Enhanced Natural Language Understanding Using XLNET
Golakoti Vinoothna, Jeevakala Siva RamaKrishna, Bandarapu Varun Kumar and Pasumarthi Mahesh
Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Department of CSE (AI&ML), Dundigal, Hyderabad, India
Keywords:
XLNet, Sentiment Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Transformer Models, Deep Learning.
Abstract:
Sentiment analysis has gained importance in understanding consumer opinions, enabling businesses and re-
searchers to derive insights from vast amounts of unstructured text data. Traditional NLP models such as
RNNs and CNNs have difficulty capturing long-range dependencies and fail to interpret sarcasm or ambiguous
sentiment effectively. Transformer-based models, particularly BERT, have improved NLP tasks by leverag-
ing bidirectional attention mechanisms. However, BERT relies on masked language modeling, which limits
its ability to learn from complete sequences. XLNet overcomes this by using a permutation-based training
method, allowing it to capture a broader range of word dependencies. This paper aims to evaluate the effec-
tiveness of XLNet in sentiment analysis by fine-tuning it on the IMDB dataset. We analyze its performance
against other models and highlight its advantages in handling sentiment-rich data.
1 INTRODUCTION
Sentiment analysis is a critical task in Natural Lan-
guage Processing (NLP), helping businesses, mar-
keters, and researchers extract valuable insights from
user opinions. The rapid growth of online reviews,
social media discussions, and user-generated content
has increased the need for robust sentiment analy-
sis models that can handle large-scale unstructured
text. However, traditional models like Recurrent
Neural Networks (RNNs) and Convolutional Neu-
ral Networks (CNNs) struggle with sarcasm, com-
plex expressions, and long-range dependencies, limit-
ing their effectiveness in capturing nuanced sentiment
(Doe, 2020).
The introduction of transformer-based models,
particularly BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Represen-
tations from Transformers), marked a significant ad-
vancement in NLP. BERT’s bidirectional attention
mechanism enables it to capture both left and right
context simultaneously, improving linguistic under-
standing (Smith, 2020). However, its reliance on
masked language modeling (MLM) limits its ability
to fully learn dependencies across different token or-
ders (Wang, 2021).
To address these limitations, XLNet introduces a
permutation-based training approach, which consid-
ers all possible token orderings during training. Un-
like BERT, which masks certain words, XLNet learns
from complete input sequences without introducing
artificial gaps. This enhanced bidirectional context
modeling allows XLNet to capture long-range depen-
dencies more effectively (Patel, 2021).
XLNet’s ability to model complex sentence struc-
tures makes it particularly suited for sentiment anal-
ysis, where context plays a crucial role in determin-
ing sentiment polarity. Studies have shown that XL-
Net outperforms BERT in tasks involving longer sen-
tences, informal text, and intricate word relationships
(Lee and Green, 2021). This advantage is especially
valuable when analyzing product reviews, social me-
dia posts, and online discussions, where subtle shifts
in tone and opinion must be accurately interpreted.
Moreover, XLNet’s permutation-based approach
enhances generalization to unseen data, making it
highly robust in dynamic and informal text domains.
As a result, it has become a preferred choice for senti-
ment analysis applications, offering improved perfor-
mance in real-world settings.
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
Sentiment analysis plays a vital role in natural lan-
guage processing (NLP), offering valuable insights
for businesses, researchers, and policymakers to as-
sess public opinion. Traditional approaches, such
as recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and convolu-
tional neural networks (CNNs), were initially used
for sentiment classification but faced several chal-
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lenges. RNNs, despite their sequential processing
ability, struggled with long-range dependencies due to
vanishing gradient issues. Similarly, CNNs, while ef-
fective in feature extraction, were not well-suited for
capturing sequential relationships or complex contex-
tual dependencies. These limitations made it difficult
for such models to accurately interpret intricate sen-
tence structures, sarcasm, and ambiguous sentiment
expressions (Doe, 2020).
The advent of transformer-based architectures
transformed NLP by overcoming these challenges.
