Natural Language Inference
Natural Language Inference (NLI) focuses on determining the logical relationship between pairs of sentences, a crucial task for understanding and reasoning with natural language. Current research emphasizes improving NLI model robustness against adversarial attacks and misinformation, enhancing efficiency through techniques like layer pruning and domain adaptation, and developing more reliable evaluation methods that account for human judgment variability and address issues like hallucination in large language models. These advancements are significant for improving the accuracy and trustworthiness of various NLP applications, including question answering, text summarization, and fact verification, ultimately leading to more reliable and explainable AI systems.
Papers
Improving the Out-Of-Distribution Generalization Capability of Language Models: Counterfactually-Augmented Data is not Enough
Caoyun Fan, Wenqing Chen, Jidong Tian, Yitian Li, Hao He, Yaohui Jin
Bag of Tricks for Effective Language Model Pretraining and Downstream Adaptation: A Case Study on GLUE
Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Keqin Peng, Juhua Liu, Bo Du, Li Shen, Yibing Zhan, Dacheng Tao