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Developers interested in a solution for generalized autoregressive pretraining for language understanding
About XLNet
XLNet is a new unsupervised language representation learning method based on a novel generalized permutation language modeling objective. Additionally, XLNet employs Transformer-XL as the backbone model, exhibiting excellent performance for language tasks involving long context. Overall, XLNet achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on various downstream language tasks including question answering, natural language inference, sentiment analysis, and document ranking.
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XLNet
Founded: 2019
github.com/zihangdai/xlnet
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