The introduction of self-attention mechanisms al-
lowed models to analyze relationships between words
across an entire sentence rather than relying solely
on sequential processing (Smith, 2020). One of the
most impactful transformer models, Bidirectional En-
coder Representations from Transformers (BERT),
improved sentiment classification by incorporating
bidirectional context. Unlike previous models that
processed text in a single direction, BERT consid-
ered both preceding and succeeding words, enhanc-
ing contextual comprehension. However, despite its
success, BERT’s reliance on masked language mod-
eling (MLM) posed certain limitations. In this ap-
proach, specific words are hidden during training, and
the model is trained to predict them. This can some-
times hinder the model’s ability to fully capture word
dependencies, especially in sentiment-heavy datasets
where nuanced expressions play a crucial role (Wang,
2021).
XLNet was introduced as an enhancement
to BERT, addressing these limitations through a
permutation-based training mechanism. Unlike
BERT, which predicts masked tokens based on fixed
context, XLNet examines multiple word order permu-
tations, allowing it to capture deeper contextual rela-
tionships. This approach makes XLNet particularly
effective in sentiment analysis, where the meaning of
a sentence often depends on subtle contextual cues.
Since XLNet does not rely on a predetermined token
order, it is better equipped to detect sentiment shifts
in complex sentences, making it more effective than
BERT in certain scenarios (Patel, 2021). Research
has shown that XLNet’s ability to model long-range
dependencies enhances its performance in opinion-
based texts, such as product reviews and social media
discussions.
Several studies have demonstrated XLNet’s su-
perior performance in sentiment classification. Tan
(Tan, 2022) conducted a comprehensive analysis of
XLNet’s capabilities across NLP tasks and found that
it excels in datasets with complex linguistic struc-
tures and long-range dependencies. Similarly, Zhou
(Zhou, 2021) fine-tuned XLNet for sentiment clas-
sification on social media datasets and reported sig-
nificant improvements in classification accuracy, pre-
cision, and recall compared to BERT. This suggests
that XLNet is particularly effective for handling in-
formal and ambiguous language, which is common in
user-generated content. Additionally, Kim . (Kim,
2021) evaluated XLNet on movie review datasets and
demonstrated that it outperformed both BERT and
baseline models in sentiment classification, achiev-
ing higher accuracy and F1 scores. Brown and Liu
(Brown and Liu, 2022) further reinforced these find-
ings by highlighting XLNet’s advantage in model-
ing intricate dependencies within opinionated texts,
showcasing its superior performance in sentiment pre-
diction.
XLNet’s flexibility in sentiment analysis has also
been validated through comparative studies in opinion
mining. Choi(Choi, 2020) and Robinson (Robinson,
2021) analyzed the effectiveness of BERT and XL-
Net on movie review datasets, concluding that XL-
Net’s ability to capture long-distance word dependen-
cies allows it to recognize subtle sentiment variations
more effectively. This deeper contextual modeling
makes XLNet a highly robust choice for sentiment
analysis, particularly when detecting sentiment shifts
within complex textual data.
3 METHODOLOGY
The methodology applied in XLNet for sentiment
analysis on the IMDB movie review dataset is through
data preprocessing, model configuration, training,
and evaluation. Such a methodology would ensure
that the model effectively captures the nuances of
sentiment-laden text and, thereby, would ensure the
achievement of optimal performance metrics.
3.1 Data Preprocessing
The IMDB movie review dataset consists of 50,000
labeled reviews that were used for training and evalu-
ation. The first preprocessing step was the removal of
irrelevant elements, including HTML tags and special
characters, which can introduce noise into the model.
Text normalization, which involved converting all text
to lowercase, was performed to reduce variability
across different samples, ensuring that the model fo-
cuses on content rather than formatting differences.
This step helped in preparing the simpler data and en-
hancing the generalization ability of the model over
texts of different types (Lee and Park, 2023). Further
tokenization was done using XLNet’s WordPiece to-
kenizer. The WordPiece tokenizer is built to handle
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great vocabularies with diversified variations such as
rare words and compound words. It helps process in-
formal language for movie reviews by breaking com-
plex and misspelled words. In addition, the tokenizer
maps every word to a subword unit that helps handle
out-of-vocabulary terms and enhances the ability to
understand semantic relationships between words.
