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Context 1: Introduction
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs), including gated variants such as the long short-term memory (LSTM) BIBREF0 have become the standard model architecture for deep learning approaches to sequence modeling tasks  RNNs repeatedly apply a function with trainable parameters to a hidden state  Recurrent layers can also be stacked, increasing network depth, representational power and often accuracy  RNN applications in the natural language domain range from sentence classification BIBREF1 to word- and character-level language modeling BIBREF2   RNNs are also commonly the basic building block for more complex models for tasks such as machine translation BIBREF3 , BIBREF4 , BIBREF5 or question answering BIBREF6 , BIBREF7   Unfortunately standard RNNs, including LSTMs, are limited in their capability to handle tasks involving very long sequences, such as document classification or character-level machine translation, as the computation of features or states for different parts of the document cannot occur in parallel 
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) BIBREF8 , though more popular on tasks involving image data, have also been applied to sequence encoding tasks BIBREF9   Such models apply time-invariant filter functions in parallel to windows along the input sequence  CNNs possess several advantages over recurrent models, including increased parallelism and better scaling to long sequences such as those often seen with character-level language data  Convolutional models for sequence processing have been more successful when combined with RNN layers in a hybrid architecture BIBREF10 , because traditional max- and average-pooling approaches to combining convolutional features across timesteps assume time invariance and hence cannot make full use of large-scale sequence order information 
We present quasi-recurrent neural networks for neural sequence modeling  QRNNs address both drawbacks of standard models: like CNNs, QRNNs allow for parallel computation across both timestep and minibatch dimensions, enabling high throughput and good scaling to long sequences  Like RNNs, QRNNs allow the output to depend on the overall order of elements in the sequence  We describe QRNN variants tailored to several natural language tasks, including document-level sentiment classification, language modeling, and character-level machine translation  These models outperform strong LSTM baselines on all three tasks while dramatically reducing computation time 
Model
Each layer of a quasi-recurrent neural network consists of two kinds of subcomponents, analogous to convolution and pooling layers in CNNs  The convolutional component, like convolutional layers in CNNs, allows fully parallel computation across both minibatches and spatial dimensions, in this case the sequence dimension  The pooling component, like pooling layers in CNNs, lacks trainable parameters and allows fully parallel computation across minibatch and feature dimensions 
Given an input sequence INLINEFORM0 of INLINEFORM1 INLINEFORM2 -dimensional vectors INLINEFORM3 , the convolutional subcomponent of a QRNN performs convolutions in the timestep dimension with a bank of INLINEFORM4 filters, producing a sequence INLINEFORM5 of INLINEFORM6 -dimensional candidate vectors INLINEFORM7   In order to be useful for tasks that include prediction of the next token, the filters must not allow the computation for any given timestep to access information from future timesteps  That is, with filters of width INLINEFORM8 , each INLINEFORM9 depends only on INLINEFORM10 through INLINEFORM11   This concept, known as a masked convolution BIBREF11 , is implemented by padding the input to the left by the convolution's filter size minus one 
We apply additional convolutions with separate filter banks to obtain sequences of vectors for the elementwise gates that are needed for the pooling function  While the candidate vectors are passed through a INLINEFORM0 nonlinearity, the gates use an elementwise sigmoid  If the pooling function requires a forget gate INLINEFORM1 and an output gate INLINEFORM2 at each timestep, the full set of computations in the convolutional component is then: DISPLAYFORM0
where INLINEFORM0 , INLINEFORM1 , and INLINEFORM2 , each in INLINEFORM3 , are the convolutional filter banks and INLINEFORM4 denotes a masked convolution along the timestep dimension  Note that if the filter width is 2, these equations reduce to the LSTM-like DISPLAYFORM0
Convolution filters of larger width effectively compute higher INLINEFORM0 -gram features at each timestep; thus larger widths are especially important for character-level tasks 
Suitable functions for the pooling subcomponent can be constructed from the familiar elementwise gates of the traditional LSTM cell  We seek a function controlled by gates that can mix states across timesteps, but which acts independently on each channel of the state vector  The simplest option, which BIBREF12 term “dynamic average pooling”, uses only a forget gate: DISPLAYFORM0
We term these three options f-pooling, fo-pooling, and ifo-pooling respectively; in each case we initialize INLINEFORM0 or INLINEFORM1 to zero  Although the recurrent parts of these functions must be calculated for each timestep in sequence, their simplicity and parallelism along feature dimensions means that, in practice, evaluating them over even long sequences requires a negligible amount of computation time 
A single QRNN layer thus performs an input-dependent pooling, followed by a gated linear combination of convolutional features  As with convolutional neural networks, two or more QRNN layers should be stacked to create a model with the capacity to approximate more complex functions 
Variants
Motivated by several common natural language tasks, and the long history of work on related architectures, we introduce several extensions to the stacked QRNN described above  Notably, many extensions to both recurrent and convolutional models can be applied directly to the QRNN as it combines elements of both model types 
Regularization An important extension to the stacked QRNN is a robust regularization scheme inspired by recent work in regularizing LSTMs 
The need for an effective regularization method for LSTMs, and dropout's relative lack of efficacy when applied to recurrent connections, led to the development of recurrent dropout schemes, including variational inference–based dropout BIBREF13 and zoneout BIBREF14   These schemes extend dropout to the recurrent setting by taking advantage of the repeating structure of recurrent networks, providing more powerful and less destructive regularization 
Variational inference–based dropout locks the dropout mask used for the recurrent connections across timesteps, so a single RNN pass uses a single stochastic subset of the recurrent weights  Zoneout stochastically chooses a new subset of channels to “zone out” at each timestep; for these channels the network copies states from one timestep to the next without modification 
As QRNNs lack recurrent weights, the variational inference approach does not apply  Thus we extended zoneout to the QRNN architecture by modifying the pooling function to keep the previous pooling state for a stochastic subset of channels  Conveniently, this is equivalent to stochastically setting a subset of the QRNN's INLINEFORM0 gate channels to 1, or applying dropout on INLINEFORM1 : DISPLAYFORM0
Thus the pooling function itself need not be modified at all  We note that when using an off-the-shelf dropout layer in this context, it is important to remove automatic rescaling functionality from the implementation if it is present  In many experiments, we also apply ordinary dropout between layers, including between word embeddings and the first QRNN layer 
