Title
k-Nearest Neighbor Augmented Neural Networks for Text Classification.
Abstract
In recent years, many deep-learning based models are proposed for text classification. This kind of models well fits the training set from the statistical point of view. However, it lacks the capacity of utilizing instance-level information from individual instances in the training set. In this work, we propose to enhance neural network models by allowing them to leverage information from $k$-nearest neighbor (kNN) of the input text. Our model employs a neural network that encodes texts into text embeddings. Moreover, we also utilize $k$-nearest neighbor of the input text as an external memory, and utilize it to capture instance-level information from the training set. The final prediction is made based on features from both the neural network encoder and the kNN memory. Experimental results on several standard benchmark datasets show that our model outperforms the baseline model on all the datasets, and it even beats a very deep neural network model (with 29 layers) in several datasets. Our model also shows superior performance when training instances are scarce, and when the training set is severely unbalanced. Our model also leverages techniques such as semi-supervised training and transfer learning quite well.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
arXiv: Computation and Language
k-nearest neighbors algorithm,Training set,Computer science,Transfer of learning,Encoder,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Machine learning,Auxiliary memory
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1708.07863
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhiguo Wang135424.64
wael hamza219815.84
Linfeng Song38716.75