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1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding

   Yang, Zihang, Yang, Carbonell, Salakhutdinov and Le · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

   The paper proposes XLNet, a pretraining method combining autoregressive modelling with bidirectional context, and reports that it outperforms BERT on 20 language tasks.

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   1. UncheckedUnder comparable experiment settings, the XLNet language model scored higher than BERT on 20 tasks, often by a large margin, per the paper.“Empirically, under comparable experiment settings, XLNet outperforms BERT on 20 tasks, often by a large margin, including question answering, natural language inference, sentiment analysis, and document ranking.”