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[ " The handling of communication breakdowns and loss of engagement is an\nimportant aspect of spoken dialogue systems, particularly for chatting systems\nsuch as attentive listening, where the user is mostly speaking. We presume that\na human is best equipped to handle this task and rescue the flow of\nconversation...
2402.14863
2309.16349
2402.14863_2309.16349
[ " The main objective of Knowledge Graph (KG) embeddings is to learn\nlow-dimensional representations of entities and relations, enabling the\nprediction of missing facts. A significant challenge in achieving better KG\nembeddings lies in capturing relation patterns, including symmetry,\nantisymmetry, inversion, co...
2305.13015
2404.00599
2305.13015_2404.00599
[ " Gisting (Mu et al., 2023) is a simple method for training models to compress\ninformation into fewer token representations using a modified attention mask,\nand can serve as an economical approach to training Transformer-based\nhypernetworks. We introduce HyperLlama, a set of Gisting-based hypernetworks\nbuilt o...
2402.16817
2402.03710
2402.16817_2402.03710
[ " Large language model inference on Central Processing Units (CPU) is\nchallenging due to the vast quantities of expensive Multiply-Add (MAD) matrix\noperations in the attention computations. In this paper, we argue that there is\na rare gem in modern CPUs, Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data (SIMD) registers,\nwhich...
2403.01273
2403.00774
2403.01273_2403.00774
[ " Existing event-centric NLP models often only apply to the pre-defined\nontology, which significantly restricts their generalization capabilities. This\npaper presents CEO, a novel Corpus-based Event Ontology induction model to\nrelax the restriction imposed by pre-defined event ontologies. Without direct\nsuperv...
2305.13521
2402.14852
2305.13521_2402.14852
[ " This technical report aims to fill a deficiency in the assessment of large\nmultimodal models (LMMs) by specifically examining the self-consistency of\ntheir outputs when subjected to common corruptions. We investigate the\ncross-modal interactions between text, image, and speech, encompassing four\nessential ge...
2401.11943
2310.08483
2401.11943_2310.08483
[ " Model explanations can be valuable for interpreting and debugging predictive\nmodels. We study a specific kind called Concept Explanations, where the goal is\nto interpret a model using human-understandable concepts. Although popular for\ntheir easy interpretation, concept explanations are known to be noisy. We ...
2312.08063
2404.02372
2312.08063_2404.02372
[ " In open-domain Question Answering (QA), dense retrieval is crucial for\nfinding relevant passages for answer generation. Typically, contrastive\nlearning is used to train a retrieval model that maps passages and queries to\nthe same semantic space. The objective is to make similar ones closer and\ndissimilar one...
2401.00165
2401.12406
2401.00165_2401.12406
[ " Student commitment towards a learning recommendation is not separable from\ntheir understanding of the reasons it was recommended to them; and their\nability to modify it based on that understanding. Among explainability\napproaches, chatbots offer the potential to engage the student in a\nconversation, similar ...
2401.08517
2404.03823
2401.08517_2404.03823
[ " Few-shot relation extraction involves identifying the type of relationship\nbetween two specific entities within a text, using a limited number of\nannotated samples. A variety of solutions to this problem have emerged by\napplying meta-learning and neural graph techniques which typically necessitate\na training...
2311.05922
2403.04132
2311.05922_2403.04132
[ " Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values is a vital task for\nLLM practitioners. Current alignment techniques have several limitations: (1)\nrequiring a large amount of annotated data; (2) demanding heavy human\ninvolvement; (3) lacking a systematic mechanism to continuously improve. In\nthis work...
2401.06785
2403.00823
2401.06785_2403.00823
[ " This paper reports our work on building up a Cantonese Speech-to-Text (STT)\nsystem with a syllable based acoustic model. This is a part of an effort in\nbuilding a STT system to aid dyslexic students who have cognitive deficiency in\nwriting skills but have no problem expressing their ideas through speech. For\...
