Structurally Diverse Sampling for Sample-Efficient Training and Comprehensive Evaluation (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to generalize compositionally are inadequate, but there is no evidence for this. |
| Approach: | They propose a model-agnostic algorithm for subsampling instances with diverse structures from a labeled instance pool with structured outputs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed algorithm leads to comparable or better generalization than prior algorithms in 9 out of 10 dataset-split type pairs. |
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