COCO-LM

This repository contains the scripts for fine-tuning COCO-LM pretrained models on GLUE and SQuAD 2.0 benchmarks.

Paper: COCO-LM: Correcting and Contrasting Text Sequences for Language Model Pretraining

Overview

We provide the scripts in two versions, based on two widely-used open-source codebases, the Fairseq Library and the Huggingface Transformers Library. The two code versions are mostly equivalent in functionality, and you are free to use either of them. However, we note that the fairseq version is what we used in our experiments, and it will best reproduce the results in the paper; the huggingface version is implemented later to provide compatibility with the Huggingface Transformers Library, and may yield slightly different results.

Please follow the README files under the two directories for running the code.

GLUE Fine-Tuning Results

The General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark is a collection of sentence- or sentence-pair language understanding tasks for evaluating and analyzing natural language understanding systems.

GLUE dev set results of COCO-LM base++ and large++ models are as follows (median of 5 different random seeds):

Model	MNLI-m/mm	QQP	QNLI	SST-2	CoLA	RTE	MRPC	STS-B	AVG
COCO-LM base++	90.2/90.0	92.2	94.2	94.6	67.3	87.4	91.2	91.8	88.6
COCO-LM large++	91.4/91.6	92.8	95.7	96.9	73.9	91.0	92.2	92.7	90.8

GLUE test set results of COCO-LM base++ and large++ models are as follows (no ensemble, task-specific tricks, etc.):

Model	MNLI-m/mm	QQP	QNLI	SST-2	CoLA	RTE	MRPC	STS-B	AVG
COCO-LM base++	89.8/89.3	89.8	94.2	95.6	68.6	82.3	88.5	90.3	87.4
COCO-LM large++	91.6/91.1	90.5	95.8	96.7	70.5	89.2	88.4	91.8	89.3

SQuAD 2.0 Fine-Tuning Results

Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD) is a reading comprehension dataset, consisting of questions posed by crowdworkers on a set of Wikipedia articles, where the answer to every question is a segment of text, or span, from the corresponding reading passage, or the question might be unanswerable.

SQuAD 2.0 dev set results of COCO-LM base++ and large++ models are as follows (median of 5 different random seeds):

Model	EM	F1
COCO-LM base++	85.4	88.1
COCO-LM large++	88.2	91.0

Citation

If you find the code and models useful for your research, please cite the following paper:

@inproceedings{meng2021cocolm,
  title={{COCO-LM}: Correcting and contrasting text sequences for language model pretraining},
  author={Meng, Yu and Xiong, Chenyan and Bajaj, Payal and Tiwary, Saurabh and Bennett, Paul and Han, Jiawei and Song, Xia},
  booktitle={Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year={2021}
}

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