Tokenization using WordPiece encoding, which
converts words into subword units for better handling
of rare words. Special tokens such as [CLS] (classifi-
cation token) and [SEP] (separator token) are added.
Padding or truncation is applied to ensure uniform in-
put lengths.
3.2 Model Configuration and
Architecture
The architecture of XLNet is shown in Fig. 1 and
supports a permutation-based training method that en-
ables the model to learn patterns across different word
orders in a sequence. This flexibility in word order
modeling is core to sentiment analysis, whereby of-
ten, the sentiment depends on subtle contextual clues
that vary across sentence structure. XLNet’s mech-
anism of self-attention helps capture long dependen-
cies of text that are most often neglected by traditional
models. Unlike standard transformers, tokens are not
masked during training for XLNet, thus giving them a
much better model of the entire context. In this paper,
a pre-trained XLNet model from the Hugging Face li-
brary was selected and fine-tuned for the task of sen-
timent classification. The optimal parameters of the
model, such as learning rate, batch size, and training
epochs, were carefully searched to fine-tune it. The
convergence of the learning process and to avoid over-
fitting, the Adam optimizer was adopted.
Figure 1: XLNET architecture
3.3 Training Process
For the training process, the IMDB dataset was split
into three subsets: 80 percent for training, 10 percent
for validation, and 10 percent for testing. The model
was fine-tuned on the training data, with performance
on the validation set closely monitored to prevent
overfitting. XLNet uses a permutation-based training
method to enhance contextual understanding in nat-
ural language processing. Unlike traditional models
like BERT, which rely on masked language modeling
(MLM), XLNet predicts tokens in randomly shuffled
orders, capturing more complex word dependencies.
Instead of processing sequences in a fixed order,
XLNet randomly permutes the token sequence. The
model learns to predict each token based on the con-
text from the preceding tokens in the permutation.
This autoregressive method ensures the model can
learn from multiple contexts, providing a richer un-
derstanding of word relationships.
XLNet also employs a two-stream self-attention
mechanism, which includes a Content Stream for en-
coding the content of tokens and a Query Stream
to maintain positional dependencies. This approach
prevents the model from leaking future information
while still allowing it to consider bidirectional con-
text.
Building on Transformer-XL, XLNet captures
long-range dependencies by reusing hidden states
from previous segments, enabling it to process longer
sequences efficiently without being restricted by
fixed-length input windows.
Compared to models like BERT and LSTM, XL-
Net has distinct advantages. Its permutation-based
approach offers better contextual representations and
superior handling of long-range dependencies.
3.4 Encoding with Transformer Layers
XLNet leverages Transformer-XL as its backbone,
which significantly enhances its ability to handle
longer text sequences. Transformer-XL introduces
the concept of recurrence in the attention mechanism,
allowing the model to retain hidden states across seg-
ments, thereby overcoming the fixed-length sequence
limitations of traditional transformers. This enables
XLNet to model dependencies over extended con-
texts, making it ideal for tasks like sentiment analysis
and document-level understanding where long-range
relationships are crucial.
Each token in XLNet is represented through a
combination of word embeddings, positional encod-
ings, and segment embeddings. Word embeddings
capture the semantic meaning of each token, while
positional encodings provide information about the
token’s position within the sequence. Segment em-
beddings help differentiate between different parts of
a text, such as distinguishing between sentences or
paragraphs, ensuring the model understands the struc-
tural context of the text.
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The model utilizes multi-headed self-attention,
which allows it to focus on different parts of the in-
put sequence simultaneously. This mechanism as-
signs varying importance to different tokens depend-
ing on their relevance to the task at hand, such as
identifying key sentiment-indicating words in a re-
view.(Zhang, 2024) By attending to multiple aspects
of the sequence, XLNet is able to better understand
complex relationships between tokens, enhancing its
overall performance in natural language processing
tasks.
This architecture enables XLNet to efficiently pro-
cess longer texts while capturing both local and global
dependencies, ensuring a more comprehensive under-
standing of the input data.
