BERT Has A Mouth, And It Must Speak: BERT As A Markov Random Field Language Model

Alex Wang, Kyunghyun Cho. Arxiv 2019 – 139 citations

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Model Architecture BERT

We show that BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) is a Markov random field language model. This formulation gives way to a natural procedure to sample sentences from BERT. We generate from BERT and find that it can produce high-quality, fluent generations. Compared to the generations of a traditional left-to-right language model, BERT generates sentences that are more diverse but of slightly worse quality.

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