Densely-Connected Layers We can also extend the QRNN architecture using techniques introduced for convolutional networks  For sequence classification tasks, we found it helpful to use skip-connections between every QRNN layer, a technique termed “dense convolution” by BIBREF15   Where traditional feed-forward or convolutional networks have connections only between subsequent layers, a “DenseNet” with INLINEFORM0 layers has feed-forward or convolutional connections between every pair of layers, for a total of INLINEFORM1   This can improve gradient flow and convergence properties, especially in deeper networks, although it requires a parameter count that is quadratic in the number of layers 
When applying this technique to the QRNN, we include connections between the input embeddings and every QRNN layer and between every pair of QRNN layers  This is equivalent to concatenating each QRNN layer's input to its output along the channel dimension before feeding the state into the next layer  The output of the last layer alone is then used as the overall encoding result 
Encoder–Decoder Models To demonstrate the generality of QRNNs, we extend the model architecture to sequence-to-sequence tasks, such as machine translation, by using a QRNN as encoder and a modified QRNN, enhanced with attention, as decoder  The motivation for modifying the decoder is that simply feeding the last encoder hidden state (the output of the encoder's pooling layer) into the decoder's recurrent pooling layer, analogously to conventional recurrent encoder–decoder architectures, would not allow the encoder state to affect the gate or update values that are provided to the decoder's pooling layer  This would substantially limit the representational power of the decoder 
Instead, the output of each decoder QRNN layer's convolution functions is supplemented at every timestep with the final encoder hidden state  This is accomplished by adding the result of the convolution for layer INLINEFORM0 (e g , INLINEFORM1 , in INLINEFORM2 ) with broadcasting to a linearly projected copy of layer INLINEFORM3 's last encoder state (e g , INLINEFORM4 , in INLINEFORM5 ): DISPLAYFORM0
where the tilde denotes that INLINEFORM0 is an encoder variable  Encoder–decoder models which operate on long sequences are made significantly more powerful with the addition of soft attention BIBREF3 , which removes the need for the entire input representation to fit into a fixed-length encoding vector  In our experiments, we computed an attentional sum of the encoder's last layer's hidden states  We used the dot products of these encoder hidden states with the decoder's last layer's un-gated hidden states, applying a INLINEFORM1 along the encoder timesteps, to weight the encoder states into an attentional sum INLINEFORM2 for each decoder timestep  This context, and the decoder state, are then fed into a linear layer followed by the output gate: DISPLAYFORM0
where INLINEFORM0 is the last layer 
While the first step of this attention procedure is quadratic in the sequence length, in practice it takes significantly less computation time than the model's linear and convolutional layers due to the simple and highly parallel dot-product scoring function 
Experiments
We evaluate the performance of the QRNN on three different natural language tasks: document-level sentiment classification, language modeling, and character-based neural machine translation  Our QRNN models outperform LSTM-based models of equal hidden size on all three tasks while dramatically improving computation speed  Experiments were implemented in Chainer BIBREF16  
Sentiment Classification
We evaluate the QRNN architecture on a popular document-level sentiment classification benchmark, the IMDb movie review dataset BIBREF17   The dataset consists of a balanced sample of 25,000 positive and 25,000 negative reviews, divided into equal-size train and test sets, with an average document length of 231 words BIBREF18   We compare only to other results that do not make use of additional unlabeled data (thus excluding e g , BIBREF19 ) 
Our best performance on a held-out development set was achieved using a four-layer densely-connected QRNN with 256 units per layer and word vectors initialized using 300-dimensional cased GloVe embeddings BIBREF20   Dropout of 0 3 was applied between layers, and we used INLINEFORM0 regularization of INLINEFORM1   Optimization was performed on minibatches of 24 examples using RMSprop BIBREF21 with learning rate of INLINEFORM2 , INLINEFORM3 , and INLINEFORM4  
Small batch sizes and long sequence lengths provide an ideal situation for demonstrating the QRNN's performance advantages over traditional recurrent architectures  We observed a speedup of 3 2x on IMDb train time per epoch compared to the optimized LSTM implementation provided in NVIDIA's cuDNN library  For specific batch sizes and sequence lengths, a 16x speed gain is possible  Figure FIGREF15 provides extensive speed comparisons 
In Figure FIGREF12 , we visualize the hidden state vectors INLINEFORM0 of the final QRNN layer on part of an example from the IMDb dataset  Even without any post-processing, changes in the hidden state are visible and interpretable in regards to the input  This is a consequence of the elementwise nature of the recurrent pooling function, which delays direct interaction between different channels of the hidden state until the computation of the next QRNN layer 
Language Modeling
We replicate the language modeling experiment of BIBREF2 and BIBREF13 to benchmark the QRNN architecture for natural language sequence prediction  The experiment uses a standard preprocessed version of the Penn Treebank (PTB) by BIBREF25  
We implemented a gated QRNN model with medium hidden size: 2 layers with 640 units in each layer  Both QRNN layers use a convolutional filter width INLINEFORM0 of two timesteps  While the “medium” models used in other work BIBREF2 , BIBREF13 consist of 650 units in each layer, it was more computationally convenient to use a multiple of 32  As the Penn Treebank is a relatively small dataset, preventing overfitting is of considerable importance and a major focus of recent research  It is not obvious in advance which of the many RNN regularization schemes would perform well when applied to the QRNN  Our tests showed encouraging results from zoneout applied to the QRNN's recurrent pooling layer, implemented as described in Section SECREF5  
The experimental settings largely followed the “medium” setup of BIBREF2   Optimization was performed by stochastic gradient descent (SGD) without momentum  The learning rate was set at 1 for six epochs, then decayed by 0 95 for each subsequent epoch, for a total of 72 epochs  We additionally used INLINEFORM0 regularization of INLINEFORM1 and rescaled gradients with norm above 10  Zoneout was applied by performing dropout with ratio 0 1 on the forget gates of the QRNN, without rescaling the output of the dropout function  Batches consist of 20 examples, each 105 timesteps 
Comparing our results on the gated QRNN with zoneout to the results of LSTMs with both ordinary and variational dropout in Table TABREF14 , we see that the QRNN is highly competitive  The QRNN without zoneout strongly outperforms both our medium LSTM and the medium LSTM of BIBREF2 which do not use recurrent dropout and is even competitive with variational LSTMs  This may be due to the limited computational capacity that the QRNN's pooling layer has relative to the LSTM's recurrent weights, providing structural regularization over the recurrence 
Without zoneout, early stopping based upon validation loss was required as the QRNN would begin overfitting  By applying a small amount of zoneout ( INLINEFORM0 ), no early stopping is required and the QRNN achieves competitive levels of perplexity to the variational LSTM of BIBREF13 , which had variational inference based dropout of 0 2 applied recurrently  Their best performing variation also used Monte Carlo (MC) dropout averaging at test time of 1000 different masks, making it computationally more expensive to run 
