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A Dynamic Masking-Based Multi-Learning Framework for Sparse Classification

Woo Hyun Park^*, Dong Ryeol Shin

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea

* Corresponding Author: Woo Hyun Park. Email:

Computers, Materials & Continua 2026, 86(3), 57 https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2025.069949

Received 04 July 2025; Accepted 10 September 2025; Issue published 12 January 2026

Abstract

With the recent increase in data volume and diversity, traditional text representation techniques are struggling to capture context, particularly in environments with sparse data. To address these challenges, this study proposes a new model, the Masked Joint Representation Model (MJRM). MJRM approximates the original hypothesis by leveraging multiple elements in a limited context. It dynamically adapts to changes in characteristics based on data distribution through three main components. First, masking-based representation learning, termed selective dynamic masking, integrates topic modeling and sentiment clustering to generate and train multiple instances across different data subsets, whose predictions are then aggregated with optimized weights. This design alleviates sparsity, suppresses noise, and preserves contextual structures. Second, regularization-based improvements are applied. Third, techniques for addressing sparse data are used to perform final inference. As a result, MJRM improves performance by up to 4% compared to existing AI techniques. In our experiments, we analyzed the contribution of each factor, demonstrating that masking, dynamic learning, and aggregating multiple instances complement each other to improve performance. This demonstrates that a masking-based multi-learning strategy is effective for context-aware sparse text classification, and can be useful even in challenging situations such as data shortage or data distribution variations. We expect that the approach can be extended to diverse fields such as sentiment analysis, spam filtering, and domain-specific document classification.

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