2402.08788
2402.09967
2402.08788_2402.09967
[ " Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential\nfor LLM agents. To facilitate the training for these agents with both\nlinguistic feedback and non-linguistic reward signals, we introduce Learning\nthrough Communication (LTC). We design a universal buffer to store all the\nfeedback, a...
2310.01444
2404.10500
2310.01444_2404.10500
[ " Recently, various merging methods have been proposed to build a multi-task\nmodel from task-specific finetuned models without retraining. However, existing\nmethods suffer from a large performance deterioration compared to using\nmultiple task-specific models. In this paper, we propose to inject\ntask-specific k...
2310.01886
2401.15780
2310.01886_2401.15780
[ " Large language models (LLMs) are highly effective in various natural language\nprocessing (NLP) tasks. However, they are susceptible to producing unreliable\nconjectures in ambiguous contexts called hallucination. This paper presents a\nnew method for evaluating LLM hallucination in Question Answering (QA) based...
2403.03558
2310.09342
2403.03558_2310.09342
[ " Automatically generating scripts (i.e. sequences of key steps described in\ntext) from video demonstrations and reasoning about the subsequent steps are\ncrucial to the modern AI virtual assistants to guide humans to complete\neveryday tasks, especially unfamiliar ones. However, current methods for\ngenerative s...
2310.04965
2403.11129
2310.04965_2403.11129
[ " Multilingual modelling can improve machine translation for low-resource\nlanguages, partly through shared subword representations. This paper studies\nthe role of subword segmentation in cross-lingual transfer. We systematically\ncompare the efficacy of several subword methods in promoting synergy and\npreventin...
2403.20157
2403.15690
2403.20157_2403.15690
[ " Many reinforcement learning environments (e.g., Minecraft) provide only\nsparse rewards that indicate task completion or failure with binary values. The\nchallenge in exploration efficiency in such environments makes it difficult for\nreinforcement-learning-based agents to learn complex tasks. To address this,\n...
2312.09238
2402.09642
2312.09238_2402.09642
[ " Despite the considerable efforts being made to monitor and regulate\nuser-generated content on social media platforms, the pervasiveness of\noffensive language, such as hate speech or cyberbullying, in the digital space\nremains a significant challenge. Given the importance of maintaining a\ncivilized and respec...
2403.18314
2402.12150
2403.18314_2402.12150
[ " While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance\nin recent natural language processing (NLP) tasks, their deployment poses\nsubstantial challenges due to high computational and memory demands in\nreal-world applications. Recent studies have focused on enhancing smaller\nmodels throug...
2312.10730
2404.10838
2312.10730_2404.10838
[ " The recent explosion in the capabilities of large language models has led to\na wave of interest in how best to prompt a model to perform a given task. While\nit may be tempting to simply choose a prompt based on average performance on a\nvalidation set, this can lead to a deployment where unexpectedly poor resp...
2311.13628
2404.05225
2311.13628_2404.05225
[ " The training paradigm for machine translation has gradually shifted, from\nlearning neural machine translation (NMT) models with extensive parallel\ncorpora to instruction finetuning on multilingual large language models (LLMs)\nwith high-quality translation pairs. In this paper, we focus on boosting\nmany-to-ma...
2401.05861
2402.06820
2401.05861_2402.06820
[ " While large language models (LLMs) often adopt finetuning to unlock their\ncapabilities for downstream applications, our understanding on the inductive\nbiases (especially the scaling properties) of different finetuning methods is\nstill limited. To fill this gap, we conduct systematic experiments studying\nwhet...
2402.17193
2403.20184
2402.17193_2403.20184
[ " We present an overview of the BLP Sentiment Shared Task, organized as part of\nthe inaugural BLP 2023 workshop, co-located with EMNLP 2023. The task is\ndefined as the detection of sentiment in a given piece of social media text.\nThis task attracted interest from 71 participants, among whom 29 and 30 teams\nsub...
2310.16183
2403.02884
2310.16183_2403.02884
[ " Guaranteeing the correctness and factuality of language model (LM) outputs is\na major open problem. In this work, we propose conformal factuality, a\nframework that can ensure high probability correctness guarantees for LMs by\nconnecting language modeling and conformal prediction. We observe that the\ncorrectn...
