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Generalization in NLI: Ways (Not) To Go Beyond Simple Heuristics

Several strategies, including adapter and debiasing techniques, were tested for their effectiveness in improving the generalization of BERT-based models across different datasets in natural language inference tasks.

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2021
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EMNLP (insights) 2021 11
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Much of recent progress in NLU was shown to be due to models' learning dataset-specific heuristics. We conduct a case study of generalization in NLI (from MNLI to the adversarially constructed HANS dataset) in a range of BERT-based architectures (adapters, Siamese Transformers, HEX debiasing), as well as with subsampling the data and increasing the model size. We report 2 successful and 3 unsuccessful strategies, all providing insights into how Transformer-based models learn to generalize.

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