Language models can answer questions without external knowledge.
problem How much knowledge can be stored in language models?
method Fine-tuning pre-trained language models to answer questions without external context.
result Fine-tuned models perform competitively with open-domain systems.
HybridRAG combines KGs and vector retrieval for financial document Q&A.
problem Challenges in extracting and interpreting financial text data.
method Integrates Knowledge Graphs and Vector Retrieval Augmented Generation.
result HybridRAG outperforms traditional methods in Q&A systems for financial documents.
Signal retrieval from a series of indirect measurements is a common task in many imaging, metrology and characterization platforms in science and engineering. Because most of the indirect measurement processes are well-described by physical models, signal retrieval can be solved with an iterative optimization that enfo…
Distillation improves simple models by approximating complex labels.
problem Why does distillation improve simple models?
method Statistical perspective on distillation, connecting to extreme multiclass retrieval.
result Distillation helps by approximating underlying class-probabilities, reducing bias and variance.
FinReflectKG benchmarks financial QA by linking relevant context from a financial KG, improving model performance and efficiency.
problem Efficiently retrieving and navigating relevant financial information across diverse sources and years.
method A benchmark built on a temporally indexed financial KG, generating QA pairs via pattern-specific prompts and quality control, evaluating retrieval scenarios.
result KG-guided retrieval yields substantial gains in correctness and token utilization, improving model performance by 24%.
DeepTrust uses NLP to quickly identify and verify financial anomalies on Twitter.
problem Unreliable information in financial markets leading to unexpected price changes.
method Machine learning for anomaly detection, NLP for information retrieval and reliability assessment.
result DeepTrust outperforms baseline classifiers in identifying financial anomalies.
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.
MoleculeSTM learns from molecule structures and texts for better drug design.
problem Lack of integration between chemical structures and textual knowledge in AI drug discovery.
method Jointly learns chemical structures and texts via contrastive learning, using a large dataset.
result MoleculeSTM achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot tasks like structure-text retrieval and molecule editing.
We developed a caching method to speed up concept learning in complex knowledge bases.
problem Complex concept learning requires many instance retrieval calls, increasing runtime.
method Semantics-aware caching that links concepts to instances via crisp set operations.
result Our cache reduces concept retrieval and learning runtime by an order of magnitude.
We study the task of retrieving relevant experiments given a query experiment. By experiment, we mean a collection of measurements from a set of `covariates' and the associated `outcomes'. While similar experiments can be retrieved by comparing available `annotations', this approach ignores the valuable information ava…
Proposes using GANs to solve phase retrieval problems.
problem Solving phase retrieval problems in various contexts.
method Applying conditional GANs with knowledge of measurement process.
result Method provides more robust and detailed solutions.
This paper is a tutorial on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) and its applications. FCA is an applied branch of Lattice Theory, a mathematical discipline which enables formalisation of concepts as basic units of human thinking and analysing data in the object-attribute form. Originated in early 80s, during the last three d…
New method uses image registration to recover complex signals from amplitude data.
problem Recovering complex-valued signals from amplitude measurements.
method Indirect registration using LDDMM formalism with exterior calculus.
result Algorithm performs well under various conditions including noise and topology.
Text embedding representing natural language documents in a semantic vector space can be used for document retrieval using nearest neighbor lookup. In order to study the feasibility of neural models specialized for retrieval in a semantically meaningful way, we suggest the use of the Stanford Question Answering Dataset…
RAGuard improves safety in LLMs for offshore wind maintenance.
problem Conventional LLMs fail with specialised or unexpected scenarios in offshore wind maintenance.
method Integrates safety-critical documents alongside technical manuals in RAG framework.
result RAGuard increases safety recall from almost 0% to over 50% while maintaining technical recall above 60%.
We address the problem of retrieving relevant experiments given a query experiment, motivated by the public databases of datasets in molecular biology and other experimental sciences, and the need of scientists to relate to earlier work on the level of actual measurement data. Since experiments are inherently noisy and…
Deep Retrieval learns a retrievable structure for efficient large-scale recommendations.
problem Efficiently retrieving top relevant candidates in large-scale recommendation systems.
method Deep Retrieval learns a retrievable structure directly from user-item interaction data, encoding candidates into a discrete latent space and optimizing a model to maximize accuracy.
result Deep Retrieval achieves almost the same accuracy as brute-force baseline and significantly outperforms ANN baselines in a live production system.