2402.10978
2402.12998
2402.10978_2402.12998
[ " Sentiment analysis is an important tool for aggregating patient voices, in\norder to provide targeted improvements in healthcare services. A prerequisite\nfor this is the availability of in-domain data annotated for sentiment. This\narticle documents an effort to add sentiment annotations to free-text comments\n...
2404.18832
2305.09955
2404.18832_2305.09955
[ " The eXtreme Multi-label text Classification(XMC) refers to training a\nclassifier that assigns a text sample with relevant labels from an extremely\nlarge-scale label set (e.g., millions of labels). We propose MatchXML, an\nefficient text-label matching framework for XMC. We observe that the label\nembeddings ge...
2308.13139
2403.15492
2308.13139_2403.15492
[ " Topic models are a popular tool for understanding text collections, but their\nevaluation has been a point of contention. Automated evaluation metrics such as\ncoherence are often used, however, their validity has been questioned for\nneural topic models (NTMs) and can overlook a models benefits in real world\na...
2401.16348
0808.0521
2401.16348_0808.0521
[ " How can we compress language models without sacrificing accuracy? The number\nof compression algorithms for language models is rapidly growing to benefit\nfrom remarkable advances of recent language models without side effects due to\nthe gigantic size of language models, such as increased carbon emissions and\n...
2401.15347
2403.19851
2401.15347_2403.19851
[ " While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance\nin recent natural language processing (NLP) tasks, their deployment poses\nsubstantial challenges due to high computational and memory demands in\nreal-world applications. Recent studies have focused on enhancing smaller\nmodels throug...
2312.10730
2403.18093
2312.10730_2403.18093
[ " The use of low-rank adaptation (LoRA) with frozen pretrained language models\n(PLMs) has become increasing popular as a mainstream, resource-efficient\nmodeling approach for memory-constrained hardware. In this study, we first\nexplore how to enhance model performance by introducing various LoRA training\nstrate...
2401.10447
2208.10160
2401.10447_2208.10160
[ " We investigate automatic interlinear glossing in low-resource settings. We\naugment a hard-attentional neural model with embedded translation information\nextracted from interlinear glossed text. After encoding these translations\nusing large language models, specifically BERT and T5, we introduce a\ncharacter-l...
2403.08189
2311.09889
2403.08189_2311.09889
[ " The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has facilitated a\nvariety of applications from different domains. In this technical report, we\nexplore the integration of LLMs and the popular academic writing tool,\nOverleaf, to enhance the efficiency and quality of academic writing. To achieve\nthe above...
2403.09733
2404.11086
2403.09733_2404.11086
[ " Hypertension, defined as blood pressure (BP) that is above normal, holds\nparamount significance in the realm of public health, as it serves as a\ncritical precursor to various cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and significantly\ncontributes to elevated mortality rates worldwide. However, many existing BP\nmeasurem...
2402.01826
2308.06463
2402.01826_2308.06463
[ " Effective diabetes management is crucial for maintaining health in diabetic\npatients. Large Language Models (LLMs) have opened new avenues for diabetes\nmanagement, facilitating their efficacy. However, current LLM-based approaches\nare limited by their dependence on general sources and lack of integration with...
2402.10153
2402.16358
2402.10153_2402.16358
[ " Antonyms vs synonyms distinction is a core challenge in lexico-semantic\nanalysis and automated lexical resource construction. These pairs share a\nsimilar distributional context which makes it harder to distinguish them.\nLeading research in this regard attempts to capture the properties of the\nrelation pairs,...
2401.10045
2307.12798
2401.10045_2307.12798
[ " Generative language models are usually pretrained on large text corpus via\npredicting the next token (i.e., sub-word/word/phrase) given the previous ones.\nRecent works have demonstrated the impressive performance of large generative\nlanguage models on downstream tasks. However, existing generative language\nm...
