Combines BERT and graph CNN for improved text classification.
problem Text classification problems
method Combining BERT embedding and graph convolutional neural network
result Graph CNN model performs better than classical models combined with BERT
FinEAS models financial sentiment using BERT embeddings.
problem Financial sentiment analysis in markets.
method Supervised fine-tuning of BERT embeddings for financial texts.
result FinEAS outperforms vanilla BERT, LSTM, and FinBERT.
This study improves sentence embeddings from BERT models.
problem Capturing the underlying meaning of sentences using BERT models.
method Comprehensive review and testing of various sentence embedding extraction and refinement methods.
result Representation-shaping techniques significantly improve sentence embeddings from BERT-based and simple baseline models.
BERT embeddings improve sequence quality metrics.
problem Measuring the quality of generated sequences against references.
method Employ contextual BERT embeddings for sequence-level reward.
result Contextual embeddings provide a more effective learning signal.
Predict stock movement with news headlines using BERT embeddings.
problem Predicting stock price movement after financial news.
method Fine-Tuned Contextualized-Embedding Recurrent Neural Network (FT-CE-RNN) using BERT.
result Obtains state-of-the-art results on stock movement prediction task.
Combines BERT and GCN for better text classification.
problem Limited global information capture by BERT.
method Integrates BERT with VGCN for improved text classification.
result VGCN-BERT outperforms BERT and GCN alone.
Study examines biases in clinical word embeddings, revealing performance gaps across groups.
problem Biases in clinical word embeddings leading to performance differences across groups.
method Pretrained BERT models on MIMIC-III, fill-in-the-blank method, fairness evaluation on clinical tasks.
result Classifiers trained from BERT representations exhibit statistically significant differences in performance across groups.
Sketch-BERT learns vector sketches using BERT-like self-supervised learning.
problem Lack of effective vector sketch representation for recognition and retrieval tasks.
method Generalized BERT to sketch domain with novel embedding networks and self-supervised sketch gestalt learning.
result Improved performance on sketch recognition, retrieval, and gestalt tasks.
Author2Vec generates user embeddings from social media data.
problem Generating useful user embeddings from noisy social media data.
method End-to-end neural network with BERT sentence representations and unsupervised pre-training.
result Author2Vec outperforms traditional methods in user classification tasks.
Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) deals with the extraction of sentiments and their targets. Collecting labeled data for this task in order to help neural networks generalize better can be laborious and time-consuming. As an alternative, similar data to the real-world examples can be produced artificially through …
Recent state-of-the-art natural language understanding models, such as BERT and XLNet, score a pair of sentences (A and B) using multiple cross-attention operations - a process in which each word in sentence A attends to all words in sentence B and vice versa. As a result, computing the similarity between a query sente…
IITK wins FinSim 2020 task on financial hypernym detection.
problem Classifying financial terms into hypernym concepts in an external ontology.
method Used context-dependent and context-independent word embeddings (Word2vec and BERT) for classification.
result Ranked 1st based on mean rank and accuracy metrics.
In this work we focus on fine-tuning a pre-trained BERT model and applying it to patent classification. When applied to large datasets of over two millions patents, our approach outperforms the state of the art by an approach using CNN with word embeddings. In addition, we focus on patent claims without other parts in …
In the last two decades, automatic extractive text summarization on lectures has demonstrated to be a useful tool for collecting key phrases and sentences that best represent the content. However, many current approaches utilize dated approaches, producing sub-par outputs or requiring several hours of manual tuning to …
Paper introduces RiskEmbed, a finetuned model for financial risk management.
problem Improving retrieval accuracy in financial question-answering systems.
method Curated dataset and finetuned BERT model for financial domain.
result RiskEmbed significantly outperforms general-purpose and financial embedding models.
Randomized Geometric Algebra for Convex Neural Networks Optimizes Transfer Learning.
problem Training neural networks to global optimality via convex optimization.
method Randomized algorithms in Clifford's Geometric Algebra for hypercomplex vector spaces.
result Convex optimization and geometric algebra improve LLMs' robustness and reliability in transfer learning.
