We present a weakly-supervised data augmentation approach to improve Named Entity Recognition (NER) in a challenging domain: extracting biomedical entities (e.g., proteins) from the scientific literature. First, we train a neural NER (NNER) model over a small seed of fully-labeled examples. Second, we use a reference s…
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Improves group fairness in tensor completion by augmenting tensors with balanced entities.
problem Preventing discrimination in tensor decomposition based on social grounds.
method STAFF (Sparse Tensor Augmentation For Fairness) which augments tensors with balanced entities to mitigate imbalance and bias.
result Consistently shows the best trade-off between completion error and group fairness, reducing errors by 36% and 59% respectively.
This paper uses GANs to generate synthetic Bitcoin address data.
problem Class imbalance in Bitcoin ground-truth datasets affects supervised machine learning results.
method Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for synthetic data generation.
result A 'good' GAN configuration can be found to generate synthetic Bitcoin address data with high similarity to real data.
Enhances machine learning for dynamic, interconnected entities.
problem Lack of systematic feature engineering for dynamic, interconnected entities.
method Augments current graph machine learning with comprehensive feature engineering in space and time.
result Improves supervised learning on heterogeneous, attributed entities interacting over time.
Efficient autoregressive entity linking with correction for faster, more accurate results.
problem High computational cost and non-parallelizable decoding in autoregressive entity linking.
method Parallelizes autoregressive linking across all mentions, uses a shallow decoder, and adds a discriminative correction term.
result 70 times faster and more accurate than previous methods, outperforming state-of-the-art approaches.
Knowledge graphs, on top of entities and their relationships, contain other important elements: literals. Literals encode interesting properties (e.g. the height) of entities that are not captured by links between entities alone. Most of the existing work on embedding (or latent feature) based knowledge graph analysis …
We study the problem of large scale, multi-label visual recognition with a large number of possible classes. We propose a method for augmenting a trained neural network classifier with auxiliary capacity in a manner designed to significantly improve upon an already well-performing model, while minimally impacting its c…
Synthetic continued pretraining enhances model performance with synthetic data.
problem Data inefficiency in pretrained models when adapting to domain-specific documents.
method Synthetic data augmentation using EntiGraph to create a large synthetic corpus.
result Language models can answer questions and follow instructions without access to domain-specific documents.
TaRP predicts missing relations in KGs using type and instance-level info.
problem Missing relations in KGs.
method Type-augmented relation prediction (TaRP) combining type and instance-level info.
result Significantly better performance on benchmark datasets.
Knowledge graph embeddings rank among the most successful methods for link prediction in knowledge graphs, i.e., the task of completing an incomplete collection of relational facts. A downside of these models is their strong sensitivity to model hyperparameters, in particular regularizers, which have to be extensively …
RAG-IT automates financial analysis using LLMs and specialized datasets.
problem Manual financial analysis is time-consuming and requires expertise.
method Retrieval-Augmented Instruction Tuning (RAG-IT) fine-tunes an LLM for financial tasks.
result RAG-IT improves financial report generation performance compared to commercial systems.
New method detects communities in hypergraphs by embedding them into a vector space.
problem Detecting communities in hypergraphs with multi-way interactions.
method Augmenting non-uniform hypergraphs, embedding into a vector space, using an alternative updating scheme.
result Asymptotic consistencies in community detection and hypergraph estimation established.
We present a discriminative nonparametric latent feature relational model (LFRM) for link prediction to automatically infer the dimensionality of latent features. Under the generic RegBayes (regularized Bayesian inference) framework, we handily incorporate the prediction loss with probabilistic inference of a Bayesian …
On-device machine learning (ML) has brought about the accessibility to a tremendous amount of data from the users while keeping their local data private instead of storing it in a central entity. However, for privacy guarantee, it is inevitable at each device to compensate for the quality of data or learning performanc…
Entity relatedness has emerged as an important feature in a plethora of applications such as information retrieval, entity recommendation and entity linking. Given an entity, for instance a person or an organization, entity relatedness measures can be exploited for generating a list of highly-related entities. However,…
GENRE retrieves entities autoregressively, improving efficiency and accuracy.
problem Retrieving entities from queries efficiently and accurately.
method Autoregressive generation of entity names, reducing memory footprint and improving context encoding.
result Significantly improved performance on entity disambiguation, linking, and retrieval tasks.
