arXiv:1908.06136 · cs.CL · submitted Aug 16, 2019 · updated Sep 22, 2019
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