UER: An Open-Source Toolkit for Pre-training Models
Zhe Zhao, Hui Chen, Jinbin Zhang, Xin Zhao, Tao Liu, Wei Lu, Xi Chen, Haotang Deng, Qi Ju, Xiaoyong Du
Abstract
Existing works, including ELMO and BERT, have revealed the importance of pre-training for NLP tasks. While there does not exist a single pre-training model that works best in all cases, it is of necessity to develop a framework that is able to deploy various pre-training models efficiently. For this purpose, we propose an assemble-on-demand pre-training toolkit, namely Universal Encoder Representations (UER). UER is loosely coupled, and encapsulated with rich modules. By assembling modules on demand, users can either reproduce a state-of-the-art pre-training model or develop a pre-training model that remains unexplored. With UER, we have built a model zoo, which contains pre-trained models based on different corpora, encoders, and targets (objectives). With proper pre-trained models, we could achieve new state-of-the-art results on a range of downstream datasets.- Anthology ID:
- D19-3041
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Hong Kong, China
- Editors:
- Sebastian Padó, Ruihong Huang
- Venues:
- EMNLP | IJCNLP
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 241–246
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/D19-3041
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/D19-3041
- Cite (ACL):
- Zhe Zhao, Hui Chen, Jinbin Zhang, Xin Zhao, Tao Liu, Wei Lu, Xi Chen, Haotang Deng, Qi Ju, and Xiaoyong Du. 2019. UER: An Open-Source Toolkit for Pre-training Models. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations, pages 241–246, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- UER: An Open-Source Toolkit for Pre-training Models (Zhao et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/D19-3041.pdf
- Code
- dbiir/UER-py
- Data
- GLUE