Revisiting Transformer-based Models for Long Document Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06683v1
• Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:44:36 GMT
• Title: Revisiting Transformer-based Models for Long Document Classification
• Authors: Xiang Dai and Ilias Chalkidis and Sune Darkner and Desmond Elliott
• Abstract summary: In real-world applications, multi-page multi-paragraph documents are common and cannot be efficiently encoded by vanilla Transformer-based models. We compare different Transformer-based Long Document Classification (TrLDC) approaches that aim to mitigate the computational overhead of vanilla transformers. We observe a clear benefit from being able to process longer text, and, based on our results, we derive practical advice of applying Transformer-based models on long document classification tasks.
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• Abstract: The recent literature in text classification is biased towards short text sequences (e.g., sentences or paragraphs). In real-world applications, multi-page multi-paragraph documents are common and they cannot be efficiently encoded by vanilla Transformer-based models. We compare different Transformer-based Long Document Classification (TrLDC) approaches that aim to mitigate the computational overhead of vanilla transformers to encode much longer text, namely sparse attention and hierarchical encoding methods. We examine several aspects of sparse attention (e.g., size of local attention window, use of global attention) and hierarchical (e.g., document splitting strategy) transformers on four document classification datasets covering different domains. We observe a clear benefit from being able to process longer text, and, based on our results, we derive practical advice of applying Transformer-based models on long document classification tasks.

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