Paraphrasing exemplifies the ability to abstract semantic content from surface forms. Recent work on automatic paraphrasing is dominated by methods leveraging Machine Translation (MT) as an intermediate step. This contrasts with humans, who can paraphrase without being bilingual. This work proposes to learn paraphrasin…
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Generating paraphrases that are lexically similar but semantically different is a challenging task. Paraphrases of this form can be used to augment data sets for various NLP tasks such as machine reading comprehension and question answering with non-trivial negative examples. In this article, we propose a deep variatio…
MARGE learns to reconstruct text by paraphrasing, achieving strong performance across multiple tasks.
problem Training sequence-to-sequence models with limited supervision.
method Unsupervised multi-lingual multi-document paraphrasing objective.
result Strong zero-shot performance on document translation and various tasks in multiple languages.
Semantic paraphrases can fool financial sentiment classifiers due to geometric shifts in model representations.
problem Semantic paraphrase attacks on financial sentiment classifiers
method Developing a continuous local model of semantic paraphrase perturbations
result The worst-case local displacement of the target representation is governed by the largest generalised eigenvalue of a matrix pencil constructed from the Jacobians of the two embedding maps.
TGLS generates text by optimizing search results and learning from them.
problem Unsupervised text generation without explicit training data.
method TGLS uses simulated annealing to estimate sentence quality, then a conditional generative model learns from search results.
result TGLS outperforms unsupervised baselines and matches state-of-the-art supervised methods in paraphrase generation.
We give a explicit computation of the pointed harmonic volumes of hyperelliptic curves with Weierstrass base points, which are paraphrased into a combinatorial formula.
The following paper presents a method of comparing two sets of vectors. The method can be applied in all tasks, where it is necessary to measure the closeness of two objects presented as sets of vectors. It may be applicable when we compare the meanings of two sentences as part of the problem of paraphrasing. This is t…
Recently, generating adversarial examples has become an important means of measuring robustness of a deep learning model. Adversarial examples help us identify the susceptibilities of the model and further counter those vulnerabilities by applying adversarial training techniques. In natural language domain, small pertu…
Word embeddings generated by neural network methods such as word2vec (W2V) are well known to exhibit seemingly linear behaviour, e.g. the embeddings of analogy "woman is to queen as man is to king" approximately describe a parallelogram. This property is particularly intriguing since the embeddings are not trained to a…
New approach detects sensitive info in text, outperforming previous methods.
problem Detecting sensitive information in unstructured text documents.
method Developed novel recursive neural network approaches for sensitive info detection, assuming only labeled examples.
result Our approaches significantly outperform previous keyword-based methods on real-world data.
We present a syntax-infused variational autoencoder (SIVAE), that integrates sentences with their syntactic trees to improve the grammar of generated sentences. Distinct from existing VAE-based text generative models, SIVAE contains two separate latent spaces, for sentences and syntactic trees. The evidence lower bound…
Word2vec (Mikolov et al., 2013) has proven to be successful in natural language processing by capturing the semantic relationships between different words. Built on top of single-word embeddings, paragraph vectors (Le and Mikolov, 2014) find fixed-length representations for pieces of text with arbitrary lengths, such a…
In real-world applications of natural language generation, there are often constraints on the target sentences in addition to fluency and naturalness requirements. Existing language generation techniques are usually based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs). However, it is non-trivial to impose constraints on RNNs whil…
Growing Together: Modeling Human Language Learning With n-Best Multi-Checkpoint Machine Translationcs.CL
Modeling human language learning with multi-checkpoint machine translation.
problem Improving machine translation quality for language education.
method Ensemble of multi-checkpoints from a single model, sampling n-best sequences.
result Achieved 37.57 macro F1 score, outperforming baseline.
