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We develop a representation suitable for the unconstrained recognition of words in natural images: the general case of no fixed lexicon and unknown length. To this end we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) based architecture which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Max Jaderberg , Karen Simonyan , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) is a popular sequence prediction approach for automatic speech recognition that is typically used with models based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs). We explore whether deep convolutional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Kalpesh Krishna , Liang Lu , Kevin Gimpel , Karen Livescu

World models improve a learning agent's ability to efficiently operate in interactive and situated environments. This work focuses on the task of building world models of text-based game environments. Text-based games, or interactive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Mark O. Riedl

This project addresses the challenge of automated stock trading, where traditional methods and direct reinforcement learning (RL) struggle with market noise, complexity, and generalization. Our proposed solution is an integrated deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 John Christopher Tidwell , John Storm Tidwell

Research has shown that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) can be effectively applied to text classification as part of a predictive coding protocol. That said, most research to date has been conducted on data sets with short documents…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Robert Keeling , Rishi Chhatwal , Nathaniel Huber-Fliflet , Jianping Zhang , Fusheng Wei , Haozhen Zhao , Shi Ye , Han Qin

Memory retention challenges in deep neural architectures have ongoing limitations in the ability to process and recall extended contextual information. Token dependencies degrade as sequence length increases, leading to a decline in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Frederick Dillon , Gregor Halvorsen , Simon Tattershall , Magnus Rowntree , Gareth Vanderpool

Empowering LLMs with the ability to precisely understand long contexts is crucial for many downstream applications. However, handling long contexts with conventional transformer architecture requires substantial training and inference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhenyu Li , Yike Zhang , Tengyu Pan , Yutao Sun , Zhichao Duan , Junjie Fang , Rong Han , Zixuan Wang , Jianyong Wang

We propose a novel convolutional architecture, named $gen$CNN, for word sequence prediction. Different from previous work on neural network-based language modeling and generation (e.g., RNN or LSTM), we choose not to greedily summarize the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Mingxuan Wang , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Wenbin Jiang , Qun Liu

Context plays an important role in human language understanding, thus it may also be useful for machines learning vector representations of language. In this paper, we explore an asymmetric encoder-decoder structure for unsupervised…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Shuai Tang , Hailin Jin , Chen Fang , Zhaowen Wang , Virginia R. de Sa

Breakthroughs in deep learning and memory networks have made major advances in natural language understanding. Language is sequential and information carried through the sequence can be captured through memory networks. Learning the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Anupiya Nugaliyadde

The success of deep learning often derives from well-chosen operational building blocks. In this work, we revise the temporal convolution operation in CNNs to better adapt it to text processing. Instead of concatenating word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Tao Lei , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Deep Reinforcement Learning has yielded proficient controllers for complex tasks. However, these controllers have limited memory and rely on being able to perceive the complete game screen at each decision point. To address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Matthew Hausknecht , Peter Stone

This paper develops a model that addresses sentence embedding, a hot topic in current natural language processing research, using recurrent neural networks with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) cells. Due to its ability to capture long term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hamid Palangi , Li Deng , Yelong Shen , Jianfeng Gao , Xiaodong He , Jianshu Chen , Xinying Song , Rabab Ward

Large language models (LLMs) are being applied as actors for sequential decision making tasks in domains such as robotics and games, utilizing their general world knowledge and planning abilities. However, previous work does little to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Kolby Nottingham , Yasaman Razeghi , Kyungmin Kim , JB Lanier , Pierre Baldi , Roy Fox , Sameer Singh

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have become the standard modeling technique for sequence data, and are used in a number of novel text-to-speech models. However, training a TTS model including RNN components has certain requirements for GPU…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ziqi Liang

When playing video-games we immediately detect which entity we control and we center the attention towards it to focus the learning and reduce its dimensionality. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been able to deal with big state spaces,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Berkay Demirel , Martí Sánchez-Fibla

Text-based games simulate worlds and interact with players using natural language. Recent work has used them as a testbed for autonomous language-understanding agents, with the motivation being that understanding the meanings of words or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Shunyu Yao , Karthik Narasimhan , Matthew Hausknecht

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown promising results for end-to-end speech recognition, albeit still behind other state-of-the-art methods in performance. In this paper, we study how to bridge this gap and go beyond with a novel…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Wei Han , Zhengdong Zhang , Yu Zhang , Jiahui Yu , Chung-Cheng Chiu , James Qin , Anmol Gulati , Ruoming Pang , Yonghui Wu

We study reinforcement learning (RL) for text-based games, which are interactive simulations in the context of natural language. While different methods have been developed to represent the environment information and language actions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yunqiu Xu , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Yali Du , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Chengqi Zhang

One major challenge in reinforcement learning (RL) is the large amount of steps for the RL agent needs to converge in the training process and learn the optimal policy, especially in text-based game environments where the action space is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Wei Zhou , Xiangyu Peng , Mark Riedl