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New framework tackles subjective NLP tasks by optimizing ensemble diversity

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Researchers have introduced Ensemble Diversity Optimization (EDO), a new framework designed to handle subjective Natural Language Processing tasks where annotator disagreement is common. EDO optimizes ensemble weights and calibration through a unified differentiable objective, using Gumbel-Softmax relaxation and a signed diversity regularizer to manage annotator disagreement. Experiments on four benchmarks demonstrated that EDO significantly improves probabilistic calibration and reduces cross-entropy and Brier scores compared to existing methods, while maintaining competitive F1 scores. AI

IMPACT This research offers a novel approach to improve model performance on subjective tasks by better handling annotator disagreement, potentially leading to more robust NLP applications.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Xia Cui, Ziyi Huang, N. R. Abeynayake ·

    Ensemble Diversity Optimization for Subjective Supervision

    arXiv:2607.08493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Subjective NLP tasks often exhibit systematic annotator disagreement, requiring models that represent uncertainty rather than collapse it. We introduce Ensemble Diversity Optimization (EDO), a prediction-space framework that joint…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · N. R. Abeynayake ·

    Ensemble Diversity Optimization for Subjective Supervision

    Subjective NLP tasks often exhibit systematic annotator disagreement, requiring models that represent uncertainty rather than collapse it. We introduce Ensemble Diversity Optimization (EDO), a prediction-space framework that jointly optimizes ensemble weights, effective cardinali…

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