MDPO: Customized Direct Preference Optimization with a Metric-based Sampler for Question and Answer Generation (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for QA data generation are limited by the dependence of existing evaluation metrics on ground truth labels. |
| Approach: | They propose a set of unsupervised evaluation metrics for QA data that enable multidimensional assessment based on the relationships among context,question and answer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on public datasets and shows that it produces high-quality and domain-specific QA pairs. |
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