Analyzing and Mitigating Negation Artifacts using Data Augmentation for Improving ELECTRA-Small Model Accuracy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06234v1
• Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2025 05:25:46 GMT
• Title: Analyzing and Mitigating Negation Artifacts using Data Augmentation for Improving ELECTRA-Small Model Accuracy
• Authors: Mojtaba Noghabaei,
• Abstract summary: We investigate the performance of an ELECTRA-small model fine-tuned on the Stanford Natural Language Inference dataset.<n>We identify that the model struggles with correctly classifying examples containing negation.<n>To address this, we augment the training data with contrast sets and adversarial examples emphasizing negation.
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• Abstract: Pre-trained models for natural language inference (NLI) often achieve high performance on benchmark datasets by using spurious correlations, or dataset artifacts, rather than understanding language touches such as negation. In this project, we investigate the performance of an ELECTRA-small model fine-tuned on the Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) dataset, focusing on its handling of negation. Through analysis, we identify that the model struggles with correctly classifying examples containing negation. To address this, we augment the training data with contrast sets and adversarial examples emphasizing negation. Our results demonstrate that this targeted data augmentation improves the model's accuracy on negation-containing examples without adversely affecting overall performance, therefore mitigating the identified dataset artifact.

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