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让BERT的词向量可解释,通过分解语义和风格实现可控输出

iBERT: Interpretable Embeddings via Sense Decomposition

  • 将每个词拆解为一组可解释的语义/风格向量组合
  • 在风格任务上比SBERT提升8分,同时保持作者识别性能
  • 适合需要透明解释的NLP应用,如内容生成与风格控制

我们提出iBERT(可解释BERT),一种生成内在可解释且可调控表示的编码器,旨在模块化并揭示语言中的判别性线索,如语义或风格结构。每个输入词被表示为k个与上下文无关的语义向量的稀疏非负混合,这些向量可聚合为句向量或直接用于词级任务。这使得在解码或下游任务前即可实现表示的模块化控制。为验证模型可解释性,我们在一系列以风格为核心的任务上进行评估:在STEL基准上,其风格表征效果相比SBERT基线提升约8分,同时在作者识别任务上保持竞争力。由于每个嵌入是可解释语义成分的结构化组合,我们展示了特定风格属性如何被分配到特定语义向量。尽管实验聚焦于风格建模,iBERT并非仅限于此;其结构化模块性设计可用于可解释地分解数据中任何判别信号,即使监督信号混合了语义与风格因素,仍具备泛化能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We present iBERT (interpretable-BERT), an encoder to produce inherently interpretable and controllable embeddings - designed to modularize and expose the discriminative cues present in language, such as semantic or stylistic structure. Each input token is represented as a sparse, non-negative mixture over k context-independent sense vectors, which can be pooled into sentence embeddings or used directly at the token level. This enables modular control over representation, before any decoding or downstream use. To demonstrate our model's interpretability, we evaluate it on a suite of style-focused tasks. On the STEL benchmark, it improves style representation effectiveness by ~8 points over SBERT-style baselines, while maintaining competitive performance on authorship verification. Because each embedding is a structured composition of interpretable senses, we highlight how specific style attributes get assigned to specific sense vectors. While our experiments center on style, iBERT is not limited to stylistic modeling. Its structural modularity is designed to interpretably decompose whichever discriminative signals are present in the data - enabling generalization even when supervision blends semantic or stylistic factors.

可解释性风格建模BERT改进

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