When training on the PTB dataset with an NVIDIA K40 GPU, we found that the QRNN is substantially faster than a standard LSTM, even when comparing against the optimized cuDNN LSTM  In Figure FIGREF15 we provide a breakdown of the time taken for Chainer's default LSTM, the cuDNN LSTM, and QRNN to perform a full forward and backward pass on a single batch during training of the RNN LM on PTB  For both LSTM implementations, running time was dominated by the RNN computations, even with the highly optimized cuDNN implementation  For the QRNN implementation, however, the “RNN” layers are no longer the bottleneck  Indeed, there are diminishing returns from further optimization of the QRNN itself as the softmax and optimization overhead take equal or greater time  Note that the softmax, over a vocabulary size of only 10,000 words, is relatively small; for tasks with larger vocabularies, the softmax would likely dominate computation time 
It is also important to note that the cuDNN library's RNN primitives do not natively support any form of recurrent dropout  That is, running an LSTM that uses a state-of-the-art regularization scheme at cuDNN-like speeds would likely require an entirely custom kernel 
Character-level Neural Machine Translation
We evaluate the sequence-to-sequence QRNN architecture described in SECREF5 on a challenging neural machine translation task, IWSLT German–English spoken-domain translation, applying fully character-level segmentation  This dataset consists of 209,772 sentence pairs of parallel training data from transcribed TED and TEDx presentations, with a mean sentence length of 103 characters for German and 93 for English  We remove training sentences with more than 300 characters in English or German, and use a unified vocabulary of 187 Unicode code points 
Our best performance on a development set (TED tst2013) was achieved using a four-layer encoder–decoder QRNN with 320 units per layer, no dropout or INLINEFORM0 regularization, and gradient rescaling to a maximum magnitude of 5  Inputs were supplied to the encoder reversed, while the encoder convolutions were not masked  The first encoder layer used convolutional filter width INLINEFORM1 , while the other encoder layers used INLINEFORM2   Optimization was performed for 10 epochs on minibatches of 16 examples using Adam BIBREF28 with INLINEFORM3 , INLINEFORM4 , INLINEFORM5 , and INLINEFORM6   Decoding was performed using beam search with beam width 8 and length normalization INLINEFORM7   The modified log-probability ranking criterion is provided in the appendix 
Results using this architecture were compared to an equal-sized four-layer encoder–decoder LSTM with attention, applying dropout of 0 2  We again optimized using Adam; other hyperparameters were equal to their values for the QRNN and the same beam search procedure was applied  Table TABREF17 shows that the QRNN outperformed the character-level LSTM, almost matching the performance of a word-level attentional baseline 
Related Work
Exploring alternatives to traditional RNNs for sequence tasks is a major area of current research  Quasi-recurrent neural networks are related to several such recently described models, especially the strongly-typed recurrent neural networks (T-RNN) introduced by BIBREF12   While the motivation and constraints described in that work are different, BIBREF12 's concepts of “learnware” and “firmware” parallel our discussion of convolution-like and pooling-like subcomponents  As the use of a fully connected layer for recurrent connections violates the constraint of “strong typing”, all strongly-typed RNN architectures (including the T-RNN, T-GRU, and T-LSTM) are also quasi-recurrent  However, some QRNN models (including those with attention or skip-connections) are not “strongly typed”  In particular, a T-RNN differs from a QRNN as described in this paper with filter size 1 and f-pooling only in the absence of an activation function on INLINEFORM0   Similarly, T-GRUs and T-LSTMs differ from QRNNs with filter size 2 and fo- or ifo-pooling respectively in that they lack INLINEFORM1 on INLINEFORM2 and use INLINEFORM3 rather than sigmoid on INLINEFORM4  
The QRNN is also related to work in hybrid convolutional–recurrent models  BIBREF31 apply CNNs at the word level to generate INLINEFORM0 -gram features used by an LSTM for text classification  BIBREF32 also tackle text classification by applying convolutions at the character level, with a stride to reduce sequence length, then feeding these features into a bidirectional LSTM  A similar approach was taken by BIBREF10 for character-level machine translation  Their model's encoder uses a convolutional layer followed by max-pooling to reduce sequence length, a four-layer highway network, and a bidirectional GRU  The parallelism of the convolutional, pooling, and highway layers allows training speed comparable to subword-level models without hard-coded text segmentation 
The QRNN encoder–decoder model shares the favorable parallelism and path-length properties exhibited by the ByteNet BIBREF33 , an architecture for character-level machine translation based on residual convolutions over binary trees  Their model was constructed to achieve three desired properties: parallelism, linear-time computational complexity, and short paths between any pair of words in order to better propagate gradient signals 
Conclusion
Intuitively, many aspects of the semantics of long sequences are context-invariant and can be computed in parallel (e g , convolutionally), but some aspects require long-distance context and must be computed recurrently  Many existing neural network architectures either fail to take advantage of the contextual information or fail to take advantage of the parallelism  QRNNs exploit both parallelism and context, exhibiting advantages from both convolutional and recurrent neural networks  QRNNs have better predictive accuracy than LSTM-based models of equal hidden size, even though they use fewer parameters and run substantially faster  Our experiments show that the speed and accuracy advantages remain consistent across tasks and at both word and character levels 
Extensions to both CNNs and RNNs are often directly applicable to the QRNN, while the model's hidden states are more interpretable than those of other recurrent architectures as its channels maintain their independence across timesteps  We believe that QRNNs can serve as a building block for long-sequence tasks that were previously impractical with traditional RNNs 
Beam search ranking criterion
The modified log-probability ranking criterion we used in beam search for translation experiments is: DISPLAYFORM0
where INLINEFORM0 is a length normalization parameter BIBREF34 , INLINEFORM1 is the INLINEFORM2 th output character, and INLINEFORM3 is a “target length” equal to the source sentence length plus five characters  This reduces at INLINEFORM4 to ordinary beam search with probabilities: DISPLAYFORM0
and at INLINEFORM0 to beam search with probabilities normalized by length (up to the target length): DISPLAYFORM0
Conveniently, this ranking criterion can be computed at intermediate beam-search timesteps, obviating the need to apply a separate reranking on complete hypotheses 
Context 2: Introduction
Conventional automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems typically consist of several independently learned components: an acoustic model to predict context-dependent sub-phoneme states (senones) from audio, a graph structure to map senones to phonemes, and a pronunciation model to map phonemes to words  Hybrid systems combine hidden Markov models to model state dependencies with neural networks to predict states BIBREF0 , BIBREF1 , BIBREF2 , BIBREF3   Newer approaches such as end-to-end (E2E) systems reduce the overall complexity of the final system 
Our research builds on prior work that has explored using time-delay neural networks (TDNN), other forms of convolutional neural networks, and Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss BIBREF4 , BIBREF5 , BIBREF6   We took inspiration from wav2letter BIBREF6 , which uses 1D-convolution layers  Liptchinsky et al  BIBREF7 improved wav2letter by increasing the model depth to 19 convolutional layers and adding Gated Linear Units (GLU) BIBREF8 , weight normalization BIBREF9 and dropout 
