
SimCLS: A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Abstractive Summarization (Paper Review/Explained)
Last Updated on July 26, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Ala Alam Falaki
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Figure 1. The overall introduced architecture by the paper. (taken from [1])
This paper was published in June 2021, not relatively new research. (at least in the fast-paced machine learning universe) But, it has been on top of the abstractive summarization leaderboard that I follow for nine months, which is impressive by the same machine learning universe standards! They used a combination of the Contrastive Learning approach and a two-stage architecture to improve the performance of models like BART [2] and PEGASUS [3] by 2.5 points (R-1 score). Let’s see… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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