CSS-LM: A Contrastive Framework for Semi-supervised Fine-tuning of Pre-trained Language Models
Abstract
Fine-tuning pre-trained language models (PLMs) has demonstrated its effectiveness on various downstream NLP tasks recently. However, in many low-resource scenarios, the conventional fine-tuning strategies cannot sufficiently capture the important semantic features for downstream tasks. To address this issue, we introduce a novel framework (named "CSS-LM") to improve the fine-tuning phase of PLMs via contrastive semi-supervised learning. Specifically, given a specific task, we retrieve positive and negative instances from large-scale unlabeled corpora according to their domain-level and class-level semantic relatedness to the task. We then perform contrastive semi-supervised learning on both the retrieved unlabeled and original labeled instances to help PLMs capture crucial task-related semantic features. The experimental results show that CSS-LM achieves better results than the conventional fine-tuning strategy on a series of downstream tasks with few-shot settings, and outperforms the latest supervised contrastive fine-tuning strategies. Our datasets and source code will be available to provide more details.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.03752,
title = {CSS-LM: A Contrastive Framework for Semi-supervised Fine-tuning of Pre-trained Language Models},
author = {Yusheng Su and Xu Han and Yankai Lin and Zhengyan Zhang and Zhiyuan Liu and Peng Li and Jie Zhou and Maosong Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.03752},
year = {2021}
}