We present a new local entity disambiguation system. The key to our system is a novel approach for learning entity representations. In our approach we learn an entity aware extension of Embedding for Language Model (ELMo) which we call Entity-ELMo (E-ELMo). Given a paragraph containing one or more named entity mentions…
Entity linking is the task of linking mentions of named entities in natural language text, to entities in a curated knowledge-base. This is of significant importance in the biomedical domain, where it could be used to semantically annotate a large volume of clinical records and biomedical literature, to standardized co…
Measuring entity relatedness is a fundamental task for many natural language processing and information retrieval applications. Prior work often studies entity relatedness in static settings and an unsupervised manner. However, entities in real-world are often involved in many different relationships, consequently enti…
Survey on ML advances for personalized prediction considering entity characteristics.
problem Sub-optimal performance in personalized prediction due to heterogeneity in data across entities.
method Organized current literature on entity-aware modeling based on characteristics availability and training data amount.
result Recent innovations in uncertainty quantification, fairness, and knowledge-guided machine learning can improve entity-aware modeling.
BloombergGPT is a large language model trained on financial data, outperforming existing models on financial tasks.
problem Lack of specialized large language models for finance.
method Trained on a 363 billion token dataset augmented with 345 billion tokens from general datasets, using a 50 billion parameter model.
result BloombergGPT outperforms existing models on financial tasks without sacrificing performance on general LLM benchmarks.
Neural production systems learn visual dynamics by applying rule templates to entities.
problem Modeling interactions among entities in structured visual environments.
method Inspired by production systems, the paper uses rule templates to bind placeholder variables to specific entities, scoring and applying the best fitting rules to update entity properties.
result The architecture achieves robust future-state prediction and extrapolation from simple to complex environments, outperforming GNNs.
Study benchmarks embedding-based entity alignment methods for KGs.
problem Align entities across different KGs using embeddings.
method Survey and categorize 23 embedding-based methods, propose new KG sampling algorithm, develop open-source library.
result Understood strengths and limitations of embedding-based methods.
Named-entity recognition (NER) aims at identifying entities of interest in a text. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have recently been shown to outperform existing NER systems. However, ANNs remain challenging to use for non-expert users. In this paper, we present NeuroNER, an easy-to-use named-entity recognition tool…
Although over 100 languages are supported by strong off-the-shelf machine translation systems, only a subset of them possess large annotated corpora for named entity recognition. Motivated by this fact, we leverage machine translation to improve annotation-projection approaches to cross-lingual named entity recognition…
mGENRE improves multilingual entity linking with autoregressive sequence prediction.
problem Multilingual Entity Linking (MEL) task of resolving language-specific mentions to a multilingual Knowledge Base.
method Autoregressive sequence-to-sequence system that cross-encodes mention strings and entity names.
result Over 50% improvement in average accuracy in zero-shot settings.
This research evaluates and introduces new heuristics for clustering Bitcoin blockchain entities.
problem Efficiently analyzing the vast number of Bitcoin blockchain entities.
method Examined and introduced four new heuristics for clustering Bitcoin blockchain entities.
result Introduced clustering ratio to measure heuristic effectiveness.
We propose Macau, a powerful and flexible Bayesian factorization method for heterogeneous data. Our model can factorize any set of entities and relations that can be represented by a relational model, including tensors and also multiple relations for each entity. Macau can also incorporate side information, specificall…
This paper tests the hypothesis that modeling a scene in terms of entities and their local interactions, as opposed to modeling the scene globally, provides a significant benefit in generalizing to physical tasks in a combinatorial space the learner has not encountered before. We present object-centric perception, pred…
One significant challenge to scaling entity resolution algorithms to massive datasets is understanding how performance changes after moving beyond the realm of small, manually labeled reference datasets. Unlike traditional machine learning tasks, when an entity resolution algorithm performs well on small hold-out datas…
Personal assistant AI systems such as Siri, Cortana, and Alexa have become widely used as a means to accomplish tasks through natural language commands. However, components in these systems generally rely on supervised machine learning algorithms that require large amounts of hand-annotated training data, which is expe…
Motivation: State-of-the-art biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) systems often require handcrafted features specific to each entity type, such as genes, chemicals and diseases. Although recent studies explored using neural network models for BioNER to free experts from manual feature engineering, the performan…
FastSGT improves accuracy in BERT-based DST for SGD datasets.
problem Dialog State Tracking in goal-oriented dialogue systems.
method BERT-based model with two carry-over procedures and multi-head attention.
result Significantly improved accuracy compared to baseline model.
