New method detects watermarks in LLM-generated text with human edits.
problem Dilution of watermark signals by human edits on LLM-generated text.
method Truncated goodness-of-fit test (Tr-GoF) for robust detection.
result Tr-GoF achieves optimality in robust detection of Gumbel-max watermark.
We propose a new generative model of sentences that first samples a prototype sentence from the training corpus and then edits it into a new sentence. Compared to traditional models that generate from scratch either left-to-right or by first sampling a latent sentence vector, our prototype-then-edit model improves perp…
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.
Paper proposes efficient image inversion and editing using rectified stochastic differential equations.
problem Inversion and editing of real images using generative models.
method Proposes RF inversion using dynamic optimal control and a linear quadratic regulator, extending to stochastic sampler for Flux.
result Allows state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot inversion and editing, outperforming prior works.
New diffusion models improve counterfactual image generation with semantic control.
problem Challenges in preserving identity, maintaining quality, and ensuring causal model faithfulness in counterfactual image generation.
method Integrates semantic representations into diffusion models through Pearlian causality, introducing spatial, semantic, and dynamic abduction.
result Demonstrates high-level semantic identity preservation and principled trade-offs between faithful causal control and identity preservation.
While neural sequence generation models achieve initial success for many NLP applications, the canonical decoding procedure with left-to-right generation order (i.e., autoregressive) in one-pass can not reflect the true nature of human revising a sentence to obtain a refined result. In this work, we propose XL-Editor, …
We introduce the problem of learning distributed representations of edits. By combining a "neural editor" with an "edit encoder", our models learn to represent the salient information of an edit and can be used to apply edits to new inputs. We experiment on natural language and source code edit data. Our evaluation yie…
ED-NeRF efficiently edits 3D scenes using latent space NeRF and improved loss functions.
problem Slow training speeds and inadequate editing loss functions in existing NeRF editing techniques.
method Embedding real-world scenes into latent space of LDM, using a unique refinement layer and an improved loss function.
result ED-NeRF achieves faster editing speed and improved output quality compared to state-of-the-art models.
Generates coherent storybooks from plain text using diffusion models.
problem Ensuring coherency in a sequence of images for storytelling applications.
method Combines pre-trained LLM and text-guided Latent Diffusion Model for zero-shot generation.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art image editing baselines in generating coherent storybooks.
We present a new, efficient method for automatically detecting severe conflicts `edit wars' in Wikipedia and evaluate this method on six different language WPs. We discuss how the number of edits, reverts, the length of discussions, the burstiness of edits and reverts deviate in such pages from those following the gene…
InvGAN combines generative and inference models for photo-realistic image manipulation.
problem GANs lack an inference model for image editing and downstream tasks.
method Train inference and generative models together to adapt and converge.
result InvGAN embeds real images into a high-quality generative model's latent space.
As the number of contributors to online peer-production systems grows, it becomes increasingly important to predict whether the edits that users make will eventually be beneficial to the project. Existing solutions either rely on a user reputation system or consist of a highly specialized predictor that is tailored to …
Detects AI-synthesized speech using cepstral and bispectral analysis.
problem Validating the authenticity of speech from AI-generated content.
method Integrates cepstral and bispectral analysis for distinguishing human from AI-synthesized speech.
result Higher-order statistics show less correlation for human speech compared to AI-synthesis, and cepstral analysis reveals unique power components.
Edit distance, also known as Levenshtein distance, is an essential way to compare two strings that proved to be particularly useful in the analysis of genetic sequences and natural language processing. However, edit distance is a discrete function that is known to be hard to optimize. This fact hampers the use of this …
Ground-A-Video edits videos without training, preserving intended changes.
problem Complex multi-attribute video editing with omitted or wrong changes.
method Grounding-guided video-to-video translation with Cross-Frame Gated Attention.
result Zero-shot multi-attribute video editing with improved accuracy and frame consistency.
Paper fine-tunes LLMs using user edits, unifying preference, supervision, and reward feedback.
problem Adapting LLMs to user preferences and feedback types.
method Derives bounds for learning algorithms from user edits, proposes an ensembling procedure.
result Ensembling procedure outperforms individual feedback methods and robustly adapts to different user-edit distributions.
