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Currently used semantic parsing systems deployed in voice assistants can require weeks to train. Datasets for these models often receive small and frequent updates, data patches. Each patch requires training a new model. To reduce training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Vladislav Lialin , Rahul Goel , Andrey Simanovsky , Anna Rumshisky , Rushin Shah

We motivate weakly supervised learning as an effective learning paradigm for problems where curating perfectly annotated datasets is expensive and may require domain expertise such as fine-grained classification. We focus on Partial Label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Darshana Saravanan , Naresh Manwani , Vineet Gandhi

As Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) implicitly involves compound semantic annotations, we hypothesize auxiliary tasks which are semantically or formally related can better enhance AMR parsing. We find that 1) Semantic role labeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Liang Chen , Peiyi Wang , Runxin Xu , Tianyu Liu , Zhifang Sui , Baobao Chang

In many real-world scenarios, obtaining large amounts of labeled data can be a daunting task. Weakly supervised learning techniques have gained significant attention in recent years as an alternative to traditional supervised learning, as…

We focus on tackling weakly supervised semantic segmentation with scribble-level annotation. The regularized loss has been proven to be an effective solution for this task. However, most existing regularized losses only leverage static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Bingfeng Zhang , Jimin Xiao , Yao Zhao

Meta reinforcement learning (meta-RL) aims to learn a policy solving a set of training tasks simultaneously and quickly adapting to new tasks. It requires massive amounts of data drawn from training tasks to infer the common structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yijie Guo , Qiucheng Wu , Honglak Lee

Weakly-supervised audio-visual video parsing (AVVP) seeks to detect audible, visible, and audio-visual events without temporal annotations. Previous work has emphasized refining global predictions through contrastive or collaborative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yaru Chen , Ruohao Guo , Liting Gao , Yang Xiang , Qingyu Luo , Zhenbo Li , Wenwu Wang

Recent breakthroughs in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have been driven by language models trained on a massive amount of plain text. While powerful, deriving supervision from textual resources is still an open question. For example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Mingda Chen

Human annotation of training samples is expensive, laborious, and sometimes challenging, especially for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. To reduce the labeling cost and enhance the sample efficiency, Active Learning (AL) technique…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Xuesong Wang

Although existing semantic segmentation approaches achieve impressive results, they still struggle to update their models incrementally as new categories are uncovered. Furthermore, pixel-by-pixel annotations are expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Fabio Cermelli , Dario Fontanel , Antonio Tavera , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

Deep learning has proven effective for various application tasks, but its applicability is limited by the reliance on annotated examples. Self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising direction to alleviate the supervision bottleneck,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Hoifung Poon , Hai Wang , Hunter Lang

Capabilities of detecting temporal relations between two events can benefit many applications. Most of existing temporal relation classifiers were trained in a supervised manner. Instead, we explore the observation that regular event pairs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Wenlin Yao , Saipravallika Nettyam , Ruihong Huang

Learning semantic segmentation requires pixel-wise annotations, which can be time-consuming and expensive. To reduce the annotation cost, we propose a superpixel-based active learning (AL) framework, which collects a dominant label per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hoyoung Kim , Minhyeon Oh , Sehyun Hwang , Suha Kwak , Jungseul Ok

In the weakly supervised learning paradigm, labeling functions automatically assign heuristic, often noisy, labels to data samples. In this work, we provide a method for learning from weak labels by separating two types of complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Andreas Stephan , Vasiliki Kougia , Benjamin Roth

Semantic segmentation is a challenging vision problem that usually necessitates the collection of large amounts of finely annotated data, which is often quite expensive to obtain. Coarsely annotated data provides an interesting alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Isay Katsman , Rohun Tripathi , Andreas Veit , Serge Belongie

Deep learning is a data-hungry approach, which requires massive training data. However, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to collect abundant fully-annotated training data for all categories. Assuming the existence of base categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Li Niu

We propose a novel approach to weakly supervised semantic segmentation, which consists of three consecutive steps. The first two steps extract high-quality pseudo masks from image-level annotated data, which are then used to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Mariia Dobko , Ostap Viniavskyi , Oles Dobosevych

The performance of deep learning-based natural language processing systems is based on large amounts of labeled training data which, in the clinical domain, are not easily available or affordable. Weak supervision and in-context learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Enshuo Hsu , Kirk Roberts

We introduce a method for unsupervised parsing that relies on bootstrapping classifiers to identify if a node dominates a specific span in a sentence. There are two types of classifiers, an inside classifier that acts on a span, and an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Nickil Maveli , Shay B. Cohen

Recent breakthroughs of pretrained language models have shown the effectiveness of self-supervised learning for a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. In addition to standard syntactic and semantic NLP tasks, pretrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Wenhan Xiong , Jingfei Du , William Yang Wang , Veselin Stoyanov