SimCLS
SimCLS is a framework for abstractive summarization presented in SimCLS: A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Abstractive Summarization. It is a two-stage approach consisting of a generator and a scorer. In the first stage, a large pre-trained model for abstractive summarization (the generator) is used to generate candidate summaries, whereas, in the second stage, the scorer assigns a score to each candidate given the source document. The final summary is the highest-scoring candidate.
This model is the scorer trained for summarization of BillSum (paper, datasets). It should be used in conjunction with google/pegasus-billsum. See our Github repository for details on training, evaluation, and usage.
Usage
git clone https://github.com/andrejmiscic/simcls-pytorch.git
cd simcls-pytorch
pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio transformers sentencepiece
from src.model import SimCLS, GeneratorType
summarizer = SimCLS(generator_type=GeneratorType.Pegasus,
generator_path="google/pegasus-billsum",
scorer_path="andrejmiscic/simcls-scorer-billsum")
document = "This is a legal document."
summary = summarizer(document)
print(summary)
Results
All of our results are reported together with 95% confidence intervals computed using 10000 iterations of bootstrap. See SimCLS paper for a description of baselines. We believe the discrepancies of Rouge-L scores between the original Pegasus work and our evaluation are due to the computation of the metric. Namely, we use a summary level Rouge-L score.
| System | Rouge-1 | Rouge-2 | Rouge-L* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pegasus | 57.31 | 40.19 | 45.82 |
| Our results | --- | --- | --- |
| Origin | 56.24, [55.74, 56.74] | 37.46, [36.89, 38.03] | 50.71, [50.19, 51.22] |
| Min | 44.37, [43.85, 44.89] | 25.75, [25.30, 26.22] | 38.68, [38.18, 39.16] |
| Max | 62.88, [62.42, 63.33] | 43.96, [43.39, 44.54] | 57.50, [57.01, 58.00] |
| Random | 54.93, [54.43, 55.43] | 35.42, [34.85, 35.97] | 49.19, [48.68, 49.70] |
| SimCLS | 57.49, [57.01, 58.00] | 38.54, [37.98, 39.10] | 51.91, [51.39, 52.43] |
Citation of the original work
@inproceedings{liu-liu-2021-simcls,
title = "{S}im{CLS}: A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Abstractive Summarization",
author = "Liu, Yixin and
Liu, Pengfei",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
month = aug,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.135",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.135",
pages = "1065--1072",
}