Correctly detecting the semantic type of data columns is crucial for data science tasks such as automated data cleaning, schema matching, and data discovery. Existing data preparation and analysis systems rely on dictionary lookups and regular expression matching to detect semantic types. However, these matching-based …
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New research shows semantic data matching can degrade SSDL performance.
problem The limits of semantic data set matching in semi-supervised learning.
method Demonstrated through simulations and a new dissimilarity measure.
result Semantic data matching can degrade SSDL performance under non-IID data.
A group of transition probability functions form a Shannon's channel whereas a group of truth functions form a semantic channel. Label learning is to let semantic channels match Shannon's channels and label selection is to let Shannon's channels match semantic channels. The Channel Matching (CM) algorithm is provided f…
The study enhances financial rule matching using NLP without datasets.
problem Performing semantic matching between financial rules and policies.
method Outperforming pre-trained models with NLP techniques using free resources.
result Improved semantic matching between financial rules and policies.
DCoM uses deep neural networks to detect semantic data types from raw column values.
problem Detecting semantic data types from dirty and unseen data.
method DCoM employs multi-input NLP-based deep neural networks trained on 686,765 data columns.
result DCoM outperforms existing methods significantly on 78 different semantic data types.
The Maximum Mutual Information (MMI) criterion is different from the Least Error Rate (LER) criterion. It can reduce failing to report small probability events. This paper introduces the Channels Matching (CM) algorithm for the MMI classifications of unseen instances. It also introduces some semantic information method…
A group of transition probability functions form a Shannon's channel whereas a group of truth functions form a semantic channel. By the third kind of Bayes' theorem, we can directly convert a Shannon's channel into an optimized semantic channel. When a sample is not big enough, we can use a truth function with paramete…
CoNCRA uses CNN to find code snippets matching developer intent.
problem Finding relevant code snippets using general search engines.
method Convolutional Neural Network approach to code retrieval.
result Improved code retrieval by 5% on average, top 3 positions 80% of the time.
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…
STRAPSim measures ETF portfolio similarity better than existing methods.
problem Measuring portfolio similarity for ETFs and portfolios.
method Semantic, two-level, residual-aware portfolio similarity computation.
result STRAPSim outperforms existing methods in predictive accuracy and ranking alignment.
Identifier names convey useful information about the intended semantics of code. Name-based program analyses use this information, e.g., to detect bugs, to predict types, and to improve the readability of code. At the core of name-based analyses are semantic representations of identifiers, e.g., in the form of learned …
Tasks like code generation and semantic parsing require mapping unstructured (or partially structured) inputs to well-formed, executable outputs. We introduce abstract syntax networks, a modeling framework for these problems. The outputs are represented as abstract syntax trees (ASTs) and constructed by a decoder with …
Coupled Flow Matchingstat.ML
CPFM integrates dimensionality reduction and reconstruction with flow networks.
problem Learning coupled continuous flows for data and embeddings.
method Coupled flow matching framework with Gromov-Wasserstein objective and dual-conditional flow network.
result CPFM preserves and recovers residual information in latent space.
OTSeg uses multi-prompt Sinkhorn attention to improve zero-shot semantic segmentation.
problem Leveraging pre-trained CLIP knowledge to align text embeddings with pixel embeddings.
method OTSeg employs Multi-Prompts Sinkhorn (MPS) and Multi-Prompts Sinkhorn Attention (MPSA) to enhance semantic feature matching.
result OTSeg achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot semantic segmentation tasks.
We propose Deep Feature Factorization (DFF), a method capable of localizing similar semantic concepts within an image or a set of images. We use DFF to gain insight into a deep convolutional neural network's learned features, where we detect hierarchical cluster structures in feature space. This is visualized as heat m…
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.
A latent-variable model is introduced for text matching, inferring sentence representations by jointly optimizing generative and discriminative objectives. To alleviate typical optimization challenges in latent-variable models for text, we employ deconvolutional networks as the sequence decoder (generator), providing l…
We address the problem of image translation between domains or modalities for which no direct paired data is available (i.e. zero-pair translation). We propose mix and match networks, based on multiple encoders and decoders aligned in such a way that other encoder-decoder pairs can be composed at test time to perform u…
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.
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.
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.
Paper develops a framework for generating coherent image captions using visual features and hierarchical topics.
problem Generating semantically coherent paragraphs to describe image content.
method Plug-and-play hierarchical-topic-guided image paragraph generation framework integrating visual extractor and deep topic model.
result Proposed models can distill interpretable multi-layer semantic topics and generate diverse and coherent captions.
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.
A new method for image translation using disentangled style and content preservation.
problem Difficulty in maintaining original content during reverse diffusion in diffusion-based image translation.
method Disentangled style and content representation using intermediate keys from ViT model, CLIP loss, semantic divergence loss, and resampling strategy.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art models in text-guided and image-guided translation tasks.
This paper reports on Qwant Research contribution to tasks 2 and 3 of the DEFT 2019's challenge, focusing on French clinical cases analysis. Task 2 is a task on semantic similarity between clinical cases and discussions. For this task, we propose an approach based on language models and evaluate the impact on the resul…
In general, recommendation can be viewed as a matching problem, i.e., match proper items for proper users. However, due to the huge semantic gap between users and items, it's almost impossible to directly match users and items in their initial representation spaces. To solve this problem, many methods have been studied…
The paper examines uncertainty calibration for object detection models in autonomous driving.
problem Uncertainty in object detection predictions and its calibration.
method Definition and evaluation of semantic and spatial uncertainty, calibration methods for uncertainty distributions.
result Calibrated uncertainty improves the overall performance of object detection models in real-world scenarios.
