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New Multi-Task Deep Neural Network for Natural Language Understanding (arxiv.org)
3 points by pplonski86 on Feb 16, 2019 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: One network learns many language tasks at once on a pre-trained text model, so tasks teach each other and build more reusable word meanings. It topped ten tasks, beating prior best on GLUE by 2.2 points, and needed fewer labels to learn a new domain.

Abstract · Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Understanding

In this paper, we present a Multi-Task Deep Neural Network (MT-DNN) for learning representations across multiple natural language understanding (NLU) tasks. MT-DNN not only leverages large amounts of cross-task data, but also benefits from a regularization effect that leads to more general representations in order to adapt to new tasks and domains. MT-DNN extends the model proposed in Liu et al. (2015) by incorporating a pre-trained bidirectional transformer language model, known as BERT (Devlin et al., 2018). MT-DNN obtains new state-of-the-art results on ten NLU tasks, including SNLI, SciTail, and eight out of nine GLUE tasks, pushing the GLUE benchmark to 82.7% (2.2% absolute improvement). We also demonstrate using the SNLI and SciTail datasets that the representations learned by MT-DNN allow domain adaptation with substantially fewer in-domain labels than the pre-trained BERT representations. The code and pre-trained models are publicly available at https://github.com/namisan/mt-dnn.

Xiaodong Liu, Pengcheng He, Weizhu Chen, Jianfeng Gao
arXiv:1901.11504 · cs.CL · submitted Jan 31, 2019 · updated May 30, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · 10 pages, 2 figures and 5 tables; Accepted by ACL 2019

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