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A Decomposable Attention Model for Natural Language Inference

6 Jun 2016EMNLP 2016 11arXiv:1606.01933archive 2025-07-28

Ankur P. Parikh, Oscar Täckström, Dipanjan Das, Jakob Uszkoreit

We propose a simple neural architecture for natural language inference. Our approach uses attention to decompose the problem into subproblems that can be solved separately, thus making it trivially parallelizable. On the Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) dataset, we obtain state-of-the-art results with almost an order of magnitude fewer parameters than previous work and without relying on any word-order information. Adding intra-sentence attention that takes a minimum amount of order into account yields further improvements.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Natural Language Inference SNLI 200D decomposable attention feed-forward model with intra-sentence attention % Test Accuracy 86.8 #48 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 200D decomposable attention feed-forward model with intra-sentence attention % Train Accuracy 90.5 #48 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 200D decomposable attention feed-forward model with intra-sentence attention Parameters 580k #48 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 200D decomposable attention model with intra-sentence attention % Test Accuracy 86.8 #49 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 200D decomposable attention model with intra-sentence attention % Train Accuracy 90.5 #49 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 200D decomposable attention model with intra-sentence attention Parameters 580k #49 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 200D decomposable attention feed-forward model % Test Accuracy 86.3 #58 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 200D decomposable attention feed-forward model % Train Accuracy 89.5 #58 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 200D decomposable attention feed-forward model Parameters 380k #58 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 200D decomposable attention model % Test Accuracy 86.3 #59 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 200D decomposable attention model % Train Accuracy 89.5 #59 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 200D decomposable attention model Parameters 380k #59 of 98 Archive leaderboard report

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