PCA reduces language model embeddings to improve speed and memory efficiency.
problem High-dimensional embeddings in RAG models cause scalability issues.
method Used Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to compress embeddings.
result Reducing from 3,072 to 110 dimensions provides significant speedup and memory reduction.
Developing an AI economist agent using RAG, knowledge graphs, and LLMs for economic scenario analysis.
problem Economic scenario analysis using large language models and knowledge graphs.
method Proposing an RAG-based AI economist framework that utilizes knowledge graphs and LLMs.
result Improves economic coherence and traceability in generated reports.
Improves search performance by transferring knowledge from recommender system.
problem Cold start and feedback loop problems in search retrieval.
method Zero-Shot Heterogeneous Transfer Learning framework.
result Significant improvements in relevance and user interactions over production system.
In the domain of machine learning, Neural Memory Networks (NMNs) have recently achieved impressive results in a variety of application areas including visual question answering, trajectory prediction, object tracking, and language modelling. However, we observe that the attention based knowledge retrieval mechanisms us…
DeepPhaseCut uses neural networks to improve Fourier phase retrieval.
problem Fourier phase retrieval from magnitude data.
method Unsupervised feed-forward neural network with cycleGAN training.
result Outperforms existing methods in Fourier phase retrieval.
Generative AI improves stock selection by synthesizing features from diverse data sources.
problem Automating feature discovery in stock market data.
method Used large language models with retrieval-augmented generation and structured prompting to synthesize features from various data sources.
result AI-generated features consistently outperform baselines, with Sharpe improvements ranging from 14% to 91%.
Deep learning tackles low-photon nanoscale holographic phase retrieval.
problem Low-photon imaging challenges at nanoscale.
method Dataset-free deep learning framework with physical model integration.
result Significantly improves signal recovery from higher noise levels.
Paper develops a model for verifying facts in tables without pre-retrieved evidence.
problem Verification of factual claims in structured data, especially in open-domain settings.
method Joint reranking-and-verification model that fuses evidence documents.
result Model achieves comparable performance to closed-domain state-of-the-art on TabFact dataset.
Transformers learn to recall with non-orthogonal embeddings in realistic settings.
problem Understanding how transformers store and retrieve knowledge in practical scenarios.
method Analyzing a single-layer transformer with random embeddings trained on a token-retrieval task.
result Explicit formulas for the model's storage capacity reveal a multiplicative dependence on sample size, embedding dimension, and sequence length.
A new hashing framework learns multiple hash codes for each image to improve hash bucket search efficiency.
problem Existing hashing methods fail to handle complex image retrieval scenarios efficiently.
method Multiple Code Hashing (MCH) framework with deep reinforcement learning.
result Significant improvement in hash bucket search performance compared to single-code methods.
Enhanced network threat detection using KG, LLM, and imbalanced learning.
problem Challenges in network threat detection due to complex attack patterns and limited historical data.
method Integrated framework combining Knowledge Graph, Imbalanced Learning, and Large Language Model.
result Improved threat capture rate by 3%-4% and increased interpretability of risk predictions.
Machine learning has become pervasive in multiple domains, impacting a wide variety of applications, such as knowledge discovery and data mining, natural language processing, information retrieval, computer vision, social and health informatics, ubiquitous computing, etc. Two essential problems of machine learning are …
Complex systems may contain heterogeneous types of variables that interact in a multi-level and multi-scale manner. In this context, high-level layers may considered as groups of variables interacting in lower-level layers. This is particularly true in biology, where, for example, genes are grouped in pathways and two …
Distillation is a method to transfer knowledge from one model to another and often achieves higher accuracy with the same capacity. In this paper, we aim to provide a theoretical understanding on what mainly helps with the distillation. Our answer is "early stopping". Assuming that the teacher network is overparameteri…
Hadamard Wirtinger Flow recovers sparse signals from fewer measurements.
problem Reconstructing sparse signals from magnitude-only measurements.
method Gradient descent with Hadamard parametrization (HWF).
result A single step of HWF recovers support from k(xmax∗)−2 samples. Survey of integrating domain knowledge into DL models.
problem Improving DL model performance with limited data or complex functions.
method Five categories of approaches to inject domain knowledge into DL models.
result Survey identifies five main categories of approaches.
