Advancing Semantic Textual Similarity Modeling: A Regression Framework with Translated ReLU and Smooth K2 Loss

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05326v1
• Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 02:52:43 GMT
• Title: Advancing Semantic Textual Similarity Modeling: A Regression Framework with Translated ReLU and Smooth K2 Loss
• Authors: Bowen Zhang, Chunping Li,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents an innovative regression framework and proposes two simple yet effective loss functions: Translated ReLU and Smooth K2 Loss. Our method achieves convincing performance across seven established STS benchmarks, especially when supplemented with task-specific training data.
• Score: 3.435381469869212
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Since the introduction of BERT and RoBERTa, research on Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) has made groundbreaking progress. Particularly, the adoption of contrastive learning has substantially elevated state-of-the-art performance across various STS benchmarks. However, contrastive learning categorizes text pairs as either semantically similar or dissimilar, failing to leverage fine-grained annotated information and necessitating large batch sizes to prevent model collapse. These constraints pose challenges for researchers engaged in STS tasks that require nuanced similarity levels or those with limited computational resources, compelling them to explore alternatives like Sentence-BERT. Nonetheless, Sentence-BERT tackles STS tasks from a classification perspective, overlooking the progressive nature of semantic relationships, which results in suboptimal performance. To bridge this gap, this paper presents an innovative regression framework and proposes two simple yet effective loss functions: Translated ReLU and Smooth K2 Loss. Experimental analyses demonstrate that our method achieves convincing performance across seven established STS benchmarks, especially when supplemented with task-specific training data.

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