ViCLSR: A Supervised Contrastive Learning Framework with Natural Language Inference for Natural Language Understanding Tasks

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Autores principales: Van Huynh, Tin, Van Nguyen, Kiet, Nguyen, Ngan Luu-Thuy
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author Van Huynh, Tin
Van Nguyen, Kiet
Nguyen, Ngan Luu-Thuy
author_facet Van Huynh, Tin
Van Nguyen, Kiet
Nguyen, Ngan Luu-Thuy
contents High-quality text representations are crucial for natural language understanding (NLU), but low-resource languages like Vietnamese face challenges due to limited annotated data. While pre-trained models like PhoBERT and CafeBERT perform well, their effectiveness is constrained by data scarcity. Contrastive learning (CL) has recently emerged as a promising approach for improving sentence representations, enabling models to effectively distinguish between semantically similar and dissimilar sentences. We propose ViCLSR (Vietnamese Contrastive Learning for Sentence Representations), a novel supervised contrastive learning framework specifically designed to optimize sentence embeddings for Vietnamese, leveraging existing natural language inference (NLI) datasets. Additionally, we propose a process to adapt existing Vietnamese datasets for supervised learning, ensuring compatibility with CL methods. Our experiments demonstrate that ViCLSR significantly outperforms the powerful monolingual pre-trained model PhoBERT on five benchmark NLU datasets such as ViNLI (+6.97% F1), ViWikiFC (+4.97% F1), ViFactCheck (+9.02% F1), UIT-ViCTSD (+5.36% F1), and ViMMRC2.0 (+4.33% Accuracy). ViCLSR shows that supervised contrastive learning can effectively address resource limitations in Vietnamese NLU tasks and improve sentence representation learning for low-resource languages. Furthermore, we conduct an in-depth analysis of the experimental results to uncover the factors contributing to the superior performance of contrastive learning models. ViCLSR is released for research purposes in advancing natural language processing tasks.
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spellingShingle ViCLSR: A Supervised Contrastive Learning Framework with Natural Language Inference for Natural Language Understanding Tasks
Van Huynh, Tin
Van Nguyen, Kiet
Nguyen, Ngan Luu-Thuy
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
High-quality text representations are crucial for natural language understanding (NLU), but low-resource languages like Vietnamese face challenges due to limited annotated data. While pre-trained models like PhoBERT and CafeBERT perform well, their effectiveness is constrained by data scarcity. Contrastive learning (CL) has recently emerged as a promising approach for improving sentence representations, enabling models to effectively distinguish between semantically similar and dissimilar sentences. We propose ViCLSR (Vietnamese Contrastive Learning for Sentence Representations), a novel supervised contrastive learning framework specifically designed to optimize sentence embeddings for Vietnamese, leveraging existing natural language inference (NLI) datasets. Additionally, we propose a process to adapt existing Vietnamese datasets for supervised learning, ensuring compatibility with CL methods. Our experiments demonstrate that ViCLSR significantly outperforms the powerful monolingual pre-trained model PhoBERT on five benchmark NLU datasets such as ViNLI (+6.97% F1), ViWikiFC (+4.97% F1), ViFactCheck (+9.02% F1), UIT-ViCTSD (+5.36% F1), and ViMMRC2.0 (+4.33% Accuracy). ViCLSR shows that supervised contrastive learning can effectively address resource limitations in Vietnamese NLU tasks and improve sentence representation learning for low-resource languages. Furthermore, we conduct an in-depth analysis of the experimental results to uncover the factors contributing to the superior performance of contrastive learning models. ViCLSR is released for research purposes in advancing natural language processing tasks.
title ViCLSR: A Supervised Contrastive Learning Framework with Natural Language Inference for Natural Language Understanding Tasks
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21084