REFIL learns from imagined sub-group interactions to improve multi-agent reinforcement learning.
problem Learning efficiency in multi-agent reinforcement learning settings.
method Randomized Entity-wise Factorization (REFIL) approach.
result REFIL outperforms all strong baselines in challenging multi-task StarCraft settings.
Enhances Ponzi scheme detection on Ethereum using time-aware metapaths.
problem Lack of temporal information in heterogeneous transaction graphs.
method Time-aware Metapath Feature Augmentation (TMFAug) module.
result Significant performance improvements in Ponzi scheme detection.
We consider the problem of naming objects in complex, natural scenes containing widely varying object appearance and subtly different names. Informed by cognitive research, we propose an approach based on sharing context based object hypotheses between visual and lexical spaces. To this end, we present the Visual Seman…
Entity resolution (ER) is the task of identifying records belonging to the same entity (e.g. individual, group) across one or multiple databases. Ironically, it has multiple names: deduplication and record linkage, among others. In this paper we survey metrics used to evaluate ER results in order to iteratively improve…
It is oftentimes impossible to understand how machine learning models reach a decision. While recent research has proposed various technical approaches to provide some clues as to how a learning model makes individual decisions, they cannot provide users with ability to inspect a learning model as a complete entity. In…
Symmetric binary matrices representing relations among entities are commonly collected in many areas. Our focus is on dynamically evolving binary relational matrices, with interest being in inference on the relationship structure and prediction. We propose a nonparametric Bayesian dynamic model, which reduces dimension…
We are enveloped by stories of visual interpretations in our everyday lives. The way we narrate a story often comprises of two stages, which are, forming a central mind map of entities and then weaving a story around them. A contributing factor to coherence is not just basing the story on these entities but also, refer…
Previous models for learning entity and relationship embeddings of knowledge graphs such as TransE, TransH, and TransR aim to explore new links based on learned representations. However, these models interpret relationships as simple translations on entity embeddings. In this paper, we try to learn more complex connect…
Automatic representation learning of key entities in electronic health record (EHR) data is a critical step for healthcare informatics that turns heterogeneous medical records into structured and actionable information. Here we propose ME2Vec, an algorithmic framework for learning low-dimensional vectors of the most co…
Efficiently resolves entities via scaled Ewens--Pitman model.
problem Entity resolution in large datasets.
method Microclustering Ewens--Pitman model with variational inference.
result Significant speed-up in entity resolution with competitive performance.
Anomaly detection plays an important role in modern data-driven security applications, such as detecting suspicious access to a socket from a process. In many cases, such events can be described as a collection of categorical values that are considered as entities of different types, which we call heterogeneous categor…
We show that any objective risk measurement algorithm mandated by central banks for regulated financial entities will result in more risk being taken on by those financial entities than would otherwise be the case. Furthermore, the risks taken on by the regulated financial entities are far more systemically concentrate…
Knowledge graphs have emerged as an important model for studying complex multi-relational data. This has given rise to the construction of numerous large scale but incomplete knowledge graphs encoding information extracted from various resources. An effective and scalable approach to jointly learn over multiple graphs …
Neural Chinese Named Entity Recognition via CNN-LSTM-CRF and Joint Training with Word Segmentationcs.CL
Chinese named entity recognition (CNER) is an important task in Chinese natural language processing field. However, CNER is very challenging since Chinese entity names are highly context-dependent. In addition, Chinese texts lack delimiters to separate words, making it difficult to identify the boundary of entities. Be…
Same but Different: Distant Supervision for Predicting and Understanding Entity Linking Difficultycs.CL
Entity Linking (EL) is the task of automatically identifying entity mentions in a piece of text and resolving them to a corresponding entity in a reference knowledge base like Wikipedia. There is a large number of EL tools available for different types of documents and domains, yet EL remains a challenging task where t…