RoBERTa-wwm-ext Fine-Tuning for Chinese Text Classification

Abstract: Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) have shown to be a promising way to dramatically improve the performance across various Natural Language Processing tasks [Devlin et al., 2019]. Meanwhile, progress made over the past few years by various Neural Net-work has also proved the effectiveness of Neural Network in the field of Natural Language Processing. In this project, RoBERTa-wwm-ext [Cui et al., 2019] pre-train LLM was adopted and fine-tuned for Chinese text classification. The models were able to classify Chinese texts into two categories, containing descriptions of legal behavior and descriptions of illegal behavior. Four different models are also proposed in the paper. Those models will use RoBERTa-wwm-extas their embedding layer and feed the embedding into different neural networks. The motivation be-hind proposing these models is straightforward. By introducing complex output layer architecture, the overall performance of the models could be improved. All the models were trained on a data set derived from Chinese public court records, and the performance of different models were compared.The experiment shows that the performance of pro-posed models failed to beat the original RoBERTa-wwm-ext model in terms of accuracy and training efficiency.