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Approach: They propose a semi-supervised learning approach that leverages training dynamics of unlabeled data.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves an average increase in F1 score of 3.5% over baselines in low resource settings.

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Self-Training with Weak Supervision (2021.naacl-main)

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