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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.

Extends linear representation hypothesis to categorical and hierarchical concepts in LLMs.

problem Representing concepts without natural contrasts in large language models.
method Formalizes linear representation hypothesis for categorical and hierarchical concepts, proving relationships between concept hierarchy and representation geometry.
result Validated theoretical results on large language models, estimating representations for 900+ concepts.

Differentiable language model attacks improve adversarial examples for categorical sequence classifiers.

problem Challenges in adversarial attacks for categorical sequence models due to non-differentiability.
method Fine-tuning a language model as a generator of adversarial examples, using a differentiable loss function that combines a surrogate classifier score and approximate edit distance.
result Semantically better and more resistant adversarial examples.

Probabilistic learning for binary classification with categorical variables.

problem Binary classification with categorical covariates.
method Probabilistic analysis and two algorithms for learning boolean functions.
result Effective learning of boolean functions from binary data.

Natural Language Processing models help encode categorical process inputs.

problem Encoding categorical variables in industrial process modeling.
method Using NLP models for categorical variable encoding, combined with dimensionality reduction.
result Meaningful embeddings of categorical variables improve feature importance.

The paper proposes a method to analyze categorical feature interactions in large datasets using graph covariance and LLMs.

problem Analyzing complex datasets with numerous categorical features and timestamps.
method Binarization of categorical features using one-hot encoding, computation of graph covariance, identifying significant feature pairs, and using LLMs to generate explanations.
result The method identifies meaningful feature pairs and potential data stories underlying categorical feature interactions.

Deep learning models outperform classical methods in text classification.

problem Improving text classification accuracy using deep learning.
method Comprehensive review of deep learning models and datasets for text classification.
result Deep learning models outperform classical methods on various text classification tasks.

In human cognition, the expansion of perceived between-category distances and compression of within-category distances is known as categorical perception (CP). There are several hypotheses about the causes of CP (e.g., language, learning, evolution) but no functional model. Whether CP is essential to categorisation or …

2018-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

The study categorizes reward errors in reinforcement learning, finding some can be beneficial.

problem Training language models with imperfect proxy rewards.
method Theoretical analysis of policy gradient optimization and categorization of reward errors.
result Reward errors can be benign or even beneficial, preventing policy from stalling.

This work concludes a series of four papers on the foundational theory of orbifolds and stacks. We apply the abstract theory, developed in its predecessors, to orbifolds derived from manifolds. Specifically, we show how the very concrete topological base spaces associated to such orbifolds can be described and manipula…

1995-03-14abs ↗pdf ↗

LR-Robot automates SLRs with AI, expert oversight, and multidimensional analysis.

problem Efficient but contextually limited outputs from existing SLR frameworks.
method Human-in-the-loop process, structured knowledge sources, retrieval-augmented generation.
result Empirical demonstration of AI-driven literature synthesis in option pricing.

A new model tackles language generation issues by using discrete variational attention.

problem Information under-representation and posterior collapse in variational autoencoders.
method Proposes a discrete variational attention model with categorical distribution over attention mechanism.
result Enhances latent space for language generation and avoids posterior collapse.

Develops a machine learning framework for identifying authorship in texts.

problem Identifying the author of texts, especially when authors are unknown or multiple.
method Formulates authorship identification as a text categorization problem, uses supervised machine learning with stylometric features.
result A model accurately predicts authorship with high accuracy, especially with linguistic stylometric features.

Efficiently models categorical data with low to medium class overlap, improving accuracy over standard distributions.

problem Poor parameter estimates and accuracy in multinomial and Dirichlet multinomial distributions when assumptions are violated.
method Introduces Beta-Liouville multinomial distribution and efficient estimation methods.
result Beta-Liouville multinomial outperforms standard distributions on two out of four datasets.

New research shows larger language models improve data processing for diverse entries.

problem Optimizing data processing for tables with diverse string entries.
method Analytical tasks on tables with varying language model sizes and a fuzzy join benchmark.
result Larger language models improve data processing for diverse entries, but fine-tuning is necessary.

