In this report, we introduce SciFive, a domain-specific T5 model that has been pre-trained on large biomedical corpora. Our model outperforms the current SOTA methods (i.e. BERT, BioBERT, Base T5) on tasks in named entity relation, relation extraction, natural language inference, and question-answering. We show that text-generation methods have significant potential in a broad array of biomedical NLP tasks, particularly those requiring longer, more complex outputs. Our results support the exploration of more difficult text generation tasks and the development of new methods in this area
@article{arxiv.2106.03598,
title = {SciFive: a text-to-text transformer model for biomedical literature},
author = {Long N. Phan and James T. Anibal and Hieu Tran and Shaurya Chanana and Erol Bahadroglu and Alec Peltekian and Grégoire Altan-Bonnet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.03598},
year = {2021}
}