MuLD: The Multitask Long Document Benchmark

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Hudson, G Thomas, Moubayed, Noura Al
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2022
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866912653019971584
author Hudson, G Thomas
Moubayed, Noura Al
author_facet Hudson, G Thomas
Moubayed, Noura Al
contents The impressive progress in NLP techniques has been driven by the development of multi-task benchmarks such as GLUE and SuperGLUE. While these benchmarks focus on tasks for one or two input sentences, there has been exciting work in designing efficient techniques for processing much longer inputs. In this paper, we present MuLD: a new long document benchmark consisting of only documents over 10,000 tokens. By modifying existing NLP tasks, we create a diverse benchmark which requires models to successfully model long-term dependencies in the text. We evaluate how existing models perform, and find that our benchmark is much more challenging than their `short document' equivalents. Furthermore, by evaluating both regular and efficient transformers, we show that models with increased context length are better able to solve the tasks presented, suggesting that future improvements in these models are vital for solving similar long document problems. We release the data and code for baselines to encourage further research on efficient NLP models.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2202_07362
institution arXiv
publishDate 2022
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle MuLD: The Multitask Long Document Benchmark
Hudson, G Thomas
Moubayed, Noura Al
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
The impressive progress in NLP techniques has been driven by the development of multi-task benchmarks such as GLUE and SuperGLUE. While these benchmarks focus on tasks for one or two input sentences, there has been exciting work in designing efficient techniques for processing much longer inputs. In this paper, we present MuLD: a new long document benchmark consisting of only documents over 10,000 tokens. By modifying existing NLP tasks, we create a diverse benchmark which requires models to successfully model long-term dependencies in the text. We evaluate how existing models perform, and find that our benchmark is much more challenging than their `short document' equivalents. Furthermore, by evaluating both regular and efficient transformers, we show that models with increased context length are better able to solve the tasks presented, suggesting that future improvements in these models are vital for solving similar long document problems. We release the data and code for baselines to encourage further research on efficient NLP models.
title MuLD: The Multitask Long Document Benchmark
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07362