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Attention forcing improves sequence-to-sequence model training stability.
problem Training auto-regressive sequence-to-sequence models with attention mechanism is challenging.
method Attention forcing guides the model with generated output history and reference attention.
result Attention forcing trains models to recover from mistakes without requiring a schedule or classifier.
Seq2Seq models perform well in generating If-Then programs from natural language.
problem Creating If-Then programs for business process automation without technical expertise.
method Modeling If-Then programs as a sequence learning task using Seq2Seq approaches.
result Seq2Seq models can effectively generate If-Then programs from natural language.
MEGAN models chemical reactions as graph edits, improving synthesis planning.
problem Generating and predicting chemical reactions under constraints.
method End-to-end encoder-decoder neural model inspired by arrow pushing formalism.
result State-of-the-art accuracy in standard benchmarks for retrosynthesis prediction.
Programmatic Motion Concepts learn human actions from paired videos.
problem Learning motion concepts from paired video and action sequences.
method Semi-supervised learning architecture for hierarchical motion representation.
result Outperforms established baselines, especially in small data settings.
This research explores various sampling methods and probability distributions for hard alignment in sequence-to-sequence TTS synthesis.
problem Improving alignment accuracy in sequence-to-sequence text-to-speech synthesis.
method Investigated various sampling methods (greedy, beam, random) and probability distributions (Bernoulli, Concrete) for hard alignment.
result Deterministic search is more preferable than stochastic search for natural alignment transition.
Incremental Text to Speech for Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Models using Reinforcement Learningeess.AS
Improves text-to-speech speed by interleaving character reading and audio synthesis.
problem Latency in text-to-speech models limits their use in time-sensitive tasks.
method Reinforcement learning to train an agent to choose the order of character reading and audio synthesis.
result The proposed method successfully balances latency and audio quality.
BOiLS optimizes circuit quality using Bayesian optimization.
problem Optimizing circuits with complex search spaces.
method Adapting Bayesian optimization to logic synthesis, using Gaussian process kernels and trust-region constrained acquisitions.
result Demonstrated superior performance in sample efficiency and QoR values.
Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating a program consistent with a specification. Recent years have seen proposal of a number of neural approaches for program synthesis, many of which adopt a sequence generation paradigm similar to neural machine translation, in which sequence-to-sequence models are …
AttS2S-VC: Sequence-to-Sequence Voice Conversion with Attention and Context Preservation Mechanismseess.AS
This paper describes a method based on a sequence-to-sequence learning (Seq2Seq) with attention and context preservation mechanism for voice conversion (VC) tasks. Seq2Seq has been outstanding at numerous tasks involving sequence modeling such as speech synthesis and recognition, machine translation, and image captioni…
A GAN variant synthesizes missing MRI sequences from available ones.
problem Missing MRI sequences due to various constraints.
method Multi-modal Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) that combines multiple available sequences to synthesize missing ones.
result The proposed GAN method outperforms competing approaches in synthesizing missing MRI sequences.
This paper improves speech synthesis using a DGP with SRU for naturalness.
problem Improving naturalness in synthetic speech.
method Deep Gaussian process with a recurrent architecture using SRU.
result SRU-DGP outperforms other models in naturalness of synthetic speech.
Efficiently samples sequences without replacement for machine learning models.
problem Generating diverse outputs from sequential models without duplicates.
method Incremental sampling procedure for randomized programs, including neural models.
result Efficacy and flexibility of incremental sampling for large output spaces.
Investigates neural TTS systems for Japanese and English.
problem Improving neural TTS systems for high-quality speech synthesis.
method Comparative study of neural sequence-to-sequence TTS vs. DNN pipeline TTS, varying model architecture, parameter size, and language.
result A neural sequence-to-sequence TTS system requires sufficient model parameters and a powerful encoder for high-quality speech synthesis.
A new TTS method uses diffusion and VAE for better speech synthesis.
problem Improving text-to-speech synthesis for better speech quality and robustness.
method Combines diffusion probabilistic model and variational autoencoder for latent variable conversion.
result The method is robust to poor orthography and alignment errors.
Enhanced text-to-speech synthesizes expressive speech from a single example.
problem Creating a new expressive speech style from a single example of speech.
method Combines VAE and Normalizing Flows to improve disentanglement and naturalness.
result Reduces KL-divergence by 22% and improves perceptual metrics.