By building a deeper and larger capacity network, we aim to demonstrate that we can match or outperform non end-to-end models on the LibriSpeech and 2000hr Fisher+Switchboard tasks  Like wav2letter, our architecture, Jasper, uses a stack of 1D-convolution layers, but with ReLU and batch normalization BIBREF10   We find that ReLU and batch normalization outperform other activation and normalization schemes that we tested for convolutional ASR  As a result, Jasper's architecture contains only 1D convolution, batch normalization, ReLU, and dropout layers – operators highly optimized for training and inference on GPUs 
It is possible to increase the capacity of the Jasper model by stacking these operations  Our largest version uses 54 convolutional layers (333M parameters), while our small model uses 34 (201M parameters)  We use residual connections to enable this level of depth  We investigate a number of residual options and propose a new residual connection topology we call Dense Residual (DR) 
Integrating our best acoustic model with a Transformer-XL BIBREF11 language model allows us to obtain new state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on LibriSpeech BIBREF12 test-clean of 2 95% WER and SOTA results among end-to-end models on LibriSpeech test-other  We show competitive results on Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and 2000hr Fisher+Switchboard (F+S)  Using only greedy decoding without a language model we achieve 3 86% WER on LibriSpeech test-clean 
This paper makes the following contributions:
Jasper Architecture
Jasper is a family of end-to-end ASR models that replace acoustic and pronunciation models with a convolutional neural network  Jasper uses mel-filterbank features calculated from 20ms windows with a 10ms overlap, and outputs a probability distribution over characters per frame  Jasper has a block architecture: a Jasper INLINEFORM0 x INLINEFORM1 model has INLINEFORM2 blocks, each with INLINEFORM3 sub-blocks  Each sub-block applies the following operations: a 1D-convolution, batch norm, ReLU, and dropout  All sub-blocks in a block have the same number of output channels 
Each block input is connected directly into the last sub-block via a residual connection  The residual connection is first projected through a 1x1 convolution to account for different numbers of input and output channels, then through a batch norm layer  The output of this batch norm layer is added to the output of the batch norm layer in the last sub-block  The result of this sum is passed through the activation function and dropout to produce the output of the sub-block 
The sub-block architecture of Jasper was designed to facilitate fast GPU inference  Each sub-block can be fused into a single GPU kernel: dropout is not used at inference-time and is eliminated, batch norm can be fused with the preceding convolution, ReLU clamps the result, and residual summation can be treated as a modified bias term in this fused operation 
All Jasper models have four additional convolutional blocks: one pre-processing and three post-processing  See Figure FIGREF7 and Table TABREF8 for details 
We also build a variant of Jasper, Jasper Dense Residual (DR)  Jasper DR follows DenseNet BIBREF15 and DenseRNet BIBREF16 , but instead of having dense connections within a block, the output of a convolution block is added to the inputs of all the following blocks  While DenseNet and DenseRNet concatenates the outputs of different layers, Jasper DR adds them in the same way that residuals are added in ResNet  As explained below, we find addition to be as effective as concatenation 
Normalization and Activation
In our study, we evaluate performance of models with:
3 types of normalization: batch norm BIBREF10 , weight norm BIBREF9 , and layer norm BIBREF17
3 types of rectified linear units: ReLU, clipped ReLU (cReLU), and leaky ReLU (lReLU)
2 types of gated units: gated linear units (GLU) BIBREF8 , and gated activation units (GAU) BIBREF18
All experiment results are shown in Table TABREF15   We first experimented with a smaller Jasper5x3 model to pick the top 3 settings before training on larger Jasper models  We found that layer norm with GAU performed the best on the smaller model  Layer norm with ReLU and batch norm with ReLU came second and third in our tests  Using these 3, we conducted further experiments on a larger Jasper10x4  For larger models, we noticed that batch norm with ReLU outperformed other choices  Thus, leading us to decide on batch normalization and ReLU for our architecture 
During batching, all sequences are padded to match the longest sequence  These padded values caused issues when using layer norm  We applied a sequence mask to exclude padding values from the mean and variance calculation  Further, we computed mean and variance over both the time dimension and channels similar to the sequence-wise normalization proposed by Laurent et al  BIBREF19   In addition to masking layer norm, we additionally applied masking prior to the convolution operation, and masking the mean and variance calculation in batch norm  These results are shown in Table TABREF16 

ground_truth: the IMDb movie review dataset BIBREF17

IMDb movie review

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Please answer the questions based on the text provided below. what were the baselines?
Context 2:  Interestingly, we found that while masking before convolution gives a lower WER, using masks for both convolutions and batch norm results in worse performance 
As a final note, we found that training with weight norm was very unstable leading to exploding activations 
Residual Connections
For models deeper than Jasper 5x3, we observe consistently that residual connections are necessary for training to converge  In addition to the simple residual and dense residual model described above, we investigated DenseNet BIBREF15 and DenseRNet BIBREF16 variants of Jasper  Both connect the outputs of each sub-block to the inputs of following sub-blocks within a block  DenseRNet, similar to Dense Residual, connects the output of each output of each block to the input of all following blocks  DenseNet and DenseRNet combine residual connections using concatenation whereas Residual and Dense Residual use addition  We found that Dense Residual and DenseRNet perform similarly with each performing better on specific subsets of LibriSpeech  We decided to use Dense Residual for subsequent experiments  The main reason is that due to concatenation, the growth factor for DenseNet and DenseRNet requires tuning for deeper models whereas Dense Residual simply just repeats a sub-blocks 
Language Model
A language model (LM) is a probability distribution over arbitrary symbol sequences INLINEFORM0 such that more likely sequences are assigned high probabilities  LMs are frequently used to condition beam search  During decoding, candidates are evaluated using both acoustic scores and LM scores  Traditional N-gram LMs have been augmented with neural LMs in recent work BIBREF20 , BIBREF21 , BIBREF22  
We experiment with statistical N-gram language models BIBREF23 and neural Transformer-XL BIBREF11 models  Our best results use acoustic and word-level N-gram language models to generate a candidate list using beam search with a width of 2048  Next, an external Transformer-XL LM rescores the final list  All LMs were trained on datasets independently from acoustic models  We show results with the neural LM in our Results section  We observed a strong correlation between the quality of the neural LM (measured by perplexity) and WER as shown in Figure FIGREF20  
NovoGrad
For training, we use either Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) with momentum or our own NovoGrad, an optimizer similar to Adam BIBREF14 , except that its second moments are computed per layer instead of per weight  Compared to Adam, it reduces memory consumption and we find it to be more numerically stable 
