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Transformer based Very Large Language Models (VLLMs) like BERT, XLNet and RoBERTa, have recently shown tremendous performance on a large variety of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks. However, due to their size, these VLLMs are…
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We study the problem of incorporating prior knowledge into a deep Transformer-based model,i.e.,Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), to enhance its performance on semantic textual matching tasks. By probing and…
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Large pre-trained models have achieved great success in many natural language processing tasks. However, when they are applied in specific domains, these models suffer from domain shift and bring challenges in fine-tuning and online serving…