---
datasets:
- assin
language:
- pt
metrics:
- accuracy
pipeline_tag: text-classification
tags:
- nli
---

# Model Card for Model ID

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This is a **[XLM-RoBERTa-base](https://huggingface.co/xlm-roberta-base) fine-tuned model** on 5K (premise, hypothesis) sentence pairs from
the **ASSIN (Avaliação de Similaridade Semântica e Inferência textual)** corpus. The original reference papers are:
[Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Representation Learning At Scale](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.02116), [ASSIN: Avaliação de Similaridade Semântica e Inferência Textual](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin), respectivelly. This model is suitable for Portuguese (from Brazil or Portugal).

## Model Details

### Model Description

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- **Developed by:** Giovani Tavares and Felipe Ribas Serras
- **Oriented By:** Felipe Ribas Serras, Renata Wassermann and Marcelo Finger
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- **Model type:** Transformer-based text classifier
- **Language(s) (NLP):** Portuguese
- **License:** mit
- **Finetuned from model [optional]:** [XLM-RoBERTa-base](https://huggingface.co/xlm-roberta-base)

### Model Sources [optional]

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- **Repository:** [Natural-Portuguese-Language-Inference](https://github.com/giogvn/Natural-Portuguese-Language-Inference)
- **Paper [optional]:** This is an ongoing research. We are currently writing a paper where we describe our experiments.
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## Uses

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### Direct Use

This fine-tuned version of [XLM-RoBERTa-base](https://huggingface.co/xlm-roberta-base) performs Natural
Language Inference (NLI), which is a text classification task.

<div id="assin_function">

**Definition 1.** Given a pair of sentences $(premise, hypothesis)$, let $\hat{f}^{(xlmr\_base)}$ be the fine-tuned models' inference function:

$$
\hat{f}^{(xlmr\_base)} = 
\begin{cases} 
ENTAILMENT, & \text{if $premise$ entails $hypothesis$}\\
PARAPHRASE, & \text{if $premise$ entails $hypothesis$ and $hypothesis$ entails $premise$}\\
NONE & \text{otherwise}
\end{cases}
$$
</div>


The $(premise, hypothesis)$ entailment definition used is the same as the one found in Salvatore's paper [1].

Therefore, **this fine-tuned version of [XLM-RoBERTa-base](https://huggingface.co/xlm-roberta-base) classifies pairs of sentences into one of the following classes $ENTAILMENT, PARAPHRASE$ or $NONE$.** using [Definition 1](#assin_function).
 
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## Fine-Tuning Details

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- **Train Dataset**: [ASSIN](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin) <br>

- **Evaluation Dataset used for Hyperparameter Tuning:** [ASSIN](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin)'s validation split

- **Test Datasets:**
    - [ASSIN](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin)'s test splits
    - [ASSIN2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin2)'s test splits


---
This is a fine tuned version of [XLM-RoBERTa-base](https://huggingface.co/xlm-roberta-base) using the [ASSIN (Avaliação de Similaridade Semântica e Inferência textual)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin) dataset. [ASSIN](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin) is a corpus annotated with hypothesis/premise Portuguese sentence pairs suitable for detecting textual entailment, paraphrase or neutral 
relationship between the members of such pairs. Such corpus has three subsets: *ptbr* (Brazilian Portuguese), *ptpt* (Portuguese Portuguese) and *full* (the union of the latter with the former). The *full* subset has 
10k sentence pairs equally distributed between *ptbr*  and *ptpt* subsets.

### Fine-Tuning Procedure 

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The model's fine-tuning procedure can be summarized in three major subsequent tasks:
    <ol type="i">
        <li>**Data Processing:**</li> [ASSIN](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin)'s *validation* and *train* splits were loaded from the **Hugging Face Hub** and processed afterwards; 
        <li>**Hyperparameter Tuning:**</li> [XLM-RoBERTa-base](https://huggingface.co/xlm-roberta-base)'s hyperparameters were chosen with the help of the [Weights & Biases] API to track the results and upload the fine-tuned models;
        <li>**Final Model Loading and Testing:**</li>
        using the *cross-tests* approach described in the [this section](#evaluation), the models' performance were measured using different datasets and metrics. 
    </ol>

More information on the fine-tuning procedure can be found in [@tcc_paper].


