Evaluating Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction Methods for Pretrained Sentence Embeddings
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| author | Zhang, Gaifan Zhou, Yi Bollegala, Danushka |
| author_facet | Zhang, Gaifan Zhou, Yi Bollegala, Danushka |
| contents | Sentence embeddings produced by Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) have received wide attention from the NLP community due to their superior performance when representing texts in numerous downstream applications. However, the high dimensionality of the sentence embeddings produced by PLMs is problematic when representing large numbers of sentences in memory- or compute-constrained devices. As a solution, we evaluate unsupervised dimensionality reduction methods to reduce the dimensionality of sentence embeddings produced by PLMs. Our experimental results show that simple methods such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) can reduce the dimensionality of sentence embeddings by almost $50\%$, without incurring a significant loss in performance in multiple downstream tasks. Surprisingly, reducing the dimensionality further improves performance over the original high-dimensional versions for the sentence embeddings produced by some PLMs in some tasks. |
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| spellingShingle | Evaluating Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction Methods for Pretrained Sentence Embeddings Zhang, Gaifan Zhou, Yi Bollegala, Danushka Computation and Language Sentence embeddings produced by Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) have received wide attention from the NLP community due to their superior performance when representing texts in numerous downstream applications. However, the high dimensionality of the sentence embeddings produced by PLMs is problematic when representing large numbers of sentences in memory- or compute-constrained devices. As a solution, we evaluate unsupervised dimensionality reduction methods to reduce the dimensionality of sentence embeddings produced by PLMs. Our experimental results show that simple methods such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) can reduce the dimensionality of sentence embeddings by almost $50\%$, without incurring a significant loss in performance in multiple downstream tasks. Surprisingly, reducing the dimensionality further improves performance over the original high-dimensional versions for the sentence embeddings produced by some PLMs in some tasks. |
| title | Evaluating Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction Methods for Pretrained Sentence Embeddings |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14001 |