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Few-Shot Text Classification
Text classification can be used for sentiment analysis, topic assignment, document identification, article recommendation, and more. While dozens of techniques now exist for this fundamental task, many of them require massive amounts of labeled data in order to be useful. Collecting annotations for your use case is typically one of the most costly parts of any machine learning application. In this report, we explore how latent text embeddings can be used with few (or even zero) training examples and provide insights into best practices for implementing this method.

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The Fast Forward Labs Blog
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Change The Way You Do ML With Applied ML PrototypesToday’s enterprise data science teams have one of the most challenging, yet most important roles to ...
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New Applied ML Research: Few-shot Text ClassificationText classification is a ubiquitous capability with a wealth of use cases. For example, recommendati...
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