Neural Speed Reading Audited
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Several approaches to neural speed reading have been presented at major NLP and machine learning conferences in 2017–20; i.e., “human-inspired” recurrent network architectures that learn to “read” text faster by skipping irrelevant words, typically optimizing the joint objective of minimizing classification error rate and FLOPs used at inference time. This paper reflects on the meaningfulness of the speed reading task, showing that (a) better and faster approaches to, say, document classification, already exist, which also learn to ignore part of the input (I give an example with 7% error reduction and a 136x speed-up over the state of the art in neural speed reading); and that (b) any claims that neural speed reading is “human-inspired”, are ill-founded.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Publication date | 2020 |
Pages | 148–153 |
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Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Event | The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - online Duration: 16 Nov 2020 → 20 Nov 2020 http://2020.emnlp.org |
Conference
Conference | The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing |
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Location | online |
Periode | 16/11/2020 → 20/11/2020 |
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