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How Does Data Corruption Affect Natural Language Understanding Models? A Study on GLUE datasets
How Does Data Corruption Affect Natural Language Understanding Models? A Study on GLUE datasets
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- A central question in natural language understanding (NLU) research is whether high performance demonstrates the models' strong reasoning capabilities. We present an extensive series of controlled experiments where pre-trained language models are exposed to data that have undergone specific corruption transformations. These involve removing instances of specific word classes and often lead to non-sensical sentences. Our results show that performance remains high on most GLUE tasks when the models are fine-tuned or tested on corrupted data, suggesting that they leverage other cues for prediction even in non-sensical contexts. Our proposed data transformations can be used to assess the extent to which a specific dataset constitutes a proper testbed for evaluating models' language understanding capabilities.<br />Comment: *SEM 2022 camera ready version
- Subjects :
- Computer Science - Computation and Language
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2201.04467
- Document Type :
- Working Paper