2310.19531
2302.10199
2310.19531_2302.10199
[ " Reading comprehension continues to be a crucial research focus in the NLP\ncommunity. Recent advances in Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) have mostly\ncentered on literal comprehension, referring to the surface-level understanding\nof content. In this work, we focus on the next level - interpretive\ncomprehen...
2404.05250
2401.02772
2404.05250_2401.02772
[ " The task of accurate and efficient language translation is an extremely\nimportant information processing task. Machine learning enabled and automated\ntranslation that is accurate and fast is often a large topic of interest in the\nmachine learning and data science communities. In this study, we examine using\n...
2404.14680
2205.15231
2404.14680_2205.15231
[ " We investigate two research questions: (1) how do machine translation (MT)\nand diacritization influence the performance of each other in a multi-task\nlearning setting (2) the effect of keeping (vs. removing) diacritics on MT\nperformance. We examine these two questions in both high-resource (HR) and\nlow-resou...
2404.05943
2003.11517
2404.05943_2003.11517
[ " Since the breakthrough of ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs) have garnered\nsignificant attention in the research community. With the development of LLMs,\nthe question of text style transfer for conversational models has emerged as a\nnatural extension, where chatbots may possess their own styles or even\nch...
2403.08943
2402.11569
2403.08943_2402.11569
[ " The explanations of large language models have recently been shown to be\nsensitive to the randomness used for their training, creating a need to\ncharacterize this sensitivity. In this paper, we propose a characterization\nthat questions the possibility to provide simple and informative explanations\nfor such m...
2403.10275
2402.13528
2403.10275_2402.13528
[ " Large Language Models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to\nmastering human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive\ncapabilities remain split. Here, we evaluate LLMs using a distinction between\nformal linguistic competence -- knowledge of linguistic rules and patterns --\nan...
2301.06627
2312.03724
2301.06627_2312.03724
[ " Discussion and debate among Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained\nconsiderable attention due to their potential to enhance the reasoning ability\nof LLMs. Although natural language is an obvious choice for communication due\nto LLM's language understanding capability, the token sampling step needed when\ngen...
2310.06272
2401.10900
2310.06272_2401.10900
[ " As an efficient model for knowledge organization, the knowledge graph has\nbeen widely adopted in several fields, e.g., biomedicine, sociology, and\neducation. And there is a steady trend of learning embedding representations of\nknowledge graphs to facilitate knowledge graph construction and downstream\ntasks. ...
1911.08776
2402.02144
1911.08776_2402.02144
[ " In this paper, we present an innovative process-oriented math process reward\nmodel called \\textbf{Math-Shepherd}, which assigns a reward score to each step\nof math problem solutions. The training of Math-Shepherd is achieved using\nautomatically constructed process-wise supervision data, breaking the\nbottlen...
2312.08935
2402.01698
2312.08935_2402.01698
[ " Geoparsing is the task of estimating the latitude and longitude (coordinates)\nof location expressions in texts. Geoparsing must deal with the ambiguity of\nthe expressions that indicate multiple locations with the same notation. For\nevaluating geoparsing systems, several corpora have been proposed in previous\...
2403.16483
2404.05632
2403.16483_2404.05632
[ " In recent years, there has been a growing interest in integrating linear\nstate-space models (SSM) in deep neural network architectures of foundation\nmodels. This is exemplified by the recent success of Mamba, showing better\nperformance than the state-of-the-art Transformer architectures in language\ntasks. Fo...
2403.16899
2403.18018
2403.16899_2403.18018
[ " The coverage and composition of the pretraining data significantly impacts\nthe generalization ability of Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite its\nimportance, recent LLMs still rely on heuristics and trial and error to\nincrease or reduce the influence of data-domains. We propose DOmain reweighting\nwith Gener...
2310.15393
2404.04204
2310.15393_2404.04204
[ " Generating coherent and credible explanations remains a significant challenge\nin the field of AI. In recent years, researchers have delved into the\nutilization of entailment trees to depict explanations, which exhibit a\nreasoning process of how a hypothesis is deduced from the supporting facts.\nHowever, exis...
