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On Robustness and Bias Analysis of BERT-based Relation Extraction

14 Sep 2020arXiv:2009.06206archive 2025-07-28

Luoqiu Li, Xiang Chen, Hongbin Ye, Zhen Bi, Shumin Deng, Ningyu Zhang, Huajun Chen

Fine-tuning pre-trained models have achieved impressive performance on standard natural language processing benchmarks. However, the resultant model generalizability remains poorly understood. We do not know, for example, how excellent performance can lead to the perfection of generalization models. In this study, we analyze a fine-tuned BERT model from different perspectives using relation extraction. We also characterize the differences in generalization techniques according to our proposed improvements. From empirical experimentation, we find that BERT suffers a bottleneck in terms of robustness by way of randomizations, adversarial and counterfactual tests, and biases (i.e., selection and semantic). These findings highlight opportunities for future improvements. Our open-sourced testbed DiagnoseRE is available in \url{https://github.com/zjunlp/DiagnoseRE}.

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