Selective Question Answering under Domain Shift

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09462v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 19:13:21 GMT
• Title: Selective Question Answering under Domain Shift
• Authors: Amita Kamath, Robin Jia, Percy Liang
• Abstract summary: Abstention policies based solely on the model's softmax probabilities fare poorly, since models are overconfident on out-of-domain inputs. We train a calibrator to identify inputs on which the QA model errs, and abstain when it predicts an error is likely. Our method answers 56% of questions while maintaining 80% accuracy; in contrast, directly using the model's probabilities only answers 48% at 80% accuracy.
• Score: 90.021577320085
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: To avoid giving wrong answers, question answering (QA) models need to know when to abstain from answering. Moreover, users often ask questions that diverge from the model's training data, making errors more likely and thus abstention more critical. In this work, we propose the setting of selective question answering under domain shift, in which a QA model is tested on a mixture of in-domain and out-of-domain data, and must answer (i.e., not abstain on) as many questions as possible while maintaining high accuracy. Abstention policies based solely on the model's softmax probabilities fare poorly, since models are overconfident on out-of-domain inputs. Instead, we train a calibrator to identify inputs on which the QA model errs, and abstain when it predicts an error is likely. Crucially, the calibrator benefits from observing the model's behavior on out-of-domain data, even if from a different domain than the test data. We combine this method with a SQuAD-trained QA model and evaluate on mixtures of SQuAD and five other QA datasets. Our method answers 56% of questions while maintaining 80% accuracy; in contrast, directly using the model's probabilities only answers 48% at 80% accuracy.

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