2403.06410
2401.09454
2403.06410_2401.09454
[ " Recent years have seen the rise of large language models (LLMs), where\npractitioners use task-specific prompts; this was shown to be effective for a\nvariety of tasks. However, when applied to semantic textual similarity (STS)\nand natural language inference (NLI), the effectiveness of LLMs turns out to be\nlim...
2309.08969
2311.03663
2309.08969_2311.03663
[ " Charts provide visual representations of data and are widely used for\nanalyzing information, addressing queries, and conveying insights to others.\nVarious chart-related downstream tasks have emerged recently, such as\nquestion-answering and summarization. A common strategy to solve these tasks is\nto fine-tune...
2403.09028
2404.00386
2403.09028_2404.00386
[ " Large language models (LLMs) have become pivotal in recent research. However,\nduring the inference process, LLMs still require substantial resources. In this\npaper, we propose CliqueParcel, a method designed to improve the efficiency of\nLLMs via prompt batching. Existing strategies to optimize inference effic...
2402.14833
2404.07001
2402.14833_2404.07001
[ " In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) intertwines with medical\nresearch, the delineation of truth becomes increasingly complex. This study\nostensibly examines a purported novel SARS-CoV-2 variant, dubbed the Omega\nvariant, showcasing 31 unique mutations in the S gene region. However, the real\nundercur...
2403.09674
2303.12665
2403.09674_2303.12665
[ " Large language models (LLMs) are effective at answering questions that are\nclearly asked. However, when faced with ambiguous queries they can act\nunpredictably and produce incorrect outputs. This underscores the need for the\ndevelopment of intelligent agents capable of asking clarification questions to\nresol...
2310.01468
2211.00635
2310.01468_2211.00635
[ " Over the eight months since its release, ChatGPT and its underlying model,\nGPT3.5, have garnered massive attention, due to their potent mix of capability\nand accessibility. While a niche-industry of papers have emerged examining the\nscope of capabilities these models possess, the information fed to and\nextra...
2307.16806
2402.08788
2307.16806_2402.08788
[ " This paper examines the challenges associated with achieving life-long\nsuperalignment in AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs).\nSuperalignment is a theoretical framework that aspires to ensure that\nsuperintelligent AI systems act in accordance with human values and goals.\nDespite its promisin...
2403.14683
2401.06466
2403.14683_2401.06466
[ " When interacting with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-based\nconversational agents, the users must carefully craft their queries to be\nunderstood correctly. Yet, understanding the system's capabilities can be\nchallenging for the users, leading to ambiguous questions that necessitate\nfurther clarification...
2403.11413
2404.02258
2403.11413_2404.02258
[ " This paper tackles recipe generation from unsegmented cooking videos, a task\nthat requires agents to (1) extract key events in completing the dish and (2)\ngenerate sentences for the extracted events. Our task is similar to dense video\ncaptioning (DVC), which aims at detecting events thoroughly and generating\...
2209.10134
2402.15713
2209.10134_2402.15713
[ " Large language models (LLM) have achieved remarkable performance on various\nNLP tasks and are augmented by tools for broader applications. Yet, how to\nevaluate and analyze the tool-utilization capability of LLMs is still\nunder-explored. In contrast to previous works that evaluate models\nholistically, we comp...
2312.14033
2401.03253
2312.14033_2401.03253
[ " Recently, decoder-only pre-trained large language models (LLMs), with several\ntens of billion parameters, have significantly impacted a wide range of natural\nlanguage processing (NLP) tasks. While encoder-only or encoder-decoder\npre-trained language models have already proved to be effective in discourse\npar...
2403.05065
2306.17563
2403.05065_2306.17563
[ " In this work, we present HuixiangDou, a technical assistant powered by Large\nLanguage Models (LLM). This system is designed to assist algorithm developers\nby providing insightful responses to questions related to open-source algorithm\nprojects, such as computer vision and deep learning projects from OpenMMLab...
2401.08772
2404.08259
2401.08772_2404.08259
[ " Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the mainstream choice for\nfewshot and zeroshot learning thanks to the universality of text generation.\nMany users, however, do not need the broad capabilities of generative LLMs when\nthey only want to automate a classification task. Smaller BERT-like models ...