At each step INLINEFORM0 , NovoGrad computes the stochastic gradient INLINEFORM1 following the regular forward-backward pass  Then the second-order moment INLINEFORM2 is computed for each layer INLINEFORM3 similar to ND-Adam BIBREF27 : DISPLAYFORM0
The second-order moment INLINEFORM0 is used to re-scale gradients INLINEFORM1 before calculating the first-order moment INLINEFORM2 : DISPLAYFORM0
If L2-regularization is used, a weight decay INLINEFORM0 is added to the re-scaled gradient (as in AdamW BIBREF28 ): DISPLAYFORM0
Finally, new weights are computed using the learning rate INLINEFORM0 : DISPLAYFORM0
Using NovoGrad instead of SGD with momentum, we decreased the WER on dev-clean LibriSpeech from 4 00% to 3 64%, a relative improvement of 9% for Jasper DR 10x5  We will further analyze NovoGrad in forthcoming work 
Results
We evaluate Jasper across a number of datasets in various domains  In all experiments, we use dropout and weight decay as regularization  At training time, we use speed perturbation with fixed +/-10% BIBREF29 for LibriSpeech  For WSJ and Hub5'00, we use a random speed perturbation factor between [-10%, 10%] as each utterance is fed into the model  All models have been trained on NVIDIA DGX-1 in mixed precision BIBREF30 using OpenSeq2Seq BIBREF31   Source code, training configurations, and pretrained models are available 
Read Speech
We evaluated the performance of Jasper on two read speech datasets: LibriSpeech and Wall Street Journal (WSJ)  For LibriSpeech, we trained Jasper DR 10x5 using our NovoGrad optimizer for 400 epochs  We achieve SOTA performance on the test-clean subset and SOTA among end-to-end speech recognition models on test-other 
We trained a smaller Jasper 10x3 model with SGD with momentum optimizer for 400 epochs on a combined WSJ dataset (80 hours): LDC93S6A (WSJ0) and LDC94S13A (WSJ1)  The results are provided in Table TABREF29  
Conversational Speech
We also evaluate the Jasper model's performance on a conversational English corpus  The Hub5 Year 2000 (Hub5'00) evaluation (LDC2002S09, LDC2005S13) is widely used in academia  It is divided into two subsets: Switchboard (SWB) and Callhome (CHM)  The training data for both the acoustic and language models consisted of the 2000hr Fisher+Switchboard training data (LDC2004S13, LDC2005S13, LDC97S62)  Jasper DR 10x5 was trained using SGD with momentum for 50 epochs  We compare to other models trained using the same data and report Hub5'00 results in Table TABREF31  
We obtain good results for SWB  However, there is work to be done to improve WER on harder tasks such as CHM 
Conclusions
We have presented a new family of neural architectures for end-to-end speech recognition  Inspired by wav2letter's convolutional approach, we build a deep and scalable model, which requires a well-designed residual topology, effective regularization, and a strong optimizer  As our architecture studies demonstrated, a combination of standard components leads to SOTA results on LibriSpeech and competitive results on other benchmarks  Our Jasper architecture is highly efficient for training and inference, and serves as a good baseline approach on top of which to explore more sophisticated regularization, data augmentation, loss functions, language models, and optimization strategies  We are interested to see if our approach can continue to scale to deeper models and larger datasets 
Context 3: Introduction
Headline generation is the process of creating a headline-style sentence given an input article  The research community has been regarding the task of headline generation as a summarization task BIBREF1, ignoring the fundamental differences between headlines and summaries  While summaries aim to contain most of the important information from the articles, headlines do not necessarily need to  Instead, a good headline needs to capture people's attention and serve as an irresistible invitation for users to read through the article  For example, the headline “$2 Billion Worth of Free Media for Trump”, which gives only an intriguing hint, is considered better than the summarization style headline “Measuring Trump’s Media Dominance” , as the former gets almost three times the readers as the latter  Generating headlines with many clicks is especially important in this digital age, because many of the revenues of journalism come from online advertisements and getting more user clicks means being more competitive in the market  However, most existing websites naively generate sensational headlines using only keywords or templates  Instead, this paper aims to learn a model that generates sensational headlines based on an input article without labeled data 
To generate sensational headlines, there are two main challenges  Firstly, there is a lack of sensationalism scorer to measure how sensational a headline is  Some researchers have tried to manually label headlines as clickbait or non-clickbait BIBREF2, BIBREF3  However, these human-annotated datasets are usually small and expensive to collect  To capture a large variety of sensationalization patterns, we need a cheap and easy way to collect a large number of sensational headlines  Thus, we propose a distant supervision strategy to collect a sensationalism dataset  We regard headlines receiving lots of comments as sensational samples and the headlines generated by a summarization model as non-sensational samples  Experimental results show that by distinguishing these two types of headlines, we can partially teach the model a sense of being sensational 
Secondly, after training a sensationalism scorer on our sensationalism dataset, a natural way to generate sensational headlines is to maximize the sensationalism score using reinforcement learning (RL)  However, the following shows an example of a RL model maximizing the sensationalism score by generating a very unnatural sentence, while its sensationalism scorer gave a very high score of 0 99996: UTF8gbsn 十个可穿戴产品的设计原则这消息消息可惜说明 Ten design principles for wearable devices, this message message pity introduction  This happens because the sensationalism scorer can make mistakes and RL can generate unnatural phrases which fools our sensationalism scorer  Thus, how to effectively leverage RL with noisy rewards remains an open problem  To deal with the noisy reward, we introduce Auto-tuned Reinforcement Learning (ARL)  Our model automatically tunes the ratio between MLE and RL based on how sensational the training headline is  In this way, we effectively take advantage of RL with a noisy reward to generate headlines that are both sensational and fluent 
The major contributions of this paper are as follows: 1) To the best of our knowledge, we propose the first-ever model that tackles the sensational headline generation task with reinforcement learning techniques  2) Without human-annotated data, we propose a distant supervision strategy to train a sensationalism scorer as a reward function 3) We propose a novel loss function, Auto-tuned Reinforcement Learning, to give dynamic weights to balance between MLE and RL  Our code will be released  
Sensationalism Scorer
To evaluate the sensationalism intensity score $\alpha _{\text{sen}}$ of a headline, we collect a sensationalism dataset and then train a sensationalism scorer  For the sensationalism dataset collection, we choose headlines with many comments from popular online websites as positive samples  For the negative samples, we propose to use the generated headlines from a sentence summarization model  Intuitively, the summarization model, which is trained to preserve the semantic meaning, will lose the sensationalization ability and thus the generated negative samples will be less sensational than the original one, similar to the obfuscation of style after back-translation BIBREF4  For example, an original headline like UTF8gbsn“一趟挣10万？铁总增开申通、顺丰专列" (One trip to earn 100 thousand? China Railway opens new Shentong and Shunfeng special lines) will become UTF8gbsn“中铁总将增开京广两列快递专列" (China Railway opens two special lines for express) from the baseline model, which loses the sensational phrases of UTF8gbsn“一趟挣10万？" (One trip to earn 100 thousand?)   We then train the sensationalism scorer by classifying sensational and non-sensational headlines using a one-layer CNN with a binary cross entropy loss $L_{\text{sen}}$  Firstly, 1-D convolution is used to extract word features from the input embeddings of a headline  This is followed by a ReLU activation layer and a max-pooling layer along the time dimension  All features from different channels are concatenated together and projected to the sensationalism score by adding another fully connected layer with sigmoid activation  Binary cross entropy is used to compute the loss $L_{\text{sen}}$ 