The majority of medical documents and electronic health records (EHRs) are in text format that poses a challenge for data processing and finding relevant documents. Looking for ways to automatically retrieve the enormous amount of health and medical knowledge has always been an intriguing topic. Powerful methods have b…
A novel approach to federated learning with strong privacy guarantees.
problem Maintaining privacy of clients' data and federator's objective in federated learning.
method Inspired by knowledge distillation and private information retrieval, the approach combines secret-sharing-based multi-party computation and graph-based private information retrieval.
result Strong information-theoretic privacy guarantees for federated learning.
This paper defines resilience in knowledge graph embeddings and surveys existing works.
problem Challenges in knowledge graph embedding models, including noise, missing information, distribution shift, and adversarial attacks.
method Unified definition of resilience, formalization in the context of knowledge graphs, systematic survey of existing works.
result Most existing works focus on robustness, leaving other aspects of resilience unexplored.
System constructs public competitor graph from financial reports.
problem Time-consuming and expert-laden manual extraction of corporate relationships.
method Financial report processing to generate reliable knowledge graph of corporate relationships.
result More than 83% of S\&P 500 companies' competition relationships retrieved.
Unified transformer-based LT-TTD improves ranking efficiency and quality.
problem Decoupled L1 and L2 models in recommendation and search systems cause irreversible error propagation and suboptimal ranking.
method LT-TTD combines two-tower models with transformer expressivity in a unified listwise learning framework, providing theoretical guarantees and UPQE evaluation.
result LT-TTD reduces irretrievable relevant items and achieves better global optimization than disjoint training.
Improves retrieval accuracy for hierarchical documents, especially for distant matches.
problem Limited expressive power of dual encoder models in hierarchical retrieval.
method Proves feasibility of DEs for HR, introduces pretrain-finetune recipe to improve long-distance retrieval.
result Pretrain-finetune boosts recall on long-distance pairs from 19% to 76%.
Knowledge graphs enable a wide variety of applications, including question answering and information retrieval. Despite the great effort invested in their creation and maintenance, even the largest (e.g., Yago, DBPedia or Wikidata) remain incomplete. We introduce Relational Graph Convolutional Networks (R-GCNs) and app…
UPR hybrid model improves phase retrieval performance.
problem Recovering signals from phase-less measurements.
method Model-based data-driven deep architecture (UPR).
result UPR shows potential in improving phase retrieval.
This paper improves image retrieval accuracy through novel relevance feedback methods.
problem Improving image retrieval accuracy in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR).
method Novel addition to feature re-weighting and classification techniques, focusing on 0-th iteration improvement.
result Significantly improved retrieval accuracy from relevance feedback.
Task-oriented dialog presents a difficult challenge encompassing multiple problems including multi-turn language understanding and generation, knowledge retrieval and reasoning, and action prediction. Modern dialog systems typically begin by converting conversation history to a symbolic object referred to as belief sta…
A new deep learning model improves phase retrieval performance.
problem Recovering signals from phaseless measurements.
method Hybrid model-based data-driven deep architecture (Unfolded Phase Retrieval, UPR).
result Significant improvement in phase retrieval performance.
DeGAN enriches data from related domains for future learning tasks.
problem Lack of relevant data for future learning tasks like Model Compression and Incremental Learning.
method Data-Enriching GAN (DeGAN) framework to retrieve representative samples from a trained classifier.
result State-of-the-art performance for Data-free Knowledge Distillation and Incremental Learning on benchmark datasets.
Transformer models improve query-document retrieval efficiency and accuracy.
problem Efficiently retrieve relevant documents from large corpora for query matching.
method Designed paragraph-level pre-training tasks to optimize embedding-based Transformer models.
result Transformer models significantly outperform BM-25 and non-Transformer embedding models.
On most sponsored search platforms, advertisers bid on some keywords for their advertisements (ads). Given a search request, ad retrieval module rewrites the query into bidding keywords, and uses these keywords as keys to select Top N ads through inverted indexes. In this way, an ad will not be retrieved even if querie…
We consider the problem of recovering a signal x∗∈Rn, from magnitude-only measurements yi=∣⟨ai,x∗⟩∣ for i=[m]. Also called the phase retrieval, this is a fundamental challenge in bio-,astronomical imaging and speech processing. The problem abov…