| Challenge: | Existing methods for model ensembles require time, memory, and management effort to perform tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that replicates the effects of a model ensemble with a single model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method emulates or outperforms a traditional model ensemble with 1/K-times fewer parameters on text classification and sequence labeling tasks. |
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