Calibrating Pseudo-Labeling with Class Distribution for Semi-supervised Text Classification (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies develop effective pseudo-labeling methods, but they struggle with unlabeled data that have imbalanced classes mismatched with the labeled data. |
| Approach: | They propose to use pseudo-labeling to train text classification models with few labeled data and massive unlabeled data. |
| Outcome: | Empirical results show that the proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods on 3 common benchmarks. |
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