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…
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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…
Improves medication name inference for telemedicine and conversational agents.
problem Challenges in mapping user-friendly medication names to standardized ones.
method Entity-boosted two-tower neural network for ranking SMN to DMP.
result State-of-the-art results achieved with improved attention-based ranking.
The paper improves ranking by integrating covariates and sparse intrinsic scores.
problem Ranking items with incomplete preference scores explained by covariates.
method Extends BTL model with covariate information and sparse intrinsic scores, using penalized MLE.
result Developed debiased estimator for penalized MLE with distributional properties.
Paper fine-tunes LLaMA-3-8B for financial NER using instruction and LoRA.
problem LLMs struggle with financial NER, especially differentiating entities and amounts.
method Instruction fine-tuning combined with LoRA for parameter-efficient learning.
result Micro-F1 score of 0.894 on financial NER tasks, outperforming other models.
In this work, we take a closer look at the evaluation of two families of methods for enriching information from knowledge graphs: Link Prediction and Entity Alignment. In the current experimental setting, multiple different scores are employed to assess different aspects of model performance. We analyze the informative…
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.
The devastating effects of cyber-attacks, highlight the need for novel attack detection and prevention techniques. Over the last years, considerable work has been done in the areas of attack detection as well as in collaborative defense. However, an analysis of the state of the art suggests that many challenges exist i…
Proposes a low-rank bilinear pooling model for link prediction in knowledge graphs.
problem Link prediction in incomplete knowledge graphs.
method Factorized bilinear pooling model with Tucker decomposition constraints.
result Efficient and parameter-efficient model with low-rank approximation.
Following a particular news story online is an important but difficult task, as the relevant information is often scattered across different domains/sources (e.g., news articles, blogs, comments, tweets), presented in various formats and language styles, and may overlap with thousands of other stories. In this work we …
Optimizes treatment allocation in networks considering indirect effects.
problem Finding optimal treatment allocation in network settings with interference.
method OTAPI: Optimizing Treatment Allocation in the Presence of Interference, integrating causal estimators into IM algorithms.
result OTAPI outperforms classic IM and UM approaches on synthetic and semi-synthetic datasets.
In this paper, we propose a new product knowledge graph (PKG) embedding approach for learning the intrinsic product relations as product knowledge for e-commerce. We define the key entities and summarize the pivotal product relations that are critical for general e-commerce applications including marketing, advertiseme…
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TechRank ranks companies and technologies based on investor preferences.
problem Estimating influence and ranking companies and technologies.
method Recursive algorithm based on a bi-partite graph with weighted nodes, incorporating investor preferences.
result Provides investors with a quantitative ranking of technologies for optimal portfolio design.
Many models learn representations of knowledge graph data by exploiting its low-rank latent structure, encoding known relations between entities and enabling unknown facts to be inferred. To predict whether a relation holds between entities, embeddings are typically compared in the latent space following a relation-spe…
We present a new machine learning and text information extraction approach to detection of cyber threat events in Twitter that are novel (previously non-extant) and developing (marked by significance with respect to similarity with a previously detected event). While some existing approaches to event detection measure …
New protocol evaluates synthetic data for temporal consistency.
problem Synthetic data generators can produce invalid timestamps and trajectories.
method Characterize datasets by four properties, then measure timestamp validity and dynamics.
result Temporal fidelity must be measured, not inferred from static data.
We revisit the problem of inferring the overall ranking among entities in the framework of Bradley-Terry-Luce (BTL) model, based on available empirical data on pairwise preferences. By a simple transformation, we can cast the problem as that of solving a noisy linear system, for which a ready algorithm is available in …
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…
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.
Predicting unobserved entries of a partially observed matrix has found wide applicability in several areas, such as recommender systems, computational biology, and computer vision. Many scalable methods with rigorous theoretical guarantees have been developed for algorithms where the matrix is factored into low-rank co…
This paper presents details of our winning solutions to the task IV of NIPS 2017 Competition Track entitled Classifying Clinically Actionable Genetic Mutations. The machine learning task aims to classify genetic mutations based on text evidence from clinical literature with promising performance. We develop a novel mul…
The unevenness importance of criminal activities in the onion domains of the Tor Darknet and the different levels of their appeal to the end-user make them tangled to measure their influence. To this end, this paper presents a novel content-based ranking framework to detect the most influential onion domains. Our appro…
We propose a novel and efficient algorithm for the collaborative preference completion problem, which involves jointly estimating individualized rankings for a set of entities over a shared set of items, based on a limited number of observed affinity values. Our approach exploits the observation that while preferences …
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…
This work presents a two-stage neural architecture for learning and refining structural correspondences between graphs. First, we use localized node embeddings computed by a graph neural network to obtain an initial ranking of soft correspondences between nodes. Secondly, we employ synchronous message passing networks …
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…
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.
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…
We address the collective matrix completion problem of jointly recovering a collection of matrices with shared structure from partial (and potentially noisy) observations. To ensure well--posedness of the problem, we impose a joint low rank structure, wherein each component matrix is low rank and the latent space of th…
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…
Embedding models for entities and relations are extremely useful for recovering missing facts in a knowledge base. Intuitively, a relation can be modeled by a matrix mapping entity vectors. However, relations reside on low dimension sub-manifolds in the parameter space of arbitrary matrices---for one reason, compositio…
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.
The paper improves spectral ranking methods for diverse comparison graphs.
problem Estimating preference scores from multiway comparisons with heterogeneous sizes.
method Develops a two-step spectral method for estimating preference scores and their uncertainties.
result The two-step spectral method achieves the same asymptotic efficiency as the Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE).
Transposable data represents interactions among two sets of entities, and are typically represented as a matrix containing the known interaction values. Additional side information may consist of feature vectors specific to entities corresponding to the rows and/or columns of such a matrix. Further information may also…
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…
In this paper, we study the problem of recommendation system where the users and items to be recommended are rich data structures with multiple entity types and with multiple sources of side-information in the form of graphs. We provide a general formulation for the problem that captures the complexities of modern real…
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.