In implicit models, one often interpolates between sampled points in latent space. As we show in this paper, care needs to be taken to match-up the distributional assumptions on code vectors with the geometry of the interpolating paths. Otherwise, typical assumptions about the quality and semantics of in-between points…
MDEQ models learn multi-resolution features efficiently.
problem Large-scale, hierarchical pattern recognition.
method Implicit differentiation, multiscale deep equilibrium model.
result MDEQs achieve performance on par with recent models.
While the celebrated Word2Vec technique yields semantically rich representations for individual words, there has been relatively less success in extending to generate unsupervised sentences or documents embeddings. Recent work has demonstrated that a distance measure between documents called \emph{Word Mover's Distance…
Deep learning models for semantic segmentation of images require large amounts of data. In the medical imaging domain, acquiring sufficient data is a significant challenge. Labeling medical image data requires expert knowledge. Collaboration between institutions could address this challenge, but sharing medical data to…
GraphQ system uses GNNs to search for subgraph patterns in graphs.
problem Efficiently identifying and matching subgraph patterns in graph data.
method Graph neural networks (GNNs) for encoding graph data and NeuroAlign for node alignment.
result NeuroAlign improves node-alignment accuracy by 19-29% compared to baseline GNNs.
As a fundamental problem of natural language processing, it is important to measure the distance between different documents. Among the existing methods, the Word Mover's Distance (WMD) has shown remarkable success in document semantic matching for its clear physical insight as a parameter-free model. However, WMD is e…
Improved genetic programming by optimizing mutation operators for continuous program search.
problem Small syntactic mutations in genetic programming can lead to unpredictable behavioral shifts.
method Learned a compact trading-strategy DSL, created a block-factorized embedding, and designed geometry-compiled mutation operators.
result Geometry-compiled mutation operators discover strong strategies using fewer evaluations and achieve higher Sharpe ratios.
Proposes DWMD for better matching of hidden representations across domains.
problem Measuring data distribution discrepancy between semantically related domains for feature representation matching.
method DWMD, a moment-based probability distribution metric that explicitly orders and weights higher-order moments.
result DWMD is error-free and can strictly reflect distribution differences without feature distribution assumptions.
A new perspective on self-attention models using MLPs.
problem Improving sequence modeling with self-attention mechanisms.
method Introducing HyperMLP and HyperGLU, which use dynamic two-layer MLPs with reverse-offset layout.
result HyperMLP/HyperGLU consistently outperform softmax-attention baselines.
A new framework evaluates LLM calibration in open-ended QA.
problem Evaluating LLM calibration in open-ended QA settings.
method Sem-ECE framework: sampling answers, grouping by semantic classes, and using frequencies as confidence.
result Sem-ECE estimators are unbiased and Sem achieves smaller calibration error.
Theory explains creativity in diffusion models generating novel images.
problem Diffusion models generate highly original images far from training data.
method Identified locality and equivariance as inductive biases to prevent optimal score-matching.
result Analytic models predict diffusion model outputs with high accuracy.
Mobility datasets are fundamental for evaluating algorithms pertaining to geographic information systems and facilitating experimental reproducibility. But privacy implications restrict sharing such datasets, as even aggregated location-data is vulnerable to membership inference attacks. Current synthetic mobility data…
Semantic TrueLearn uses semantic graphs to improve educational recommendation systems.
problem Challenges in handling semantic and hierarchical structure in knowledge areas.
method Introduces a novel learner model that exploits semantic relatedness between knowledge components using a Wikipedia link graph.
result Achieves statistically significant improvements in predictive performance for educational engagement.
SPARC improves continual learning with minimal memory and computational overhead.
problem Efficient continual learning for deep neural networks.
method Combines task-specific working memories and task-agnostic semantic memory.
result Significantly reduces parameter usage (6% of full-model surrogates) while maintaining performance.
Improves document summarization by combining word embeddings and n-grams.
problem Exact word matching fails to measure semantic similarity between sentences.
method Uses deep embedding features and tf-idf features to improve sentence similarity measure; builds an improved sentence similarity graph; employs a submodular objective function; develops a Transformer-based compression model.
result Outperforms tf-idf based approach and achieves state-of-the-art performance on DUC04 dataset.
Transfer learning aims at building robust prediction models by transferring knowledge gained from one problem to another. In the semantic Web, learning tasks are enhanced with semantic representations. We exploit their semantics to augment transfer learning by dealing with when to transfer with semantic measurements an…
This paper presents a Semantic Attribute Modulation (SAM) for language modeling and style variation. The semantic attribute modulation includes various document attributes, such as titles, authors, and document categories. We consider two types of attributes, (title attributes and category attributes), and a flexible a…
New framework using Jensen-Shannon divergence improves domain adaptation theory.
problem Incoherence between empirical domain adversarial training and theoretical -divergence.
method Established new theoretical framework based on Jensen-Shannon divergence, derived bi-directional upper bounds.
result Framework exhibits flexibilities for various transfer learning problems.
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.
This paper presents a novel framework for predicting shot location and type in tennis. Inspired by recent neuroscience discoveries we incorporate neural memory modules to model the episodic and semantic memory components of a tennis player. We propose a Semi Supervised Generative Adversarial Network architecture that c…
This work provides uncertainty intervals for semantic latent variables in disentangled latent spaces.
problem Challenges in providing meaningful uncertainty quantification for semantic information in disentangled latent spaces.
method Uses quantile regression to output heuristic uncertainty intervals, calibrates these intervals to contain true latent values, and propagates them through the generator.
result Reliably communicates semantically meaningful, principled, and instance-adaptive uncertainty in image super-resolution and image completion.