ESCL: Equivariant Self-Contrastive Learning for Sentence Representations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05143v1
• Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 09:52:28 GMT
• Title: ESCL: Equivariant Self-Contrastive Learning for Sentence Representations
• Authors: Jie Liu, Yixuan Liu, Xue Han, Chao Deng, Junlan Feng
• Abstract summary: We propose an Equivariant Self-Contrastive Learning (ESCL) method to make full use of sensitive transformations. The proposed method achieves better results while using fewer learning parameters compared to previous methods.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Previous contrastive learning methods for sentence representations often focus on insensitive transformations to produce positive pairs, but neglect the role of sensitive transformations that are harmful to semantic representations. Therefore, we propose an Equivariant Self-Contrastive Learning (ESCL) method to make full use of sensitive transformations, which encourages the learned representations to be sensitive to certain types of transformations with an additional equivariant learning task. Meanwhile, in order to improve practicability and generality, ESCL simplifies the implementations of traditional equivariant contrastive methods to share model parameters from the perspective of multi-task learning. We evaluate our ESCL on semantic textual similarity tasks. The proposed method achieves better results while using fewer learning parameters compared to previous methods.

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