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Improving Conditioning in Context-Aware Sequence to Sequence Models

21 Nov 2019arXiv:1911.09728archive 2025-07-28

Xinyi Wang, Jason Weston, Michael Auli, Yacine Jernite

Neural sequence to sequence models are well established for applications which can be cast as mapping a single input sequence into a single output sequence. In this work, we focus on cases where generation is conditioned on both a short query and a long context, such as abstractive question answering or document-level translation. We modify the standard sequence-to-sequence approach to make better use of both the query and the context by expanding the conditioning mechanism to intertwine query and context attention. We also introduce a simple and efficient data augmentation method for the proposed model. Experiments on three different tasks show that both changes lead to consistent improvements.

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Data AugmentationOpen-Domain Question AnsweringQuestion AnsweringTranslation

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Open-Domain Question Answering ELI5 Multi-Inrerleave Rouge-1 23.32 #6 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Open-Domain Question Answering ELI5 Multi-Inrerleave Rouge-2 4.79 #6 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Open-Domain Question Answering ELI5 Multi-Inrerleave Rouge-L 14.63 #6 of 6 Archive leaderboard report

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