Sensationalism Scorer ::: Training Details and Dataset
For the CNN model, we choose filter sizes of 1, 3, and 5 respectively  Adam is used to optimize $L_{sen}$ with a learning rate of 0 0001  We set the embedding size as 300 and initialize it from qiu2018revisiting trained on the Weibo corpus with word and character features  We fix the embeddings during training  For dataset collection, we utilize the headlines collected in qin2018automatic, lin2019learning from Tencent News, one of the most popular Chinese news websites, as the positive samples  We follow the same data split as the original paper  As some of the links are not available any more, we get 170,754 training samples and 4,511 validation samples  For the negative training samples collection, we randomly select generated headlines from a pointer generator BIBREF0 model trained on LCSTS dataset BIBREF5 and create a balanced training corpus which includes 351,508 training samples and 9,022 validation samples  To evaluate our trained classifier, we construct a test set by randomly sampling 100 headlines from the test split of LCSTS dataset and the labels are obtained by 11 human annotators  Annotations show that 52% headlines are labeled as positive and 48% headlines as negative by majority voting (The detail on the annotation can be found in Section SECREF26) 
Sensationalism Scorer ::: Results and Discussion
Our classifier achieves 0 65 accuracy and 0 65 averaged F1 score on the test set while a random classifier would only achieve 0 50 accuracy and 0 50 averaged F1 score  This confirms that the predicted sensationalism score can partially capture the sensationalism of headlines  On the other hand, a more natural choice is to take headlines with few comments as negative examples  Thus, we train another baseline classifier on a crawled balanced sensationalism corpus of 84k headlines where the positive headlines have at least 28 comments and the negative headlines have less than 5 comments  However, the results on the test set show that the baseline classifier gets 60% accuracy, which is worse than the proposed classifier (which achieves 65%)  The reason could be that the balanced sensationalism corpus are sampled from different distributions from the test set and it is hard for the trained model to generalize  Therefore, we choose the proposed one as our sensationalism scorer  Therefore, our next challenge is to show that how to leverage this noisy sensationalism reward to generate sensational headlines 
Sensational Headline Generation
Our sensational headline generation model takes an article as input and output a sensational headline  The model consists of a Pointer-Gen headline generator and is trained by ARL  The diagram of ARL can be found in Figure FIGREF6 
We denote the input article as $x=\lbrace x_1,x_2,x_3,\cdots ,x_M\rbrace $, and the corresponding headline as $y^*=\lbrace y_1^*,y_2^*,y_3^*,\cdots ,y_T^*\rbrace $, where $M$ is the number of tokens in an article and $T$ is the number of tokens in a headline 
Sensational Headline Generation ::: Pointer-Gen Headline Generator
We choose Pointer Generator (Pointer-Gen) BIBREF0, a widely used summarization model, as our headline generator for its ability to copy words from the input article  It takes a news article as input and generates a headline  Firstly, the tokens of each article, $\lbrace x_1,x_2,x_3,\cdots ,x_M\rbrace $, are fed into the encoder one-by-one and the encoder generates a sequence of hidden states $h_i$  For each decoding step $t$, the decoder receives the embedding for each token of a headline $y_t$ as input and updates its hidden states $s_t$  An attention mechanism following luong2015effective is used:
where $v$, $W_h$, $W_s$, and $b_{attn}$ are the trainable parameters and $h_t^*$ is the context vector  $s_t$ and $h_t^*$ are then combined to give a probability distribution over the vocabulary through two linear layers:
where $V$, $b$, $V^{^{\prime }}$, and $b^{^{\prime }}$ are trainable parameters  We use a pointer generator network to enable our model to copy rare/unknown words from the input article, giving the following final word probability:
where $x^t$ is the embedding of the input word of the decoder, $w_{h^*}^T$, $w_s^T$, $w_x^T$, and $b_{ptr}$ are trainable parameters, and $\sigma $ is the sigmoid function 
Sensational Headline Generation ::: Training Methods
We first briefly introduce MLE and RL objective functions, and a naive way to mix these two by a hyper-parameter $\lambda $  Then we point out the challenge of training with noisy reward, and propose ARL to address this issue 
Sensational Headline Generation ::: Training Methods ::: MLE and RL
A headline generation model can be trained with MLE, RL or a combination of MLE and RL  MLE training is to minimize the negative log likelihood of the training headlines  We feed $y^*$ into the decoder word by word and maximize the likelihood of $y^*$  The loss function for MLE becomes
For RL training, we choose the REINFORCE algorithm BIBREF6  In the training phase, after encoding an article, a headline $y^s = \lbrace y_1^s, y_2^s, y_3^s, \cdots , y_T^s\rbrace $ is obtained by sampling from $P(w)$ from our generator, and then a reward of sensationalism or ROUGE(RG) is calculated 
We use the baseline reward $\hat{R_t}$ to reduce the variance of the reward, similar to ranzato2015sequence  To elaborate, a linear model is deployed to estimate the baseline reward $\hat{R_t}$ based on $t$-th state $o_t$ for each timestep $t$  The parameters of the linear model are trained by minimizing the mean square loss between $R$ and $\hat{R_t}$:
where $W_r$ and $b_r$ are trainable parameters  To maximize the expected reward, our loss function for RL becomes
A naive way to mix these two objective functions using a hyper-parameter $\lambda $ has been successfully incorporated in the summarization task BIBREF7  It includes the MLE training as a language model to mitigate the readability and quality issues in RL  The mixed loss function is shown as follows:
where $*$ is the reward type  Usually $\lambda $ is large, and paulus2017deep used 0 9984 
Sensational Headline Generation ::: Training Methods ::: Auto-tuned Reinforcement Learning
Applying the naive mixed training method using sensationalism score as the reward is not obvious/trivial in our task  The main reason is that our sensationalism reward is notably more noisy and more fragile than the ROUGE-L reward or abstractive reward used in the summarization task BIBREF7, BIBREF8  A higher ROUGE-L F1 reward in summarization indicates higher overlapping ratio between generation and true summary statistically, but our sensationalism reward is a learned score which is fragile to be fooled with unnatural samples 
To effectively train the model with RL under noisy sensationalism reward, our idea is to balance RL with MLE  However, we argue that the weighted ratio between MLE and RL should be sample-dependent, instead of being fixed for all training samples as in paulus2017deep, kryscinski2018improving  The reason is that, RL and MLE have inconsistent optimization objectives  When the training headline is non-sensational, MLE training will encourage our model to imitate the training headline (thus generating non-sensational headlines), which counteracts the effects of RL training to generate sensational headlines 
The sensationalism score is, therefore, used to give dynamic weight to MLE and RL  Our ARL loss function becomes:
