This paper describes Task 2 of the DCASE 2018 Challenge, titled "General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound content with AudioSet labels". This task was hosted on the Kaggle platform as "Freesound General-Purpose Audio Tagging Challenge". The goal of the task is to build an audio tagging system that can recognize the c…
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Multi-label Classification for Automatic Tag Prediction in the Context of Programming Challengescs.LG
This paper automates tagging programming challenge descriptions.
problem Tagging programming challenge descriptions is tedious for creators.
method Used machine and deep learning methods for automation.
result Deep learning methods outperform traditional IR approaches.
The paper extends influence functions to sequence tagging tasks for better model interpretability.
problem Lack of interpretability methods for sequence tagging models.
method Define and compute influence of training instance segments on test segment predictions.
result The segment influence method tracks with true influence and identifies annotation errors.
In this paper, a new deep reinforcement learning based augmented general sequence tagging system is proposed. The new system contains two parts: a deep neural network (DNN) based sequence tagging model and a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based augmented tagger. The augmented tagger helps improve system performance …
Method learns audio embeddings with contextualized tags.
problem Align audio and tags for cross-modal tasks.
method Audio autoencoder, word embeddings, multi-head self-attention, contrastive loss.
result Multi-head self-attention improves audio representations.
In this paper we consider two sequence tagging tasks for medieval Latin: part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization. These are both basic, yet foundational preprocessing steps in applications such as text re-use detection. Nevertheless, they are generally complicated by the considerable orthographic variation which is ty…
Paper proposes set-valued prediction for historical POS tagging.
problem Difficult POS tagging in historical corpora due to lack of native speakers and sparse data.
method Set-valued prediction approach to allow uncertainty in tagging.
result Set-valued prediction improves POS tagging precision and robustness.
This paper introduces Task 2 of the DCASE2019 Challenge, titled "Audio tagging with noisy labels and minimal supervision". This task was hosted on the Kaggle platform as "Freesound Audio Tagging 2019". The task evaluates systems for multi-label audio tagging using a large set of noisy-labeled data, and a much smaller s…
Recent studies have shown that neural models can achieve high performance on several sequence labelling/tagging problems without the explicit use of linguistic features such as part-of-speech (POS) tags. These models are trained only using the character-level and the word embedding vectors as inputs. Others have shown …
New neural network layer handles OOV words in NLP tasks without pre-training.
problem Handling out-of-vocabulary words in natural language processing.
method Contextual-compositional neural network layer that attends to character sequence and context.
result Improves performance on 23 languages in joint tagging tasks.
TAWT improves cross-task learning efficiency and guarantees.
problem Improving cross-task learning efficiency and theoretical understanding.
method Target-Aware Weighted Training (TAWT) minimizing representation-based task distance.
result TAWT achieves non-asymptotic learning-theoretic guarantees and is effective in NLP tasks.
A multi-task learning model for slot tagging in biomedical domains.
problem Limited labeled data, memory constraints, and domain-specific slot types.
method Multi-task learning using deep bidirectional transformers.
result Outperforms previous state-of-the-art systems in efficiency and effectiveness.
New method uses artificial data to improve biomedical text tagging.
problem Lack of labeled data for biomedical tasks.
method Fine-tuning a pre-trained encoder with additional artificial labeled instances.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance in PICO annotation.
CrossFilter tackles noisy labels in audio tagging.
problem Noisy labels in large audio datasets.
method CrossFilter framework using multiple representations and multi-task learning.
result Improves audio tagging performance on FSDKaggle2018 and FSDKaggle2019 datasets.
Identifying the flavour of neutral mesons production is one of the most important components needed in the study of time-dependent violation. The harsh environment of the Large Hadron Collider makes it particularly hard to succeed in this task. We present an inclusive flavour-tagging algorithm as an upgrade of…
To date, there have been massive Semi-Structured Documents (SSDs) during the evolution of the Internet. These SSDs contain both unstructured features (e.g., plain text) and metadata (e.g., tags). Most previous works focused on modeling the unstructured text, and recently, some other methods have been proposed to model …
New algorithm estimates task affinities without repeated training, improving model performance and efficiency.
problem Efficiently estimating task affinities among multiple tasks for model training.
method Grad-TAG algorithm: trains a base model for all tasks and uses gradient-based linearization to estimate task affinities.
result Estimates task affinities with high accuracy and low computational cost.
