Sergey Golovanov


2019

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Large-Scale Transfer Learning for Natural Language Generation
Sergey Golovanov | Rauf Kurbanov | Sergey Nikolenko | Kyryl Truskovskyi | Alexander Tselousov | Thomas Wolf
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Large-scale pretrained language models define state of the art in natural language processing, achieving outstanding performance on a variety of tasks. We study how these architectures can be applied and adapted for natural language generation, comparing a number of architectural and training schemes. We focus in particular on open-domain dialog as a typical high entropy generation task, presenting and comparing different architectures for adapting pretrained models with state of the art results.