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The last decade has seen a revolution in the theory and application of machine learning and pattern recognition. Through these advancements, variable ranking has emerged as an active and growing research area and it is now beginning to be…

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In this thesis, we develop various techniques for working with sets in machine learning. Each input or output is not an image or a sequence, but a set: an unordered collection of multiple objects, each object described by a feature vector.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Yan Zhang

Synthesizing realistic 3D indoor scenes is a challenging task that traditionally relies on manual arrangement and annotation by expert designers. Recent advances in autoregressive models have automated this process, but they often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Qi Sun , Hang Zhou , Wengang Zhou , Li Li , Houqiang Li

How do neural networks trained over sequences acquire the ability to perform structured operations, such as arithmetic, geometric, and algorithmic computation? To gain insight into this question, we introduce the sequential group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Giovanni Luca Marchetti , Daniel Kunin , Adele Myers , Francisco Acosta , Nina Miolane

In sequence modeling tasks the token order matters, but this information can be partially lost due to the discretization of the sequence into data points. In this paper, we study the imbalance between the way certain token pairs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Noémien Kocher , Christian Scuito , Lorenzo Tarantino , Alexandros Lazaridis , Andreas Fischer , Claudiu Musat

The prevalent approach to sequence to sequence learning maps an input sequence to a variable length output sequence via recurrent neural networks. We introduce an architecture based entirely on convolutional neural networks. Compared to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Jonas Gehring , Michael Auli , David Grangier , Denis Yarats , Yann N. Dauphin

While sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models achieve state-of-the-art performance in many natural language processing tasks, they can be too slow for real-time applications. One performance bottleneck is predicting the most likely next token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Chunyang Xiao , Christoph Teichmann , Konstantine Arkoudas

In recent times, sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models have gained a lot of popularity and provide state-of-the-art performance in a wide variety of tasks such as machine translation, headline generation, text summarization, speech to text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yaser Keneshloo , Tian Shi , Naren Ramakrishnan , Chandan K. Reddy

A central challenge in continual learning is forgetting, the loss of performance on previously learned tasks induced by sequential adaptation to new ones. While forgetting has been extensively studied empirically, rigorous theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zonghuan Xu , Xingjun Ma

Recent advancements in data-to-text generation largely take on the form of neural end-to-end systems. Efforts have been dedicated to improving text generation systems by changing the order of training samples in a process known as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ernie Chang , Hui-Syuan Yeh , Vera Demberg

This work aims to predict channels in wireless communication systems based on noisy observations, utilizing sequence-to-sequence models with attention (Seq2Seq-attn) and transformer models. Both models are adapted from natural language…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-05 Valentina Rizzello , Benedikt Böck , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

Sentence simplification is the task of rewriting texts so they are easier to understand. Recent research has applied sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models to this task, focusing largely on training-time improvements via reinforcement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Reno Kriz , João Sedoc , Marianna Apidianaki , Carolina Zheng , Gaurav Kumar , Eleni Miltsakaki , Chris Callison-Burch

This work proposes a novel approach based on sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models for context-aware conversational systems. Exist- ing seq2seq models have been shown to be good for generating natural responses in a data-driven…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Silje Christensen , Simen Johnsrud , Massimiliano Ruocco , Heri Ramampiaro

In many real-world applications, modeling both the internal structure of sets and their temporal relationships is essential for capturing complex underlying patterns. Sequential multiple-instance learning aims to address this challenge by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Athanasios Efthymiou , Stevan Rudinac , Monika Kackovic , Nachoem Wijnberg , Marcel Worring

Conditional set generation learns a mapping from an input sequence of tokens to a set. Several NLP tasks, such as entity typing and dialogue emotion tagging, are instances of set generation. Seq2Seq models, a popular choice for set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Aman Madaan , Dheeraj Rajagopal , Niket Tandon , Yiming Yang , Antoine Bosselut

Neural networks mapping sequences to sequences (seq2seq) lead to significant progress in machine translation and speech recognition. Their traditional architecture includes two recurrent networks (RNs) followed by a linear predictor. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Boris Rubinstein

Multi-label text classification (MLTC) aims to assign multiple labels to each sample in the dataset. The labels usually have internal correlations. However, traditional methods tend to ignore the correlations between labels. In order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Pengcheng Yang , Shuming Ma , Yi Zhang , Junyang Lin , Qi Su , Xu Sun

Quantum circuits that generate coherent superpositions of stochastic processes are key to many downstream quantum-accelerated tasks, such as risk analysis, importance sampling, and DNA sequencing. However, traditional methods for designing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Ximing Wang , Chengran Yang , Chidambaram Aditya Somasundaram , Jayne Thompson , Mile Gu

While many production-ready and robust algorithms are available for the task of recommendation systems, many of these systems do not take the order of user's consumption into account. The order of consumption can be very useful and matters…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Mehdi Soleiman Nejad , Meysam Varasteh , Hadi Moradi , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi

Machine learning on sets towards sequential output is an important and ubiquitous task, with applications ranging from language modeling and meta-learning to multi-agent strategy games and power grid optimization. Combining elements of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Mateusz Jurewicz , Leon Strømberg-Derczynski