BvSP: Broad-view Soft Prompting for Few-Shot Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction
<|reference_start|>BvSP: Broad-view Soft Prompting for Few-Shot Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction: Aspect sentiment quad prediction (ASQP) aims to predict four aspect-based elements, including aspect term, opinion term, aspect category, and sentiment polarity. In practice, unseen aspects, due to distinct data distribution, impose many challenges for a trained neural model. Motivated by this, this work formulates ASQP into the few-shot scenario, which aims for fast adaptation in real applications. Therefore, we first construct a few-shot ASQP dataset (FSQP) that contains richer categories and is more balanced for the few-shot study. Moreover, recent methods extract quads through a generation paradigm, which involves converting the input sentence into a templated target sequence. However, they primarily focus on the utilization of a single template or the consideration of different template orders, thereby overlooking the correlations among various templates. To tackle this issue, we further propose a Broadview Soft Prompting (BvSP) method that aggregates multiple templates with a broader view by taking into account the correlation between the different templates. Specifically, BvSP uses the pre-trained language model to select the most relevant k templates with Jensen-Shannon divergence. BvSP further introduces soft prompts to guide the pre-trained language model using the selected templates. Then, we aggregate the results of multi-templates by voting mechanism. Empirical results demonstrate that BvSP significantly outperforms the stateof-the-art methods under four few-shot settings and other public datasets. Our code and dataset are available at https://github.com/byinhao/BvSP.<|reference_end|>
@article{bai2024bvsp:,
    title={BvSP: Broad-view Soft Prompting for Few-Shot Aspect Sentiment Quad
  Prediction},
    author={Yinhao Bai, Yalan Xie, Xiaoyi Liu, Yuhua Zhao, Zhixin Han, Mengting
  Hu, Hang Gao, Renhong Cheng},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.07365},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.07365},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.AI}
}