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Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Yao Zhou , Cong Liu , Yan Pan

We present AGGGEN (pronounced 'again'), a data-to-text model which re-introduces two explicit sentence planning stages into neural data-to-text systems: input ordering and input aggregation. In contrast to previous work using sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Xinnuo Xu , Ondřej Dušek , Verena Rieser , Ioannis Konstas

This paper proposes a new model for extracting an interpretable sentence embedding by introducing self-attention. Instead of using a vector, we use a 2-D matrix to represent the embedding, with each row of the matrix attending on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Zhouhan Lin , Minwei Feng , Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Mo Yu , Bing Xiang , Bowen Zhou , Yoshua Bengio

The attention model has become a standard component in neural machine translation (NMT) and it guides translation process by selectively focusing on parts of the source sentence when predicting each target word. However, we find that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Long Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Despite success in many domains, neural models struggle in settings where train and test examples are drawn from different distributions. In particular, in contrast to humans, conventional sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Bailin Wang , Mirella Lapata , Ivan Titov

Neural machine translation (NMT) usually works in a seq2seq learning way by viewing either source or target sentence as a linear sequence of words, which can be regarded as a special case of graph, taking words in the sequence as nodes and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Sufeng Duan , Hai Zhao , Rui Wang

Attention mechanisms represent a fundamental paradigm shift in neural network architectures, enabling models to selectively focus on relevant portions of input sequences through learned weighting functions. This monograph provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hasi Hays

Transformers have increasingly outperformed gated RNNs in obtaining new state-of-the-art results on supervised tasks involving text sequences. Inspired by this trend, we study the question of how Transformer-based models can improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ricky Loynd , Roland Fernandez , Asli Celikyilmaz , Adith Swaminathan , Matthew Hausknecht

In-context learning is a remarkable property of transformers and has been the focus of recent research. An attention mechanism is a key component in transformers, in which an attention matrix encodes relationships between words in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Katsuyuki Hagiwara

This work presents a general unsupervised learning method to improve the accuracy of sequence to sequence (seq2seq) models. In our method, the weights of the encoder and decoder of a seq2seq model are initialized with the pretrained weights…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Prajit Ramachandran , Peter J. Liu , Quoc V. Le

This work presents an analysis of the effectiveness of using standard shallow feed-forward networks to mimic the behavior of the attention mechanism in the original Transformer model, a state-of-the-art architecture for sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Vukasin Bozic , Danilo Dordevic , Daniele Coppola , Joseph Thommes , Sidak Pal Singh

We propose a new end-to-end model that treats AMR parsing as a series of dual decisions on the input sequence and the incrementally constructed graph. At each time step, our model performs multiple rounds of attention, reasoning, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Deng Cai , Wai Lam

The research explores the utilization of a deep learning model employing an attention mechanism in medical text mining. It targets the challenge of analyzing unstructured text information within medical data. This research seeks to enhance…

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Sequence learning is an essential aspect of intelligence. In Artificial Intelligence, sequence prediction task is usually used to test a sequence learning model. In this paper, a model of sequence learning, which is interpretable through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Bowen Xu

This paper presents a novel fusion method for integrating an external language model (LM) into the Transformer based sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model. While paired data are basically required to train the seq2seq model, the external LM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Mana Ihori , Ryo Masumura , Naoki Makishima , Tomohiro Tanaka , Akihiko Takashima , Shota Orihashi

Crafting adversarial examples has become an important technique to evaluate the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, most existing works focus on attacking the image classification problem since its input space is continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Minhao Cheng , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Huan Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Modern approaches to text to speech require the entire input character sequence to be processed before any audio is synthesised. This latency limits the suitability of such models for time-sensitive tasks like simultaneous interpretation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Devang S Ram Mohan , Raphael Lenain , Lorenzo Foglianti , Tian Huey Teh , Marlene Staib , Alexandra Torresquintero , Jiameng Gao

Sequences have become first class citizens in supervised learning thanks to the resurgence of recurrent neural networks. Many complex tasks that require mapping from or to a sequence of observations can now be formulated with the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-25 Oriol Vinyals , Samy Bengio , Manjunath Kudlur

Few-shot table-to-text generation is a task of composing fluent and faithful sentences to convey table content using limited data. Despite many efforts having been made towards generating impressive fluent sentences by fine-tuning powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Wenting Zhao , Ye Liu , Yao Wan , Philip S. Yu

Despite recent progress of pre-trained language models on generating fluent text, existing methods still suffer from incoherence problems in long-form text generation tasks that require proper content control and planning to form a coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhe Hu , Hou Pong Chan , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu , Lifu Huang