FiNCAT tool automatically identifies financial numerals in documents.
problem Differentiating between in-claim and out-of-claim numerals in financial documents.
method Extracts context embeddings of numerals using BERT, then uses Logistic Regression to classify.
result Achieved a Macro F1 score of 0.8223 on validation set.
LIDS assesses LLM summaries with interpretable key words.
problem Challenges in evaluating the quality of LLM summaries.
method BERT-SVD-based direction metric and SOFARI for key word extraction.
result LIDS provides interpretable key words for layered themes.
Automates detecting problem statements in peer assessments.
problem Identifying problem statements in peer assessment reviews.
method Used machine learning models including neural networks and traditional classifiers.
result Hierarchical Attention Network classifier achieved 93.1% accuracy.
New framework predicts earnings announcements using press release content, surpassing earnings surprises.
problem Predicting stock returns based on earnings press releases.
method Compared traditional and BERT-based embeddings of press releases, finding content as informative as earnings surprises.
result FinBERT yields highest predictive power for earnings announcement returns.
BERT learns claim descriptions to identify patent novelty.
problem Identifying novel patent claims among existing documents.
method Training BERT on concatenated claims and descriptions, scoring BERT's output.
result BERT identifies relevant X documents for patent novelty.
We develop a novel method, called PoWER-BERT, for improving the inference time of the popular BERT model, while maintaining the accuracy. It works by: a) exploiting redundancy pertaining to word-vectors (intermediate encoder outputs) and eliminating the redundant vectors. b) determining which word-vectors to eliminate …
Transformer architectures show significant promise for natural language processing. Given that a single pretrained model can be fine-tuned to perform well on many different tasks, these networks appear to extract generally useful linguistic features. A natural question is how such networks represent this information in…
This study examines investor sentiment's impact on stock market liquidity and volatility using deep learning and TVP-VAR models.
problem Investor sentiment's impact on stock market liquidity and volatility.
method Deep learning BERT model for sentiment extraction and TVP-VAR model for time-varying analysis.
result Investor sentiment has a stronger impact on stock market liquidity and volatility, with more pronounced effects in short-term shocks.
The dominant graph neural networks (GNNs) over-rely on the graph links, several serious performance problems with which have been witnessed already, e.g., suspended animation problem and over-smoothing problem. What's more, the inherently inter-connected nature precludes parallelization within the graph, which becomes …
In graph instance representation learning, both the diverse graph instance sizes and the graph node orderless property have been the major obstacles that render existing representation learning models fail to work. In this paper, we will examine the effectiveness of GRAPH-BERT on graph instance representation learning,…
BERT model improves cross-lingual document retrieval.
problem Improving cross-lingual information retrieval between English queries and foreign documents.
method Introduced a deep relevance matching model based on BERT, trained with weak supervision using CLIR data.
result Model outperforms competitive baseline approaches in retrieving Lithuanian documents against short English queries.
Allowing machines to choose whether to kill humans would be devastating for world peace and security. But how do we equip machines with the ability to learn ethical or even moral choices? Jentzsch et al.(2019) showed that applying machine learning to human texts can extract deontological ethical reasoning about "right"…
BERT outperforms traditional machine learning in text classification tasks.
problem Comparing BERT to traditional machine learning methods for text classification.
method Empirical testing of BERT against TF-IDF-based machine learning models in various scenarios.
result BERT demonstrates superior performance and independence from text features.
BERT-XML automates ICD coding from EHR notes using BERT pretraining.
problem Manual ICD coding is time-consuming and expensive in hospitals.
method Trained a BERT model on EHR notes, adapting it for multi-label attention.
result First large-scale ICD-10 classification model using millions of EHR notes.
Manually labelling large collections of text data is a time-consuming, expensive, and laborious task, but one that is necessary to support machine learning based on text datasets. Active learning has been shown to be an effective way to alleviate some of the effort required in utilising large collections of unlabelled …
Study compares machine learning models and BERT on SQuAD dataset.
problem Comparing performance of machine learning models and BERT on SQuAD dataset.
method Comparative analysis of machine learning models and BERT on SQuAD dataset.
result BERT model outperforms other models on SQuAD dataset but requires more time.
lamBERT learns language and actions using multimodal BERT.
problem Learning language and actions in complex environments.
method Extending BERT to multimodal representation and integrating with reinforcement learning.
result lamBERT model achieved higher rewards in multitask and transfer settings.