Recently, generative adversarial networks have gained a lot of popularity for image generation tasks. However, such models are associated with complex learning mechanisms and demand very large relevant datasets. This work borrows concepts from image and video captioning models to form an image generative framework. The…
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently emerged as a popular building block for natural language processing (NLP). Despite their success, most existing CNN models employed in NLP share the same learned (and static) set of filters for all input sentences. In this paper, we consider an approach of using a smal…
Word2Vec (W2V) and GloVe are popular, fast and efficient word embedding algorithms. Their embeddings are widely used and perform well on a variety of natural language processing tasks. Moreover, W2V has recently been adopted in the field of graph embedding, where it underpins several leading algorithms. However, despit…
Recurrent neural networks have become ubiquitous in computing representations of sequential data, especially textual data in natural language processing. In particular, Bidirectional LSTMs are at the heart of several neural models achieving state-of-the-art performance in a wide variety of tasks in NLP. However, BiLSTM…
Discrete Adversarial Attacks and Submodular Optimization with Applications to Text Classificationcs.LG
Adversarial examples are carefully constructed modifications to an input that completely change the output of a classifier but are imperceptible to humans. Despite these successful attacks for continuous data (such as image and audio samples), generating adversarial examples for discrete structures such as text has pro…
DeepSubQE estimates translation quality for subtitles, improving on existing methods.
problem Hard quality estimation for subtitle translations due to language variations.
method Proposes DeepSubQE, a hybrid network combining semantic and syntactic features.
result DeepSubQE outperforms existing methods by significant margin.
We aim to design strategies for sequential decision making that adjust to the difficulty of the learning problem. We study this question both in the setting of prediction with expert advice, and for more general combinatorial decision tasks. We are not satisfied with just guaranteeing minimax regret rates, but we want …
This paper presents an unsupervised method to learn a neural network, namely an explainer, to interpret a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN), i.e., the explainer uses interpretable visual concepts to explain features in middle conv-layers of a CNN. Given feature maps of a conv-layer of the CNN, the explaine…
NMIXX fine-tunes embeddings for finance, outperforming general models in Korean.
problem Financial embeddings struggle in low-resource languages like Korean.
method Fine-tuned with 18.8K triplets, hard negatives, and translations.
result NMIXX achieves gains of +0.10 on English FinSTS and +0.22 on KorFinSTS.
A new framework explains GNN predictions by simulating graph structure and feature changes.
problem Lack of transparency in GNN predictions hinders understanding.
method TraP2 framework using a three-layer architecture: Translation, Perturbation, and Paraphrase layers.
result TraP2 achieves 10.2% higher explanation accuracy than state-of-the-art methods.
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.
The semantic map calibrates uncertainty from language model probabilities.
problem Uncertainty in language model probabilities for professional decisions.
method Prespecified semantic map linking probabilities of verbal responses to probabilities of declared states.
result Language-derived probabilities outperform printed numerical probabilities and recover valid uncertainty coverage.
Ultra-fast search algorithm for trillion-scale corpora with semantic flexibility.
problem Efficiently searching over large natural language corpora with semantic variations.
method String matching based on suffix arrays, vector representation of words, dynamic corpus-aware pruning, fast exact lookup.
result Substantially lower search latency compared to existing methods on FineWeb-Edu corpus.
Many tasks in natural language understanding require learning relationships between two sequences for various tasks such as natural language inference, paraphrasing and entailment. These aforementioned tasks are similar in nature, yet they are often modeled individually. Knowledge transfer can be effective for closely …
Paper introduces SDM for detecting LLM hallucinations, improving on entropy tests.
problem Challenges of Large Language Models (LLMs) with non-factual, nonsensical responses.
method Joint clustering on sentence embeddings to measure semantic divergence between prompts and responses.
result SDM framework detects deeper form of arbitrariness in LLM responses.
WISER detects watermarked segments in text via epidemic change-point analysis.
problem Identifying watermarked segments in mixed-source texts.
method Epidemic change-point perspective, WISER algorithm.
result WISER outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy and speed.
Online monitoring system for safety classifiers with shift detection and conformal adaptation
problem Detecting and adapting to distributional shifts in deployed safety classifiers
method Calibrated sequential statistics for online monitoring, conformal abstention for adaptation
result 86.6% valid detection with mean latency of 39.5 steps
LFD method improves text classification by making features clearer and less label-leaking.
problem Creating interpretable text representations that are both predictive and understandable.
method LFD method: proposes lexical and semantic features from contrastive text pairs, screens candidates using , and selects features by residual gain.
result LFD features achieve higher human-human and human-LLM agreement than baseline concepts and are less label-leaking.
