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Machine based text comprehension has always been a significant research field in natural language processing. Once a full understanding of the text context and semantics is achieved, a deep learning model can be trained to solve a large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Omar Mossad , Amgad Ahmed , Anandharaju Raju , Hari Karthikeyan , Zayed Ahmed

Deep learning approaches such as convolutional neural nets have consistently outperformed previous methods on challenging tasks such as dense, semantic segmentation. However, the various proposed networks perform differently, with behaviour…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Wenjia Bai , Enzo Ferrante , Steven McDonagh , Matthew Sinclair , Nick Pawlowski , Martin Rajchl , Matthew Lee , Bernhard Kainz , Daniel Rueckert , Ben Glocker

Techniques of hybridisation and ensemble learning are popular model fusion techniques for improving the predictive power of forecasting methods. With limited research that instigates combining these two promising approaches, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Pieter Cawood , Terence van Zyl

Large transformer models can highly improve Answer Sentence Selection (AS2) tasks, but their high computational costs prevent their use in many real-world applications. In this paper, we explore the following research question: How can we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yoshitomo Matsubara , Luca Soldaini , Eric Lind , Alessandro Moschitti

We present the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), a new reading comprehension dataset consisting of 100,000+ questions posed by crowdworkers on a set of Wikipedia articles, where the answer to each question is a segment of text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Pranav Rajpurkar , Jian Zhang , Konstantin Lopyrev , Percy Liang

The Natural Questions (NQ) benchmark set brings new challenges to Machine Reading Comprehension: the answers are not only at different levels of granularity (long and short), but also of richer types (including no-answer, yes/no,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Xuguang Wang , Linjun Shou , Ming Gong , Nan Duan , Daxin Jiang

Commonsense knowledge is critical in human reading comprehension. While machine comprehension has made significant progress in recent years, the ability in handling commonsense knowledge remains limited. Synonyms are one of the most widely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Gongqi Lin , Yuan Miao , Xiaoyong Yang , Wenwu Ou , Lizhen Cui , Wei Guo , Chunyan Miao

An ultimate goal of artificial intelligence is to build computer systems that can understand human languages. Understanding commonsense knowledge about the world expressed in text is one of the foundational and challenging problems to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Ngo Quang Huy , Tu Minh Phuong , Ngo Xuan Bach

In this paper, we present language model system submitted to SemEval-2020 Task 4 competition: "Commonsense Validation and Explanation". We participate in two subtasks for subtask A: validation and subtask B: Explanation. We implemented with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Pai Liu

Ensembling is among the most popular tools in machine learning (ML) due to its effectiveness in minimizing variance and thus improving generalization. Most ensembling methods for black-box base learners fall under the umbrella of "stacked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Hilaf Hasson , Danielle C. Maddix , Yuyang Wang , Gaurav Gupta , Youngsuk Park

While many algorithmic extensions to Deep Q-Networks (DQN) have been proposed, there remains limited understanding of how different improvements interact. In particular, multi-step and ensemble style extensions have shown promise in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Adrian Ly , Richard Dazeley , Peter Vamplew , Francisco Cruz , Sunil Aryal

Stack autoencoder (SAE), as a representative deep network, has unique and excellent performance in feature learning, and has received extensive attention from researchers. However, existing deep SAEs focus on original samples without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Chuanyan Zhou , Jie Ma , Fan Li , Yongming Li , Pin Wang , Xiaoheng Zhang

Fast estimates of model uncertainty are required for many robust robotics applications. Deep Ensembles provides state of the art uncertainty without requiring Bayesian methods, but still it is computationally expensive. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Matias Valdenegro-Toro

Obesity is a critical global health issue driven by dietary, physiological, and environmental factors, and is strongly associated with chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, and cancer. Machine learning has emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Towhidul Islam , Md Sumon Ali

This paper studies joint models for selecting correct answer sentences among the top $k$ provided by answer sentence selection (AS2) modules, which are core components of retrieval-based Question Answering (QA) systems. Our work shows that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zeyu Zhang , Thuy Vu , Alessandro Moschitti

Ensemble learning use multiple algorithms to obtain better predictive performance than any single one of its constituent algorithms could. With growing popularity of deep learning, researchers have started to ensemble them for various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Ning An , Huitong Ding , Jiaoyun Yang , Rhoda Au , Ting Fang Alvin Ang

Conversational question answering (CQA) is a novel QA task that requires understanding of dialogue context. Different from traditional single-turn machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks, CQA includes passage comprehension, coreference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Chenguang Zhu , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang

Stacking regressions is an ensemble technique that forms linear combinations of different regression estimators to enhance predictive accuracy. The conventional approach uses cross-validation data to generate predictions from the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-10 Xin Chen , Jason M. Klusowski , Yan Shuo Tan

Ensembling deep learning models is a shortcut to promote its implementation in new scenarios, which can avoid tuning neural networks, losses and training algorithms from scratch. However, it is difficult to collect sufficient accurate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Jun Yang , Fei Wang

There is a growing interest in understanding how humans initiate and hold conversations. The affective understanding of conversations focuses on the problem of how speakers use emotions to react to a situation and to each other. In the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Tanvi Dadu , Kartikey Pant , Radhika Mamidi