In the semantic textual similarity task (STS), we use the textual embeddings from our model to compute the similarity between a pair of sen- (Wieting et al., 2017) − 83.7 84.5 85.0 MLMME (Calixto et al., 2017) VGG19 − 72.7 79.7 VSE<cite> (Kiros et al., 2015)</cite> VGG19 80.6 82.7 89.6 OE (Vendrov et al., 2016) VGG19 82.