In this on-going work, I explore certain theoretical and empirical implications of data transformations under the PCA. In particular, I state and prove three theorems about PCA, which I paraphrase as follows: 1). PCA without discarding eigenvector rows is injective, but looses this injectivity when eigenvector rows are…
Paper defines generalized braids and proves their subgroup status.
problem Understanding the structure of generalized braids and knots.
method Defined generalized braid theories and computed their generating sets.
result Quasitoric normal generalized braids form a subgroup of normal generalized braid group.
Defines a new Poisson structure for generalized Sasakian spaces.
problem No specific problem stated; focuses on new structure definition.
method Defines a canonical Poisson structure on generalized contact metric spaces.
result Shows distinction between generalized Sasakian and coKähler structures.
Iterative Flow Matching -- Path Correction and Gradual Refinement for Enhanced Generative Modelingcs.LG
Improved image generation through iterative flow matching to reduce hallucinations.
problem Hallucinations in image generation models.
method Iterative flow matching to refine and correct paths in generative models.
result Enhanced generative modeling with reduced unrealistic images.
Framework generates personalized insulin treatment strategies using deep models.
problem Developing optimal personalized treatment strategies for diabetes patients.
method Combines deep generative time series models with decision theory.
result Demonstrated improved personalized insulin treatment strategies for diabetes patients.
OptiGAN uses GAN and RL to optimize sequence generation for specific goals.
problem Challenging in sequence generation tasks to generate sequences with specific desired goals.
method Integrates GAN and RL to optimize desired goal scores using policy gradients.
result Achieves higher desired scores in text and real-valued sequence generation.
Survey on deep models for graph generation.
problem Improving fidelity of generated graphs.
method Taxonomy and comparison of deep generative models.
result Advances in deep generative models for graph generation.
Improves deep generative models to generate images of any size.
problem Fixed-sized output images from deep generative models.
method Integrates spatial noise vectors into fully convolutional neural networks.
result Theoretical interpretation of infinite spatial generation using spatial stochastic processes.
Develops a unified theory of Yang-Mills and GR using generalized principal bundles.
problem Combining Yang-Mills theories and General Relativity into a single framework.
method Using generalized principal bundle theory, the authors develop a new approach to field theories.
result Recover General Relativity within the framework of generalized principal connections.
Meta-CoTGAN improves adversarial text generation by preventing mode collapse.
problem Mode collapse in adversarial text generation.
method Meta-Cooperative Training Paradigm with a language model.
result Meta-CoTGAN effectively slows down mode collapse and improves generation quality and diversity.
Generative models can still learn from contaminated data, but with limitations.
problem How much contamination can generative models tolerate?
method Characterized robustness under contaminated enumerations, proving generation is achievable for all countable collections if contamination fraction converges to zero.
result Generation under contamination is achievable for all countable collections if contamination fraction converges to zero, but dense generation is strictly less robust.
Generative AI tasks analyzed for text, images, audio, video, code, and molecules.
problem What is the core question when using generative AI?
method Survey of generative model families, probabilistic framework, game-theoretic setup, post-training modifications, socially responsible considerations.
result Generative AI is a distinct machine learning task with connections to prediction, compression, and decision-making.
Defines Kahler angle for a broader context.
problem Generalizing results about Kahler angle.
method Provides a general definition of Kahler angle.
result Generalized results about Kahler angle.
Established a generalized Boothby-Wang theorem in contact geometry.
problem Generalized contact structures and their properties.
method Courant reduction methods and construction of principal bundles.
result Induced symplectic foliation on leaf space under certain conditions.
The twistor construction for Riemannian manifolds is extended to the case of manifolds endowed with generalized metrics (in the sense of generalized geometry à la Hitchin). The generalized twistor space associated to such a manifold is defined as the bundle of generalized complex structures on the tangent spaces of the…
Generalized connections, spinors, and integrability of generalized structures on Courant algebroidsmath.DG
We present a characterization, in terms of torsion-free generalized connections, for the integrability of various generalized structures (generalized almost complex structures, generalized almost hypercomplex structures, generalized almost Hermitian structures and generalized almost hyper-Hermitian structures) defined …