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Workshop: Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (Models, Training, and Inference)

Towards Textual Out-of-Domain Detection without any In-Domain Labels

Di Jin · Shuyang Gao · Seokhwan Kim · Yang Liu · Dilek Hakkani-Tur


Abstract:

In many real-world settings, machine learning models need to identify user inputs that are out-of-domain (OOD) so as to avoid performing wrong actions. This work focuses on a challenging case of OOD detection, where no labels for in-domain data are accessible (e.g., no intent labels for the intent classification task). To this end, we propose a novel representation learning based method by combining unsupervised clustering and contrastive learning so that better data representations for OOD detection can be learned. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that this method can be even competitive to the state-of-the-art supervised approaches with label information.