STAF: Pushing the Boundaries of Test-Time Adaptation towards Practical Noise Scenarios (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Pre-trained language models have demonstrated superior performance on NLP tasks . however, when the training domain and testing domain are taken from different distributions, the deployed model often violates this assumption. |
| Approach: | They propose a Stable Test-time Adaptation Framework to stabilize the adaptation process. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework boosts model robustness to noise distribution shifts while minimizing error accumulation and catastrophic forgetting. |
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