Calibrating Pre-trained Language Classifiers on LLM-generated Noisy Labels via Iterative Refinement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19675v1
• Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 08:31:55 GMT
• Title: Calibrating Pre-trained Language Classifiers on LLM-generated Noisy Labels via Iterative Refinement
• Authors: Liqin Ye, Agam Shah, Chao Zhang, Sudheer Chava,
• Abstract summary: We propose SiDyP: Simplex Label Diffusion with Dynamic Prior to calibrate the classifier's prediction.<n>Our framework can increase the performance of the BERT classifier fine-tuned on both zero-shot and few-shot LLM-generated noisy label datasets by an average of 7.21% and 7.30% respectively.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The traditional process of creating labeled datasets is labor-intensive and expensive. Recent breakthroughs in open-source large language models (LLMs) have opened up a new avenue in generating labeled datasets automatically for various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, providing an alternative to such an expensive annotation process. However, the reliability of such auto-generated labels remains a significant concern due to inherent inaccuracies. When learning from noisy labels, the model's generalization is likely to be harmed as it is prone to overfit to those label noises. While previous studies in learning from noisy labels mainly focus on synthetic noise and real-world noise, LLM-generated label noise receives less attention. In this paper, we propose SiDyP: Simplex Label Diffusion with Dynamic Prior to calibrate the classifier's prediction, thus enhancing its robustness towards LLM-generated noisy labels. SiDyP retrieves potential true label candidates by neighborhood label distribution in text embedding space and iteratively refines noisy candidates using a simplex diffusion model. Our framework can increase the performance of the BERT classifier fine-tuned on both zero-shot and few-shot LLM-generated noisy label datasets by an average of 7.21% and 7.30% respectively. We demonstrate the effectiveness of SiDyP by conducting extensive benchmarking for different LLMs over a variety of NLP tasks. Our code is available on Github.

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