| Challenge: | Existing methods for detecting new intents with labeled data are not cluster-friendly . a robust prototypical attracting learning (RPAL) method is designed to compel instances to gravitate toward their corresponding prototype . |
| Approach: | They propose a robust and adaptive prototypical learning framework for globally distinct decision boundaries for both known and new intent categories. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on CLINC, BANKING, and StackOverflow benchmarks on three challenging benchmarks. |
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