3.5 Pseudocode for XLNet-based
Sentiment Analysis
The results from the evaluation have been analyzed
in comparison with newer sentiment analysis mod-
els and XLNet is tested for efficiency in dealing with
complex sentiment patterns. XLNet’s permutation-
based training method let it handle reviews with
mixed sentiments much better; this is indeed one of
the common challenges found in sentiment analysis.
For instance, reviews that were full of mix sentiments
within the same sentence or paragraph were able to
be more accurately classified by XLNet than those of
other models. Results showed that XLNet had bet-
ter language understanding, as it can capture long-
range dependencies and has a flexible permutation-
based training approach. In Fig. 1, an architecture
diagram is given to show self-attention layers and the
permutation-based structure responsible for the good
performance of XLNet in contextual sentiment analy-
sis. Additionally, a comparative study revealed that
XLNet is better than the other transformer models,
including BERT, by providing an excellent F1-score
in sentiment classification tasks of the IMDB dataset
when fine-tuned .
4 RESULT AND DISCUSSION
The XLNet model was evaluated on the IMDB movie
review dataset, focusing on key metrics such as accu-
racy, precision, recall, and F1-score to determine its
effectiveness in sentiment classification. Comparative
results with other models, such as BERT and LSTM,
reveal the strength of XLNet in handling intricate sen-
timent patterns and contextual details inherent in re-
view text (Singh and Gupta, 2023).
Dataset D = {(x
i
, y
i
)}
N
i=1
, XLNet model θ,
learning rate η, training epochs E, batch size
B Trained XLNet classifier
Step 1: Data Preprocessing
Tokenize each text x
i
and convert to subword
embeddings;
Pad sequences to fixed length;
Convert tokens to tensors
(input ids, attention masks);
Step 2: Training with Permutation-Based
Learning
for each epoch e ∈ {1, ..., E} do
for each mini-batch b ∈ B do
Generate random permutation
z ← generate permutation(b);
Compute contextual representations:
H ← XLNet(b, z);
Extract CLS token representation:
H
CLS
← H[:, 0];
Compute logits:
logits ← classification head(H
CLS
);
Compute loss:
L ← CrossEntropyLoss(logits, y);
Update model parameters:
θ ← θ − η∇L ;
end
end
Step 3: Sentiment Prediction
for each test sample x
i
do
Compute contextual representation:
H ← XLNet(x
i
);
Extract CLS token representation:
H
CLS
← H[:, 0];
Compute logits:
logits ← classification head(H
CLS
);
Compute sentiment score:
prediction ← argmax(softmax(logits));
end
return trained XLNet classifier;
4.1 Model Performance and
Comparison
XLNet’s performance on sentiment analysis was
benchmarked against BERT and LSTM models,
where it consistently achieved higher scores in all
key metrics, highlighting its advanced contextual un-
derstanding capabilities. Table I presents the Per-
formance Comparison of Sentiment Analysis Mod-
els, showing that XLNet achieved superior results
in accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score(Huang
and Li, 2024). This improvement over other mod-
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els underscores the ability of XLNet to handle com-
plex sentiment data effectively, primarily due to its
permutation-based learning structure, which enables a
more comprehensive bidirectional context. This pat-
tern of XLNet’s dominance is consistent across pre-
cision, recall, and F1-score metrics.Notably, while
XLNet required longer training time (4 hours) com-
pared to BERT (3 hours) and LSTM (2 hours), its
superior AUC-ROC score of 0.97 suggests the addi-
tional computational cost yields meaningful improve-
ments in classification performance. Table 1 further
illustrates that all three models maintained a balanced
precision-recall trade-off, with XLNet showing par-
ticularly strong consistency across metrics. These re-
sults suggest that XLNet’s permutation-based learn-
ing approach provides substantial advantages in sen-
timent classification tasks, though this comes at the
cost of increased computational resources.
As demonstrated in Table I, XLNet outperforms
BERT and LSTM, which further validates its capa-
bility in accurately capturing sentiment nuances from
complex text data.
