This is a lecture note for the course DS-GA 3001 <Natural Language Understanding with Distributed Representation> at the Center for Data Science , New York University in Fall, 2015. As the name of the course suggests, this lecture note introduces readers to a neural network based approach to natural language understand…
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Data-driven models and computational tools for neurolinguistics: a language technology perspectivecs.LG
Paper reviews neurolinguistics and language technologies, emphasizing mutual enrichment.
problem Understanding brain activity during language processing.
method Brain imaging studies and natural language representations.
result Development of brain-aware natural language representations.
PixL2R maps natural language to pixel-based rewards for RL, improving sample efficiency.
problem Sparse reward settings in RL limit applicability to complex problems.
method Directly maps natural language descriptions to pixel-based rewards for guiding RL.
result Language-based rewards significantly improve sample efficiency in policy learning.
Improved robot navigation using multi-head attention for natural language instructions.
problem Improving robot navigation in unfamiliar environments.
method Proposes a multi-head attention mechanism blending layer in a neural network model.
result Significant performance gains in translating instructions for unseen environments.
LLMs translate natural language trading intents into correct option strategies using a domain-specific language.
problem Challenges in translating natural language trading intents into correct option strategies due to the complexity of option chain data.
method Introduce Option Query Language (OQL) as a domain-specific intermediate representation to abstract option markets into high-level primitives under grammatical rules. Use LLMs as semantic parsers and validate queries by an engine.
result Significantly improves execution accuracy and logical consistency over direct baselines.
Automates translating natural language to Verilog for digital design.
problem Manual translation of natural language specifications to Verilog is time-consuming and error-prone.
method Fine-tuned GPT-2 to derive Verilog from English, using a dataset of design tasks.
result GPT-2 achieved 94.8% correct translation across simple and abstract design tasks.
The study enhances financial rule matching using NLP without datasets.
problem Performing semantic matching between financial rules and policies.
method Outperforming pre-trained models with NLP techniques using free resources.
result Improved semantic matching between financial rules and policies.
This study applies neural models to automatically recognize medical entities from natural language.
problem Automated recognition of medical entities from natural language is complex and time-consuming.
method Utilizes deep neural sequence models trained on a large dataset of death certificates.
result Deep neural models can efficiently recognize medical entities from natural language.
Language models learn from training data and can leak private information.
problem Language models lack context understanding and can expose private data.
method Discussing the limitations of current privacy protection methods for language models.
result Existing privacy protection methods are insufficient for language models.
Interactive Fiction games are text-based simulations in which an agent interacts with the world purely through natural language. They are ideal environments for studying how to extend reinforcement learning agents to meet the challenges of natural language understanding, partial observability, and action generation in …
iPrompt uses LLMs to generate natural-language explanations of data patterns.
problem Finding and explaining patterns in data using natural language.
method Interpretable autoprompting (iPrompt) that generates natural-language explanations based on LLMs.
result iPrompt can accurately find and explain data patterns, improving upon human-written prompts.
New model shows natural language exhibits phase transition similar to physics.
problem Understanding critical properties in natural language models.
method Created a context-sensitive random language model.
result Demonstrated a Berezinskii--Kosterlitz--Thouless phase transition.
Humor is a unique and creative communicative behavior displayed during social interactions. It is produced in a multimodal manner, through the usage of words (text), gestures (vision) and prosodic cues (acoustic). Understanding humor from these three modalities falls within boundaries of multimodal language; a recent r…
MAC Net is a compositional attention network designed for Visual Question Answering. We propose a modified MAC net architecture for Natural Language Question Answering. Question Answering typically requires Language Understanding and multi-step Reasoning. MAC net's unique architecture - the separation between memory an…
LLMs are compared to Markov chains for natural language processing.
problem Theoretical analysis of LLMs' generalization capabilities.
method Equivalence between LLMs and Markov chains, studying multi-step inference.
result Derives generalization bounds for LLMs, capturing their behavior in practice.
