In plain words: People wrote sentence pairs that trick today's language-understanding models, then the models were retrained and challenged again, creating a test set that keeps getting harder. Training on these tricky examples beat the usual approach on other tests, while ordinary people still found model mistakes.
Abstract
We introduce a new large-scale NLI benchmark dataset, collected via an iterative, adversarial human-and-model-in-the-loop procedure. We show that training models on this new dataset leads to state-of-the-art performance on a variety of popular NLI benchmarks, while posing a more difficult challenge with its new test set. Our analysis sheds light on the shortcomings of current state-of-the-art models, and shows that non-expert annotators are successful at finding their weaknesses. The data collection method can be applied in a never-ending learning scenario, becoming a moving target for NLU, rather than a static benchmark that will quickly saturate.
Yixin Nie, Adina Williams, Emily Dinan, Mohit Bansal, Jason Weston, Douwe Kiela
arXiv:1910.14599 · cs.CL, cs.LG · submitted Oct 31, 2019 · updated May 6, 2020
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