<!--  ##### Column Renaming
The **Hugging Face**'s ```transformers``` module's ```DataCollator``` used by its ```Trainer``` requires that the ```class label``` column of the collated dataset to be called ```label```.  [ASSIN](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin)'s class label column for each hypothesis/premise pair is called ```entailment_judgement```. Therefore, as the first step of the data preprocessing pipeline the column  ```entailment_judgement``` was renamed to ```label``` so that the **Hugging Face**'s ```transformers``` module's ```Trainer``` could be used. -->

#### Hyperparameter Tuning

The model's training hyperparameters were chosen according to the following definition:

<div id="hyperparameter_tuning">

**Definition 2.** Let $Hyperparms= \{i: i \text{ is an hyperparameter of } \hat{f}^{(xlmr\_base)}\}$ and $\hat{f}^{(xlmr\_base)}$ be the model's inference function defined in [Definition 1](#assin_function) :

$$
Hyperparms = \argmax_{hyp}(eval\_acc(\hat{f}^{(xlmr\_base)}_{hyp}, assin\_validation))
$$
</div>

The following hyperparameters were tested in order to maximize the evaluation accuracy.

- **Number of Training Epochs:** $(1,2,3)$
- **Per Device Train Batch Size:** $(16,32)$
- **Learning Rate:** $(1e-6, 2e-6,3e-6)$


The hyperaparemeter tuning experiments were run and tracked using the [Weights & Biases' API](https://docs.wandb.ai/ref/python/public-api/api) and can be found at this [link](https://wandb.ai/gio_projs/assin_xlm_roberta_v5?workspace=user-giogvn).


#### Training Hyperparameters

The [hyperparameter tuning](#hyperparameter-tuning) performed yelded the following values:

- **Number of Training Epochs:** $3$
- **Per Device Train Batch Size:** $16$
- **Learning Rate:** $3e-6$

## Evaluation

### ASSIN

Testing this model in [ASSIN](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin)'s test split is straightforward. The following code snippet shows how to do it:

### ASSIN2

Given a pair of sentences $(premise, hypothesis)$, $\hat{f}^{(xlmr\_base)}(premise, hypothesis)$ can be equal to $PARAPHRASE, ENTAILMENT$ or $NONE$ as defined in [Definition 1](#assin_function). 

[ASSIN2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin2)'s test split's class label's column has only two possible values: $ENTAILMENT$ and $NONE$. Therefore, in order to test this model in [ASSIN2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin2)'s test split some mapping must be done in order to make the [ASSIN2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/assin2)' class labels compatible with the model's inference function.

More information on how such mapping is performed can be found in [Modelos para Inferência em Linguagem Natural que entendem a Língua Portuguesa](https://linux.ime.usp.br/~giovani/).

### Metrics

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The model's performance metrics for each test dataset are presented separately. Accuracy, f1 score, precision and recall were the metrics used to every evaluation performed. Such metrics are reported below. More information on such metrics them can be found in [2].

### Results

| test set | accuracy | f1 score | precision | recall |
|----------|----------|----------|-----------|--------|
| assin    |0.89      |0.89      |0.89       |0.89    |
| assin2   |0.70      |0.69      |0.73       |0.70    |

## Model Examination

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Some interpretability work was done in order to understand the model's behavior. Such work can be found in the paper describing the procedure to create this fine-tuned model in [@tcc_paper].

## Environmental Impact

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Carbon emissions can be estimated using the [Machine Learning Impact calculator](https://mlco2.github.io/impact#compute) presented in [Lacoste et al. (2019)](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09700).

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## Citation

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**BibTeX:**

```bibtex
    @article{tcc_paper,
    author    = {Giovani Tavares and Felipe Ribas Serras and Renata Wassermann and Marcelo Finger},
    title     = {Modelos Transformer para Inferência de Linguagem Natural em Português},
    pages     = {x--y},
    year      = {2023}
    }
```

## References

[1][Salvatore, F. S. (2020). Analyzing Natural Language Inference from a Rigorous Point of View (pp. 1-2).](https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/45/45134/tde-05012021-151600/publico/tese_de_doutorado_felipe_salvatore.pdf)

[2][Andrade, G. T. (2023)  Modelos para Inferência em Linguagem Natural que entendem a Língua Portuguesa  (train_assin_xlmr_base_results PAGES GO HERE)](https://linux.ime.usp.br/~giovani/)

[3][Andrade, G. T. (2023)  Modelos para Inferência em Linguagem Natural que entendem a Língua Portuguesa (train_assin_xlmr_base_conclusions PAGES GO HERE)](https://linux.ime.usp.br/~giovani/)