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Training recommender systems for next-item recommendation often requires unique embeddings to be learned for each item, which may take up most of the trainable parameters for a model. Shared embeddings, such as using content information,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 M. Jeffrey Mei , Florian Henkel , Samuel E. Sandberg , Oliver Bembom , Andreas F. Ehmann

Layout-guided text-to-image models offer greater control over the generation process by explicitly conditioning image synthesis on the spatial arrangement of elements. As a result, their adoption has increased in many computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Elena Izzo , Luca Parolari , Davide Vezzaro , Lamberto Ballan

We present an unsupervised approach for discovering semantic representations of mathematical equations. Equations are challenging to analyze because each is unique, or nearly unique. Our method, which we call equation embeddings, finds good…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-28 Kriste Krstovski , David M. Blei

Identifiers, such as method and variable names, form a large portion of source code. Therefore, low-quality identifiers can substantially hinder code comprehension. To support developers in using meaningful identifiers, several…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Antonio Mastropaolo , Emad Aghajani , Luca Pascarella , Gabriele Bavota

Leveraging multiple training datasets to scale up image segmentation models is beneficial for increasing robustness and semantic understanding. Individual datasets have well-defined ground truth with non-overlapping mask layouts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Qilong Zhangli , Di Liu , Abhishek Aich , Dimitris Metaxas , Samuel Schulter

Sequence classification is the supervised learning task of building models that predict class labels of unseen sequences of symbols. Although accuracy is paramount, in certain scenarios interpretability is a must. Unfortunately, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Severin Gsponer , Luca Costabello , Chan Le Van , Sumit Pai , Christophe Gueret , Georgiana Ifrim , Freddy Lecue

Understanding the meaning of words is crucial for many tasks that involve human-machine interaction. This has been tackled by research in Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field. Recently, WSD and many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-26 María G. Buey , Carlos Bobed , Jorge Gracia , Eduardo Mena

Text embeddings are numerical representations of text data, where words, phrases, or entire documents are converted into vectors of real numbers. These embeddings capture semantic meanings and relationships between text elements in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Fusheng Wei , Robert Neary , Han Qin , Qiang Mao , Jianping Zhang

In natural language processing (NLP), the semantic similarity task requires large-scale, high-quality human-annotated labels for fine-tuning or evaluation. By contrast, in cases of music similarity, such labels are expensive to collect and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Xinran Zhang , Maosong Sun , Jiafeng Liu , Xiaobing Li

Latent semantic representations of words or paragraphs, namely the embeddings, have been widely applied to information retrieval (IR). One of the common approaches of utilizing embeddings for IR is to estimate the document-to-query (D2Q)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Chenhao Yang , Ben He , Yanhua Ran

Recent research has achieved impressive results on understanding and improving source code by building up on machine-learning techniques developed for natural languages. A significant advancement in natural-language understanding has come…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Aditya Kanade , Petros Maniatis , Gogul Balakrishnan , Kensen Shi

Semantic identifier (ID) is an important concept in information retrieval that aims to preserve the semantics of objects such as documents and items inside their IDs. Previous studies typically adopt a two-stage pipeline to learn semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Bowen Jin , Hansi Zeng , Guoyin Wang , Xiusi Chen , Tianxin Wei , Ruirui Li , Zhengyang Wang , Zheng Li , Yang Li , Hanqing Lu , Suhang Wang , Jiawei Han , Xianfeng Tang

In the age of big data and machine learning, at a time when the techniques and methods of software development are evolving rapidly, a problem has arisen: programmers can no longer detect all the security flaws and vulnerabilities in their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Amirreza Bagheri , Péter Hegedűs

With recent advances in large language models (LLMs), there has been emerging numbers of research in developing Semantic IDs based on LLMs to enhance the performance of recommendation systems. However, the dimension of these embeddings…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Taolin Zhang , Junwei Pan , Jinpeng Wang , Yaohua Zha , Tao Dai , Bin Chen , Ruisheng Luo , Xiaoxiang Deng , Yuan Wang , Ming Yue , Jie Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

CAD programs are a popular way to compactly encode shapes as a sequence of operations that are easy to parametrically modify. However, without sufficient semantic comments and structure, such programs can be challenging to understand, let…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Haocheng Yuan , Jing Xu , Hao Pan , Adrien Bousseau , Niloy J. Mitra , Changjian Li

Many of the existing approaches for program comprehension rely on the linguistic information found in source code, such as identifier names and comments. Semantic clustering is one such technique for modularization of the system that relies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Amir Saeidi , Jurriaan Hage , Ravi Khadka , Slinger Jansen

Understanding and reasoning about code semantics is essential for enhancing code LLMs' abilities to solve real-world software engineering (SE) tasks. Although several code reasoning benchmarks exist, most rely on synthetic datasets or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Monoshi Kumar Roy , Simin Chen , Benjamin Steenhoek , Jinjun Peng , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray , Wei Le

Background: The renaming of program identifiers is the most common refactoring operation. Because some identifiers are related to each other, developers may need to rename related identifiers together. Aims: To understand how developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yuki Osumi , Naotaka Umekawa , Hitomi Komata , Shinpei Hayashi

Current approaches to learning semantic representations of sentences often use prior word-level knowledge. The current study aims to leverage visual information in order to capture sentence level semantics without the need for word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Danny Merkx , Stefan Frank

Identifier names are crucial components of code, serving as primary clues for developers to understand program behavior. This paper investigates the linguistic structure of identifier names by extending the concept of grammar patterns,…