Diversity-Aware Ensembling of Language Models Based on Topological Data Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14184v1
• Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:04:21 GMT
• Title: Diversity-Aware Ensembling of Language Models Based on Topological Data Analysis
• Authors: Polina Proskura, Alexey Zaytsev
• Abstract summary: Existing approaches mostly rely on simple averaging of predictions by ensembles with equal weights for each model. We propose to estimate weights for ensembles of NLP models using not only knowledge of their individual performance but also their similarity to each other.
• Score: 3.1734682813501514
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Ensembles are important tools for improving the performance of machine learning models. In cases related to natural language processing, ensembles boost the performance of a method due to multiple large models available in open source. However, existing approaches mostly rely on simple averaging of predictions by ensembles with equal weights for each model, ignoring differences in the quality and conformity of models. We propose to estimate weights for ensembles of NLP models using not only knowledge of their individual performance but also their similarity to each other. By adopting distance measures based on Topological Data Analysis (TDA), we improve our ensemble. The quality improves for both text classification accuracy and relevant uncertainty estimation.

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