Floer field theory is a construction principle for e.g. 3-manifold invariants via decomposition in a bordism category and a functor to the symplectic category, and is conjectured to have natural 4-dimensional extensions. This survey provides an introduction to the categorical language for the construction and extension…

2016-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified discrete diffusion for categorical data simplifies training and sampling.

problem Training and sampling in discrete diffusion models for categorical data.
method Mathematical simplifications and elegant unification of discrete-time and continuous-time discrete diffusion.
result Unified Simplified Discrete Denoising Diffusion (USD3) outperforms SOTA baselines.

Softmax is an output activation function for modeling categorical probability distributions in many applications of deep learning. However, a recent study revealed that softmax can be a bottleneck of representational capacity of neural networks in language modeling (the softmax bottleneck). In this paper, we propose an…

2018-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

The output scores of a neural network classifier are converted to probabilities via normalizing over the scores of all competing categories. Computing this partition function, ZZ, is then linear in the number of categories, which is problematic as real-world problem sets continue to grow in categorical types, such as …

2015-08-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Attention is an increasingly popular mechanism used in a wide range of neural architectures. The mechanism itself has been realized in a variety of formats. However, because of the fast-paced advances in this domain, a systematic overview of attention is still missing. In this article, we define a unified model for att…

2019-02-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Multilayer switch networks are proposed as artificial generators of high-dimensional discrete data (e.g., binary vectors, categorical data, natural language, network log files, and discrete-valued time series). Unlike deconvolution networks which generate continuous-valued data and which consist of upsampling filters a…

2019-03-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We present 27 problems encountered in automating the translation of movie/TV show subtitles. We categorize each problem in one of the three categories viz. problems directly related to textual translation, problems related to subtitle creation guidelines, and problems due to adaptability of machine translation (MT) eng…

2019-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Natural language processing has improved tremendously after the success of word embedding techniques such as word2vec. Recently, the same idea has been applied on source code with encouraging results. In this survey, we aim to collect and discuss the usage of word embedding techniques on programs and source code. The a…

2019-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

StructureBoost improves gradient boosting for complex categorical variables efficiently.

problem Efficiently handling complex categorical variables with known structure.
method Two methods to overcome computational obstacles in SCDT enumeration for structured categorical variables.
result StructureBoost outperforms existing packages on complex categorical problems.

Categorical bundles provide a natural framework for gauge theories involving multiple gauge groups. Unlike the case of traditional bundles there are distinct notions of triviality, and hence also of local triviality, for categorical bundles. We study categorical principal bundles that are product bundles in the categor…

2015-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This study uses NLP to predict stock performance based on analyst reports.

problem Predicting stock performance using textual information from analyst reports.
method Natural language processing (NLP) and a customized BERT deep learning model for Chinese text.
result Strong positive sentiment in analyst reports increases excess return and intraday volatility, while strong negative sentiment increases volatility and trading volume but decreases excess return.

This paper shows using classification instead of regression improves deep RL scalability.

problem Challenges in training value functions for large networks in deep RL.
method Used categorical cross-entropy loss instead of mean squared error regression.
result Significant improvements in performance and scalability across various domains.

Bayesian model improves categorization of explosions from sparse data.

problem Challenges in categorizing explosions from limited data.
method Bayesian update to Event Categorization Matrix model with Bayesian Decision Theory.
result Consistent gains in overall accuracy and lower false negative rates.

A new LLM-based method enhances diversity in oversampling for imbalanced classification.

problem Limited diversity in synthetic minority samples generated by current LLM-based approaches reduces robustness and generalizability.
method Condition synthetic sample generation on minority labels and features, use permutation strategy for fine-tuning, fine-tune on minority and interpolated samples.
result Significantly outperforms eight SOTA baselines in diverse synthetic sample generation and downstream classification tasks.