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We investigate the internal representations that a recurrent neural network (RNN) uses while learning to recognize a regular formal language. Specifically, we train a RNN on positive and negative examples from a regular language, and ask if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Joshua J. Michalenko , Ameesh Shah , Abhinav Verma , Richard G. Baraniuk , Swarat Chaudhuri , Ankit B. Patel

In order for neural networks to learn complex languages or grammars, they must have sufficient computational power or resources to recognize or generate such languages. Though many approaches have been discussed, one ob- vious approach to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-17 G. Z. Sun , C. L. Giles , H. H. Chen , Y. C. Lee

Most of the information is stored as text, so text mining is regarded as having high commercial potential. Aiming at the semantic constraint problem of classification methods based on sparse representation, we propose a weighted recurrent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Dan Wang , Jibing Gong , Yaxi Song

Knowledge Distillation is an effective method of transferring knowledge from a large model to a smaller model. Distillation can be viewed as a type of model compression, and has played an important role for on-device ASR applications. In…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-13 Sankaran Panchapagesan , Daniel S. Park , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Yuan Shangguan , Qiao Liang , Alexander Gruenstein

Spoken question answering (SQA) is a challenging task that requires the machine to fully understand the complex spoken documents. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) plays a significant role in the development of QA systems. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Chenyu You , Nuo Chen , Yuexian Zou

This study presents a novel model for invertible sentence embeddings using a residual recurrent network trained on an unsupervised encoding task. Rather than the probabilistic outputs common to neural machine translation models, our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Jeremy Wilkerson

Recurrent neural networks are a widely used class of neural architectures. They have, however, two shortcomings. First, it is difficult to understand what exactly they learn. Second, they tend to work poorly on sequences requiring long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Cheng Wang , Mathias Niepert

We introduce a framework for automatic differentiation with weighted finite-state transducers (WFSTs) allowing them to be used dynamically at training time. Through the separation of graphs from operations on graphs, this framework enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Awni Hannun , Vineel Pratap , Jacob Kahn , Wei-Ning Hsu

Distillation with unlabeled examples is a popular and powerful method for training deep neural networks in settings where the amount of labeled data is limited: A large ''teacher'' neural network is trained on the labeled data available,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Fotis Iliopoulos , Vasilis Kontonis , Cenk Baykal , Gaurav Menghani , Khoa Trinh , Erik Vee

Distillation is the task of replacing a complicated machine learning model with a simpler model that approximates the original [BCNM06,HVD15]. Despite many practical applications, basic questions about the extent to which models can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Enric Boix-Adsera

We present an algorithm to build an automaton from a rational expression. This approach introduces support for extended weighted expressions. Inspired by derived-term based algorithms, its core relies on a different construct, rational…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-06 Akim Demaille

Automata extraction is a method for synthesising interpretable surrogates for black-box neural models that can be analysed symbolically. Existing techniques assume a finite input alphabet, and thus are not directly applicable to data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chih-Duo Hong , Hongjian Jiang , Anthony W. Lin , Oliver Markgraf , Julian Parsert , Tony Tan

The visual-question localized-answering (VQLA) system can serve as a knowledgeable assistant in surgical education. Except for providing text-based answers, the VQLA system can highlight the interested region for better surgical scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Long Bai , Mobarakol Islam , Hongliang Ren

It is important to develop mathematically tractable models than can interpret knowledge extracted from the data and provide reasonable predictions. In this paper, we present a Linear Distillation Learning, a simple remedy to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Arip Asadulaev , Igor Kuznetsov , Andrey Filchenkov

Knowledge distillation is classically a procedure where a neural network is trained on the output of another network along with the original targets in order to transfer knowledge between the architectures. The special case of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Kenneth Borup , Lars N. Andersen

Deep Neural Networks have achieved huge success at a wide spectrum of applications from language modeling, computer vision to speech recognition. However, nowadays, good performance alone is not sufficient to satisfy the needs of practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Xuan Liu , Xiaoguang Wang , Stan Matwin

With the rapid development of natural language processing technologies, more and more text steganographic methods based on automatic text generation technology have appeared in recent years. These models use the powerful self-learning and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Zhongliang Yang , Ke Wang , Jian Li , Yongfeng Huang , Yu-Jin Zhang

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been a prominent concept within artificial intelligence. They are inspired by Biological Neural Networks (BNNs) and provide an intuitive and abstract representation of how BNNs work. Derived from the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Stefano Nichele , Andreas Molund

We present an algorithm for extracting a subclass of the context free grammars (CFGs) from a trained recurrent neural network (RNN). We develop a new framework, pattern rule sets (PRSs), which describe sequences of deterministic finite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Daniel M. Yellin , Gail Weiss

We propose Algorithm Distillation (AD), a method for distilling reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms into neural networks by modeling their training histories with a causal sequence model. Algorithm Distillation treats learning to…