Table 1: Performance comparision of sentiment Analysis
Models
Model SST-2 IMDB Amazon
LSTM+Attention 88.7 90.2 91.5
BERT-base 92.3 93.5 94.1
XLNET 95.3 95.9 96.4
4.2 Performance Analysis
A comprehensive analysis of the model’s metrics re-
vealed that XLNet excelled in capturing fine-grained
sentiment, particularly in reviews with complex or
mixed sentiments where traditional models often fal-
ter. Fig. 2, Performance Analysis of XLNet vs. Other
Models, illustrates how XLNet’s metrics (accuracy,
precision, recall, and F1-score) compare to BERT and
LSTM, clearly showing XLNet’s advantage in senti-
ment classification. This analysis highlights XLNet’s
advanced capacity to understand context and manage
nuanced sentiment expressions, which is essential in
complex sentiment analysis tasks.
4.3 Error Analysis
To gain insights into areas for further model tun-
ing, an error analysis was conducted, focusing on the
model’s misclassifications. Confusion matrices were
used to identify patterns in misinterpreted sentiment,
particularly in cases with ambiguous or overlapping
Figure 2: Performance Analysis of XLNet
sentiments. For instance, reviews with both positive
and negative expressions posed some classification
challenges for XLNet. These misclassifications sug-
gest potential avenues for model improvements, such
as fine-tuning hyperparameters or expanding training
data to enhance generalization.
4.4 Visualizations and Insights
Graphical comparisons were used to illustrate XL-
Net’s performance comprehensively. Table I (Per-
formance Comparison of Sentiment Analysis Mod-
els) and Fig. 2 (Performance Analysis Graph) vi-
sually demonstrate XLNet’s effectiveness across key
metrics, underscoring its robust performance. These
visualizations helped highlight the model’s strengths
and provide insights into areas that may benefit
from further refinement. subsectionError Analysis
Through Confusion Matrices Detailed error analy-
sis through confusion matrices revealed distinct clas-
sification patterns across the models. The XLNet
model demonstrated superior discrimination capabil-
ities, as evidenced by its confusion matrix statis-
tics. From a total of 10,000 test samples, XLNet
achieved high precision in both positive and negative
sentiment classifications. The confusion matrix indi-
Table 2: Error Analysis Through Confusion Matrices
Predicted +ve Predicted -ve
Actual Positive TP: 4820 FN: 180
Actual Negative FP: 190 TN: 4810
cates that XLNet correctly identified 4,820 positive
samples (true positives) and 4,810 negative samples
(true negatives), with only 180 false negatives and
190 false positives. This translates to a misclassifica-
tion rate of approximately 3.7%, significantly lower
than traditional approaches. The balanced distribu-
tion of errors between false positives and false nega-
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tives (190 vs. 180) suggests that the model maintains
consistent performance across both sentiment polari-
ties. The low false negative rate (3.6%) indicates the
model’s strong capability in capturing subtle positive
sentiments, while the similarly low false positive rate
(3.8%) demonstrates its resistance to misclassifying
negative sentiments as positive. This balanced error
distribution is particularly valuable for applications
requiring high reliability in both positive and negative
sentiment detection.
4.5 Precision-Recall Analysis
The precision-recall curves illustrated in Figure 3
provide a comprehensive view of model perfor-
mance across different classification thresholds. XL-
Net demonstrates superior performance by maintain-
ing higher precision values across all recall thresh-
olds, with an area under the precision-recall curve
(AUPRC) of 0.93. This represents a notable im-
provement over BERT (AUPRC: 0.89) and LSTM
(AUPRC: 0.84). At high recall values (¿0.8), XLNet
Figure 3: Precision-Recall Analysis
maintains a precision of 0.87, compared to BERT’s
0.79 and LSTM’s 0.70, indicating its robust per-
formance even in challenging classification scenar-
ios. The curve’s smooth descent for XLNet sug-
gests stable performance degradation as recall in-
creases, whereas LSTM shows a steeper decline, par-
ticularly in the 0.6-0.8 recall range. This analysis re-
veals that XLNet achieves a more favorable precision-
recall trade-off, maintaining high precision (¿0.90)
even at moderate recall levels (0.7-0.8). Such perfor-
mance characteristics are particularly valuable in ap-
plications where false positives carry significant costs,
while still requiring reasonable coverage of positive
cases.
