Before revision:  We also demonstrate the versatility of sentenceMIM by utilizing a trained model for question-answering , a transfer learningtask , without fine-tuning . To the best of our knowledge, this is the first latent variable model (LVM) for text modelling that achieves competitive performance with non-LVM models .
After revision:  We also demonstrate the versatility of sentenceMIM by utilizing a trained model for question-answering , a transfer learningtask , without fine-tuning , outperforming VAE and AE with similar architectures .