A Hybrid Neural Network Model for Commonsense Reasoning

WS 2019  ยท  Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu, Weizhu Chen, Jianfeng Gao ยท

This paper proposes a hybrid neural network (HNN) model for commonsense reasoning. An HNN consists of two component models, a masked language model and a semantic similarity model, which share a BERT-based contextual encoder but use different model-specific input and output layers. HNN obtains new state-of-the-art results on three classic commonsense reasoning tasks, pushing the WNLI benchmark to 89%, the Winograd Schema Challenge (WSC) benchmark to 75.1%, and the PDP60 benchmark to 90.0%. An ablation study shows that language models and semantic similarity models are complementary approaches to commonsense reasoning, and HNN effectively combines the strengths of both. The code and pre-trained models will be publicly available at https://github.com/namisan/mt-dnn.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Natural Language Understanding PDP60 HNN Accuracy 90 # 1
Coreference Resolution Winograd Schema Challenge HNN Accuracy 75.1 # 26
Natural Language Inference WNLI HNNensemble Accuracy 89 # 8
Natural Language Inference WNLI HNN Accuracy 83.6 # 11

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