Recent years have seen remarkable progress of text generation in different contexts, such as the most common setting of generating text from scratch, and the emerging paradigm of retrieval-and-rewriting. Text infilling, which fills missing text portions of a sentence or paragraph, is also of numerous use in real life, …
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.
InSphereNet uses infilling spheres for 3D object classification, improving accuracy with fewer parameters.
problem 3D object classification using points, voxels, or images.
method Constructs infilling spheres from signed distance field (SDF) for classification.
result InSphereNet achieves superior accuracy with fewer inputs and parameters.
Physical systems are modelled and investigated within simulation software in an increasing range of applications. In reality an investigation of the system is often performed by empirical test scenarios which are related to typical situations. Our aim is to derive a method which generates diverse test scenarios each re…
RaMViD uses diffusion models for video prediction and infilling.
problem Predicting and infilling missing information in videos.
method Extends image diffusion models to videos using 3D convolutions and a new conditioning technique.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on video prediction benchmarks.
Anticipatory model generates music with control over events.
problem Controlling symbolic music generation.
method Interleaving event and control sequences to predict future events.
result Anticipatory model matches autoregressive models in performance and can infill control tasks.
Model infers mineral locations from geospatial data, improving predictions with auxiliary data.
problem Challenges in characterizing hidden mineral deposits underground.
method Generative modeling approach using masked and infilled geospatial maps.
result Models achieve Dice coefficients of 0.31 and recalls of 0.22 at 1×1 mi² resolution.
Unified perspective unites Bayesian optimization and active learning for efficient goal-oriented optimization.
problem Efficiently optimize expensive engineering and scientific problems with limited data.
method Unified framework linking Bayesian infill criteria and active learning criteria.
result Unified approach formalizes Bayesian infill criteria and active learning criteria.
A new method for high-dimensional Bayesian optimization.
problem Challenges in extending BO to high dimensions.
method Expected Coordinate Improvement (ECI) criterion for high-dimensional Bayesian optimization.
result Significantly better results than standard BO and competitive results with state-of-the-art methods.
We present mlrMBO, a flexible and comprehensive R toolbox for model-based optimization (MBO), also known as Bayesian optimization, which addresses the problem of expensive black-box optimization by approximating the given objective function through a surrogate regression model. It is designed for both single- and multi…
Study improves accuracy of weather data for real-time building simulations.
problem Anomalous and missing weather data affect real-time building energy simulations.
method Introduces a framework for quality control of measured weather data using anomaly detection and neural network infilling.
result Neural Networks enhance the accuracy of data imputation compared to traditional methods.
New method boosts performance of diffusion models on discrete data like natural language.
problem Performance of diffusion models on discrete data like natural language is poor.
method Proposes score entropy, a novel loss that extends score matching to discrete spaces.
result Significantly boosts performance on language modeling tasks.
We use SMC with twist functions to improve probabilistic inference in LLMs.
problem Improving probabilistic inference in large language models.
method We use Sequential Monte Carlo with learned twist functions to estimate expected future values and focus inference on promising sequences.
result Twisted SMC improves the accuracy of language model inference and evaluation.
Paper introduces TtT, market-implied transition time, from greenium term structure.
problem Estimating market-implied transition time to a low-carbon economy.
method Develops inference theory for TtT, introduces two stochastic models.
result Combines two-layer analysis for consistent estimation of diffusion parameters.
In this paper, a new sequential surrogate-based optimization (SSBO) algorithm is developed, which aims to improve the global search ability and local search efficiency for the global optimization of expensive black-box models. The proposed method involves three basic sub-criteria to infill new samples asynchronously to…
Bayesian Optimization tackles hidden constraints in architecture optimization.
problem Optimizing system architectures with hidden constraints using expensive physics-based simulations.
method Surrogate-based optimization with Gaussian Process models, including strategies for handling failed evaluations.
result Best performance achieved with a mixed-discrete GP predicting Probability of Viability (PoV) and minimum PoV threshold selection.
