FR: Folded Rationalization with a Unified Encoder

Published in NeurIPS, 2022

  • title:FR: Folded Rationalization with a Unified Encoder
  • Task: Self-explaining rationalization in NLP
  • Problem: Degeneration. That’s to say, in a cooperative game, the predictor and the generator (i.e., rationalizer) may collude to use uninformative rationale candidates to get the right label.
  • Insights: If the whole model achieves high prediction accuracy, the generator can always learn the true semantic.
  • Solution: Sharing the encoders between the generator and the predictor, which is very simple and is compatible with many variants of this kind of two-player rationaliser/classifier games.