Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Towards Zero-shot Commonsense Reasoning with Self-supervised Refinement of Language Models
January 2021 • Tassilo Klein, Moin Nabi
Can we get existing language models and refine them for zero-shot commonsense reasoning? This paper presents an initial study exploring the feasibility of zero-shot commonsense reasoning for the Winograd Schema Challenge by formulating the task as self-supervised refinement of a pre-trained language model. In contrast to previous studies that rely on fine-tuning annotated datasets, we seek to boost conceptualization via loss landscape refinement. To this end, we propose a novel self-supervised learning approach th…