Ensemble ALBERT on SQuAD 2.0

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09665v1
• Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:15:19 GMT
• Title: Ensemble ALBERT on SQuAD 2.0
• Authors: Shilun Li, Renee Li, Veronica Peng
• Abstract summary: In our Paper, we utilize the fine-tuned ALBERT models and implement combinations of additional layers to improve model performance. Our best-performing individual model is ALBERT-xxlarge + ALBERT-SQuAD-out, which achieved an F1 score of 88.435 on the dev set. By passing in several best-performing models' results into our weighted voting ensemble algorithm, our final result ranks first on the Stanford CS224N Test PCE SQuAD Leaderboard with F1 = 90.123.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Machine question answering is an essential yet challenging task in natural language processing. Recently, Pre-trained Contextual Embeddings (PCE) models like Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) and A Lite BERT (ALBERT) have attracted lots of attention due to their great performance in a wide range of NLP tasks. In our Paper, we utilized the fine-tuned ALBERT models and implemented combinations of additional layers (e.g. attention layer, RNN layer) on top of them to improve model performance on Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD 2.0). We implemented four different models with different layers on top of ALBERT-base model, and two other models based on ALBERT-xlarge and ALBERT-xxlarge. We compared their performance to our baseline model ALBERT-base-v2 + ALBERT-SQuAD-out with details. Our best-performing individual model is ALBERT-xxlarge + ALBERT-SQuAD-out, which achieved an F1 score of 88.435 on the dev set. Furthermore, we have implemented three different ensemble algorithms to boost overall performance. By passing in several best-performing models' results into our weighted voting ensemble algorithm, our final result ranks first on the Stanford CS224N Test PCE SQuAD Leaderboard with F1 = 90.123.

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