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Next Sentence Prediction

Next Sentence Prediction

Learn how to pre-train the BERT model for the next sentence prediction task.

What is NSP task?

Next sentence prediction (NSP) is another interesting strategy used for training the BERT model. NSP is a binary classification task. In the NSP task, we feed two sentences to BERT and it has to predict whether the second sentence is the follow-up (next sentence) of the first sentence. Let's understand the NSP task with the help of an example.

The isNext label

Consider the following two sentences:

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