arXiv:2511.16685cs.CLcs.AI2025-11AAAI

用椭球边界提升未知意图识别准确率,更灵活适应特征方向差异。

Ellipsoid-Based Decision Boundaries for Open Intent Classification

  • 通过可学习矩阵构建各向异性椭球边界,突破传统球形限制。
  • 在多个文本意图数据集上达到当前最优,尤其在开放空间检测中表现优异。
  • 适合需要高鲁棒性的对话系统和复杂场景下的开放世界分类任务。

文本开放意图分类对真实对话系统至关重要,可在无先验知识下稳健识别未知用户意图,提升系统鲁棒性。尽管自适应决策边界方法通过消除人工阈值调优展现了巨大潜力,但现有方法假设已知类呈各向同性分布,将边界限定为球体,忽略了不同方向上的分布方差。为此,我们提出EliDecide,一种学习各向异性椭球边界的新方法,其在不同特征方向上具有可变尺度。首先,采用监督对比学习获得已知样本的判别性特征空间;其次,使用可学习矩阵参数化椭球作为每类的边界,相比仅由中心和半径定义的球形边界更具灵活性;第三,通过设计新颖的双损失函数优化边界:一方面扩展边界以覆盖已知样本,另一方面收缩边界以对抗合成的伪开放样本。该方法在多个文本意图基准数据集及一个问题分类数据集上均取得当前最优性能。椭球边界的灵活性展现出卓越的开放意图检测能力,具备向更多文本分类任务在多样化复杂开放世界场景中推广的强大潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Textual open intent classification is crucial for real-world dialogue systems, enabling robust detection of unknown user intents without prior knowledge and contributing to the robustness of the system. While adaptive decision boundary methods have shown great potential by eliminating manual threshold tuning, existing approaches assume isotropic distributions of known classes, restricting boundaries to balls and overlooking distributional variance along different directions. To address this limitation, we propose EliDecide, a novel method that learns ellipsoid decision boundaries with varying scales along different feature directions. First, we employ supervised contrastive learning to obtain a discriminative feature space for known samples. Second, we apply learnable matrices to parameterize ellipsoids as the boundaries of each known class, offering greater flexibility than spherical boundaries defined solely by centers and radii. Third, we optimize the boundaries via a novelly designed dual loss function that balances empirical and open-space risks: expanding boundaries to cover known samples while contracting them against synthesized pseudo-open samples. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple text intent benchmarks and further on a question classification dataset. The flexibility of the ellipsoids demonstrates superior open intent detection capability and strong potential for generalization to more text classification tasks in diverse complex open-world scenarios.

意图识别开放世界椭球边界对比学习

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