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DR-BiLSTM: Dependent Reading Bidirectional LSTM for Natural Language Inference

15 Feb 2018NAACL 2018 6arXiv:1802.05577archive 2025-07-28

Reza Ghaeini, Sadid A. Hasan, Vivek Datla, Joey Liu, Kathy Lee, Ashequl Qadir, Yuan Ling, Aaditya Prakash, Xiaoli Z. Fern, Oladimeji Farri

We present a novel deep learning architecture to address the natural language inference (NLI) task. Existing approaches mostly rely on simple reading mechanisms for independent encoding of the premise and hypothesis. Instead, we propose a novel dependent reading bidirectional LSTM network (DR-BiLSTM) to efficiently model the relationship between a premise and a hypothesis during encoding and inference. We also introduce a sophisticated ensemble strategy to combine our proposed models, which noticeably improves final predictions. Finally, we demonstrate how the results can be improved further with an additional preprocessing step. Our evaluation shows that DR-BiLSTM obtains the best single model and ensemble model results achieving the new state-of-the-art scores on the Stanford NLI dataset.

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Natural Language Inference

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Natural Language Inference SNLI 450D DR-BiLSTM Ensemble % Test Accuracy 89.3 #19 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 450D DR-BiLSTM Ensemble % Train Accuracy 94.8 #19 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 450D DR-BiLSTM Ensemble Parameters 45m #19 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 450D DR-BiLSTM % Test Accuracy 88.5 #34 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 450D DR-BiLSTM % Train Accuracy 94.1 #34 of 98 Archive leaderboard report
Natural Language Inference SNLI 450D DR-BiLSTM Parameters 7.5m #34 of 98 Archive leaderboard report

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LSTMSigmoid ActivationTanh Activation

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