Mitigating Boundary Ambiguity and Inherent Bias for Text Classification in the Era of Large Language Models (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | a new text classification framework for large language models addresses the problem of boundary ambiguity and inherent biases in LLMs. |
| Approach: | They propose a two-stage classification framework for large language models to mitigate bottlenecks . their approach uses pairwise comparisons to efficiently narrow down options . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces the number of options and improves on four datasets. |
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