Direct Output Connection for a High-Rank Language Model

Sho Takase, Jun Suzuki, Masaaki Nagata


Abstract
This paper proposes a state-of-the-art recurrent neural network (RNN) language model that combines probability distributions computed not only from a final RNN layer but also middle layers. This method raises the expressive power of a language model based on the matrix factorization interpretation of language modeling introduced by Yang et al. (2018). Our proposed method improves the current state-of-the-art language model and achieves the best score on the Penn Treebank and WikiText-2, which are the standard benchmark datasets. Moreover, we indicate our proposed method contributes to application tasks: machine translation and headline generation.
Anthology ID:
D18-1489
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
October-November
Year:
2018
Address:
Brussels, Belgium
Editors:
Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
Venue:
EMNLP
SIG:
SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
4599–4609
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D18-1489
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D18-1489
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Cite (ACL):
Sho Takase, Jun Suzuki, and Masaaki Nagata. 2018. Direct Output Connection for a High-Rank Language Model. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4599–4609, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Direct Output Connection for a High-Rank Language Model (Takase et al., EMNLP 2018)
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https://preview.aclanthology.org/naacl24-info/D18-1489.pdf
Code
 nttcslab-nlp/doc_lm
Data
Penn TreebankWikiText-2