Imputing Out-of-Vocabulary Embeddings with LOVE Makes Language Models Robust with Little Cost

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07860v1
• Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:11:07 GMT
• Title: Imputing Out-of-Vocabulary Embeddings with LOVE Makes Language Models Robust with Little Cost
• Authors: Lihu Chen and Ga\"el Varoquaux and Fabian M. Suchanek
• Abstract summary: State-of-the-art NLP systems represent inputs with word embeddings, but these are brittle when faced with Out-of-Vocabulary words. We follow the principle of mimick-like models to generate vectors for unseen words, by learning the behavior of pre-trained embeddings using only the surface form of words. We present a simple contrastive learning framework, LOVE, which extends the word representation of an existing pre-trained language model (such as BERT) and makes it robust to OOV with few additional parameters.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: State-of-the-art NLP systems represent inputs with word embeddings, but these are brittle when faced with Out-of-Vocabulary (OOV) words. To address this issue, we follow the principle of mimick-like models to generate vectors for unseen words, by learning the behavior of pre-trained embeddings using only the surface form of words. We present a simple contrastive learning framework, LOVE, which extends the word representation of an existing pre-trained language model (such as BERT), and makes it robust to OOV with few additional parameters. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that our lightweight model achieves similar or even better performances than prior competitors, both on original datasets and on corrupted variants. Moreover, it can be used in a plug-and-play fashion with FastText and BERT, where it significantly improves their robustness.

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