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Graph-to-Tree Neural Networks improve structured input-output translation in tasks like semantic parsing and math word problems.

problem Improving performance on tasks like semantic parsing and math word problem solving.
method Graph-to-Tree Neural Networks, consisting of a graph encoder and a hierarchical tree decoder.
result Graph2Tree model outperforms or matches state-of-the-art models on neural semantic parsing and math word problem tasks.

We present a memory augmented neural network for natural language understanding: Neural Semantic Encoders. NSE is equipped with a novel memory update rule and has a variable sized encoding memory that evolves over time and maintains the understanding of input sequences through read}, compose and write operations. NSE c…

2016-07-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Sparse Transformers degrade semantic information first, with early layers encoding more.

problem Understanding how sparse Transformers affect learned representations and semantic information.
method Probed Transformers with progressively pruned weights to observe changes in semantic information and model behavior.
result Complex semantic information is first to degrade in sparse Transformers, with early layers encoding more.

Improved text summarization using neural semantic encoders with hierarchical structure.

problem Capturing long-term dependencies in text summarization.
method Proposed a novel hierarchical Neural Semantic Encoder (NSE) model augmented with lemma and PoS tags.
result Significantly outperformed state-of-the-art models in ROUGE metric.

The paper teaches robots to navigate by learning costs from expert demonstrations.

problem Teaching robots to navigate autonomously using only expert observations.
method Developed a map encoder and cost encoder to infer semantic class probabilities and a cost function from expert observations.
result Robots can learn to follow traffic rules in a simulator using only semantic observations.

A novel approach predicts long-term stock price trends using 2D-convolutional encoders and semantic segmentation.

problem Predicting long-term daily stock price changes with deep learning models.
method Proposes a hierarchical CNN structure with Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling blocks to capture both long and short-term temporal relationships.
result Achieved overall accuracy and AUC of 78.18% and 0.88 for predicting trends over the next 20 days.

Embodied cognition states that semantics is encoded in the brain as firing patterns of neural circuits, which are learned according to the statistical structure of human multimodal experience. However, each human brain is idiosyncratically biased, according to its subjective experience history, making this biological s…

2019-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a novel approach for semantic segmentation that uses an encoder in the reverse direction to decode. Many semantic segmentation networks adopt a feedforward encoder-decoder architecture. Typically, an input is first downsampled by the encoder to extract high-level semantic features and continues to be fed for…

2019-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Mask-reconstruction pretraining helps in downstream tasks by capturing more semantic features.

problem How mask-reconstruction pretraining helps in downstream tasks and why it surpasses supervised learning.
method Theoretical analysis and experimental validation of mask-reconstruction pretraining (MRP) on auto-encoders.
result MRP provably captures more semantic features than supervised learning, leading to better performance in downstream tasks.

Paper uses CNNs for eye tracking data segmentation, generation, and reconstruction.

problem Semantic segmentation and reconstruction of raw eye tracking data.
method Fully convolutional neural networks (FCNNs) for data segmentation and generation, variational auto-encoder for data generation.
result FCNNs can process any input size directly without preprocessing, generating raw eye tracking data.

The paper explores how AI systems use information geometry to encode semantic structure.

problem How AI systems encode semantic structure into geometric representation spaces.
method Focuses on softmax distributions and develops dual steering method for robust concept manipulation.
result Dual steering optimally modifies target concepts while minimizing off-target changes.

Improved generalization with semantic perturbations using normalizing flows.

problem Overfitting in deep neural networks training.
method Use normalizing flows for generating semantically meaningful perturbations in latent space.
result Achieved 96.6% test accuracy on CIFAR-10 with ResNet-18, outperforming existing methods.

We develop a method for user-controllable semantic image inpainting: Given an arbitrary set of observed pixels, the unobserved pixels can be imputed in a user-controllable range of possibilities, each of which is semantically coherent and locally consistent with the observed pixels. We achieve this using a deep generat…

2018-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a method to improve skull stripping accuracy in MRI images.

problem Skull stripping accuracy in MRI images is improved.
method Context-encoding method to empower 2D networks with 3D semantic information.
result Achieves superior accuracy (dice score 99.6% on NFBS, 99.09% on LPBA40, 99.17% on OASIS) compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Variational autoencoders learn unsupervised data representations, but these models frequently converge to minima that fail to preserve meaningful semantic information. For example, variational autoencoders with autoregressive decoders often collapse into autodecoders, where they learn to ignore the encoder input. In th…

2019-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Generic generation and manipulation of text is challenging and has limited success compared to recent deep generative modeling in visual domain. This paper aims at generating plausible natural language sentences, whose attributes are dynamically controlled by learning disentangled latent representations with designated…

2017-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

ZegOT uses optimal transport to zero-shot segment images with text prompts.

problem Zero-shot semantic segmentation with limited image-text alignment knowledge.
method ZegOT uses optimal transport to match multiple text prompts with frozen image embeddings.
result ZegOT achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot semantic segmentation.

Efficient BNNs learn latent distributions for robust uncertainty quantification.

problem Improving robustness and uncertainty of deep neural networks.
method LP-BNN uses VAEs to learn latent distributions of BNN parameters, enabling efficient ensembles.
result LP-BNN achieves competitive results in image classification, semantic segmentation, and out-of-distribution detection.

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…

2018-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper explores how semantic independence can be captured in text embeddings using partial orthogonality.

problem Capturing semantic independence in text embeddings.
method Developed a theory and methods based on partial orthogonality to demonstrate semantic independence.
result Partial orthogonality captures semantic independence in text embeddings.

The paper shows how integrating categorical semantics can enhance unsupervised domain translation.

problem Improving unsupervised domain translation between perceptually different domains.
method Learning invariant categorical semantic features in an unsupervised manner and conditioning them on the style encoder.
result Conditioning the style encoder on learned categorical semantics improves translation and stylization.

A self-supervised debiasing method using rank regularization mitigates spurious correlations in neural networks.

problem Spurious correlations cause biases in deep neural networks, affecting generalization.
method Spectral analysis of latent representations, rank regularization, self-supervised pretraining, debiasing of downstream tasks.
result The proposed framework significantly improves generalization performance and outperforms supervised debiasing approaches.

Neural language models are a powerful tool to embed words into semantic vector spaces. However, learning such models generally relies on the availability of abundant and diverse training examples. In highly specialised domains this requirement may not be met due to difficulties in obtaining a large corpus, or the limit…

2015-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

End-to-end learning framework for tree-structured data.

problem Learning models struggle with tree-structured data due to lack of fixed-length vectors.
method Developed a novel framework for generic semantic tree-structured data of arbitrary topology.
result Framework yields comparable performance to standard models with dedicated feature-vectors and outperforms in compositional data.

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.

This work creates a system for understanding human movement in spaces.

problem Simplify communication and interaction between robots and humans in spatial tasks.
method Uses unsupervised learning with neural autoencoding to learn continuous representations of spatio-temporal trajectory data.
result Proposes a method to form prototypical representations of movement based on spatial context.

In this paper, we present UNet++, a new, more powerful architecture for medical image segmentation. Our architecture is essentially a deeply-supervised encoder-decoder network where the encoder and decoder sub-networks are connected through a series of nested, dense skip pathways. The re-designed skip pathways aim at r…

2018-07-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce Generative Neural Machine Translation (GNMT), a latent variable architecture which is designed to model the semantics of the source and target sentences. We modify an encoder-decoder translation model by adding a latent variable as a language agnostic representation which is encouraged to learn the meaning…

2018-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