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How to Fine-Tune BERT for Text Classification?

Computation and Language 2020-02-06 v3

Abstract

Language model pre-training has proven to be useful in learning universal language representations. As a state-of-the-art language model pre-training model, BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) has achieved amazing results in many language understanding tasks. In this paper, we conduct exhaustive experiments to investigate different fine-tuning methods of BERT on text classification task and provide a general solution for BERT fine-tuning. Finally, the proposed solution obtains new state-of-the-art results on eight widely-studied text classification datasets.

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@article{arxiv.1905.05583,
  title  = {How to Fine-Tune BERT for Text Classification?},
  author = {Chi Sun and Xipeng Qiu and Yige Xu and Xuanjing Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05583},
  year   = {2020}
}
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