Exploring and Exploiting Multi-Granularity Representations for Machine Reading Comprehension

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08750v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 10:14:32 GMT
• Title: Exploring and Exploiting Multi-Granularity Representations for Machine Reading Comprehension
• Authors: Nuo Chen, Chenyu You
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel approach called Adaptive Bidirectional Attention-Capsule Network (ABA-Net) ABA-Net adaptively exploits the source representations of different levels to the predictor. We set the new state-of-the-art performance on the SQuAD 1.0 dataset.
• Score: 13.191437539419681
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Recently, the attention-enhanced multi-layer encoder, such as Transformer, has been extensively studied in Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC). To predict the answer, it is common practice to employ a predictor to draw information only from the final encoder layer which generates the coarse-grained representations of the source sequences, i.e., passage and question. The analysis shows that the representation of source sequence becomes more coarse-grained from finegrained as the encoding layer increases. It is generally believed that with the growing number of layers in deep neural networks, the encoding process will gather relevant information for each location increasingly, resulting in more coarse-grained representations, which adds the likelihood of similarity to other locations (referring to homogeneity). Such phenomenon will mislead the model to make wrong judgement and degrade the performance. In this paper, we argue that it would be better if the predictor could exploit representations of different granularity from the encoder, providing different views of the source sequences, such that the expressive power of the model could be fully utilized. To this end, we propose a novel approach called Adaptive Bidirectional Attention-Capsule Network (ABA-Net), which adaptively exploits the source representations of different levels to the predictor. Furthermore, due to the better representations are at the core for boosting MRC performance, the capsule network and self-attention module are carefully designed as the building blocks of our encoders, which provides the capability to explore the local and global representations, respectively. Experimental results on three benchmark datasets, i.e., SQuAD 1.0, SQuAD 2.0 and COQA, demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. In particular, we set the new state-of-the-art performance on the SQuAD 1.0 dataset

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