Micro Text Classification Based on Balanced Positive-Unlabeled Learning
In real-world text classification tasks, negative texts often contain a minimal proportion of negative content, which is especially problematic in areas like text quality control, legal risk screening, and sensitive information interception. This challenge manifests at two levels: at the macro level, distinguishing negative texts is difficult due to the high similarity between coarse-grained positive and negative samples; at the micro level, the issue stems from extreme class imbalance and a lack of fine-grained labels. To address these challenges, we propose transforming the coarse-grained positive-negative (PN) classification task into an imbalanced fine-grained positive-unlabeled (PU) classification problem, supported by theoretical analysis. We introduce a novel framework, Balanced Fine-Grained Positive-Unlabeled (BFGPU) learning, which features a unique PU learning loss function that optimizes macro-level performance amidst severe imbalance at the micro level. The framework's performance is further boosted by rebalanced pseudo-labeling and threshold adjustment. Extensive experiments on both public and real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of BFGPU, which outperforms other methods, even in extreme scenarios where both macro and micro levels are highly imbalanced.
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