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Illustration of BERT-based Text Classification
The process of text classification using BERT can be illustrated with a pipeline diagram. An input text, formatted as [CLS] x1 x2 ... xm [SEP], is first converted into a sequence of embeddings (ecls, e1, ...). This embedding sequence is then processed by the BERT model, which outputs a corresponding sequence of hidden state vectors (hcls, h1, ...). For classification, the hidden state associated with the [CLS] token, hcls, is isolated and passed to a prediction network to determine the final class label. The flow can be visualized as follows:
Input Tokens: [CLS] x1 x2 ... xm [SEP] ↓ Embeddings: ecls e1 e2 ... em em+1 ↓ BERT ↓ Hidden States:hcls h1 h2 ... hm hm+1 ↓ (select hcls) Prediction Network ↓ Class
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A piece of text is being classified using a common transformer-based architecture. Arrange the following stages of the process in the correct chronological order, from initial input to final output.
A model processes an input text for a classification task. The process involves converting the text into a sequence of tokens, which are then transformed into a corresponding sequence of hidden state vectors. According to the standard procedure for this type of task, which specific output from the model is typically isolated and passed to the final prediction network to determine the class label?
A machine learning engineer describes their text classification pipeline: 1) An input text is formatted with a special token at the beginning. 2) The token sequence is converted into embeddings. 3) A model processes the embeddings and outputs a sequence of hidden state vectors, one for each input token. 4) The hidden state vectors for all tokens except the special first one are averaged together. 5) This averaged vector is passed to a prediction network to get the final class. Which step represents a deviation from the standard, illustrated procedure for this task?