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Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Intent Classification and Slot Filling

Sep 17, 2021
Samyadeep Basu, Karine lp Kiun Chong, Amr Sharaf, Alex Fischer, Vishal Rohra, Michael Amoake, Hazem El-Hammamy, Ehi Nosakhare, Vijay Ramani, Benjamin Han

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Intent classification (IC) and slot filling (SF) are two fundamental tasks in modern Natural Language Understanding (NLU) systems. Collecting and annotating large amounts of data to train deep learning models for such systems is not scalable. This problem can be addressed by learning from few examples using fast supervised meta-learning techniques such as prototypical networks. In this work, we systematically investigate how contrastive learning and unsupervised data augmentation methods can benefit these existing supervised meta-learning pipelines for jointly modelled IC/SF tasks. Through extensive experiments across standard IC/SF benchmarks (SNIPS and ATIS), we show that our proposed semi-supervised approaches outperform standard supervised meta-learning methods: contrastive losses in conjunction with prototypical networks consistently outperform the existing state-of-the-art for both IC and SF tasks, while data augmentation strategies primarily improve few-shot IC by a significant margin.

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Seagull: An Infrastructure for Load Prediction and Optimized Resource Allocation

Oct 16, 2020
Olga Poppe, Tayo Amuneke, Dalitso Banda, Aritra De, Ari Green, Manon Knoertzer, Ehi Nosakhare, Karthik Rajendran, Deepak Shankargouda, Meina Wang, Alan Au, Carlo Curino, Qun Guo, Alekh Jindal, Ajay Kalhan, Morgan Oslake, Sonia Parchani, Vijay Ramani, Raj Sellappan, Saikat Sen, Sheetal Shrotri, Soundararajan Srinivasan, Ping Xia, Shize Xu, Alicia Yang, Yiwen Zhu

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Microsoft Azure is dedicated to guarantee high quality of service to its customers, in particular, during periods of high customer activity, while controlling cost. We employ a Data Science (DS) driven solution to predict user load and leverage these predictions to optimize resource allocation. To this end, we built the Seagull infrastructure that processes per-server telemetry, validates the data, trains and deploys ML models. The models are used to predict customer load per server (24h into the future), and optimize service operations. Seagull continually re-evaluates accuracy of predictions, fallback to previously known good models and triggers alerts as appropriate. We deployed this infrastructure in production for PostgreSQL and MySQL servers across all Azure regions, and applied it to the problem of scheduling server backups during low-load time. This minimizes interference with user-induced load and improves customer experience.

* Technical report for the paper in VLDB 2021 
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