Right for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in Natural Language Inference
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01007
A controlled evaluation set called HANS (Heuristic Analysis for NLI Systems),
which contains many examples where the heuristics fail.
Homepage: https://github.com/tommccoy1/hans
"""
fromlm_eval.baseimportPromptSourceTask
_CITATION="""
@inproceedings{mccoy-etal-2019-right,
title = "Right for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in Natural Language Inference",
author = "McCoy, Tom and
Pavlick, Ellie and
Linzen, Tal",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
month = jul,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/P19-1334",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1334",
pages = "3428--3448",
abstract = "A machine learning system can score well on a given test set by relying on heuristics that are effective for frequent example types but break down in more challenging cases. We study this issue within natural language inference (NLI), the task of determining whether one sentence entails another. We hypothesize that statistical NLI models may adopt three fallible syntactic heuristics: the lexical overlap heuristic, the subsequence heuristic, and the constituent heuristic. To determine whether models have adopted these heuristics, we introduce a controlled evaluation set called HANS (Heuristic Analysis for NLI Systems), which contains many examples where the heuristics fail. We find that models trained on MNLI, including BERT, a state-of-the-art model, perform very poorly on HANS, suggesting that they have indeed adopted these heuristics. We conclude that there is substantial room for improvement in NLI systems, and that the HANS dataset can motivate and measure progress in this area.",
}
"""
classHANS(PromptSourceTask):
VERSION=0
DATASET_PATH="hans"
DATASET_NAME=None
defhas_training_docs(self):
returnTrue
defhas_validation_docs(self):
returnTrue
defhas_test_docs(self):
returnFalse
deftraining_docs(self):
ifself.has_training_docs():
# We cache training documents in `self._training_docs` for faster
# few-shot processing. If the data is too large to fit in memory,
# return the training data as a generator instead of a list.