Programming languages are emerging as a challenging and interesting domain for machine learning. A core task, which has received significant attention in recent years, is building generative models of source code. However, to our knowledge, previous generative models have always been framed in terms of generating stati…
Researchers use human-in-the-loop to create counterfactually augmented data, improving model performance.
problem Creating ML models less reliant on spurious patterns in NLP datasets.
method A human-in-the-loop process to curate counterfactually augmented data (CAD), prohibiting unnecessary edits.
result Models trained on CAD appear to rely less on semantically irrelevant words and generalize better out of domain.
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.
New method uses coupled SDEs to edit images with high fidelity and consistency.
problem Challenges in editing image content with text-to-image models.
method Using coupled stochastic differential equations to guide generative model sampling.
result Achieves high prompt fidelity and near-pixel-level consistency.
RS-Del provides robustness for sequence classifiers against edit distance attacks.
problem Certifying robustness of discrete sequence classifiers against edit distance attacks.
method Randomized deletion (RS-Del) for discrete sequence classifiers, focusing on edit distance-bounded adversaries.
result Achieved a certified accuracy of 91% at an edit distance radius of 128 bytes on malware detection.
A human-in-the-loop ML framework for precision dosing reduces expert workload and removes bias.
problem High cost of data annotation and lack of appropriate data for ML models.
method Incorporates human experts into the model learning loop to improve interpretability and reduce bias.
result The approach learns interpretable rules from data and potentially lowers expert workload.
Introduces Motion Programs for better video analysis of human motion.
problem Current video analysis focuses on raw pixels or keypoints, missing higher-level motion primitives.
method Introduces Motion Programs as a neuro-symbolic representation of motions as a composition of high-level primitives.
result Motion Programs accurately describe diverse human motions and improve downstream tasks.
A technique to quickly fix mistakes in neural networks.
problem Fixing model errors in neural networks quickly and without affecting other samples.
method Editable Training, a model-agnostic training technique.
result Effectiveness demonstrated on large-scale image classification and machine translation tasks.
For the task of generating complex outputs such as source code, editing existing outputs can be easier than generating complex outputs from scratch. With this motivation, we propose an approach that first retrieves a training example based on the input (e.g., natural language description) and then edits it to the desir…
Machine learning experiments show IID assumption is flawed for bathymetry editing.
problem Flawed IID assumption in machine learning for bathymetry editing.
method Real-world computer-assisted labeling task, IID assumption analysis.
result Common random split leads to poor performance in machine learning.
Machine learning identifies types of alterations in historical manuscripts.
problem Understanding and categorizing alterations in historical manuscripts.
method Alteration Latent Dirichlet Allocation (alterLDA) model.
result High performance in recognizing alterations on labelled data, and interesting insights on unlabelled data.
GMED edits stored examples to improve continual learning.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in task-free continual learning.
method Gradient-based memory editing of stored examples.
result GMED-edited examples help prevent forgetting.
Facial attribute editing aims to manipulate single or multiple attributes of a face image, i.e., to generate a new face with desired attributes while preserving other details. Recently, generative adversarial net (GAN) and encoder-decoder architecture are usually incorporated to handle this task with promising results.…
New seq2seq model can copy entire spans, outperforming simpler models in editing tasks.
problem Editing documents or source code using seq2seq models with explicit token copying.
method Extended seq2seq model capable of copying entire input spans to output in one step, new training and inference methods.
result New model consistently outperforms simpler baselines in editing tasks of natural language and source code.
Professional-grade software applications are powerful but complicated−expert users can achieve impressive results, but novices often struggle to complete even basic tasks. Photo editing is a prime example: after loading a photo, the user is confronted with an array of cryptic sliders like "clarity", "temp", and "high…
New metric learning approach for tree data reduces computation cost.
problem Efficiently computing distances between ordered labeled trees.
method Introduced pq-grams and a differentiable weighted pq-gram distance, combined with LMNN for optimization.
result Significantly reduces computation time for tree classification problems.
