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What is: RoBERTa?

SourceRoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
Year2000
Data SourceCC BY-SA - https://paperswithcode.com

RoBERTa is an extension of BERT with changes to the pretraining procedure. The modifications include:

  • training the model longer, with bigger batches, over more data
  • removing the next sentence prediction objective
  • training on longer sequences
  • dynamically changing the masking pattern applied to the training data. The authors also collect a large new dataset (CC-News\text{CC-News}) of comparable size to other privately used datasets, to better control for training set size effects