2312.17543
2404.00913
2312.17543_2404.00913
[ " Electronic health records include information on patients' status and medical\nhistory, which could cover the history of diseases and disorders that could be\nhereditary. One important use of family history information is in precision\nhealth, where the goal is to keep the population healthy with preventative\nm...
2403.09997
2403.00784
2403.09997_2403.00784
[ " This paper presents a question-answering approach to extract document-level\nevent-argument structures. We automatically ask and answer questions for each\nargument type an event may have. Questions are generated using manually defined\ntemplates and generative transformers. Template-based questions are generate...
2404.16413
2307.10811
2404.16413_2307.10811
[ " The assessment of explainability in Legal Judgement Prediction (LJP) systems\nis of paramount importance in building trustworthy and transparent systems,\nparticularly considering the reliance of these systems on factors that may lack\nlegal relevance or involve sensitive attributes. This study delves into the\n...
2402.17013
2402.10790
2402.17013_2402.10790
[ " The recent success in language generation capabilities of large language\nmodels (LLMs), such as GPT, Bard, Llama etc., can potentially lead to concerns\nabout their possible misuse in inducing mass agitation and communal hatred via\ngenerating fake news and spreading misinformation. Traditional means of\ndevelo...
2401.04481
2403.01638
2401.04481_2403.01638
[ " End-to-end text spotting is a vital computer vision task that aims to\nintegrate scene text detection and recognition into a unified framework.\nTypical methods heavily rely on Region-of-Interest (RoI) operations to extract\nlocal features and complex post-processing steps to produce final predictions.\nTo addre...
2306.03377
2403.04786
2306.03377_2403.04786
[ " In-context learning (ICL) is now a common method for teaching large language\nmodels (LLMs) new tasks: given labeled examples in the input context, the LLM\nlearns to perform the task without weight updates. Do models guided via ICL\ninfer the underlying structure of the task defined by the context, or do they\n...
2311.07811
2401.15927
2311.07811_2401.15927
[ " This paper presents an overview of the PromptCBLUE shared task\n(http://cips-chip.org.cn/2023/eval1) held in the CHIP-2023 Conference. This\nshared task reformualtes the CBLUE benchmark, and provide a good testbed for\nChinese open-domain or medical-domain large language models (LLMs) in general\nmedical natural...
2312.17522
2312.04127
2312.17522_2312.04127
[ " Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a predominant approach for BERT compression.\nPrevious KD-based methods focus on designing extra alignment losses for the\nstudent model to mimic the behavior of the teacher model. These methods\ntransfer the knowledge in an indirect way. In this paper, we propose a novel\nWeight-I...
2305.09098
2403.12373
2305.09098_2403.12373
[ " The recent advances in deep-learning have led to the development of highly\nsophisticated systems with an unquenchable appetite for data. On the other\nhand, building good deep-learning models for low-resource languages remains a\nchallenging task. This paper focuses on developing a Question Answering dataset\nf...
2308.09862
2312.14335
2308.09862_2312.14335
[ " Topic relevance between query and document is a very important part of social\nsearch, which can evaluate the degree of matching between document and user's\nrequirement. In most social search scenarios such as Dianping, modeling search\nrelevance always faces two challenges. One is that many documents in social...
2404.02616
2404.00604
2404.02616_2404.00604
[ " In the last years' digitalization process, the creation and management of\ndocuments in various domains, particularly in Public Administration (PA), have\nbecome increasingly complex and diverse. This complexity arises from the need\nto handle a wide range of document types, often characterized by\nsemi-structur...
2402.14871
2310.20620
2402.14871_2310.20620
[ " This paper investigates the inherent knowledge in language models from the\nperspective of epistemological holism. The purpose of this paper is to explore\nwhether LLMs exhibit characteristics consistent with epistemological holism.\nThese characteristics suggest that core knowledge, such as general scientific\n...
