FAST READING COMPREHENSION WITH CONVNETSDownload PDF

15 Feb 2018 (modified: 22 Oct 2023)ICLR 2018 Conference Blind SubmissionReaders: Everyone
Abstract: State-of-the-art deep reading comprehension models are dominated by recurrent neural nets. Their sequential nature is a natural fit for language, but it also precludes parallelization within an instances and often becomes the bottleneck for deploying such models to latency critical scenarios. This is particularly problematic for longer texts. Here we present a convolutional architecture as an alternative to these recurrent architectures. Using simple dilated convolutional units in place of recurrent ones, we achieve results comparable to the state of the art on two question answering tasks, while at the same time achieving up to two orders of magnitude speedups for question answering.
Keywords: reading comprehension, question answering, CNN, ConvNet, Inference
Code: [![Papers with Code](/images/pwc_icon.svg) 2 community implementations](https://paperswithcode.com/paper/?openreview=HJRV1ZZAW)
Data: [SQuAD](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/squad), [TriviaQA](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/triviaqa)
Community Implementations: [![CatalyzeX](/images/catalyzex_icon.svg) 5 code implementations](https://www.catalyzex.com/paper/arxiv:1711.04352/code)
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