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title = "Alleviating Over-smoothing for Unsupervised Sentence Representation",
author = "Chen, Nuo and
Shou, Linjun and
Pei, Jian and
Gong, Ming and
Cao, Bowen and
Chang, Jianhui and
Li, Jia and
Jiang, Daxin",
editor = "Rogers, Anna and
Boyd-Graber, Jordan and
Okazaki, Naoaki",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.197",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.197",
pages = "3552--3566",
abstract = "Currently, learning better unsupervised sentence representations is the pursuit of many natural language processing communities. Lots of approaches based on pre-trained language models (PLMs) and contrastive learning have achieved promising results on this task. Experimentally, we observe that the over-smoothing problem reduces the capacity of these powerful PLMs, leading to sub-optimal sentence representations. In this paper, we present a Simple method named Self-Contrastive Learning (SSCL) to alleviate this issue, which samples negatives from PLMs intermediate layers, improving the quality of the sentence representation. Our proposed method is quite simple and can be easily extended to various state-of-the-art models for performance boosting, which can be seen as a plug-and-play contrastive framework for learning unsupervised sentence representation. Extensive results prove that SSCL brings the superior performance improvements of different strong baselines (e.g., BERT and SimCSE) on Semantic Textual Similarity and Transfer datasets",
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%A Shou, Linjun
%A Pei, Jian
%A Gong, Ming
%A Cao, Bowen
%A Chang, Jianhui
%A Li, Jia
%A Jiang, Daxin
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%Y Okazaki, Naoaki
%S Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2023
%8 July
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Markdown (Informal)
[Alleviating Over-smoothing for Unsupervised Sentence Representation](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.197) (Chen et al., ACL 2023)
ACL
- Nuo Chen, Linjun Shou, Jian Pei, Ming Gong, Bowen Cao, Jianhui Chang, Jia Li, and Daxin Jiang. 2023. Alleviating Over-smoothing for Unsupervised Sentence Representation. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 3552–3566, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.