

Transformer models combined with self-supervised pre-training (e.g., BERT, GPT-2, RoBERTa, XLNet, ALBERT, T5, ELECTRA) have shown to be a powerful framework for producing general language learning, achieving state-of-the-art performance when fine-tuned on a wide array of language tasks. While these seq2seq models were initially developed using recurrent neural networks, Transformer encoder-decoder models have recently become favored as they are more effective at modeling the dependencies present in the long sequences encountered in summarization. The dominant paradigm for training machine learning models to do this is sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) learning, where a neural network learns to map input sequences to output sequences.

This abstractive text summarization is one of the most challenging tasks in natural language processing, involving understanding of long passages, information compression, and language generation. Students are often tasked with reading a document and producing a summary (for example, a book report) to demonstrate both reading comprehension and writing ability.
Summarize machine software#
Liu and Yao Zhao, Software Engineers, Google Research
