Local-Global Cascaded Ensemble Learning on Hybrid Experts for Knowledge Concept Tagging
摘要
Knowledge concept tagging aims to tag exercises with specific knowledge concepts. Traditional manual annotation methods are increasingly unable to meet the demands of annotating large-scale, high-quality data. While automated methods have been developed to streamline this process, they still struggle with fine-grained knowledge concept labeling. This limitation arises from the inherent difficulty of accurately annotating text content with specific knowledge concepts selected from a vast pool of candidate concepts, and the similarity of fine-grained knowledge concepts further exacerbates this challenge. In this paper, we propose a Local-Global Cascaded Ensemble Learning (LGCEL) method based on hybrid experts for knowledge concept tagging to address this issue. Specifically, LGCEL first conducts unsupervised domain continual pre-training, e.g., masked language modeling and causal language modeling, to obtain in-domain models, then performs supervised fine-tuning to achieve diverse tagging experts, and finally collaborates hybrid fine-trained models including lightweight large language models (LLMs) for voting ensembling. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of LGCEL in annotating fine-grained knowledge concepts and its superiority in integrating mixed tagging experts to improve the annotation accuracy of hard-to-distinguish knowledge concepts.