| Challenge: | Existing models to pretrain sentence encoders with large unlabeled corpus are lacking in linguistic information retrieval. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel approach to pre-training sequence encoder using transformers . they propose to train a Transformer-based sequence encoded over a large set of short sequences based on a set of masked words . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art encoders on hotpotQA by improving intermediate information retrieval performance. |
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