REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training (Paper Explained)

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Open Domain Question Answering is one of the most challenging tasks in NLP. When answering a question, the model is able to retrieve arbitrary documents from an indexed corpus to gather more information. REALM shows how Masked Language Modeling (MLM) pretraining can be used to train a retriever for relevant documents in an end-to-end fashion and improves over state-of-the-art by a significant margin.

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction & Overview
4:30 - World Knowledge in Language Models
8:15 - Masked Language Modeling for Latent Document Retrieval
14:50 - Problem Formulation
17:30 - Knowledge Retriever Model using MIPS
23:50 - Question Answering Model
27:50 - Architecture Recap
29:55 - Analysis of the Loss Gradient
34:15 - Initialization using the Inverse Cloze Task
41:40 - Prohibiting Trivial Retrievals
44:05 - Null Document
45:00 - Salient Span Masking
50:15 - My Idea on Salient Span Masking
51:50 - Experimental Results and Ablations
57:30 - Concrete Example from the Model

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08909
Code: https://github.com/google-research/language/tree/master/language/realm

My Video on GPT-3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY5PvZrJhLE
My Video on BERT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9evrZnBorM
My Video on Word2Vec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yexR53My2O4

Abstract:
Language model pre-training has been shown to capture a surprising amount of world knowledge, crucial for NLP tasks such as question answering. However, this knowledge is stored implicitly in the parameters of a neural network, requiring ever-larger networks to cover more facts.
To capture knowledge in a more modular and interpretable way, we augment language model pre-training with a latent knowledge retriever, which allows the model to retrieve and attend over documents from a large corpus such as Wikipedia, used during pre-training, fine-tuning and inference. For the first time, we show how to pre-train such a knowledge retriever in an unsupervised manner, using masked language modeling as the learning signal and backpropagating through a retrieval step that considers millions of documents.
We demonstrate the effectiveness of Retrieval-Augmented Language Model pre-training (REALM) by fine-tuning on the challenging task of Open-domain Question Answering (Open-QA). We compare against state-of-the-art models for both explicit and implicit knowledge storage on three popular Open-QA benchmarks, and find that we outperform all previous methods by a significant margin (4-16% absolute accuracy), while also providing qualitative benefits such as interpretability and modularity.

Authors: Kelvin Guu, Kenton Lee, Zora Tung, Panupong Pasupat, Ming-Wei Chang

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