2403.12862
2404.11449
2403.12862_2404.11449
[ " Recent years have seen important advances in the building of interpretable\nmodels, machine learning models that are designed to be easily understood by\nhumans. In this work, we show that large language models (LLMs) are remarkably\ngood at working with interpretable models, too. In particular, we show that\nLL...
2402.14474
2403.17486
2402.14474_2403.17486
[ " We consider an unanswered question in the discourse processing community: why\ndo relation classifiers trained on explicit examples (with connectives removed)\nperform poorly in real implicit scenarios? Prior work claimed this is due to\nlinguistic dissimilarity between explicit and implicit examples but provide...
2404.00999
2403.05065
2404.00999_2403.05065
[ " Human writers often bookend their writing with ending sentences that relate\nback to the beginning sentences in order to compose a satisfying narrative that\n\"closes the loop.\" Motivated by this observation, we propose RENarGen, a\ncontrollable story-generation paradigm that generates narratives by ensuring\nt...
2404.00829
2210.05422
2404.00829_2210.05422
[ " Recent advances in named entity recognition (NER) have pushed the boundary of\nthe task to incorporate visual signals, leading to many variants, including\nmulti-modal NER (MNER) or grounded MNER (GMNER). A key challenge to these tasks\nis that the model should be able to generalize to the entities unseen during...
2404.01914
2402.13036
2404.01914_2402.13036
[ " Adversarial purification is a defense mechanism for safeguarding classifiers\nagainst adversarial attacks without knowing the type of attacks or training of\nthe classifier. These techniques characterize and eliminate adversarial\nperturbations from the attacked inputs, aiming to restore purified samples that\nr...
2402.06655
2308.06035
2402.06655_2308.06035
[ " Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is fundamental, particularly in the\ncontext of practical applications. Conventional evaluation methods, typically\ndesigned primarily for LLM development, yield numerical scores that ignore the\nuser experience. Therefore, our study shifts the focus from model-centered to...
2404.07108
2310.12489
2404.07108_2310.12489
[ " With the proliferation of large pre-trained language models (PLMs),\nfine-tuning all model parameters becomes increasingly inefficient, particularly\nwhen dealing with numerous downstream tasks that entail substantial training\nand storage costs. Several approaches aimed at achieving parameter-efficient\nfine-tu...
2401.11316
2301.00374
2401.11316_2301.00374
[ " How do language models \"think\"? This paper formulates a probabilistic\ncognitive model called the bounded pragmatic speaker, which can characterize\nthe operation of different variations of language models. Specifically, we\ndemonstrate that large language models fine-tuned with reinforcement learning\nfrom hu...
2305.17760
2404.00950
2305.17760_2404.00950
[ " With the advent of large language models(LLMs) enhanced by the\nchain-of-thought(CoT) methodology, visual reasoning problem is usually\ndecomposed into manageable sub-tasks and tackled sequentially with various\nexternal tools. However, such a paradigm faces the challenge of the potential\n\"determining hallucin...
2404.16033
2403.11838
2404.16033_2403.11838
[ " Large language models (LLMs) have gained significant attention in various\nfields but prone to hallucination, especially in knowledge-intensive (KI)\ntasks. To address this, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a\npopular solution to enhance factual accuracy. However, traditional retrieval\nmodule...
2402.01176
2309.16575
2402.01176_2309.16575
[ " The discourse around conspiracy theories is currently thriving amidst the\nrampant misinformation in online environments. Research in this field has been\nfocused on detecting conspiracy theories on social media, often relying on\nlimited datasets. In this study, we present a novel methodology for\nconstructing ...
2308.15154
2311.10774
2308.15154_2311.10774
[ " Many models that leverage knowledge graphs (KGs) have recently demonstrated\nremarkable success in question answering (QA) tasks. In the real world, many\nfacts contained in KGs are time-constrained thus temporal KGQA has received\nincreasing attention. Despite the fruitful efforts of previous models in\ntempora...
