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Gated-Attention Readers for Text Comprehension

5 Jun 2016ACL 2017 7arXiv:1606.01549archive 2025-07-28

Bhuwan Dhingra, Hanxiao Liu, Zhilin Yang, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov

In this paper we study the problem of answering cloze-style questions over documents. Our model, the Gated-Attention (GA) Reader, integrates a multi-hop architecture with a novel attention mechanism, which is based on multiplicative interactions between the query embedding and the intermediate states of a recurrent neural network document reader. This enables the reader to build query-specific representations of tokens in the document for accurate answer selection. The GA Reader obtains state-of-the-art results on three benchmarks for this task--the CNN \& Daily Mail news stories and the Who Did What dataset. The effectiveness of multiplicative interaction is demonstrated by an ablation study, and by comparing to alternative compositional operators for implementing the gated-attention. The code is available at https://github.com/bdhingra/ga-reader.

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Answer SelectionOpen-Domain Question AnsweringQuestion AnsweringReading Comprehension

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Open-Domain Question Answering Quasar GA EM (Quasar-T) 26.4 #5 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Open-Domain Question Answering Quasar GA F1 (Quasar-T) 26.4 #5 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Question Answering CNN / Daily Mail GA Reader CNN 77.9 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Question Answering CNN / Daily Mail GA Reader Daily Mail 80.9 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Question Answering Children's Book Test NSE Accuracy-CN 71.9% #1 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Question Answering Children's Book Test NSE Accuracy-NE 73.2% #1 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Question Answering Children's Book Test GA + feature + fix L(w) Accuracy-CN 70.7% #2 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Question Answering Children's Book Test GA + feature + fix L(w) Accuracy-NE 74.9% #2 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Question Answering Children's Book Test GA reader Accuracy-CN 69.4% #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Question Answering Children's Book Test GA reader Accuracy-NE 71.9% #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report

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