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Multilingual (or cross-lingual) embeddings represent several languages in a unique vector space. Using a common embedding space enables for a shared semantic between words from different languages. In this paper, we propose to embed images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Maxime Portaz , Hicham Randrianarivo , Adrien Nivaggioli , Estelle Maudet , Christophe Servan , Sylvain Peyronnet

With the rising applications implemented in different domains, it is inevitable to require databases to adopt corresponding appropriate data models to store and exchange data derived from various sources. To handle these data models in a…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Gongsheng Yuan , Jiaheng Lu , Peifeng Su

We propose two novel model architectures for computing continuous vector representations of words from very large data sets. The quality of these representations is measured in a word similarity task, and the results are compared to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Tomas Mikolov , Kai Chen , Greg Corrado , Jeffrey Dean

As a primary means of information acquisition, information retrieval (IR) systems, such as search engines, have integrated themselves into our daily lives. These systems also serve as components of dialogue, question-answering, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yutao Zhu , Huaying Yuan , Shuting Wang , Jiongnan Liu , Wenhan Liu , Chenlong Deng , Haonan Chen , Zheng Liu , Zhicheng Dou , Ji-Rong Wen

Vision-language models (VLMs) allow to embed texts and images in a shared representation space. However, it has been shown that these models are subject to a modality gap phenomenon meaning there exists a clear separation between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 François Role , Sébastien Meyer , Victor Amblard

Probabilistic language models are widely used in Information Retrieval (IR) to rank documents by the probability that they generate the query. However, the implementation of the probabilistic representations with programming languages that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Yanshan Wang , Hongfang Liu

This survey explores the synergistic potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vector Databases (VecDBs), a burgeoning but rapidly evolving research area. With the proliferation of LLMs comes a host of challenges, including…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhi Jing , Yongye Su , Yikun Han , Bo Yuan , Haiyun Xu , Chunjiang Liu , Kehai Chen , Min Zhang

Language provides the most revealing window into the ways humans structure conceptual knowledge within cognitive maps. Harnessing this information has been difficult, given the challenge of reliably mapping words to mental concepts.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-19 Matthew M Nour , Daniel C McNamee , Isaac Fradkin , Raymond J Dolan

Vector space word representations are learned from distributional information of words in large corpora. Although such statistics are semantically informative, they disregard the valuable information that is contained in semantic lexicons…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Manaal Faruqui , Jesse Dodge , Sujay K. Jauhar , Chris Dyer , Eduard Hovy , Noah A. Smith

In the decade since 2010, successes in artificial intelligence have been at the forefront of computer science and technology, and vector space models have solidified a position at the forefront of artificial intelligence. At the same time,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Dominic Widdows , Kirsty Kitto , Trevor Cohen

Vector-space representations provide geometric tools for reasoning about the similarity of a set of objects and their relationships. Recent machine learning methods for deriving vector-space embeddings of words (e.g., word2vec) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Dawn Chen , Joshua C. Peterson , Thomas L. Griffiths

A plethora of vector-space representations for words is currently available, which is growing. These consist of fixed-length vectors containing real values, which represent a word. The result is a representation upon which the power of many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Leon Derczynski

Vector-based retrieval systems have become a common staple for academic and industrial search applications because they provide a simple and scalable way of extending the search to leverage contextual representations for documents and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Daniel Campos , ChengXiang Zhai

Following the recent popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), several attempts have been made to extend them to the visual domain. From having a visual assistant that could guide us through unfamiliar environments to generative models…

In the literature, tensors have been effectively used for capturing the context information in language models. However, the existing methods usually adopt relatively-low order tensors, which have limited expressive power in modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Lipeng Zhang , Peng Zhang , Xindian Ma , Shuqin Gu , Zhan Su , Dawei Song

Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLM) have stirred up global attention, and the research has been accelerating non-stop since then. Philosophers and psychologists have also been researching the structure of language for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Joseph Chen

Dense retrieval models usually adopt vectors from the last hidden layer of the document encoder to represent a document, which is in contrast to the fact that representations in different layers of a pre-trained language model usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhongbin Xie , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Dense retrieval models use bi-encoder network architectures for learning query and document representations. These representations are often in the form of a vector representation and their similarities are often computed using the dot…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Hamed Zamani , Michael Bendersky

We ask the question: to what extent can recent large-scale language and image generation models blend visual concepts? Given an arbitrary object, we identify a relevant object and generate a single-sentence description of the blend of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Songwei Ge , Devi Parikh

This paper presents a group-theoretical vector space model (VSM) that extends the VSM with a group action on a vector space of the VSM. We use group and its representation theory to represent a dynamic transformation of information objects,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Dohan Kim