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MacNet: Transferring Knowledge from Machine Comprehension to Sequence-to-Sequence Models

NeurIPS 2018 · Large language models › Language, safety and interpretability · approach: Controlled text generation · 17 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Add MacNet's transferred MC layers and focal lossBaseline NMT · WMT14 and WMT15 En↔DeBLEU: 22.1 -> 24.2; 26.0 -> 28.1; 24.5 -> 26.3; 27.5 -> 29.4Helped
Add both transferred MC encoding and modeling layers, without focal loss (ablation)Baseline NMT · WMT14 and WMT15 En↔DeBLEU: 22.1 -> 23.4; 26.0 -> 27.3; 24.5 -> 25.6; 27.5 -> 28.5Helped
Add the transferred MC encoding layer only (ablation)Baseline NMT · WMT14 and WMT15 En↔DeBLEU: 22.1 -> 23.2; 26.0 -> 27.0; 24.5 -> 25.3; 27.5 -> 28.3Helped
Add the transferred MC modeling layer only (ablation)Baseline NMT · WMT14 and WMT15 En↔DeBLEU: 22.1 -> 22.4; 26.0 -> 26.4; 24.5 -> 24.8; 27.5 -> 27.8Helped
Replace pretrained MC knowledge with random initialization (ablation)Baseline NMT with transferred layers · WMT14 and WMT15 En↔DeBLEU: 23.4 -> 21.6; 27.3 -> 25.6; 25.6 -> 24.2; 28.5 -> 27.0Hurt
Add MacNet's transferred MC layersPointer-Generator · CNN/Daily Mail testROUGE-1/2/L: 39.69 -> 40.87; 17.26 -> 18.02; 36.38 -> 37.54Helped
Add MacNet's transferred MC layersPointer-Generator · Gigaword testROUGE-1/2/L: 36.44 -> 37.97; 17.26 -> 18.16; 33.92 -> 34.93Helped
Add the transferred MC encoding layer only (ablation)Pointer-Generator · CNN/Daily Mail and GigawordROUGE-1/2/L: 39.69 -> 40.38; 17.26 -> 17.75; 36.38 -> 37.24; 36.44 -> 37.30; 17.26 -> 17.83; 33.92 -> 34.41Helped
Add the transferred MC modeling layer only (ablation)Pointer-Generator · CNN/Daily Mail and GigawordROUGE-1/2/L: 39.69 -> 39.92; 17.26 -> 17.58; 36.38 -> 36.65; 36.44 -> 36.85; 17.26 -> 17.45; 33.92 -> 34.12Helped
Use context-to-query attention instead of BiDAF (ablation)MacNet NMT · WMT14 De→EnBLEU: 27.5 -> 25.1Hurt
Use query-to-context attention instead of BiDAF (ablation)MacNet NMT · WMT14 De→EnBLEU: 27.5 -> 25.3Hurt
Add self-attention to BiDAF (ablation)MacNet NMT · WMT14 De→EnBLEU: 27.5 -> 27.4Hurt

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