Elaboration-Generating Commonsense Question Answering at Scale

09/02/2022
by   Wenya Wang, et al.
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In question answering requiring common sense, language models (e.g., GPT-3) have been used to generate text expressing background knowledge that helps improve performance. Yet the cost of working with such models is very high; in this work, we finetune smaller language models to generate useful intermediate context, referred to here as elaborations. Our framework alternates between updating two language models – an elaboration generator and an answer predictor – allowing each to influence the other. Using less than 0.5 parameters of GPT-3, our model outperforms alternatives with similar sizes and closes the gap on GPT-3 on four commonsense question answering benchmarks. Human evaluations show that the quality of the generated elaborations is high.

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