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Word embeddings have been widely used in sentiment classification because of their efficacy for semantic representations of words. Given reviews from different domains, some existing methods for word embeddings exploit sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Bei Shi , Zihao Fu , Lidong Bing , Wai Lam

Bilingual word embeddings have been widely used to capture the similarity of lexical semantics in different human languages. However, many applications, such as cross-lingual semantic search and question answering, can be largely benefited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Muhao Chen , Yingtao Tian , Haochen Chen , Kai-Wei Chang , Steven Skiena , Carlo Zaniolo

The pervasive use of distributional semantic models or word embeddings in a variety of research fields is due to their remarkable ability to represent the meanings of words for both practical application and cognitive modeling. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Akira Utsumi

Deep learning has recently enabled the decoding of language from the neural activity of a few participants with electrodes implanted inside their brain. However, reliably decoding words from non-invasive recordings remains an open…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Corentin Bel , Jérémy Rapin , Hubert Banville , Yohann Benchetrit , Christophe Pallier , Jean-Rémi King

Decoding human brain activities via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has gained increasing attention in recent years. While encouraging results have been reported in brain states classification tasks, reconstructing the details…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Changde Du , Changying Du , Huiguang He

Visual brain decoding aims to decode visual information from human brain activities. Despite the great progress, one critical limitation of current brain decoding research lies in the lack of generalization capability to unseen subjects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiangtao Kong , Kexin Huang , Ping Li , Lei Zhang

Decoding functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals into text has been a key challenge in the neuroscience community, with the potential to advance brain-computer interfaces and uncover deeper insights into brain mechanisms.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-10 Weikang Qiu , Zheng Huang , Haoyu Hu , Aosong Feng , Yujun Yan , Rex Ying

Decoding visual stimuli from neural population activity is crucial for understanding the brain and for applications in brain-machine interfaces. However, such biological data is often scarce, particularly in primates or humans, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jan Sobotka , Luca Baroni , Ján Antolík

Due to the lack of paired samples and the low signal-to-noise ratio of functional MRI (fMRI) signals, reconstructing perceived natural images or decoding their semantic contents from fMRI data are challenging tasks. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yulong Liu , Yongqiang Ma , Wei Zhou , Guibo Zhu , Nanning Zheng

Narrative generation is an open-ended NLP task in which a model generates a story given a prompt. The task is similar to neural response generation for chatbots; however, innovations in response generation are often not applied to narrative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Alexandra DeLucia , Aaron Mueller , Xiang Lisa Li , João Sedoc

Deciphering the human visual experience through brain activities captured by fMRI represents a compelling and cutting-edge challenge in the field of neuroscience research. Compared to merely predicting the viewed image itself, decoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Ziqi Ren , Jie Li , Xuetong Xue , Xin Li , Fan Yang , Zhicheng Jiao , Xinbo Gao

Decoding visual images from brain activity has significant potential for advancing brain-computer interaction and enhancing the understanding of human perception. Recent approaches align the representation spaces of images and brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Nona Rajabi , Antônio H. Ribeiro , Miguel Vasco , Farzaneh Taleb , Mårten Björkman , Danica Kragic

To study information processing in the brain, neuroscientists manipulate experimental stimuli while recording participant brain activity. They can then use encoding models to find out which brain "zone" (e.g. which region of interest,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-22 Mariya Toneva , Jennifer Williams , Anand Bollu , Christoph Dann , Leila Wehbe

Objective. In this paper, we consider the problem of cross-subject decoding, where neural activity data collected from the prefrontal cortex of a given subject (destination) is used to decode motor intentions from the neural activity of a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Marko Angjelichinoski , Bijan Pesaran , Vahid Tarokh

Pretrained language models (PLMs) form the basis of most state-of-the-art NLP technologies. Nevertheless, they are essentially black boxes: Humans do not have a clear understanding of what knowledge is encoded in different parts of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Tanja Baeumel , Soniya Vijayakumar , Josef van Genabith , Guenter Neumann , Simon Ostermann

We introduce language-driven image generation, the task of generating an image visualizing the semantic contents of a word embedding, e.g., given the word embedding of grasshopper, we generate a natural image of a grasshopper. We implement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Angeliki Lazaridou , Dat Tien Nguyen , Raffaella Bernardi , Marco Baroni

Recently, there has been a surge in the popularity of pre trained large language models (LLMs) (such as GPT-4), sweeping across the entire Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) communities. These LLMs have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Shuxiao Ma , Linyuan Wang , Senbao Hou , Bin Yan

Decoding natural visual scenes from brain activity has flourished, with extensive research in single-subject tasks and, however, less in cross-subject tasks. Reconstructing high-quality images in cross-subject tasks is a challenging problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zixuan Gong , Qi Zhang , Guangyin Bao , Lei Zhu , Ke Liu , Liang Hu , Duoqian Miao

Understanding how emotional expression in language relates to brain function is a challenge in computational neuroscience and affective computing. Traditional neuroimaging is costly and lab-bound, but abundant digital text offers new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Gideon Vos , Maryam Ebrahimpour , Liza van Eijk , Zoltan Sarnyai , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

We explore whether neural networks can decode brain activity into speech by mapping EEG recordings to audio representations. Using EEG data recorded as subjects listened to natural speech, we train a model with a contrastive CLIP loss to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Quentin Auster , Kateryna Shapovalenko , Chuang Ma , Demaio Sun