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Improving the Robustness of Summarization Models by Detecting and Removing Input Noise
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The evaluation of abstractive summarization models typically uses test data that is identically distributed as training data. In real-world practice, documents to be summarized may contain input noise caused by text extraction artifacts or data pipeline bugs. The robustness of model performance under distribution shift caused by such noise is relatively under-studied. We present a large empirical study quantifying the sometimes severe loss in performance (up to 12 ROUGE-1 points) from different types of input noise for a range of datasets and model sizes. We then propose a light-weight method for detecting and removing such noise in the input during model inference without requiring any extra training, auxiliary models, or even prior knowledge of the type of noise. Our proposed approach effectively mitigates the loss in performance, recovering a large fraction of the performance drop, sometimes as large as 11 ROUGE-1 points.<br />Comment: EMNLP Findings 2023 Camera Ready
- Subjects :
- Computer Science - Computation and Language
Computer Science - Machine Learning
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2212.09928
- Document Type :
- Working Paper