Study compares BERT with other sentiment analysis models.
problem Comparing sentiment analysis techniques.
method Used four models: Sent WordNet, logistic regression, LSTM, and BERT on IMDB movie reviews.
result BERT outperformed other models in sentiment classification.
CERT improves language understanding by contrastively learning sentence-level semantics.
problem Lack of sentence-level semantics in existing pretraining tasks.
method Contrastive self-supervised learning at the sentence level using back-translation augmentations.
result CERT outperforms BERT on 7 out of 11 GLUE benchmark tasks, achieving the same performance as BERT on 2 tasks.
HMS-BERT detects cyberbullying in multiple languages and labels.
problem Multilingual and multi-label cyberbullying detection challenges.
method Hybrid multi-task self-training framework using BERT.
result Strong performance on multi-label and main classification tasks.
BERT models outperform GPT in financial engineering sentiment analysis.
problem Using sentiment from news events for commodity trading.
method Benchmarked Transformer models (BERT, GPT) on financial engineering task.
result CopBERT models outperform GPT and vanilla BERT models.
Chinese word segmentation (CWS) is a fundamental task for Chinese language understanding. Recently, neural network-based models have attained superior performance in solving the in-domain CWS task. Last year, Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers (BERT), a new language representation model, has been pr…
Paper proposes using online text data to predict CPI with LLMs.
problem Forecasting Consumer Price Index (CPI) using low-frequency survey-based data.
method Develops an LLM-based approach combining online text time series with monthly CPI data.
result Establishes the asymptotic properties and provides prediction intervals for CPI forecasts.
BERT-based architectures currently give state-of-the-art performance on many NLP tasks, but little is known about the exact mechanisms that contribute to its success. In the current work, we focus on the interpretation of self-attention, which is one of the fundamental underlying components of BERT. Using a subset of G…
This paper learns multi-modal embeddings from text, audio, and video views/modes of data in order to improve upon down-stream sentiment classification. The experimental framework also allows investigation of the relative contributions of the individual views in the final multi-modal embedding. Individual features deriv…
Expands MLM by masking token positions, improving performance and convergence.
problem Improving language model performance and convergence.
method Masking token positions along with [MASK] tokens, using a fully connected classifier stage.
result Shows .3% improvement and 50% faster convergence for BERT Base with position masking.
BERT fine-tuning is unstable due to optimization issues, not forgetting or dataset size.
problem Stability of fine-tuning BERT-based models across different random seeds.
method Analysis of BERT, RoBERTa, and ALBERT fine-tuned on GLUE datasets, identifying optimization difficulties as the cause of instability.
result Fine-tuning instability is due to optimization difficulties leading to vanishing gradients, not forgetting or dataset size.
BERT improved for propaganda detection with imbalanced, dissimilar data.
problem BERT struggles with dissimilar imbalanced datasets in propaganda detection.
method Cost-sensitive BERT with dissimilarity measure for imbalanced, dissimilar datasets.
result Achieved second-highest score on sentence-level propaganda classification.
Paper proposes MA-BERT for efficient data-driven ATM models.
problem Long training time and need for large datasets in data-driven ATM models.
method Multi-Agent Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (MA-BERT) and transfer learning framework.
result MA-BERT saves training time and achieves high performance with little data.
In deep neural nets, lower level embedding layers account for a large portion of the total number of parameters. Tikhonov regularization, graph-based regularization, and hard parameter sharing are approaches that introduce explicit biases into training in a hope to reduce statistical complexity. Alternatively, we propo…
Multi-task learning shares information between related tasks, sometimes reducing the number of parameters required. State-of-the-art results across multiple natural language understanding tasks in the GLUE benchmark have previously used transfer from a single large task: unsupervised pre-training with BERT, where a sep…
Recent Transformer-based contextual word representations, including BERT and XLNet, have shown state-of-the-art performance in multiple disciplines within NLP. Fine-tuning the trained contextual models on task-specific datasets has been the key to achieving superior performance downstream. While fine-tuning these pre-t…