MPII: Multi-Level Mutual Promotion for Inference and Interpretation (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for providing interpretations provide human-unfriendly interpretations, resulting in sub-optimal performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-level Mutual Promotion mechanism for self-evolved inference and sentence-level interpretation that integrates inference with interpretation in an autoregressive manner. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms baseline models on NLI and CQA tasks for both inference performance and interpretation quality. |
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