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48 results for Multiple Languages

We present a TTS neural network that is able to produce speech in multiple languages. The proposed network is able to transfer a voice, which was presented as a sample in a source language, into one of several target languages. Training is done without using matching or parallel data, i.e., without samples of the same …

2019-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

LoRA-MCL improves language models by generating diverse sentence continuations.

problem Language models struggle with generating diverse, plausible sentence continuations.
method Low-Rank Adaptation combined with Multiple Choice Learning (MCL) to handle ambiguity.
result LoRA-MCL generates high-diversity and relevant outputs in various tasks.

Recently, there has been interest in multiplicative recurrent neural networks for language modeling. Indeed, simple Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) encounter difficulties recovering from past mistakes when generating sequences due to high correlation between hidden states. These challenges can be mitigated by integrat…

2019-06-30abs ↗pdf ↗

System learns to combine multiple model components for personalized text generation.

problem Adapting and biasing language models for personal preferences.
method Combines model-defined components, learns activation and probability combination from unlabeled text.
result Directly generates text with personalized components from unlabeled data.

This work uses conformal prediction to quantify uncertainty in large language models for multiple-choice questions.

problem Ensuring robustness and reliability of large language models in high-stakes applications.
method Conformal prediction applied to multi-choice question answering.
result Uncertainty estimates from conformal prediction are closely related to prediction accuracy.

Text documents are structured on multiple levels of detail: individual words are related by syntax, but larger units of text are related by discourse structure. Existing language models generally fail to account for discourse structure, but it is crucial if we are to have language models that reward coherence and gener…

2015-11-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We study unsupervised multilingual alignment, the problem of finding word-to-word translations between multiple languages without using any parallel data. One popular strategy is to reduce multilingual alignment to the much simplified bilingual setting, by picking one of the input languages as the pivot language that w…

2020-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

New ASR system handles multiple languages without needing language-specific encoding.

problem Joint training of data-rich and data-scarce languages in a single model.
method Transforms all languages to a single writing system through transliteration, separating modeling and rendering.
result Language-agnostic multilingual ASR system reduces WER up to 10% over language-dependent models.

Large language models predict human sensory judgments across multiple modalities.

problem Determining the extent of perceptual information in language.
method State-of-the-art large language models were used to predict sensory judgments across six psychophysical datasets.
result Large language models can predict human sensory judgments across multiple modalities with significant correlation to human data.

Although deep convolutional networks have achieved improved performance in many natural language tasks, they have been treated as black boxes because they are difficult to interpret. Especially, little is known about how they represent language in their intermediate layers. In an attempt to understand the representatio…

2019-02-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Study examines flaws in probing LLMs' knowledge and introduces a new method.

problem Flaws in existing methods for probing the veracity of LLMs' internal knowledge.
method sAwMIL (Sparse-Aware Multiple-Instance Learning) combining multiple-instance learning with conformal prediction.
result LLMs encode a third type of signal distinct from true and false.

Recently, pre-trained language representation flourishes as the mainstay of the natural language understanding community, e.g., BERT. These pre-trained language representations can create state-of-the-art results on a wide range of downstream tasks. Along with continuous significant performance improvement, the size an…

2019-09-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Automatic summarization of natural language is a current topic in computer science research and industry, studied for decades because of its usefulness across multiple domains. For example, summarization is necessary to create reviews such as this one. Research and applications have achieved some success in extractive …

2018-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Language Rectified Flow improves diffusion language generation by simplifying complex steps.

problem Complexity in diffusion language models limits their implementation in NLP applications.
method Reformulates probabilistic flow models to learn neural ODE models for efficient domain transfer.
result Consistently outperforms baselines on fine-grained control tasks and text editing.

A language for specifying complex reinforcement learning tasks.

problem Challenges in specifying and shaping reward functions for complex reinforcement learning tasks.
method Proposes a new language and algorithm for automatically generating and shaping reward functions.
result SPECTRL tool outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.

We propose several ways of reusing subword embeddings and other weights in subword-aware neural language models. The proposed techniques do not benefit a competitive character-aware model, but some of them improve the performance of syllable- and morpheme-aware models while showing significant reductions in model sizes…

2018-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Computational modeling of human multimodal language is an emerging research area in natural language processing spanning the language, visual and acoustic modalities. Comprehending multimodal language requires modeling not only the interactions within each modality (intra-modal interactions) but more importantly the in…

2018-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper applies communication theory to improve language model reranking.

problem Ensuring safety and accuracy in language model outputs.
method Drawing parallels between communication theory and language model reranking, the authors propose a protocol to improve reliability.
result The proposed protocol can achieve asymptotically error-free performance in noisy communication scenarios.

ZeroSCROLLS benchmarks zero-shot natural language understanding over long texts.

problem Evaluate natural language understanding models over long texts without training data.
method Adapt six tasks from SCROLLS benchmark and add four new datasets, including novel aggregation tasks.
result Claude outperforms ChatGPT, and GPT-4 achieves highest average score.

SentenceMIM is a probabilistic auto-encoder for language data, trained with Mutual Information Machine (MIM) learning to provide a fixed length representation of variable length language observations (i.e., similar to VAE). Previous attempts to learn VAEs for language data faced challenges due to posterior collapse. MI…

2020-02-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural network framework for language recognition considers sequence information and improves accuracy.

problem Challenging task of automatic language identification in noisy conditions.
method Proposes a neural network framework with bidirectional LSTM and attention modeling for relevance weighting.
result Significant improvements over conventional methods in noisy conditions and multi-speaker speech.

This paper uses LLMs and cycle consistency for better machine translation evaluation.

problem Evaluating translation quality and LLM capabilities without ground truth.
method Generate translation candidates, back-translate, and evaluate cycle consistency.
result Larger LLMs or more inference passes improve cycle consistency.

Information extraction is an important task in NLP, enabling the automatic extraction of data for relational database filling. Historically, research and data was produced for English text, followed in subsequent years by datasets in Arabic, Chinese (ACE/OntoNotes), Dutch, Spanish, German (CoNLL evaluations), and many …

2019-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies how to improve language model inference using particle filtering.

problem Understanding the accuracy-cost tradeoffs of inference-time methods for large language models.
method Introduces particle filtering algorithms like Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) to study language model inference.
result Identifies criteria enabling non-asymptotic guarantees for SMC and fundamental limits faced by all particle filtering methods.

Motivated by our attempt to recast Cartan's work on Lie pseudogroups in a more global and modern language, we are brought back to the question of understanding the linearization of multiplicative forms on groupoids and the corresponding integrability problem. From this point of view, the novelty of this paper is that w…

2012-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a memory augmented neural network for natural language understanding: Neural Semantic Encoders. NSE is equipped with a novel memory update rule and has a variable sized encoding memory that evolves over time and maintains the understanding of input sequences through read}, compose and write operations. NSE c…

2016-07-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This work offers a broad perspective on probabilistic modeling and inference in light of recent advances in probabilistic programming, in which models are formally expressed in Turing-complete programming languages. We consider a typical workflow and how probabilistic programming languages can help to automate this wor…

2018-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformer models improve arithmetic accuracy with number decomposition.

problem Transformer models struggle with arithmetic operations without decomposition.
method Fine-tuning models with a pipeline that decomposes numbers into units, tens, etc.
result Accuracy increased by 63% in five-digit addition tasks.