2021

ProphetNet-X: Large-Scale Pre-training Models for English, Chinese, Multi-lingual, Dialog, and Code Generation

Qi, Weizhen, Gong, Yeyun, Yan, Yu et al.

Understand

Now, the pre-training technique is ubiquitous in natural language processing field.

  • ProphetNet is a pre-training based natural language generation method which shows powerful performance on English text summarization and question generation tasks.
  • In this paper, we extend ProphetNet into other domains and languages, and present the ProphetNet family pre-training models, named ProphetNet-X, where X can be English, Chinese, Multi-lingual, and so on.
  • We pre-train a cross-lingual generation model ProphetNet-Multi, a Chinese generation model ProphetNet-Zh, two open-domain dialog generation models ProphetNet-Dialog-En and ProphetNet-Dialog-Zh.

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