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48 results for language learning

When a bilingual student learns to solve word problems in math, we expect the student to be able to solve these problem in both languages the student is fluent in,even if the math lessons were only taught in one language. However, current representations in machine learning are language dependent. In this work, we pres…

2018-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

LORL learns object-centric representations from vision and language.

problem Learning disentangled, object-centric scene representations from vision and language.
method LORL integrates unsupervised object discovery and segmentation with language input to learn object-centric concepts.
result LORL improves unsupervised object discovery methods and aids downstream tasks.

This paper proposes a new method to connect language and physical actions in reinforcement learning.

problem Connecting linguistic representations to the physical world in embodied agents.
method Language-conditioned goal generators to decouple sensorimotor learning from language acquisition.
result Agents can demonstrate a diversity of behaviors for any given instruction.

New approach decouples skill learning and language grounding for autonomous agents.

problem Autonomous acquisition of skills without external instructions and feedback.
method Language-Goal-Behavior (LGB) architecture with semantic representation.
result Decouples skill learning and language grounding, enabling diversity and strategy switching.

Cross-language learning allows us to use training data from one language to build models for a different language. Many approaches to bilingual learning require that we have word-level alignment of sentences from parallel corpora. In this work we explore the use of autoencoder-based methods for cross-language learning …

2014-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

PixL2R maps natural language to pixel-based rewards for RL, improving sample efficiency.

problem Sparse reward settings in RL limit applicability to complex problems.
method Directly maps natural language descriptions to pixel-based rewards for guiding RL.
result Language-based rewards significantly improve sample efficiency in policy learning.

We are increasingly surrounded by artificially intelligent technology that takes decisions and executes actions on our behalf. This creates a pressing need for general means to communicate with, instruct and guide artificial agents, with human language the most compelling means for such communication. To achieve this i…

2017-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

SentenceMIM learns rich latent representations for variable-length language data.

problem Challenges in learning VAEs for variable-length language data, especially posterior collapse.
method Probabilistic auto-encoder trained with Mutual Information Machine (MIM) learning.
result SentenceMIM learns informative latent representations with high mutual information.

Robots learn actions and language through curiosity-driven self-exploration.

problem Efficient development of actions and language in infants and robots.
method Curiosity-driven self-exploration using Q-learning to amortize active inference.
result Curiosity-driven exploration enables faster learning and compositional generalization.

Recent reinforcement learning (RL) approaches have shown strong performance in complex domains such as Atari games, but are often highly sample inefficient. A common approach to reduce interaction time with the environment is to use reward shaping, which involves carefully designing reward functions that provide the ag…

2019-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

CERT improves language understanding by contrastively learning sentence-level semantics.

problem Lack of sentence-level semantics in existing pretraining tasks.
method Contrastive self-supervised learning at the sentence level using back-translation augmentations.
result CERT outperforms BERT on 7 out of 11 GLUE benchmark tasks, achieving the same performance as BERT on 2 tasks.

Language models are at the heart of numerous works, notably in the text mining and information retrieval communities. These statistical models aim at extracting word distributions, from simple unigram models to recurrent approaches with latent variables that capture subtle dependencies in texts. However, those models a…

2019-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

New method improves RL/IL agents' adaptability to unseen environments.

problem Current RL/IL techniques struggle with generalizing to unseen environments.
method Zero-shot compositional policy learning with multi-modal fusion and attention mechanism.
result Language grounding enhances generalization across varied environments.

LoRA-MCL improves language models by generating diverse sentence continuations.

problem Language models struggle with generating diverse, plausible sentence continuations.
method Low-Rank Adaptation combined with Multiple Choice Learning (MCL) to handle ambiguity.
result LoRA-MCL generates high-diversity and relevant outputs in various tasks.

Recent findings in multi-agent deep learning systems point towards the emergence of compositional languages. These claims are often made without exact analysis or testing of the language. In this work, we analyze the emergent language resulting from two different cooperative multi-agent game with more exact measures fo…

2020-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

This study applies neural models to automatically recognize medical entities from natural language.

problem Automated recognition of medical entities from natural language is complex and time-consuming.
method Utilizes deep neural sequence models trained on a large dataset of death certificates.
result Deep neural models can efficiently recognize medical entities from natural language.

Reward learning enables the application of reinforcement learning (RL) to tasks where reward is defined by human judgment, building a model of reward by asking humans questions. Most work on reward learning has used simulated environments, but complex information about values is often expressed in natural language, and…

2019-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Automates translating natural language to Verilog for digital design.

problem Manual translation of natural language specifications to Verilog is time-consuming and error-prone.
method Fine-tuned GPT-2 to derive Verilog from English, using a dataset of design tasks.
result GPT-2 achieved 94.8% correct translation across simple and abstract design tasks.

Existing language models such as n-grams for software code often fail to capture a long context where dependent code elements scatter far apart. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to build a language model for software code to address this particular issue. Our language model, partly inspired by human memory, i…

2016-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Work shows hallucination detection by LLMs is impossible without expert feedback.

problem Detecting hallucinations in LLMs is theoretically impossible without expert-labeled feedback.
method Investigated hallucination detection using a theoretical framework inspired by language identification.
result Automated hallucination detection is impossible for most language collections without expert-labeled feedback.

Recently, pre-trained language representation flourishes as the mainstay of the natural language understanding community, e.g., BERT. These pre-trained language representations can create state-of-the-art results on a wide range of downstream tasks. Along with continuous significant performance improvement, the size an…

2019-09-27abs ↗pdf ↗

A language for specifying complex reinforcement learning tasks.

problem Challenges in specifying and shaping reward functions for complex reinforcement learning tasks.
method Proposes a new language and algorithm for automatically generating and shaping reward functions.
result SPECTRL tool outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.

This is a lecture note for the course DS-GA 3001 <Natural Language Understanding with Distributed Representation> at the Center for Data Science , New York University in Fall, 2015. As the name of the course suggests, this lecture note introduces readers to a neural network based approach to natural language understand…

2015-11-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformer models perform slower than convolutional networks in learning hierarchical language structures.

problem Understanding how neural networks learn hierarchical language structures.
method Theoretical scaling laws and empirical validation of neural network performance.
result Convolutional networks outperform transformers in learning hierarchical language structures.

Language Rectified Flow improves diffusion language generation by simplifying complex steps.

problem Complexity in diffusion language models limits their implementation in NLP applications.
method Reformulates probabilistic flow models to learn neural ODE models for efficient domain transfer.
result Consistently outperforms baselines on fine-grained control tasks and text editing.

We present a TTS neural network that is able to produce speech in multiple languages. The proposed network is able to transfer a voice, which was presented as a sample in a source language, into one of several target languages. Training is done without using matching or parallel data, i.e., without samples of the same …

2019-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proves impossibilities and positive results for universal machine translation.

problem Learning shared sentence representations across multiple language pairs.
method Formal proofs and analysis of natural generative processes.
result Lower bound on translation error and positive results under natural structure.