In this paper we show that reporting a single performance score is insufficient to compare non-deterministic approaches. We demonstrate for common sequence tagging tasks that the seed value for the random number generator can result in statistically significant (p < 10^-4) differences for state-of-the-art systems. For …
Study interprets deep learning for LHC jet tagging.
problem Understanding deep learning models in LHC jet tagging.
method Recursive neural networks, comparative study of jet tagging tasks.
result Interesting observations on the latent space of jet tagging models.
On Expected Accuracycs.LG
We empirically investigate the (negative) expected accuracy as an alternative loss function to cross entropy (negative log likelihood) for classification tasks. Coupled with softmax activation, it has small derivatives over most of its domain, and is therefore hard to optimize. A modified, leaky version is evaluated on…
Prevalent efforts have been put in automatically inferring genres of musical items. Yet, the propose solutions often rely on simplifications and fail to address the diversity and subjectivity of music genres. Accounting for these has, though, many benefits for aligning knowledge sources, integrating data and enriching …
Feature learning and deep learning have drawn great attention in recent years as a way of transforming input data into more effective representations using learning algorithms. Such interest has grown in the area of music information retrieval (MIR) as well, particularly in music audio classification tasks such as auto…
Network embedding is a method to learn low-dimensional representation vectors for nodes in complex networks. In real networks, nodes may have multiple tags but existing methods ignore the abundant semantic and hierarchical information of tags. This information is useful to many network applications and usually very sta…
DeepJet improves jet flavor classification and quark-gluon tagging.
problem Jet flavor classification in high-energy physics experiments.
method Proposes a novel deep learning architecture, DeepJet, for improved performance.
result Improves heavy flavor classification performance and extends to quark-gluon tagging.
Proposes COALA method for learning audio representations aligned with tags.
problem Lack of annotated data for high-performance audio representation learning.
method Aligns latent representations of audio and tags using a contrastive loss.
result Audio embedding model captures both acoustic and semantic characteristics.
State-of-the-art sequence labeling systems traditionally require large amounts of task-specific knowledge in the form of hand-crafted features and data pre-processing. In this paper, we introduce a novel neutral network architecture that benefits from both word- and character-level representations automatically, by usi…
Large Question-and-Answer (Q&A) platforms support diverse knowledge curation on the Web. While researchers have studied user behavior on the platforms in a variety of contexts, there is relatively little insight into important by-products of user behavior that also encode knowledge. Here, we analyze and model the macro…
Improving part-of-speech tagging via multi-task learning and character-level word representationscs.CL
In this paper, we explore the ways to improve POS-tagging using various types of auxiliary losses and different word representations. As a baseline, we utilized a BiLSTM tagger, which is able to achieve state-of-the-art results on the sequence labelling tasks. We developed a new method for character-level word represen…
We propose a model for tagging unstructured texts with an arbitrary number of terms drawn from a tree-structured vocabulary (i.e., an ontology). We treat this as a special case of sequence-to-sequence learning in which the decoder begins at the root node of an ontological tree and recursively elects to expand child nod…
The performance of a Part-of-speech (POS) tagger is highly dependent on the domain ofthe processed text, and for many domains there is no or only very little training data available. This work addresses the problem of POS tagging noisy user-generated text using a neural network. We propose an architecture that trains a…
Automatic image annotation (AIA) raises tremendous challenges to machine learning as it requires modeling of data that are both ambiguous in input and output, e.g., images containing multiple objects and labeled with multiple semantic tags. Even more challenging is that the number of candidate tags is usually huge (as …
Confusion of Tagged Perturbations in Forward Automatic Differentiation of Higher-Order Functionscs.SC
Forward Automatic Differentiation (AD) is a technique for augmenting programs to compute derivatives. The essence of Forward AD is to attach perturbations to each number, and propagate these through the computation. When derivatives are nested, the distinct derivative calculations, and their associated perturbations, m…
Part-of-speech (POS) tagging is a fundamental component for performing natural language tasks such as parsing, information extraction, and question answering. When POS taggers are trained in one domain and applied in significantly different domains, their performance can degrade dramatically. We present a methodology f…
The task of determining item similarity is a crucial one in a recommender system. This constitutes the base upon which the recommender system will work to determine which items are more likely to be enjoyed by a user, resulting in more user engagement. In this paper we tackle the problem of determining song similarity …
Keyphrase boundary classification (KBC) is the task of detecting keyphrases in scientific articles and labelling them with respect to predefined types. Although important in practice, this task is so far underexplored, partly due to the lack of labelled data. To overcome this, we explore several auxiliary tasks, includ…
Quantum GNNs outperform classical GNNs in jet tagging.
