2019/11/01 by Yeshou Xu, Xing Zhong, Xu, Y. +5 · 3 citations
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Multimodal Machine Learning Applications #Topic Modeling
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1911.00202
openalex publication_date 2019/11/01 · openalex created_date 2019/11/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The creation of large-scale open domain reading comprehension data sets in recent years has enabled the development of end-to-end neural comprehension models with promising results. To use these models for domains with limited training data, one of the most effective approach is to first pretrain them on large out-of-domain source data and then fine-tune them with the limited target data. The caveat of this is that after fine-tuning the comprehension models tend to perform poorly in the source domain, a phenomenon known as catastrophic forgetting. In this paper, we explore methods that overcome catastrophic forgetting during fine-tuning without assuming access to data from the source domain. We introduce new auxiliary penalty terms and observe the best performance when a combination of auxiliary penalty terms is used to regularise the fine-tuning process for adapting comprehension models. To test our methods, we develop and release 6 narrow domain data sets that could potentially be used as reading comprehension benchmarks.