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Stochastic Answer Networks for SQuAD 2.0

24 Sep 2018arXiv:1809.09194archive 2025-07-28

Xiaodong Liu, Wei Li, Yuwei Fang, Aerin Kim, Kevin Duh, Jianfeng Gao

This paper presents an extension of the Stochastic Answer Network (SAN), one of the state-of-the-art machine reading comprehension models, to be able to judge whether a question is unanswerable or not. The extended SAN contains two components: a span detector and a binary classifier for judging whether the question is unanswerable, and both components are jointly optimized. Experiments show that SAN achieves the results competitive to the state-of-the-art on Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD) 2.0. To facilitate the research on this field, we release our code: https://github.com/kevinduh/san_mrc.

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