The Open-World Lottery Ticket Hypothesis for OOD Intent Classification

Yunhua Zhou, Pengyu Wang, Peiju Liu, Yuxin Wang, Xipeng Qiu


Abstract
Most existing methods of Out-of-Domain (OOD) intent classification rely on extensive auxiliary OOD corpora or specific training paradigms. However, they are underdeveloped in the underlying principle that the models should have differentiated confidence in In- and Out-of-domain intent. In this work, we shed light on the fundamental cause of model overconfidence on OOD and demonstrate that calibrated subnetworks can be uncovered by pruning the overparameterized model. Calibrated confidence provided by the subnetwork can better distinguish In- and Out-of-domain, which can be a benefit for almost all post hoc methods. In addition to bringing fundamental insights, we also extend the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis to open-world scenarios. We conduct extensive experiments on four real-world datasets to demonstrate our approach can establish consistent improvements compared with a suite of competitive baselines.
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2024.lrec-main.1390
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Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
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LREC | COLING
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ELRA and ICCL
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15988–15999
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Yunhua Zhou, Pengyu Wang, Peiju Liu, Yuxin Wang, and Xipeng Qiu. 2024. The Open-World Lottery Ticket Hypothesis for OOD Intent Classification. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 15988–15999, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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The Open-World Lottery Ticket Hypothesis for OOD Intent Classification (Zhou et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
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