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AdversarialQA

Introduced by Max Bartolo et al. in Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotation for Reading Comprehension2 Feb 2020 archive 2025-07-28

We have created three new Reading Comprehension datasets constructed using an adversarial model-in-the-loop.

We use three different models; BiDAF (Seo et al., 2016), BERTLarge (Devlin et al., 2018), and RoBERTaLarge (Liu et al., 2019) in the annotation loop and construct three datasets; D(BiDAF), D(BERT), and D(RoBERTa), each with 10,000 training examples, 1,000 validation, and 1,000 test examples.

The adversarial human annotation paradigm ensures that these datasets consist of questions that current state-of-the-art models (at least the ones used as adversaries in the annotation loop) find challenging. The three AdversarialQA round 1 datasets provide a training and evaluation resource for such methods.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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First row (archive order)PaperCode
Reading Comprehension AdversarialQA RoBERTa-Large Overall: F1 64.4 Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotation... maxbartolo/adversarialQA 3 Compare
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Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1 paper with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 26. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotation for Reading Comprehension 1 3 2 Feb 2020 not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

CC BY-SA 3.0

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • AdversarialQA
  • adversarial_qa

2 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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