3 papers
cs.CL2025
New Intent Discovery with Pre-training and Contrastive Learning
Yuwei Zhang, Haode Zhang, Li-Ming Zhan +2
New intent discovery aims to uncover novel intent categories from user utterances to expand the set of supported intent classes. It is a critical task for the development and servi…
cs.CL2024
Fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models for Few-shot Intent Detection: Supervised Pre-training and Isotropization
Haode Zhang, Haowen Liang, Yuwei Zhang +4
It is challenging to train a good intent classifier for a task-oriented dialogue system with only a few annotations. Recent studies have shown that fine-tuning pre-trained language…
cs.CL2024
Effectiveness of Pre-training for Few-shot Intent Classification
Haode Zhang, Yuwei Zhang, Li-Ming Zhan +4
This paper investigates the effectiveness of pre-training for few-shot intent classification. While existing paradigms commonly further pre-train language models such as BERT on a…