Anomaly detection in Text Classification - nlp

I have built a text classifier using OneClassSVM.
I have the training set which corresponds to only one label i.e("Yes") and I don't have the other("NO") label data. My task is to build a classifier which classifies the new unseen sentence(test data) as 1 if it is very similar to the training data. Else, it classifies as -1 i.e,(anomaly).
I have used Word2Vec to build the word embeddings for my training data. Then, I am using word-vector averaging with OneClassSVM to build a anomaly detector classifier.
This classifier is currently giving accuracy of about 50%-55%. I have to enhance this further to build a robust classifier.
Any suggestions to this problem would be helpful...

I'd suggest a very different approach since you have no training examples for the negative class at all.
You could train a language model on your training data. At inference time, you score the input with the language model, and classify it according to some threshold on the perplexity of the input sentence according to the LM.

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Would training a BERT Multi-Label Classifier for 100 labels decrease accuracy a lot?

I am trying to train a text classifier which would be able to classify a sentence as being of a certain query type. I have used the BERT Model and trained a Multi-Label classifier which does the job with 90% accuracy for about 20 labels.
My question is that if I have to train the model for 100/200 labels would the accuracy be impacted severely?
If your class distributions does not have a large overlap and you have the good amount of train data representing each class, your accuracy should not be severely impacted. For data hungry model like BERT its all about data. If you have large amount of data represent your 100/200 class you are good to go.

Unsupervised finetuning of BERT for embeddings only?

I would like to fine-tuning BERT for a specific domain on unlabeled data and get the output layer to check the similarity between them. How can I do it? Do I need to fine-tuning first a classifier task (or question answer, etc..) and get the embeddings? Or can I just use a pre-trained Bert model without task and fine-tuning with my own data?
There is no need to fine-tune for classification, especially if you do not have any supervised classification dataset.
You should continue training BERT the same unsupervised way it was originally trained, i.e., continue "pre-training" using the masked-language-model objective and next sentence prediction. Hugginface's implementation contains class BertForPretraining for this.

Pre-training for multi label classification

I have to pre train a model for multi label classification. I'm pretraining with cifar10 dataset and I wonder if I have to use for the pre training
'categorical_crossentrpy' (softmax) or 'binary_crossentropy' (sigmoid), since in the first case I have a multi classification problem
You should use softmax because it gives you the probabilities for every class, no matter how many of them are there. Sigmoid, as you have written is used with binary_crossentropy and is used in binary classification (hence binary in the name). I hope it's clearer now.

Train and predict using SVM theory

I have implemented character recognition using a library
but I still don't get how SVM theory works in training and prediction process, I just understand SVM is only finding the hyperplane
E.g., suppose I have a training image as follows
image from google, number zero
How do we find hyperplane for each training data like above?
How is the prediction process is done?
How can the SVM classify the data based on those hyperplane?
Thank you very much if you can help me
You can use opencv and python.Opencv has implemented svm and you can use it by function call.
SVM is machine leraning model for data classification.We can use SVM to classify images.the steps are
you must have a training dataset(a dataset of images whose labels are known)
Extract features [features are color,shape,hog,surf,sift etc..] from that images and store that,also store the assosiated labels
then train svm using these datas
Now you can use svm to predict labels of unkonwn images
this link will help you
First, It is a non linear separable problem you have to implement kernel SVM which projects them into higher dimensional space where it becomes linearly separable. You can use sklearn library to achieve the above.

How to achive the importance of each variable for SVM after classification?

I have two classes and several variables. After training the SVM, it gives me a good accuracy on prediction of testing data classes. Does anybody know how can I find out which of my variables are less important in the prediction done by SVM ? I'm nearly new in SVM and I'm just familiar with console interface and matlab interface of SVM. Is there any option to achive the importance of variables for SVM after training or prediction phase ?

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