4.6 Long-Range Dependency Handling
One of the major advantages of XLNet over BERT
and LSTM is its ability to effectively capture long-
range dependencies in textual data. Traditional
LSTMs struggle with long-range dependencies due
to vanishing gradient issues, while BERT, despite its
bidirectional nature, may not always establish strong
contextual relationships between distant words due to
its masked language modeling approach.
XLNet, with its permutation-based training mech-
anism, enables better dependency modeling by con-
sidering all possible token orders during training.
This allows it to retain and leverage contextual rela-
tionships across long sentences more effectively.
Figure 4 presents an attention heatmap that illus-
trates how XLNet, BERT, and LSTM handle long-
range dependencies in a sample sentiment classifi-
cation task. The heatmap demonstrates how each
model assigns attention weights to critical sentiment-
indicating words, even when they are located far apart
in the sentence.
The heatmap highlights that XLNet assigns
stronger attention weights to sentiment-determining
words (e.g., ”outstanding,” ”disappointing”) even
when they appear distant in a sentence. BERT, while
effective, sometimes dilutes attention across multiple
tokens, and LSTM often struggles to maintain focus
on distant key terms.
Figure 4: Attention Heatmap
By leveraging permutation-based training and a
self-attention mechanism, XLNet significantly im-
proves sentiment classification accuracy, particularly
in complex scenarios where long-range dependencies
play a crucial role.
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5 FUTURE WORK
Future research should prioritize enhancing the ro-
bustness and real-world applicability of transformer-
based sentiment analysis models. One key avenue is
optimizing XLNet for multilingual sentiment analy-
sis, particularly for low-resource languages. This can
be achieved through innovative cross-lingual trans-
fer learning methods that leverage knowledge from
high-resource languages while preserving contextual
nuances. Additionally, improving domain adaptation
mechanisms by developing efficient fine-tuning tech-
niques can enable high-performance sentiment anal-
ysis with minimal labeled data, making these models
more accessible across various industries.
Another critical direction is improving model ef-
ficiency and resilience. Given the high compu-
tational demands of XLNet, research into model
compression and knowledge distillation could pro-
duce lightweight variants suitable for deployment in
resource-constrained environments, such as mobile
applications. Moreover, enhancing model robustness
against adversarial attacks and noisy inputs is essen-
tial for real-world deployment. This can be addressed
through novel training strategies and regularization
techniques that maintain model sensitivity to nuanced
sentiment shifts while improving overall resilience.
6 CONCLUSION
This study highlights the advantages of XLNet in
sentiment analysis, demonstrating its superior per-
formance compared to BERT and LSTM. XLNet’s
permutation-based training mechanism enables it to
capture complex word dependencies, making it par-
ticularly effective for analyzing sentiment-rich text.
Its ability to model long-range dependencies en-
hances its robustness in understanding nuanced ex-
pressions, which is critical in real-world applications
such as customer feedback analysis and social media
monitoring.
The results confirm that XLNet consistently out-
performs other models in key performance metrics,
including accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score.
Its flexibility in processing informal and structured
text makes it an ideal candidate for sentiment anal-
ysis across diverse domains. However, the compu-
tational complexity associated with XLNet remains
a challenge, necessitating further research into opti-
mization techniques such as model compression and
knowledge distillation to make it more practical for
real-time applications.
Another essential consideration for future re-
search is improving the model’s adaptability to mul-
tilingual sentiment analysis, particularly for low-
resource languages. Enhancing cross-lingual transfer
learning techniques will enable XLNet to generalize
better across different linguistic contexts. Addition-
ally, developing strategies to increase model robust-
ness against adversarial attacks and noisy data will be
crucial for ensuring reliable deployment in dynamic
environments.
Overall, the findings underscore the potential of
XLNet in transforming sentiment analysis through
advanced contextual modeling and deep learning ca-
pabilities. By addressing computational constraints
and expanding its application to diverse linguistic
and domain-specific scenarios, XLNet can become an
even more powerful tool for sentiment classification
in industry and research.
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