A Simple Angle-based Approach for Contrastive Learning of Unsupervised Sentence Representation (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | a promising baseline SimCSE has made notable breakthroughs in unsupervised SRL . however, there is still room for designing a novel contrastive framework specifically targeted for SRL. |
| Approach: | They propose an angle-based similarity function for a contrastive objective and propose a new approach for SRL. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach shows better training dynamics on SRL than the standard cosine similarity function. |
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