Learning a natural language interface for database tables is a challenging task that involves deep language understanding and multi-step reasoning. The task is often approached by mapping natural language queries to logical forms or programs that provide the desired response when executed on the database. To our knowle…
ExpBERT uses natural language explanations to improve text interpretation.
problem Improving text interpretation for relation extraction tasks.
method Fine-tuning BERT on MultiNLI to interpret natural language explanations.
result ExpBERT matches a BERT baseline but requires less labeled data and improves performance.
Dynamic meta-learning improves multi-agent communication with natural language.
problem Static population-based approaches struggle with adapting to human partners using natural language.
method Dynamic population-based meta-learning approach.
result Agents outperform all prior work in communicating with seen partners and humans.
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…
Paper introduces TrufLL for language model training without labeled data.
problem Training language models from scratch with reinforcement learning.
method Dynamic vocabulary truncation in RL for language generation.
result TrufLL successfully learns language generation policies from scratch.
Study quantifies gender bias in language models across 7 languages.
problem Measuring gender bias in language models across multiple languages.
method Curated dataset of politicians, multilingual language models, probing language models.
result Larger language models do not show significant gender bias compared to smaller ones.
Linking human whole-body motion and natural language is of great interest for the generation of semantic representations of observed human behaviors as well as for the generation of robot behaviors based on natural language input. While there has been a large body of research in this area, most approaches that exist to…
Semantic code search is the task of retrieving relevant code given a natural language query. While related to other information retrieval tasks, it requires bridging the gap between the language used in code (often abbreviated and highly technical) and natural language more suitable to describe vague concepts and ideas…
MuLan links music audio to natural language tags.
problem Traditional music tagging systems use rigid attributes; MuLan aims to link audio directly to natural language.
method Joint audio-text embedding model trained on 44 million music recordings and text annotations.
result MuLan's embeddings enable zero-shot functionalities and transfer learning.
This work investigates uncertainty quantification for black-box large language models in natural language generation.
problem Lack of trustworthiness in responses generated by black-box large language models.
method Differentiated uncertainty vs confidence, proposed and compared several confidence/uncertainty measures, applied to selective NLG.
result A simple measure for semantic dispersion can predict the quality of LLM responses.
FINCH dataset enables financial Text-to-SQL tasks, improving model evaluation.
problem Lack of a large-scale financial dataset for Text-to-SQL tasks.
method Curated financial dataset (FINCH), benchmarking reasoning and language models.
result Proposed FINCH Score for more accurate financial model evaluation.
The paper teaches machines to ask clarifying questions by applying NLI.
problem Teaching machines to ask clarifying questions for better comprehension.
method The approach is to use NLI to determine if a clarification question is about a missing piece of information in a post.
result The best model improved precision@1 by 40% and 60% over state-of-the-art baselines.
Recent reinforcement learning (RL) approaches have shown strong performance in complex domains such as Atari games, but are often highly sample inefficient. A common approach to reduce interaction time with the environment is to use reward shaping, which involves carefully designing reward functions that provide the ag…
SCROLLS benchmarks long text NLP tasks, improving existing models.
problem Short NLP benchmarks ignore long texts; SCROLLS addresses this.
method Handpicked long-text datasets for summarization, QA, and inference tasks.
result Improvement potential on SCROLLS tasks, as indicated by initial baselines.
VALC provides concept-level interpretations of FLMs, overcoming word-level limitations.
problem Lack of higher-level structure interpretation in FLMs' attention weights.
method Formal definition of conceptual interpretation, variational Bayesian framework (VALC).
result VALC finds optimal language concepts for FLM predictions, providing concept-level interpretations.