2402.13188
2402.14888
2402.13188_2402.14888
[ " Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have drawn a lot of attentions\nrecently in the legal domain due to its emergent ability to tackle a variety of\nlegal tasks. However, it is still unknown if LLMs are able to analyze a legal\ncase and perform reasoning in the same manner as lawyers. Therefore, we\nc...
2310.14880
2404.12491
2310.14880_2404.12491
[ " Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms aim to enhance the\nperformance of language models at scale. Yet, there is a noticeable absence of\na cost-effective and standardized testbed tailored to evaluating and comparing\nthese algorithms. To bridge this gap, we present a generalized version of t...
2403.07191
2401.06105
2403.07191_2401.06105
[ " Efficiently fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) for specific tasks\npresents a considerable challenge in natural language processing. Traditional\nmethods, like prompt or prefix tuning, typically rely on arbitrary tokens for\ntraining, leading to prolonged training times and generalized token use across\nva...
2402.01643
2312.11803
2402.01643_2312.11803
[ " Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in numerous\ndomains but often struggle to process lengthy inputs effectively and\nefficiently due to limited length generalization and attention's quadratic\ncomputational demands. Many sought to mitigate this by restricting the\nattention window...
2402.10685
2404.18638
2402.10685_2404.18638
[ " Since humans can listen to audio and watch videos at faster speeds than\nactually observed, we often listen to or watch these pieces of content at\nhigher playback speeds to increase the time efficiency of content\ncomprehension. To further utilize this capability, systems that automatically\nadjust the playback...
2403.02938
2401.13303
2403.02938_2401.13303
[ " Existing works focus on fixed-size layout pattern generation, while the more\npractical free-size pattern generation receives limited attention. In this\npaper, we propose ChatPattern, a novel Large-Language-Model (LLM) powered\nframework for flexible pattern customization. ChatPattern utilizes a two-part\nsyste...
2403.15434
2402.01505
2403.15434_2402.01505
[ " Large Language Models (LLMs) have seen widespread deployment in various\nreal-world applications. Understanding these biases is crucial to comprehend\nthe potential downstream consequences when using LLMs to make decisions,\nparticularly for historically disadvantaged groups. In this work, we propose a\nsimple m...
2308.02053
2307.00920
2308.02053_2307.00920
[ " The popularization of social media increases user engagements and generates a\nlarge amount of user-oriented data. Among them, text data (e.g., tweets, blogs)\nsignificantly attracts researchers and speculators to infer user attributes\n(e.g., age, gender, location) for fulfilling their intents. Generally, this\...
2401.06802
2402.12080
2401.06802_2402.12080
[ " The task of identifying public opinions on social media, particularly\nregarding climate activism and the detection of hate events, has emerged as a\ncritical area of research in our rapidly changing world. With a growing number\nof people voicing either to support or oppose to climate-related issues -\nundersta...
2402.01976
2404.18057
2402.01976_2404.18057
[ " Large Language Models (LLMs) can justify or critique their predictions\nthrough discussions with other models or humans, thereby enriching their\nintrinsic understanding of instances. While proactive discussions in the\ninference phase have been shown to boost performance, such interactions have\nnot been extens...
2311.08107
2404.06137
2311.08107_2404.06137
[ " With the advent of larger and more complex deep learning models, such as in\nNatural Language Processing (NLP), model qualities like explainability and\ninterpretability, albeit highly desirable, are becoming harder challenges to\ntackle and solve. For example, state-of-the-art models in text classification\nare...
2309.13340
2401.00689
2309.13340_2401.00689
[ " This document contains lectures and practical experimentations using Matlab\nand implementing a system which is actually correctly classifying three words\n(one, two and three) with the help of a very small database. To achieve this\nperformance, it uses speech modeling specificities, powerful computer\nalgorith...
2402.01778
2309.13320
2402.01778_2309.13320
[ " The widespread use of pre-trained language models (PLMs) in natural language\nprocessing (NLP) has greatly improved performance outcomes. However, these\nmodels' vulnerability to adversarial attacks (e.g., camouflaged hints from drug\ndealers), particularly in the Chinese language with its rich character\ndivers...
2404.12014
2311.04205
2404.12014_2311.04205