Evaluation of BERT and ALBERT Sentence Embedding Performance on Downstream NLP Tasks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10642v1
• Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:14:06 GMT
• Title: Evaluation of BERT and ALBERT Sentence Embedding Performance on Downstream NLP Tasks
• Authors: Hyunjin Choi, Judong Kim, Seongho Joe, and Youngjune Gwon
• Abstract summary: This paper explores on sentence embedding models for BERT and ALBERT. We take a modified BERT network with siamese and triplet network structures called Sentence-BERT (SBERT) and replace BERT with ALBERT to create Sentence-ALBERT (SALBERT)
• Score: 4.955649816620742
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Contextualized representations from a pre-trained language model are central to achieve a high performance on downstream NLP task. The pre-trained BERT and A Lite BERT (ALBERT) models can be fine-tuned to give state-ofthe-art results in sentence-pair regressions such as semantic textual similarity (STS) and natural language inference (NLI). Although BERT-based models yield the [CLS] token vector as a reasonable sentence embedding, the search for an optimal sentence embedding scheme remains an active research area in computational linguistics. This paper explores on sentence embedding models for BERT and ALBERT. In particular, we take a modified BERT network with siamese and triplet network structures called Sentence-BERT (SBERT) and replace BERT with ALBERT to create Sentence-ALBERT (SALBERT). We also experiment with an outer CNN sentence-embedding network for SBERT and SALBERT. We evaluate performances of all sentence-embedding models considered using the STS and NLI datasets. The empirical results indicate that our CNN architecture improves ALBERT models substantially more than BERT models for STS benchmark. Despite significantly fewer model parameters, ALBERT sentence embedding is highly competitive to BERT in downstream NLP evaluations.

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