Papers by Belinda Li
Quantifying Adaptability in Pre-trained Language Models with 500 Tasks (2022.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | a recent study examines the features and limits of LM adaptability to new tasks . many questions about the nature and limits remain unanswered . |
| Approach: | They evaluate adaptability to new tasks using a new benchmark, TaskBench500 . they find adaptation procedures differ dramatically in their ability to memorize small datasets . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark compares 500 procedurally generated sequence modeling tasks to a new benchmark. |
OssCSE: Overcoming Surface Structure Bias in Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Sentence Embedding (2023.emnlp-main)
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Zhan Shi, Guoyin Wang, Ke Bai, Jiwei Li, Xiang Li, Qingjun Cui, Belinda Zeng, Trishul Chilimbi, Xiaodan Zhu
| Challenge: | Recent studies show that contrastive learning is effective in sentence representation learning . but, the surface structure bias is a problem in the current model . |
| Approach: | They propose to combine a sentence with a sub-semantic sentence to investigate the surface structure bias. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art on standard semantic textual similarity tasks using different pre-trained backbones. |