BERT as a Teacher: Contextual Embeddings for Sequence-Level Reward

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02738v1
• Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 16:06:37 GMT
• Title: BERT as a Teacher: Contextual Embeddings for Sequence-Level Reward
• Authors: Florian Schmidt and Thomas Hofmann
• Abstract summary: We show that the underlying operations, counting words and comparing counts, can be lifted to embedding words and comparing embeddings. An in-depth analysis of BERT embeddings shows empirically that contextual embeddings can be employed to capture the required dependencies. We cast unconditional generation as a reinforcement learning problem and show that our reward function indeed provides a more effective learning signal than n-gram reward in this challenging setting.
• Score: 23.176481887478634
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Measuring the quality of a generated sequence against a set of references is a central problem in many learning frameworks, be it to compute a score, to assign a reward, or to perform discrimination. Despite great advances in model architectures, metrics that scale independently of the number of references are still based on n-gram estimates. We show that the underlying operations, counting words and comparing counts, can be lifted to embedding words and comparing embeddings. An in-depth analysis of BERT embeddings shows empirically that contextual embeddings can be employed to capture the required dependencies while maintaining the necessary scalability through appropriate pruning and smoothing techniques. We cast unconditional generation as a reinforcement learning problem and show that our reward function indeed provides a more effective learning signal than n-gram reward in this challenging setting.

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