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Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are widely used in computational neuroscience and machine learning applications. In an RNN, each neuron computes its output as a nonlinear function of its integrated input. While the importance of RNNs,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2012-07-10 Sebastian Bitzer , Stefan J. Kiebel

The task of person re-identification has recently received rising attention due to the high performance achieved by new methods based on deep learning. In particular, in the context of video-based re-identification, many state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Jean-Baptiste Boin , Andre Araujo , Bernd Girod

Automatic question-answering (QA) systems have boomed during last few years, and commonly used techniques can be roughly categorized into Information Retrieval (IR)-based and generation-based. A key solution to the IR based models is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Shuangyong Song , Chao Wang

Question generation (QG) attempts to solve the inverse of question answering (QA) problem by generating a natural language question given a document and an answer. While sequence to sequence neural models surpass rule-based systems for QG,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Deepak Gupta , Hardik Chauhan , Akella Ravi Tej , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Search engines play an important role in our everyday lives by assisting us in finding the information we need. When we input a complex query, however, results are often far from satisfactory. In this work, we introduce a query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Rodrigo Nogueira , Kyunghyun Cho

Answering questions using pre-trained language models (LMs) and knowledge graphs (KGs) presents challenges in identifying relevant knowledge and performing joint reasoning.We compared LMs (fine-tuned for the task) with the previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Shreyas Verma , Manoj Parmar , Palash Choudhary , Sanchita Porwal

Query rewriting (QR) systems are widely used to reduce the friction caused by errors in a spoken language understanding pipeline. However, the underlying supervised models require a large number of labeled pairs, and these pairs are hard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yunmo Chen , Sixing Lu , Fan Yang , Xiaojiang Huang , Xing Fan , Chenlei Guo

This paper presents an efficient model to predict a student's answer correctness given his past learning activities. Basically, I use both transformer encoder and RNN to deal with time series input. The novel point of the model is that it…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-11 SeungKee Jeon

We introduce the concept of multiple temporal perspectives, a novel approach applicable to Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) architectures for enhancing their understanding of sequential data. This method involves maintaining diverse temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru , Darius Peteleaza , Mihai Surdeanu

We propose deep distributed recurrent Q-networks (DDRQN), which enable teams of agents to learn to solve communication-based coordination tasks. In these tasks, the agents are not given any pre-designed communication protocol. Therefore, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Jakob N. Foerster , Yannis M. Assael , Nando de Freitas , Shimon Whiteson

The recurrent network architecture is a widely used model in sequence modeling, but its serial dependency hinders the computation parallelization, which makes the operation inefficient. The same problem was encountered in serial adder at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Haowei Jiang , Feiwei Qin , Jin Cao , Yong Peng , Yanli Shao

Conversational question answering (QA) requires the ability to correctly interpret a question in the context of previous conversation turns. We address the conversational QA task by decomposing it into question rewriting and question…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Svitlana Vakulenko , Shayne Longpre , Zhucheng Tu , Raviteja Anantha

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are important class of architectures among neural networks useful for language modeling and sequential prediction. However, optimizing RNNs is known to be harder compared to feed-forward neural networks. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-29 Konrad Zolna , Devansh Arpit , Dendi Suhubdy , Yoshua Bengio

We address the task of automatically scoring the competency of candidates based on textual features, from the automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcriptions in the asynchronous video job interview (AVI). The key challenge is how to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Kai Chen , Meng Niu , Qingcai Chen

Conversational question answering (convQA) over knowledge graphs (KGs) involves answering multi-turn natural language questions about information contained in a KG. State-of-the-art methods of ConvQA often struggle with inexplicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Lihui Liu , Blaine Hill , Boxin Du , Fei Wang , Hanghang Tong

When answering a question, people often draw upon their rich world knowledge in addition to the particular context. While recent works retrieve supporting facts/evidence from commonsense knowledge bases to supply additional information to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Yinya Huang , Meng Fang , Xunlin Zhan , Qingxing Cao , Xiaodan Liang , Liang Lin

The artificial neural network shows powerful ability of inference, but it is still criticized for lack of interpretability and prerequisite needs of big dataset. This paper proposes the Rule-embedded Neural Network (ReNN) to overcome the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Hu Wang

Detecting semantic similarities between sentences is still a challenge today due to the ambiguity of natural languages. In this work, we propose a simple approach to identifying semantically similar questions by combining the strengths of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yoan Dimitrov

In this paper, we describe the use of recurrent neural networks to capture sequential information from the self-attention representations to improve the Transformers. Although self-attention mechanism provides a means to exploit long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Tze Yuang Chong , Xuyang Wang , Lin Yang , Junjie Wang

State-of-the-art solutions in the areas of "Language Modelling & Generating Text", "Speech Recognition", "Generating Image Descriptions" or "Video Tagging" have been using Recurrent Neural Networks as the foundation for their approaches.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Robin M. Schmidt