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Contrastive Learning for NLP

Contrastive learning for NLP is a representation-learning technique — popularised by SimCSE (Gao et al., 2021) and Supervised Contrastive Learning (Khosla et al., 2020) — that trains a text encoder by pulling embeddings of similar text pairs together while pushing embeddings of dissimilar pairs apart. The result is a dense, high-quality embedding space that can be learned with no labels at all, or with minimal supervision, making it especially valuable when annotated data are scarce.

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Contrastive Learning for Natural Language Processing
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / text-mining
  • Gao, T., Yao, X., & Chen, D. (2021). SimCSE: Simple Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings. Proceedings of EMNLP 2021. · URL
  • Khosla, P., et al. (2020). Supervised Contrastive Learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 33. · URL
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