Publications associées à Lightweight Cross-Lingual Sentence Representation Learning

Infusing structured knowledge priors in neural models for sample-efficient symbolic reasoning

The ability to reason, plan and solve highly abstract problems is a hallmark of human intelligence. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, propelled by deep neural networks, have revolutionized disciplines like computer vision and natural language ...

EPFL2024

Examining European Press Coverage of the Covid-19 No-Vax Movement: An NLP Framework

Daniel Gatica-Perez

This paper examines how the European press dealt with the no-vax reactions against the Covid-19 vaccine and the dis- and misinformation associated with this movement. Using a curated dataset of 1786 articles from 19 European newspapers on the anti-vaccine ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Modeling Structured Data in Attention-based Models

Alireza Mohammadshahi

Natural language processing has experienced significant improvements with the development of Transformer-based models, which employ self-attention mechanism and pre-training strategies. However, these models still present several obstacles. A notable issue ...

EPFL2023

4M: Massively Multimodal Masked Modeling

Amir Roshan Zamir, Roman Christian Bachmann, Shuqing Teresa Yeo, David Mizrahi, Oguzhan Fatih Kar

Current machine learning models for vision are often highly specialized and limited to a single modality and task. In contrast, recent large language models exhibit a wide range of capabilities, hinting at a possibility for similarly versatile models in co ...

Neural Information Processing Systems (Nips)2023

Interpretable Representation Learning and Evaluation for Abstractive Summarization

Andreas Thomas Marfurt

Abstractive summarization has seen big improvements in recent years, mostly due to advances in neural language modeling, language model pretraining, and scaling models and datasets. While large language models generate summaries that are fluent, coherent, ...

EPFL2023

Text as a Richer Source of Supervision in Semantic Segmentation Tasks

Devis Tuia, Valérie Zermatten, Lloyd Haydn Hughes, Javiera Francisca Castillo Navarro

This paper introduces TACOSS a text-image alignment approach that allows explainable land cover semantic segmentation by directly integrating semantic concepts encoded from texts. TACOSS combines convolutional neural networks for visual feature extraction ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc2023

Revisiting Offline Compression: Going Beyond Factorization-based Methods for Transformer Language Models

Karl Aberer, Rémi Philippe Lebret, Mohammadreza Banaei

Recent transformer language models achieve outstanding results in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, their enormous size often makes them impractical on memory-constrained devices, requiring practitioners to compress them to smaller net ...

Assoc Computational Linguistics-Acl2023

DISCO: Distilling Counterfactuals with Large Language Models

Antoine Bosselut, Zeming Chen, Qiyue Gao

Models trained with counterfactually augmented data learn representations of the causal structure of tasks, enabling robust generalization. However, high-quality counterfactual data is scarce for most tasks and not easily generated at scale. When crowdsour ...

Assoc Computational Linguistics-Acl2023

A multi-modal pre-training transformer for universal transfer learning in metal-organic frameworks

Berend Smit, Hyunsoo Park

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of crystalline porous materials that exhibit a vast chemical space owing to their tunable molecular building blocks with diverse topologies. An unlimited number of MOFs can, in principle, be synthesized. Machine ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Robust Outlier Rejection for 3D Registration with Variational Bayes

Mathieu Salzmann, Zheng Dang, Zhen Wei, Jiancheng Yang, Haobo Jiang

Learning-based outlier (mismatched correspondence) rejection for robust 3D registration generally formulates the outlier removal as an inlier/outlier classification problem. The core for this to be successful is to learn the discriminative inlier/outlier f ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

Unsupervised Term Extraction for Highly Technical Domains

Diego Matteo Antognini

Term extraction is an information extraction task at the root of knowledge discovery platforms. Developing term extractors that are able to generalize across very diverse and potentially highly technical domains is challenging, as annotations for domains r ...

2022

How We Use Wikipedia: Studying Readers' Behavior with Navigation Traces

Tiziano Piccardi

In the information age, the Web and the growing global connectivity drastically simplified our access to information. Learning and fact-checking from online resources is nowadays part of our daily routine. Studying the dynamic associated with online conten ...

EPFL2022

Continual Test-Time Domain Adaptation

Qin Wang, Olga Fink

Test-time domain adaptation aims to adapt a source pretrained model to a target domain without using any source data. Existing works mainly consider the case where the target domain is static. However, real-world machine perception systems are running in n ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

RG-Flow: a hierarchical and explainable flow model based on renormalization group and sparse prior

Dian Wu

Flow-based generative models have become an important class of unsupervised learning approaches. In this work, we incorporate the key ideas of renormalization group (RG) and sparse prior distribution to design a hierarchical flow-based generative model, RG ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

SKILL: Structured Knowledge Infusion for Large Language Models

Martin Jaggi, Fedor Moiseev

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated human-level performance on a vast spectrum of natural language tasks. However, it is largely unexplored whether they can better internalize knowledge from a structured data, such as a knowledge graph, or from ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2022

Prompt–RSVQA: Prompting visual context to a language model for Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering

Devis Tuia, Christel Marie Tartini-Chappuis, Valérie Zermatten, Sylvain Lobry

Remote sensing visual question answering (RQA) was recently proposed with the aim of interfacing natural language and vision to ease the access of information contained in Earth Observation data for a wide audience, which is granted by simple questions in ...

2022

End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialog Modeling With Semi-Structured Knowledge Management

Antoine Bosselut, Silin Gao

Current task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems mostly manage structured knowledge (e.g. databases and tables) to guide the goal-oriented conversations. However, they fall short of handling dialogs which also involve unstructured knowledge (e.g. reviews and doc ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Bridging the gap between model-driven and data-driven methods in the era of Big Data

Gael Lederrey

Data-driven and model-driven methodologies can be regarded as competitive fields since they tackle similar problems such as prediction. However, these two fields can learn from each other to improve themselves. Indeed, data-driven methodologies have been d ...

EPFL2022

Learning computationally efficient static word and sentence representations

Prakhar Gupta

Most of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms involve use of distributed vector representations of linguistic units (primarily words and sentences) also known as embeddings in one way or another. These embeddings come in two flavours namely, sta ...

EPFL2021

Interpreting Language Models Through Knowledge Graph Extraction

Martin Jaggi, Angeliki Romanou, Vinitra Swamy

Transformer-based language models trained on large text corpora have enjoyed immense popularity in the natural language processing community and are commonly used as a starting point for downstream tasks. While these models are undeniably useful, it is a c ...

2021