problem Classifying partons initiating jets from high-energy particle collisions.
method Comparison of classical and quantum GNNs and their equivariant counterparts.
result Quantum GNNs outperformed classical GNNs in binary classification tasks.
Recent literature on deep neural networks for tagging of highly energetic jets resulting from top quark decays has focused on image based techniques or multivariate approaches using high-level jet substructure variables. Here, a sequential approach to this task is taken by using an ordered sequence of jet constituents …
We study the cluster categories arising from marked surfaces (with punctures and non-empty boundaries). By constructing skewed-gentle algebras, we show that there is a bijection between tagged curves and string objects. Applications include interpreting dimensions of as intersection numbers of ta…
Quantum analysis tags news for sentiment and entities.
problem Identifying bias in news reporting.
method Continuous data collection, NER and sentiment analysis.
result A corpus of tagged news articles for public use.
This paper creates a tagging system for paintings using historical descriptions.
problem Tagging accuracy for paintings over time with varying expert descriptions.
method A neural network with frequent itemsets as tags, followed by clustering.
result Improved tagging accuracy for paintings over time.
MuLan links music audio to natural language tags.
problem Traditional music tagging systems use rigid attributes; MuLan aims to link audio directly to natural language.
method Joint audio-text embedding model trained on 44 million music recordings and text annotations.
result MuLan's embeddings enable zero-shot functionalities and transfer learning.
The paper introduces a method to measure the benefits of incidental supervision signals.
problem Lack of a principled way to measure the benefits of various types of incidental supervision signals.
method Unified PAC-Bayesian motivated informativeness measure, PABI.
result Demonstrates PABI's effectiveness in quantifying the value added by various types of incidental signals.
A2 Learning reduces redundant examples in AL for NLP tasks.
problem Redundant examples in AL strategies waste annotation effort.
method A2 Learning actively adapts to deep learning models to eliminate redundant examples.
result A2 Learning reduces data requirements by 3-25% on NLP tasks.
Community detection in graphs has been extensively studied both in theory and in applications. However, detecting communities in hypergraphs is more challenging. In this paper, we propose a tensor decomposition approach for guaranteed learning of communities in a special class of hypergraphs modeling social tagging sys…
New framework learns from partial feedback in multi-label tasks.
problem Learning from one-sided feedback in multi-label tasks.
method Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) framework for set functions.
result Achieves optimal sample complexity in realizable case, multiplicative approximation guarantees in agnostic case.
ICP improves text infilling and POS tagging with valid confidence sets.
problem Statistical reliability of machine learning predictions.
method Inductive conformal prediction algorithms for text infilling and POS tagging.
result Valid set-valued predictions with small size for real-world applications.
Many real-world applications involve multivariate, geo-tagged time series data: at each location, multiple sensors record corresponding measurements. For example, air quality monitoring system records PM2.5, CO, etc. The resulting time-series data often has missing values due to device outages or communication errors. …
Fine-grained event tagging system for SEC 8-K filings improves precision to 96%.
problem Coarse SEC item codes mislabel routine and significant events.
method Two-stage system tagging 8-K disclosures against a 119-event taxonomy.
result LLM judge finds precision rises to 96% with quality scores.