This paper presents the nonparametric inference for nonlinear volatility functionals of general multivariate Itô semimartingales, in high-frequency and noisy setting. Pre-averaging and truncation enable simultaneous handling of noise and jumps. Second-order expansion reveals explicit biases and a pathway to bias correc…
Scalarizing functions have been widely used to convert a multiobjective optimization problem into a single objective optimization problem. However, their use in solving (computationally) expensive multi- and many-objective optimization problems in Bayesian multiobjective optimization is scarce. Scalarizing functions ca…
Diffusion models generate music sequences without autoregressive loops.
problem Generating music sequences from symbolic data using diffusion models.
method Parameterize discrete symbolic data in continuous latent space, train diffusion model, generate sequences through reverse process.
result Strong unconditional generation and post-hoc conditional infilling compared to autoregressive models.
Near-future large galaxy surveys will encounter blended galaxy images at a fraction of up to 50% in the densest regions of the universe. Current deblending techniques may segment the foreground galaxy while leaving missing pixel intensities in the background galaxy flux. The problem is compounded by the diffuse nature …
Sparse Gaussian process quantile regression tackles computational challenges in Bayesian quantile regression.
problem Nonconjugacy and computational cost in Gaussian process quantile regression.
method Sparse Gaussian process framework with Laplace approximation, adaptive inducing-input placement, and sequential data acquisition.
result Accuracy of Laplace approximation and effectiveness of adaptive mechanisms in reducing predictive uncertainty.
A scalable portfolio approach speeds up Bayesian optimization for noisy functions.
problem Efficiently selecting multiple designs in parallel for noisy, expensive black-box optimization.
method A portfolio approach that balances exploration and exploitation, using a scalable allocation strategy.
result Significant speed improvements over existing methods, with similar or better performance.
New scalarizing functions improve multi-objective Bayesian optimisation.
problem Improving multi-objective Bayesian optimisation efficiency.
method Comparing two infill criteria based on hypervolume improvement.
result Effective scalarizing functions enhance hypervolume maximisation.
Scene text magnifier aims to magnify text in natural scene images without recognition. It could help the special groups, who have myopia or dyslexia to better understand the scene. In this paper, we design the scene text magnifier through interacted four CNN-based networks: character erasing, character extraction, char…
The paper classifies actions of a specific group on certain manifolds.
problem Classifying analytic actions of a specific semi-orthogonal group on manifolds.
method Adapting Uchida's construction, the paper explicitly constructs actions on specific manifolds and demonstrates that any action is covered by these.
result Any analytic action of the semi-orthogonal group on a closed, connected manifold is covered by the constructed actions.
The paper solves the Nielsen realization problem for high degree del Pezzo surfaces.
problem Which finite subgroups of the mapping class group of a del Pezzo surface lift to the diffeomorphism group?
method Classification and partial answers for d≥7, equivariant connected sum for d=6. result Complete classification for d≥7, partial answer for d=6. We establish a gluing construction for Higgs bundles over a connected sum of Riemann surfaces in terms of solutions to the Sp(4,R)-Hitchin equations using the linearization of a relevant elliptic operator. The construction can be used to provide model Higgs bundles in all the 2g−3 exce…
A new text representation model combines CNN and VAE for better semantic extraction.
problem Difficult to effectively extract semantic features and distinguish polysemy in text data.
method Integrates CNN for feature extraction and VAE for consistent Gaussian distribution.
result The model outperforms traditional classification algorithms in text classification tasks.
We propose two algorithms that can find local minima faster than the state-of-the-art algorithms in both finite-sum and general stochastic nonconvex optimization. At the core of the proposed algorithms is One-epoch-SNVRG+ using stochastic nested variance reduction (Zhou et al., 2018a), which outperforms the s…
New families of Lie groups with special foliations discovered.
problem Characterizing left-invariant foliations on semi-Riemannian Lie groups.
method Classifying foliations generated by specific subgroups.
result Constructing new families of Lie groups with conformal minimal foliations.
Improved text summarization using belief propagation on weighted bipartite graphs.
problem Text summarization from a graph theory perspective.
method Generalized belief propagation algorithm for weighted bipartite graphs.
result Our algorithm outperforms greedy methods in text summarization tasks.
New TC variant dTC better fits motion planning for some systems.
problem Improving motion planning for autonomous systems.
method Defined and computed new homotopy invariant dTC.
result dTC and dcat provide better motion planning solutions.