If $\alpha _{\text{sen}}(y^*)$ is high, meaning the training headline is sensational, our loss function encourages our model to imitate the sample more using the MLE training  If $\alpha _{\text{sen}}(y^*)$ is low, our loss function replies on RL training to improve the sensationalism  Note that the weight $\alpha _{\text{sen}}(y^*)$ is different from our sensationalism reward $\alpha _{\text{sen}}(y^s)$ and we call the loss function Auto-tuned Reinforcement Learning, because the ratio between MLE and RL are well “tuned” towards different samples 
Sensational Headline Generation ::: Dataset
We use LCSTS BIBREF5 as our dataset to train the summarization model  The dataset is collected from the Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo  It contains over 2 million Chinese short texts with corresponding headlines given by the author of each text  The dataset is split into 2,400,591 samples for training, 10,666 samples for validation and 725 samples for testing  We tokenize each sentence with Jieba and a vocabulary size of 50000 is saved 
Sensational Headline Generation ::: Baselines and Our Models
We experiment and compare with the following models 
Pointer-Gen is the baseline model trained by optimizing $L_\text{MLE}$ in Equation DISPLAY_FORM13 
Pointer-Gen+Pos is the baseline model by training Pointer-Gen only on positive examples whose sensationalism score is larger than 0 5
Pointer-Gen+Same-FT is the model which fine-tunes Pointer-Gen on the training samples whose sensationalism score is larger than 0 1
Pointer-Gen+Pos-FT is the model which fine-tunes Pointer-Gen on the training samples whose sensationalism score is larger than 0 5
Pointer-Gen+RL-ROUGE is the baseline model trained by optimizing $L_\text{RL-ROUGE}$ in Equation DISPLAY_FORM17, with ROUGE-L BIBREF9 as the reward 
Pointer-Gen+RL-SEN is the baseline model trained by optimizing $L_\text{RL-SEN}$ in Equation DISPLAY_FORM17, with $\alpha _\text{sen}$ as the reward 
Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN is our model trained by optimizing $L_\text{ARL-SEN}$ in Equation DISPLAY_FORM19, with $\alpha _\text{sen}$ as the reward 
Test set is the headlines from the test set 
Note that we didn't compare to Pointer-Gen+ARL-ROUGE as it is actually Pointer-GEN  Recall that $\alpha _{\text{sen}}(y^*)$ in Equation DISPLAY_FORM19 measures how good (based on reward function) is $y^*$  Then the loss function for Pointer-Gen+ARL-ROUGE will be
We also tried text style transfer baseline BIBREF10, but the generated headlines were very poor (many unknown words and irrelevant) 
Sensational Headline Generation ::: Training Details
MLE training: An Adam optimizer is used with the learning rate of 0 0001 to optimize $L_{\text{MLE}}$  The batch size is set as 128 and a one-layer, bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (bi-LSTM) model with 512 hidden sizes and a 350 embedding size is utilized  Gradients with the l2 norm larger than 2

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LF-MMI Attention
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Char E2E LF-MMI 
Phone E2E LF-MMI 
CTC + Gram-CTC

prompt_front: You are given a scientific article and a question. Answer the question as concisely as you can, using a single phrase or sentence if possible. If the question cannot be answered based on the information in the article, write "unanswerable". If the question is a yes/no question, answer "yes", "no", or "unanswerable". Do not provide any explanation.

Please answer the questions based on the text provided below. Which baselines are used for evaluation?
Context 3: 0 are clipped  We stop training when the ROUGE-L f-score stops increasing 
Hybrid training: An Adam optimizer with a learning rate of 0 0001 is used to optimize $L_{\text{RL-*}}$ (Equation DISPLAY_FORM17) and $L_\text{{ARL-SEN}}$ (Equation DISPLAY_FORM19)  When training Pointer-Gen+RL-ROUGE, the best $\lambda $ is chosen based on the ROUGE-L score on the validation set  In our experiment, $\lambda $ is set as 0 95  An Adam optimizer with a learning rate of 0 001 is used to optimize $L_b$  When training Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN, we don't use the full LCSTS dataset, but only headlines with a sensationalism score larger than 0 1 as we observe that Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN will generate a few unnatural phrases when using full dataset  We believe the reason is the high ratio of RL during training  Figure FIGREF23 shows that the probability density near 0 is very high, meaning that in each batch, many of the samples will have a very low sensationalism score  On expectation, each sample will receive 0 239 MLE training and 0 761 RL training  This leads to RL dominanting the loss  Thus, we propose to filter samples with a minimum sensationalism score with 0 1 and it works very well  For Pointer-Gen+RL-SEN, we also set the minimum sensationalism score as 0 1, and $\lambda $ is set as 0 5 to remove unnatural phrases, making a fair comparison to Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN 
We stop training Pointer-Gen+Same-FT, Pointer-Gen+Pos-FT, Pointer-Gen+RL-SEN and Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN, when $\alpha _\text{sen}$ stops increasing on the validation set  Beam-search with a beam size of 5 is adopted for decoding in all models 
Sensational Headline Generation ::: Evaluation Metrics
We briefly describe the evaluation metrics below 
ROUGE: ROUGE is a commonly used evaluation metric for summarization  It measures the N-gram overlap between generated and training headlines  We use it to evaluate the relevance of generated headlines  The widely used pyrouge toolkit is used to calculate ROUGE-1 (RG-1), ROUGE-2 (RG-2), and ROUGE-L (RG-L) 
Human evaluation: We randomly sample 50 articles from the test set and send the generated headlines from all models and corresponding headlines in the test set to human annotators  We evaluate the sensationalism and fluency of the headlines by setting up two independent human annotation tasks  We ask 10 annotators to label each headline for each task  For the sensationalism annotation, each annotator is asked one question, “Is the headline sensational?”, and he/she has to choose either `yes' or `no'  The annotators were not told which system the headline is from  The process of distributing samples and recruiting annotators is managed by Crowdflower  After annotation, we define the sensationalism score as the proportion of annotations on all generated headlines from one model labeled as `yes'  For the fluency annotation, we repeat the same procedure as for the sensationalism annotation, except that we ask each annotator the question “Is the headline fluent?” We define the fluency score as the proportion of annotations on all headlines from one specific model labeled as `yes'  We put human annotation instructions in the supplemental material 
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Results
We first compare all four models, Pointer-Gen, Pointer-Gen-RL+ROUGE, Pointer-Gen-RL-SEN, and Pointer-Gen-ARL-SEN, to existing models with ROUGE in Table TABREF25 to establish that our model produces relevant headlines and we leave the sensationalism for human evaluation  Note that we only compare our models to commonly used strong summarization baselines, to validate that our implementation achieves comparable performance to existing work  In our implementation, Pointer-Gen achieves a 34 51 RG-1 score, 22 21 RG-2 score, and 31 68 RG-L score, which is similar to the results of gu2016incorporating  Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN, although optimized for the sensationalism reward, achieves similar performance to our Pointer-Gen baseline, which means that Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN still keeps its summarization ability  An example of headlines generated from different models in Table TABREF29 shows that Pointer-Gen and Pointer-Gen+RL-ROUGE learns to summarize the main point of the article: “The Nikon D600 camera is reported to have black spots when taking photos”  Pointer-Gen+RL-SEN makes the headline more sensational by blaming Nikon for attributing the damage to the smog  Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN generates the most sensational headline by exaggerating the result “Getting a serious trouble!” to maximize user's attention 
