RoBERTa¶

• RoBERTa: a Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
• evaluates a number of design decisions when pretraining BERT models
• They find that BERT was significantly undertrained, and can match or exceed the performance of every model published after it.
• performance can be substantially improved by training the model longer, with bigger batches over more data; removing the next sentence prediction objective; training on longer sequences; and dynamically changing the masking pattern applied to the training data
• GLUE
• RACE
• SQuAD
• only the masked language model objective