Let Man∗ denote the category of closed, connected, oriented and based 3-manifolds, with basepoint preserving diffeomorphisms between them. Juhász, Thurston and Zemke showed that the Heegaard Floer invariants are natural with respect to diffeomorphisms, in the sense that there are functors $HF^{\circ}: \te…
StoryGen uses images to generate coherent text from multiple images.
problem Generating coherent text from multiple images.
method Designing a Relational Text Data Generator algorithm to relate features from plural images.
result The model can generate meaningful paragraphs containing extracted features from input images.
Paper generates diverse, readable adversarial texts from scratch.
problem Text classification models are easily fooled by adversarial examples.
method Trained a conditional variational autoencoder (VAE) with adversarial loss and utilized GANs to generate consistent adversarial texts.
result Successfully generates adversarial texts with higher success rate and acceptable quality.
Unified framework improves NLP tasks by converting diverse problems into text-to-text format.
problem Improving natural language processing tasks through transfer learning.
method Unified text-to-text transformer framework, comparing various pre-training objectives and architectures.
result Achieved state-of-the-art results on multiple NLP benchmarks.
SCROLLS benchmarks long text NLP tasks, improving existing models.
problem Short NLP benchmarks ignore long texts; SCROLLS addresses this.
method Handpicked long-text datasets for summarization, QA, and inference tasks.
result Improvement potential on SCROLLS tasks, as indicated by initial baselines.
New method detects text changes under dependencies, outperforming baselines.
problem Detecting structural changes in m-dependent text data. method Kernel change-point detection under m-dependence. result Consistent and weakly consistent detection of change points in m-dependent text. Contextual bandits study how reward variance affects regret bounds.
problem Investigating how small reward variance impacts regret bounds in contextual bandits.
method Analyzing two types of adversaries and function approximation complexities.
result Regret bounds are influenced by the eluder dimension and reward variance.
The paper studies symplectic structures on character varieties of Sasakian threefolds.
problem Character varieties of Sasakian threefolds and their symplectic structures.
method Constructing a natural algebraic 2-form and showing its properties.
result The restriction of the 2-form to the space of irreducible SU(r) homomorphisms is symplectic.
Proposes spherical text embedding for better directional similarity.
problem Directional similarity is more effective but unsupervised text embeddings are typically learned in Euclidean space.
method Develops a spherical generative model and an efficient optimization algorithm for unsupervised word and paragraph embeddings.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performances on various text embedding tasks.
Most of the information is stored as text, so text mining is regarded as having high commercial potential. Aiming at the semantic constraint problem of classification methods based on sparse representation, we propose a weighted recurrent neural network (W-RNN), which can fully extract text serialization semantic infor…
We study the behavior of the second order Renormalization Group flow on locally homogeneous metrics on closed three-manifolds. In the cases R3 and SO(3)×R, the flow is qualitatively the same as the Ricci flow. In the cases H(3) and H(2)×R, if the curvature is small, t…
A graph model improves short text classification by integrating sentence relationships.
problem Sparse features in short text classification due to limited text length.
method PathWalk model combining graph networks and short sentences.
result PathWalk achieves state-of-the-art results on four datasets.
Joyce showed that for a classical knot K, the involutory medial quandle IMQ(K) is isomorphic to the core quandle of the homology group H1(X2), where X2 is the cyclic double cover of S3, branched over K. It follows that ∣IMQ(K)∣=∣detK∣. In the present paper, the extension o…
TextNAS finds optimal text representation networks using neural architecture search.
problem Finding the optimal text representation networks is challenging.
method Proposes a novel search space for text representation and uses automatic neural architecture search.
result Automatic search discovers network architectures that outperform state-of-the-art models on text classification and natural language inference tasks.
Paper proposes ICCN to learn correlations between text, audio, and video for multimodal sentiment analysis.
problem Improving multimodal sentiment analysis by learning hidden correlations between text and audio/video features.
method Interaction Canonical Correlation Network (ICCN) using deep canonical correlation analysis (DCCA).
result Empirical results confirm the effectiveness of ICCN in capturing useful information from all three views.
The paper classifies nilmanifolds with specific SL(3,C) structures.
problem Classifying nilmanifolds with invariant mean convex or tamed SL(3,C) structures.
method Invariants and classification of structures on nilmanifolds.
result Classification of nilmanifolds with invariant mean convex closed SL(3,C) structures.