Abstract
Abstractive summarization models frequently utilize decoding strategies, like beam search, which cause issues, such as a vast search space and exposure bias during decoding. To address this problem, we propose an online ranking model for summarization based on the likelihood probability. Our approach aims to establish a correlation between the output probability of a candidate summary and its quality, assigning higher output probabilities to summaries of better quality. Consequently, the ranking model can assess and select the best summary from several candidate summaries by contrasting their output probabilities during the ranking stage, thereby enhancing the performance of the summary model across various metrics. Simultaneously, our model adopts online sampling at each training step and incorporates information from the inference stage into the training process, which effectively mitigates the exposure bias that arises from the inconsistency between the model training and inference processes. Empirical results show that the proposed model performs impressively on the CNNDM and LCSTS public datasets. Compared with the baseline model, our online summarization ranking model yielded a 3.97, 2.55, and 4.12 increase in ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, and ROUGE-L, respectively. Overall, experiments reaffirm the relevance of the ranking stage and the impact of the model in optimizing other metrics.
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Yue, S., Yu, D., Xie, D. (2023). A Likelihood Probability-Based Online Summarization Ranking Model. In: Yang, X., et al. Advanced Data Mining and Applications. ADMA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14177. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46664-9_23
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