用查询建模标注者行为,让分歧变资源,降成本提效果
QuMAB: Query-based Multi-Annotator Behavior Modeling with Reliability under Sparse Labels
- 以标注者为中心建模,用轻量查询捕捉个体行为模式
- 在稀疏标注下仍能准确预测共识,提升聚合可靠性
- 提供可解释的注意力区域,适合需要透明决策的场景
多标注者学习传统上将多样标注聚合以逼近单一真实标签,将分歧视为噪声。但主观任务常无绝对真实标签,且标注覆盖率低导致聚合统计不可靠。本文提出从样本聚合转向标注者行为建模的新范式,将分歧视为有价值信息,通过建模个体标注者行为模式,重构未标注数据以降低标注成本、增强聚合可靠性,并解释标注决策过程。为此,提出QuMAB(基于查询的多标注者行为建模),利用轻量查询建模个体标注者,同时捕捉标注者间相关性作为隐式正则化,防止在稀疏数据上过拟合,保持个性化并提升泛化能力,可视化标注者关注区域实现行为可解释分析。贡献两个大规模带密集标注者标签的数据集:STREET(每标注者4,300标签)和AMER(平均3,118标签/标注者),首个多模态多标注者数据集。大量实验表明,QuMAB在建模个体标注行为、预测共识及稀疏标注下的适用性方面均具优势。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multi-annotator learning traditionally aggregates diverse annotations to approximate a single ground truth, treating disagreements as noise. However, this paradigm faces fundamental challenges: subjective tasks often lack absolute ground truth, and sparse annotation coverage makes aggregation statistically unreliable. We introduce a paradigm shift from sample-wise aggregation to annotator-wise behavior modeling. By treating annotator disagreements as valuable information rather than noise, modeling annotator-specific behavior patterns can reconstruct unlabeled data to reduce annotation cost, enhance aggregation reliability, and explain annotator decision behavior. To this end, we propose QuMAB (Query-based Multi-Annotator Behavior Pattern Learning), which uses light-weight queries to model individual annotators while capturing inter-annotator correlations as implicit regularization, preventing overfitting to sparse individual data while maintaining individualization and improving generalization, with a visualization of annotator focus regions offering an explainable analysis of behavior understanding. We contribute two large-scale datasets with dense per-annotator labels: STREET (4,300 labels/annotator) and AMER (average 3,118 labels/annotator), the first multimodal multi-annotator dataset. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our QuMAB in modeling individual annotators' behavior patterns, their utility for consensus prediction, and applicability under sparse annotations.
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