DeepSynth synthesizes automata to guide deep RL agents through sparse, non-Markovian rewards.
problem Training deep RL agents with sparse, non-Markovian rewards and unknown high-level objectives.
method Employing a novel algorithm for synthesizing compact automata to uncover sequential structure from trace data.
result Reduces the number of iterations required for policy synthesis by two orders of magnitude and improves scalability.
Paper introduces new motion synthesis model using normalizing flows.
problem Data-driven motion synthesis with probabilistic and controllable models.
method Probabilistic, generative, autoregressive model using normalizing flows and LSTMs.
result Randomly sampled motion from the model outperforms task-agnostic baselines.
This paper proposes a method for generating speech from filterbank mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC), which are widely used in speech applications, such as ASR, but are generally considered unusable for speech synthesis. First, we predict fundamental frequency and voicing information from MFCCs with an autoreg…
Long-term human motion can be represented as a series of motion modes---motion sequences that capture short-term temporal dynamics---with transitions between them. We leverage this structure and present a novel Motion Transformation Variational Auto-Encoders (MT-VAE) for learning motion sequence generation. Our model j…
Video sequences contain rich dynamic patterns, such as dynamic texture patterns that exhibit stationarity in the temporal domain, and action patterns that are non-stationary in either spatial or temporal domain. We show that a spatial-temporal generative ConvNet can be used to model and synthesize dynamic patterns. The…
The problem of continuous inverse optimal control (over finite time horizon) is to learn the unknown cost function over the sequence of continuous control variables from expert demonstrations. In this article, we study this fundamental problem in the framework of energy-based model, where the observed expert trajectori…
Composite Travel Generative Adversarial Networks for Tabular and Sequential Population Synthesiscs.LG
CTGAN synthesizes population data for travel behavior simulation.
problem Synthesizing population data for agent-based transportation modeling.
method Composite Travel Generative Adversarial Network (CTGAN).
result Consistent and accurate generation of synthetic populations with tabular and sequential mobility data.
Adaptive correlated MC improves sequence generation stability.
problem High gradient variance in reinforcement learning for sequence generation.
method Adapts policy gradient estimator using correlated Monte Carlo rollouts.
result Reduces gradient variance and improves model performance.
Unsupervised model generates distinct intonation codes for speech synthesis.
problem Lack of understanding of what prosodic variations are controlled in speech synthesis.
method Phrase-level variational autoencoder with multi-modal prior, using mode centres as intonation codes.
result Generated intonation codes are perceptually distinct and carry various affect-related styles.
Generative model creates realistic dance poses from music.
problem Generating human-like dance poses from music.
method Music feature encoder, pose generator, music genre classifier integrated.
result Generative autoregressive model synthesizes dance sequences up to 5,000 frames.
We investigated the training of a shared model for both text-to-speech (TTS) and voice conversion (VC) tasks. We propose using an extended model architecture of Tacotron, that is a multi-source sequence-to-sequence model with a dual attention mechanism as the shared model for both the TTS and VC tasks. This model can a…
Tree-based synthesis improves forecast accuracy in GDP and inflation.
problem Improving forecast accuracy in GDP and inflation.
method Developed a nonparametric synthesis function using regression trees.
result Tree-based synthesis leads to improved forecast accuracy.
Program synthesis from natural language (NL) is practical for humans and, once technically feasible, would significantly facilitate software development and revolutionize end-user programming. We present SAPS, an end-to-end neural network capable of mapping relatively complex, multi-sentence NL specifications to snippe…
Speech Synthesis using EEGeess.AS
Speech synthesis from EEG features using RNN.
problem Speech synthesis from EEG data.
method Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) regression model to predict acoustic features from EEG features.
result Feasibility of synthesizing speech directly from EEG features demonstrated.
SED integrates synthesis, execution, and debugging for neural program synthesis.
problem Challenges in synthesizing complex programs that match specifications.
method SED combines synthesis, execution, and debugging to improve neural program generation.
result SED reduces error rates and outperforms standard decoding methods.
The recent success of raw audio waveform synthesis models like WaveNet motivates a new approach for music synthesis, in which the entire process --- creating audio samples from a score and instrument information --- is modeled using generative neural networks. This paper describes a neural music synthesis model with fl…
System uses machine learning and automated reasoning to speed up PBE synthesis.
problem Slow synthesis in PBE due to domain-specific knowledge and large training datasets.
method Preprocess SyGuS PBE problems with a neural network to reduce search space, then use automated reasoning for faster solution.
result System outperforms all competing tools in the 2019 SyGuS Competition for the PBE Strings track by 47.65%.
