A Single Model That Tries to Answer Everything: The Natural Language Decathlon
Imagine one system that learns to do many language jobs at once — translate, summarize, or spot emotions — all by treating each job like a simple question.
Researchers built a big challenge with ten tasks, and then taught a single model to handle them all by asking the right questions about a piece of text.
It sounds wild, but it works, better than you'd expect.
The model, called MQAN, learns without special tricks for each task, it just reads and answers.
Because it learns many things together, it gets good at picking up new jobs faster, adapts to new kinds of text, and can even guess answers for jobs it never saw before.
A clever way of writing answers and the order they teach the model made things even stronger.
This idea could make tools that understand language more flexible and easier to build, letting one system help with many tasks.
It's exciting, and gives a peek at how machines might learn language the way people do — messy, curious, and always asking questions.
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The Natural Language Decathlon: Multitask Learning as Question Answering
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