Natural language processing (NLP) can be done using either top-down (theory driven) and bottom-up (data driven) approaches, which we call mechanistic and phenomenological respectively. The approaches are frequently considered to stand in opposition to each other. Examining some recent approaches in deep learning we arg…
Text-based representations of chemicals and proteins can be thought of as unstructured languages codified by humans to describe domain-specific knowledge. Advances in natural language processing (NLP) methodologies in the processing of spoken languages accelerated the application of NLP to elucidate hidden knowledge in…
Generates natural product-like compounds using GPT models.
problem Challenges in generating and evaluating natural product-like compounds.
method Trained GPT-based chemical language models on natural product dataset.
result Generated compounds have similar distribution to natural products.
SSMBA generates synthetic data to improve robustness in natural language tasks.
problem Improving out-of-domain generalization of models trained on natural language data.
method SSMBA uses corruption and reconstruction functions to generate synthetic data points on the manifold assumption.
result SSMBA consistently outperforms existing methods on robustness benchmarks across multiple tasks and datasets.
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.
Study compares LLMs vs classical models for financial sentiment analysis.
problem Improving sentiment analysis in financial market news.
method Comparative analysis of LLMs and classical models.
result LLMs outperform classical models in sentiment analysis of financial news.
New method boosts performance of diffusion models on discrete data like natural language.
problem Performance of diffusion models on discrete data like natural language is poor.
method Proposes score entropy, a novel loss that extends score matching to discrete spaces.
result Significantly boosts performance on language modeling tasks.
Deep learning has improved performance on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks individually. However, general NLP models cannot emerge within a paradigm that focuses on the particularities of a single metric, dataset, and task. We introduce the Natural Language Decathlon (decaNLP), a challenge that spans ten ta…
Optimus pre-trains sentences in a latent space for various NLP tasks.
problem Training large-scale language models for diverse NLP tasks.
method Pre-trained Variational Autoencoder (VAE) on large text corpus, fine-tuned for various tasks.
result Optimus achieves state-of-the-art on VAE language modeling benchmarks.
To be successful in real-world tasks, Reinforcement Learning (RL) needs to exploit the compositional, relational, and hierarchical structure of the world, and learn to transfer it to the task at hand. Recent advances in representation learning for language make it possible to build models that acquire world knowledge f…
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have gathered a lot of attention from the computer vision community, yielding impressive results for image generation. Advances in the adversarial generation of natural language from noise however are not commensurate with the progress made in generating images, and still lag far …
Model uses LLMs to process numerical data guided by natural language descriptions.
problem Challenges in integrating prior knowledge into probabilistic models.
method Developed LLM Processes to condition numerical predictive distributions on natural language.
result Improved predictive performance and structured qualitative descriptions.
Study reveals neural scaling laws in random graphs and natural language models.
problem Understanding the origin of neural scaling laws in complex systems.
method Examined scaling laws in transformers trained on random walks and simplified natural language models.
result Neural scaling laws emerge in the absence of power law structure in data correlations.
This research explores discrete diffusion models for natural language generation.
problem Challenges in applying diffusion models to discrete data, especially natural language.
method Investigates Discrete Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (D3PM) and compares it with autoregressive models.
result Discrete diffusion models achieve better processing speed than autoregressive models.
In this work we present a technique to use natural language to help reinforcement learning generalize to unseen environments. This technique uses neural machine translation, specifically the use of encoder-decoder networks, to learn associations between natural language behavior descriptions and state-action informatio…
We create interpretable word embeddings through sparse coding.
problem Difficult to interpret word embeddings in natural language processing.
method Transform pretrained dense word embeddings into sparse embeddings through sparse coding.
result Sparse embeddings are more interpretable and achieve good performance.
We propose a statistical model for natural language that begins by considering language as a monoid, then representing it in complex matrices with a compatible translation invariant probability measure. We interpret the probability measure as arising via the Born rule from a translation invariant matrix product state.
Study categorizes mutual funds using natural language processing from unstructured data.
problem Categorizing mutual funds using unstructured data for financial analysis.
method Used natural language processing models to classify mutual funds from their investment strategy descriptions.
result High accuracy in categorizing mutual funds using NLP from unstructured data.