Alleviating Sequence Information Loss with Data Overlapping and Prime Batch Sizes
Noémien Kocher, Christian Scuito, Lorenzo Tarantino, Alexandros Lazaridis, Andreas Fischer, Claudiu Musat
Abstract
In sequence modeling tasks the token order matters, but this information can be partially lost due to the discretization of the sequence into data points. In this paper, we study the imbalance between the way certain token pairs are included in data points and others are not. We denote this a token order imbalance (TOI) and we link the partial sequence information loss to a diminished performance of the system as a whole, both in text and speech processing tasks. We then provide a mechanism to leverage the full token order information—Alleviated TOI—by iteratively overlapping the token composition of data points. For recurrent networks, we use prime numbers for the batch size to avoid redundancies when building batches from overlapped data points. The proposed method achieved state of the art performance in both text and speech related tasks.- Anthology ID:
- K19-1083
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Hong Kong, China
- Venue:
- CoNLL
- SIG:
- SIGNLL
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 890–899
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/K19-1083
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/K19-1083
- Cite (ACL):
- Noémien Kocher, Christian Scuito, Lorenzo Tarantino, Alexandros Lazaridis, Andreas Fischer, and Claudiu Musat. 2019. Alleviating Sequence Information Loss with Data Overlapping and Prime Batch Sizes. In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pages 890–899, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Alleviating Sequence Information Loss with Data Overlapping and Prime Batch Sizes (Kocher et al., CoNLL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/remove-xml-comments/K19-1083.pdf
- Code
- nkcr/overlap-ml
- Data
- IEMOCAP, WikiText-103, WikiText-2