Transductive Learning for Textual Few-Shot: Limitations, Acknowledgements, & References

Table of Links

• Abstract & Introduction
• Related Work
• API-based Few-shot Learning
• An Enhanced Experimental Setting
• Experiments
• Conclusions
• Limitations, Acknowledgements, & References
• Appendix A: Proof of Proposition
• Appendix B: Additional Experimental Results

7 Limitations

We are optimistic that our research will have a positive impact on society. Nonetheless, it is essential to acknowledge the limitations of API-based fewshot classification models despite their promising results in various tasks. Firstly, the performance of the introduced methods is heavily dependent on the quality of available API models. If the API models do not provide sufficient information or lack diversity, the introduced methods may struggle to accurately classify input texts. Secondly, the blackbox nature of the backbone limits the interpretability of API-based few-shot classification methods, which may hinder their adoption. Ultimately, the aim of this work is to establish a baseline for future research on transductive inference. As a result, not all existing transductive methods are compared in this study.

Acknowledgements

This work was performed using HPC resources from GENCI-IDRIS (Grants 2022- AD01101838, 2023-103256 and 2023-101838).

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