We present a neurosymbolic framework for the lifelong learning of algorithmic tasks that mix perception and procedural reasoning. Reusing high-level concepts across domains and learning complex procedures are key challenges in lifelong learning. We show that a program synthesis approach that combines gradient descent w…
The discovery of processes for the synthesis of new materials involves many decisions about process design, operation, and material properties. Experimentation is crucial but as complexity increases, exploration of variables can become impractical using traditional combinatorial approaches. We describe an iterative met…
Speaker-Independent Speech-Driven Visual Speech Synthesis using Domain-Adapted Acoustic Modelseess.AS
Improved visual speech synthesis using adapted ASR acoustic models.
problem Lack of synchronized audio, video, and depth data for speaker-independent speech-driven visual speech synthesis.
method Adapted an ASR acoustic model trained on audio-only data to the visual speech synthesis domain.
result Viewers significantly prefer animations generated from the adapted ASR acoustic model.
A neural program synthesis method with iterative fix operations.
problem Creating correct programs from input-output examples.
method Combines encoder-decoder synthesis with a differentiable fixer.
result Improves synthesis accuracy by reducing discrepancies between outputs and desired outputs.
New approach generates better synthetic data for neural program synthesis.
problem Current approaches to neural program synthesis generalize poorly to real data.
method Adversarial approach to control synthetic data distributions.
result Proposed method outperforms current approaches.
We prove that spherical spectral analysis and synthesis hold in Damek-Ricci spaces and derive two-radius theorems.
Generative model creates realistic scenes from pixel-wise labels.
problem Creating photo-realistic scenes from pixel-wise labels.
method Semantic bottleneck GAN model combining conditional and unconditional generation networks.
result Model outperforms state-of-the-art models in unsupervised image synthesis.
The Inverse Drum Machine: Source Separation Through Joint Transcription and Analysis-by-Synthesiscs.SD
Inverse Drum Machine separates drum mixes using transcription and synthesis.
problem Separating individual drum tracks from mixed recordings.
method Analysis-by-synthesis framework combining deep learning and automatic transcription.
result Separation quality comparable to supervised methods requiring isolated stems.
Language models predict inorganic synthesis conditions and temperatures.
problem Limited data and heuristic approaches constrain inorganic synthesis planning.
method Language models without fine-tuning predict precursor conditions and temperatures.
result Language models achieve high accuracy in predicting synthesis conditions and temperatures.
QRNN uses quantum neurons to learn sequences efficiently.
problem Efficiently learning sequences with quantum computing.
method Parametrized quantum neurons and amplitude amplification.
result QRNN outperforms classical RNNs on sequence learning tasks.
CrossBeam learns to search more efficiently in program synthesis.
problem Efficiently searching through vast program spaces.
method Trains a neural model to guide program synthesis, combining previously explored programs.
result CrossBeam explores much smaller portions of the program space compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Exemplar-based synthesis of geology using kernel discrepancies and generative neural networksstat.ML
We propose a framework for synthesis of geological images based on an exemplar image. We synthesize new realizations such that the discrepancy in the patch distribution between the realizations and the exemplar image is minimized. Such discrepancy is quantified using a kernel method for two-sample test called maximum m…
Scientific investigations that incorporate next generation sequencing involve analyses of high-dimensional data where the need to organize, collate and interpret the outcomes are pressingly important. Currently, data can be collected at the microbiome level leading to the possibility of personalized medicine whereby tr…
AutoDiff combines auto-encoder and diffusion model for realistic tabular data synthesis.
problem Generating realistic synthetic tabular data with heterogeneous features.
method Employing auto-encoder architecture to handle tabular data's complexity.
result Synthetic tables from AutoDiff show good statistical fidelity and perform well in machine learning tasks.
New method evaluates text-to-image synthesis for realism, variety, and semantic accuracy.
problem Lack of metrics revealing semantic accuracy in text-to-image synthesis.
method Uses Inception network representations and t-SNE visualization for semantic evaluation.
result Classification accuracy of generated images to real images' visual concepts correlates with semantic accuracy.