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Knowledge distillation is an effective way for model compression in deep learning. Given a large model (i.e., teacher model), it aims to improve the performance of a compact model (i.e., student model) by transferring the information from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Qi Qian , Hao Li , Juhua Hu

Reasoning is an integral part of many tasks performed by language models (LMs). However, the effects of scaling model sizes and data on reasoning abilities at pretraining time remain understudied. To rigorously investigate this problem, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xinyi Wang , Shawn Tan , Shenbo Xu , Mingyu Jin , William Yang Wang , Rameswar Panda , Yikang Shen

Accumulating evidence indicates that the capacity to integrate information in the brain is a prerequisite for consciousness. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness provides a mathematical approach to quantifying the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-22 Masafumi Oizumi , Shun-ichi Amari , Toru Yanagawa , Naotaka Fujii , Naotsugu Tsuchiya

Recent years have witnessed a substantial increase in the use of deep learning to solve various natural language processing (NLP) problems. Early deep learning models were constrained by their sequential or unidirectional nature, such that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jiajia Wang , Jimmy X. Huang , Xinhui Tu , Junmei Wang , Angela J. Huang , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Amran Bhuiyan

Reading comprehension is a challenging task in natural language processing and requires a set of skills to be solved. While current approaches focus on solving the task as a whole, in this paper, we propose to use a neural network `skill'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Todor Mihaylov , Zornitsa Kozareva , Anette Frank

Quantifying the directionality of information flow is instrumental in understanding, and possibly controlling, the operation of many complex systems, such as transportation, social, neural, or gene-regulatory networks. The standard Transfer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Jingjing Zhang , Osvaldo Simeone , Zoran Cvetkovic , Eugenio Abela , Mark Richardson

Neural language models are black-boxes--both linguistic patterns and factual knowledge are distributed across billions of opaque parameters. This entangled encoding makes it difficult to reliably inspect, verify, or update specific facts.…

Intelligent Tutoring Systems have become critically important in future learning environments. Knowledge Tracing (KT) is a crucial part of that system. It is about inferring the skill mastery of students and predicting their performance to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Sein Minn , Jill-Jenn Vie , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima , Feida Zhu

Powered prosthetic legs must anticipate the user's intent when switching between different locomotion modes (e.g., level walking, stair ascent/descent, ramp ascent/descent). Numerous data-driven classification techniques have demonstrated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Duong Le , Shihao Cheng , Robert D. Gregg , Maani Ghaffari

Deep learning based knowledge tracing model has been shown to outperform traditional knowledge tracing model without the need for human-engineered features, yet its parameters and representations have long been criticized for not being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Chun-Kit Yeung

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning approaches have recently garnered a lot of attention. Having considerably lower number of trainable weights, these methods can bring about scalability and computational effectiveness. In this paper, we look…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Mohammad Akbar-Tajari , Sara Rajaee , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Free-running Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), especially probabilistic models, generate an ongoing information flux that can be quantified with the mutual information $I\left[\vec{x}(t),\vec{x}(t\!+\!1)\right]$ between subsequent system…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-18 Claus Metzner , Marius E. Yamakou , Dennis Voelkl , Achim Schilling , Patrick Krauss

We introduce the framework of "social learning" in the context of large language models (LLMs), whereby models share knowledge with each other in a privacy-aware manner using natural language. We present and evaluate two approaches for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Amirkeivan Mohtashami , Florian Hartmann , Sian Gooding , Lukas Zilka , Matt Sharifi , Blaise Aguera y Arcas

Quantization lowers memory usage, computational requirements, and latency by utilizing fewer bits to represent model weights and activations. In this work, we investigate the generalization properties of quantized neural networks, a…

\textit{Attention} computes the dependency between representations, and it encourages the model to focus on the important selective features. Attention-based models, such as Transformer and graph attention network (GAT), are widely utilized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Kyungwoo Song , Yohan Jung , Dongjun Kim , Il-Chul Moon

A model's capacity to generalize its knowledge to interpret unseen inputs with different characteristics is crucial to build robust and reliable machine learning systems. Language model evaluation tasks lack information metrics about model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Saksham Bassi , Duygu Ataman , Kyunghyun Cho

Learning the similarity between images constitutes the foundation for numerous vision tasks. The common paradigm is discriminative metric learning, which seeks an embedding that separates different training classes. However, the main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Timo Milbich , Karsten Roth , Biagio Brattoli , Björn Ommer

This paper investigates whether the power of the models pre-trained on text data, such as BERT, can be transferred to general token sequence classification applications. To verify pre-trained models' transferability, we test the pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Wei-Tsung Kao , Hung-Yi Lee

Continual learning refers to the capability of a machine learning model to learn and adapt to new information, without compromising its performance on previously learned tasks. Although several studies have investigated continual learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jingrui Hou , Georgina Cosma , Axel Finke

With the growth of the academic engines, the mining and analysis acquisition of massive researcher data, such as collaborator recommendation and researcher retrieval, has become indispensable. It can improve the quality of services and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Ziyue Qiao , Yanjie Fu , Pengyang Wang , Meng Xiao , Zhiyuan Ning , Denghui Zhang , Yi Du , Yuanchun Zhou