CLMay 29, 2020

Massive Choice, Ample Tasks (MaChAmp): A Toolkit for Multi-task Learning in NLP

arXiv:2005.14672v4814 citations
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This toolkit simplifies multi-task learning for NLP researchers and practitioners, but it is incremental as it builds on existing transfer learning methods.

The authors tackled the challenge of applying multi-task learning with pre-trained embeddings in NLP by introducing MaChAmp, a toolkit that enables easy fine-tuning across diverse tasks such as text classification and dependency parsing.

Transfer learning, particularly approaches that combine multi-task learning with pre-trained contextualized embeddings and fine-tuning, have advanced the field of Natural Language Processing tremendously in recent years. In this paper we present MaChAmp, a toolkit for easy fine-tuning of contextualized embeddings in multi-task settings. The benefits of MaChAmp are its flexible configuration options, and the support of a variety of natural language processing tasks in a uniform toolkit, from text classification and sequence labeling to dependency parsing, masked language modeling, and text generation.

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