2020

Entities as Experts: Sparse Memory Access with Entity Supervision

Févry, Thibault, Soares, Livio Baldini, FitzGerald, Nicholas et al.

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We focus on the problem of capturing declarative knowledge about entities in the learned parameters of a language model.

  • We introduce a new model - Entities as Experts (EAE) - that can access distinct memories of the entities mentioned in a piece of text.
  • Unlike previous efforts to integrate entity knowledge into sequence models, EAE's entity representations are learned directly from text.
  • We show that EAE's learned representations capture sufficient knowledge to answer TriviaQA questions such as "Which Dr.

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