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Multi-task Learning with Sample Re-weighting for Machine Reading Comprehension

18 Sep 2018NAACL 2019 6arXiv:1809.06963archive 2025-07-28

Yichong Xu, Xiaodong Liu, Yelong Shen, Jingjing Liu, Jianfeng Gao

We propose a multi-task learning framework to learn a joint Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) model that can be applied to a wide range of MRC tasks in different domains. Inspired by recent ideas of data selection in machine translation, we develop a novel sample re-weighting scheme to assign sample-specific weights to the loss. Empirical study shows that our approach can be applied to many existing MRC models. Combined with contextual representations from pre-trained language models (such as ELMo), we achieve new state-of-the-art results on a set of MRC benchmark datasets. We release our code at https://github.com/xycforgithub/MultiTask-MRC.

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