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Probability estimation is one of the fundamental tasks in statistics and machine learning. However, standard methods for probability estimation on discrete objects do not handle object structure in a satisfactory manner. In this paper, we…

Applications · Statistics 2018-11-06 Cheng Zhang , Frederick A. Matsen

Neural methods for embedding entities are typically extrinsically evaluated on downstream tasks and, more recently, intrinsically using probing tasks. Downstream task-based comparisons are often difficult to interpret due to differences in…

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The success of neural networks on a diverse set of NLP tasks has led researchers to question how much these networks actually ``know'' about natural language. Probes are a natural way of assessing this. When probing, a researcher chooses a…

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Clustering is a fundamental approach to understanding data patterns, wherein the intuitive Euclidean distance space is commonly adopted. However, this is not the case for implicit cluster distributions reflected by qualitative attribute…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-05 Mingjie Zhao , Sen Feng , Yiqun Zhang , Mengke Li , Yang Lu , Yiu-ming Cheung

Knowledge representation learning (KRL) aims to represent entities and relations in knowledge graph in low-dimensional semantic space, which have been widely used in massive knowledge-driven tasks. In this article, we introduce the reader…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Yankai Lin , Xu Han , Ruobing Xie , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Sampling distribution, a foundational concept in statistics, is difficult to understand, since we usually have only one realization of the estimator of interest. In this work, we present an innovative method for helping university students…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2021-07-26 Mariela Sued , Marina Valdora

The ubiquity and value of tables as semi-structured data across various domains necessitate advanced methods for understanding their complexity and vast amounts of information. Despite the impressive capabilities of large language models…

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Social learning -by observing and copying others- is a highly successful cultural mechanism for adaptation, outperforming individual information acquisition and experience. Here, we investigate social learning in the context of the uniquely…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Iyad Rahwan , Dmytro Krasnoshtan , Azim Shariff , Jean-Francois Bonnefon

Tremendous efforts have been put into evaluating the inclusivity and effectiveness of AI systems across cultures. However, the cultural capabilities considered in much of the literature remain vaguely defined, are referred to using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Isar Nejadgholi , Masoud Kianpour , Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla , Maryam Molamohamadi

Current Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods, most based on deep learning, have facilitated progress in several fields, including computer vision and natural language understanding. The progress of these AI methods is measured using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Stefan Maetschke , David Martinez Iraola , Pieter Barnard , Elaheh ShafieiBavani , Peter Zhong , Ying Xu , Antonio Jimeno Yepes

Commonsense knowledge has proven to be beneficial to a variety of application areas, including question answering and natural language understanding. Previous work explored collecting commonsense knowledge triples automatically from text to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Zhicheng Liang , Deborah L. McGuinness

Data analysis and machine learning have become an integrative part of the modern scientific methodology, offering automated procedures for the prediction of a phenomenon based on past observations, unraveling underlying patterns in data and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-04 Gilles Louppe

Learning from the crowd has become increasingly popular in the Web and social media. There is a wide variety of crowdlearning sites in which, on the one hand, users learn from the knowledge that other users contribute to the site, and, on…

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A model of knowledge representation is described in which propositional facts and the relationships among them can be supported by other facts. The set of knowledge which can be supported is called the set of cognitive units, each having…

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With the rapid growth of knowledge, it shows a steady trend of knowledge fragmentization. Knowledge fragmentization manifests as that the knowledge related to a specific topic in a course is scattered in isolated and autonomous knowledge…

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Decision trees and their ensembles are popular in machine learning as easy-to-understand models. Several techniques have been proposed in the literature for learning tree-based classifiers, with different techniques working well for data…

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Knowledge Graph Completion is a task of expanding the knowledge graph/base through estimating possible entities, or proper nouns, that can be connected using a set of predefined relations, or verb/predicates describing interconnections of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Tong Chen , Sirou Zhu , Yiming Wen , Zhaomin Zheng

Interpretable classification models are built with the purpose of providing a comprehensible description of the decision logic to an external oversight agent. When considered in isolation, a decision tree, a set of classification rules, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Riccardo Guidotti , Salvatore Ruggieri

Although several accounts of scientific understanding exist, the concept of understanding in relation to technology remains underexplored. This paper addresses this gap by proposing a philosophical account of technological understanding:…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Eline de Jong , Sebastian De Haro

The literature on concept formation has demonstrated that humans are capable of learning concepts incrementally, with a variety of attribute types, and in both supervised and unsupervised settings. Many models of concept formation focus on…

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