We then compare different models using the sensationalism score in Table TABREF30  The Pointer-Gen baseline model achieves a 42 6% sensationalism score, which is the minimum that a typical summarization model achieves  By filtering out low-sensational headlines, Pointer-Gen+Same-FT and Pointer-Gen+Pos-FT achieves higher sensationalism scores, which implies the effectiveness of our sensationalism scorer  Our Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN model achieves the best performance of 60 8%  This is an absolute improvement of 18 2% over the Pointer-Gen baseline  The Chi-square test on the results confirms that Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN is statistically significantly more sensational than all the other baseline models, with the largest p-value less than 0 01  Also, we find that the test set headlines achieves 57 8% sensationalism score, much larger than Pointer-Gen baseline, which also supports our intuition that generated headlines will be less sensational than the original one  On the other hand, we found that Pointer-Gen+Pos is much worse than other baselines  The reason is that training on sensational samples alone discards around 80% of the whole training set that is also helpful for maintaining relevance and a good language model  It shows the necessity of using RL 
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In addition, both Pointer-Gen+RL-SEN and Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN, which use the sensationalism score as the reward, obtain statistically better results than Pointer-Gen+RL-ROUGE and Pointer-Gen, with a p-value less than 0 05 by a Chi-square test  This result shows the effectiveness of RL to generate more sensational headlines  The reason is that even though our noisy classifier could also learn to classify domains, the generator during RL training is not allowed to increase the reward by shifting domains but encouraged to generate more sensational headlines, due to the consistency constraint on the domains of the headline and the article  Furthermore, Poiner-Gen+ARL-SEN gets better performance than Pointer-Gen+RL-SEN, which confirms the superiority of the ARL loss function  We also visualize in Figure FIGREF31 a comparison between Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN and Pointer-Gen+RL-SEN according to how sensational the test set headlines are  The blue bars denote the smaller scores between the two models  For example, if the blue bar is 0 6, it means that the worse model between Pointer-Gen+RL-SEN and Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN achieves 0 6  And the color of orange/black further indicates the better model and its score  We find that Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN outperforms Pointer-Gen+RL-SEN for most cases  The improvement is higher when the test set headlines are not sensational (the sensationalism score is less than 0 5), which may be attributed to the higher ratio of RL training on non-sensational headlines 
Apart from the sensationalism evaluation, we measure the fluency of the headlines generated from different models  Fluency scores in Table TABREF30 show that Pointer-Gen+RL-SEN and Pointer-Gen+ARL-SEN achieve comparable fluency performance to Pointer-Gen and Pointer-Gen+RL-ROUGE  Test set headlines achieve the best performance among all models, but the difference is not statistically significant  Also, we observe that fine-tuning on sensational headlines will hurt the performance, both in sensationalism and fluency 
After manually checking the outputs, we observe that our model is able to generate sensational headlines using diverse sensationalization strategies  These strategies include, but are not limited to, creating a curiosity gap, asking questions, highlighting numbers, being emotional and emphasizing the user  Examples can be found in Table TABREF32 
Related Work
Our work is related to summarization tasks  An encoder-decoder model was first applied to two sentence-level abstractive summarization tasks on the DUC-2004 and Gigaword datasets BIBREF12  This model was later extended by selective encoding BIBREF13, a coarse to fine approach BIBREF14, minimum risk training BIBREF1, and topic-aware models BIBREF15  As long summaries were recognized as important, the CNN/Daily Mail dataset was used in nallapati2016abstractive  Graph-based attention BIBREF16, pointer-generator with coverage loss BIBREF0 are further developed to improve the generated summaries  celikyilmaz2018deep proposed deep communicating agents for representing a long document for abstractive summarization  In addition, many papers BIBREF17, BIBREF18, BIBREF19 use extractive methods to directly select sentences from articles  However, none of these work considered the sensationalism of generated outputs 
RL is also gaining popularity as it can directly optimize non-differentiable metrics BIBREF20, BIBREF21, BIBREF22  paulus2017deep proposed an intra-decoder model and combined RL and MLE to deal with summaries with bad qualities  RL has also been explored with generative adversarial networks (GANs) BIBREF23  liu2017generative applied GANs on summarization task and achieved better performance  niu2018polite tackles the problem of polite generation with politeness reward  Our work is different in that we propose a novel function to balance RL and MLE 
Our task is also related to text style transfer  Implicit methods BIBREF10, BIBREF24, BIBREF4 transfer the styles by separating sentence representations into content and style, for example using back-translationBIBREF4  However, these methods cannot guarantee the content consistency between the original sentence and transferred output BIBREF25  Explicit methods BIBREF26, BIBREF25 transfer the style by directly identifying style related keywords and modifying them  However, sensationalism is not always restricted to keywords, but the full sentence  By leveraging small human labeled English dataset, clickbait detection has been well investigated BIBREF2, BIBREF27, BIBREF3  However, these human labeled dataset are not available for other languages, such as Chinese 
Modeling sensationalism is also related to modeling emotion  Emotion has been well investigated in both word levelBIBREF28, BIBREF29 and sentence levelBIBREF30, BIBREF31, BIBREF32, BIBREF33, BIBREF34  It has also been considered an important factor in engaging interactive systemsBIBREF35, BIBREF36, BIBREF37  Although we observe that sensational headlines contain emotion, it is still not clear which emotion and how emotions will influence the sensationalism 
Conclusion and Future Work
In this paper, we propose a model that generates sensational headlines without labeled data using Reinforcement Learning  Firstly, we propose a distant supervision strategy to train the sensationalism scorer  As a result, we achieve 65% accuracy between the predicted sensationalism score and human evaluation  To effectively leverage this noisy sensationalism score as the reward for RL, we propose a novel loss function, ARL, to automatically balance RL with MLE  Human evaluation confirms the effectiveness of both our sensationalism scorer and ARL to generate more sensational headlines  Future work can be improving the sensationalism scorer and investigating the applications of dynamic balancing methods between RL and MLE in textGANBIBREF23  Our work also raises the ethical questions about generating sensational headlines, which can be further explored 
Acknowledgments
Thanks to ITS/319/16FP of Innovation Technology Commission, HKUST 16248016 of Hong Kong Research Grants Council for funding  In addition, we thank Zhaojiang Lin for helpful discussion and Yan Xu, Zihan Liu for the data collection 

ground_truth: Pointer-Gen, Pointer-Gen+Pos, Pointer-Gen+Same-FT, Pointer-Gen+Pos-FT, Pointer-Gen+RL-ROUGE, Pointer-Gen+RL-SEN