ARED introduces a new dataset for Argentina's real estate market.
problem Lack of mixed modality datasets for Argentina's real estate market.
method Developed a comprehensive real estate price prediction dataset series for Argentina.
result Dataset captures time-dependent phenomena on a market level.
Study on estimating Gumbel--Max watermark proportions in edited documents.
problem Estimating the proportion of a document generated from a watermarked LLM.
method Comparison of full observation and pivotal reduction observation regimes; development of estimators and information-theoretic lower bounds.
result Full observation yields a substantially smaller sample complexity compared to pivotal reduction.
Metric learning has the aim to improve classification accuracy by learning a distance measure which brings data points from the same class closer together and pushes data points from different classes further apart. Recent research has demonstrated that metric learning approaches can also be applied to trees, such as m…
Humans are capable of building holistic representations for images at various levels, from local objects, to pairwise relations, to global structures. The interpretation of structures involves reasoning over repetition and symmetry of the objects in the image. In this paper, we present the Program-Guided Image Manipula…
The Wikimedia Foundation has recently observed that newly joining editors on Wikipedia are increasingly failing to integrate into the Wikipedia editors' community, i.e. the community is becoming increasingly harder to penetrate. To sustain healthy growth of the community, the Wikimedia Foundation aims to quantitatively…
Many machine learning models can be attacked with adversarial examples, i.e. inputs close to correctly classified examples that are classified incorrectly. However, most research on adversarial attacks to date is limited to vectorial data, in particular image data. In this contribution, we extend the field by introduci…
The paper introduces COAR to estimate component attributions and enable model editing.
problem Understanding how ML models transform inputs into predictions.
method Component modeling and COAR algorithm for estimating component attributions.
result COAR enables model editing across various tasks.
The study examines Euclid's Book I, focusing on area applications and construction methods.
problem Exploring Euclid's geometric constructions and proofs, particularly those involving area calculations.
method Summarizing medieval editions and ancient commentaries, comparing constructions and proofs.
result Medieval editions often avoid Euclid's use of superposition in area proofs, offering alternative constructions.
Localized Multidirectional Correction improves non-refusal target-response behavior in foundation models.
problem Controlled post-training refusal suppression in routed MoE and hybrid-MoE foundation models.
method Introduce Localized Multidirectional Correction (LoMC), a support-gated intervention framework.
result Substantially improves non-refusal target-response behavior while maintaining general capability under a compact intervention footprint.
We introduce and describe the results of a novel shared task on bandit learning for machine translation. The task was organized jointly by Amazon and Heidelberg University for the first time at the Second Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2017). The goal of the task is to encourage research on learning machine tra…
Causal KL improves on existing metrics for evaluating causal models.
problem Insufficient discrimination between causal models using edit-distance and KL divergence.
method Introducing Causal KL, an augmented KL divergence that considers causal relationships.
result Causal KL variants effectively distinguish between observationally equivalent models.
A new framework uses uncertainty to learn from raw data without explicit models.
problem Limitations of traditional machine learning models and lack of interpretability.
method Introduces a model-free framework using surprisal (information theoretic uncertainty) to analyze and infer from raw data.
result Achieves at or near state-of-the-art performance across various machine learning tasks.
Metric learning has the aim to improve classification accuracy by learning a distance measure which brings data points from the same class closer together and pushes data points from different classes further apart. Recent research has demonstrated that metric learning approaches can also be applied to trees, such as m…
This paper tackles disentanglement in image editing and reconstruction.
problem Learning disentangled image representations and balancing disentanglement strength and reconstruction quality.
method Distance covariance based decorrelation regularization for disentanglement, soft target representation for reconstruction, and collapsing AE decoder and GAN generator.
result The proposed model improves the disentanglement strength and perceptual quality of generated images.
We consider the setting of Reeb graphs of piecewise linear functions and study distances between them that are stable, meaning that functions which are similar in the supremum norm ought to have similar Reeb graphs. We define an edit distance for Reeb graphs and prove that it is stable and universal, meaning that it pr…
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