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Abstract Text augmentation is an effective technique in alleviating overfitting in NLP tasks. In existing methods, text augmentation and downstream tasks are mostly performed separately. As a result, the augmented texts may not be optimal to train the downstream model. To address this problem, we propose a three-level optimization framework to perform text augmentation and the downstream task end-to- end. The augmentation model is trained in a way tailored to the downstream task. Our framework consists of three learning stages. A text summarization model is trained to perform data augmentation at the first stage. Each summarization example is associated with a weight to account for its domain difference with the text classification data. At the second stage, we use the model trained at the first stage to perform text augmentation and train a text classification model on the augmented texts. At the third stage, we evaluate the text classification model trained at the second stage and update weights of summarization examples by minimizing the validation loss. These three stages are performed end-to-end. We evaluate our method on several text classification datasets where the results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Code is available at https://github.com/Sai-Ashish/End-to-End-Text-Augmentation.
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System-Level Design Space Exploration for High-Level Synthesis Under End-to-End Latency Constraints
- Award ID(s):
- 1844952
- PAR ID:
- 10625524
- Publisher / Repository:
- IEEE
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
- Volume:
- 44
- Issue:
- 4
- ISSN:
- 0278-0070
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1354 to 1365
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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