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Collecting high-quality training examples for language model fine-tuning is expensive, with practical budgets limiting the amount of data that can be procured. We investigate whether example difficulty affects GRPO training effectiveness by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Benjamin Pikus , Pratyush Ranjan Tiwari , Burton Ye

Event relation extraction (ERE) is a critical and fundamental challenge for natural language processing. Existing work mainly focuses on directly modeling the entire document, which cannot effectively handle long-range dependencies and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yong Guan , Xiaozhi Wang , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Jeff Pan , Jiaoyan Chen , Freddy Lecue

Humans, animals, and modern machine learning models exhibit impressive abilities to learn complex behaviors and generalize these behaviors to unseen situations. This ability requires us to learn rules and regularities that allow for such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Luke Cheng , Samuel Lippl

Open Information Extraction models have shown promising results with sufficient supervision. However, these models face a fundamental challenge that the syntactic distribution of training data is partially observable in comparison to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ji Qi , Yuxiang Chen , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Bin Xu

Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to adapt models to maintain reliable performance on non-stationary test streams without requiring labeled data. Despite its empirical success, the learnability of TTA under non-stationary streams remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhi Zhou , Ming Yang , Shi-Yu Tian , Kun-Yang Yu , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

Information Extraction (IE) is crucial for converting unstructured data into structured formats like Knowledge Graphs (KGs). A key task within IE is Relation Extraction (RE), which identifies relationships between entities in text. Various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Sefika Efeoglu , Adrian Paschke

Relation extraction (RE) aims to predict a relation between a subject and an object in a sentence, while knowledge graph link prediction (KGLP) aims to predict a set of objects, O, given a subject and a relation from a knowledge graph.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 George Stoica , Emmanouil Antonios Platanios , Barnabás Póczos

Continual learning is a promising machine learning paradigm to learn new tasks while retaining previously learned knowledge over streaming training data. Till now, rehearsal-based methods, keeping a small part of data from old tasks as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Quanziang Wang , Renzhen Wang , Yuexiang Li , Dong Wei , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng , Deyu Meng

Relation extraction (RE) involves identifying the relations between entities from underlying content. RE serves as the foundation for many natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval applications, such as knowledge graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Xiaoyan Zhao , Yang Deng , Min Yang , Lingzhi Wang , Rui Zhang , Hong Cheng , Wai Lam , Ying Shen , Ruifeng Xu

During the past decade, neural networks have become prominent in Natural Language Processing (NLP), notably for their capacity to learn relevant word representations from large unlabeled corpora. These word embeddings can then be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Bruno Taillé

Domain-specific intelligence demands specialized knowledge and sophisticated reasoning for problem-solving, posing significant challenges for large language models (LLMs) that struggle with knowledge hallucination and inadequate reasoning…

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Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) predicts relations for entity pairs that rely on long-range context-dependent reasoning in a document. As a typical multi-label classification problem, DocRE faces the challenge of effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jia Guo , Stanley Kok , Lidong Bing

This paper proposes a novel training method to improve the robustness of Extractive Question Answering (EQA) models. Previous research has shown that existing models, when trained on EQA datasets that include unanswerable questions,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Son Quoc Tran , Matt Kretchmar

Reinforcement learning (RL) commonly relies on scalar rewards with limited ability to express temporal, conditional, or safety-critical goals, and can lead to reward hacking. Temporal logic expressible via the more general class of…

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Modern NLP systems require high-quality annotated data. In specialized domains, expert annotations may be prohibitively expensive. An alternative is to rely on crowdsourcing to reduce costs at the risk of introducing noise. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yinfei Yang , Oshin Agarwal , Chris Tar , Byron C. Wallace , Ani Nenkova

We introduce a new framework for analyzing classification datasets based on the ratios of reconstruction errors between autoencoders trained on individual classes. This analysis framework enables efficient characterization of datasets on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jacob Marks , Brent A. Griffin , Jason J. Corso

Open Relation Extraction (OpenRE) aims to discover novel relations from open domains. Previous OpenRE methods mainly suffer from two problems: (1) Insufficient capacity to discriminate between known and novel relations. When extending…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yangning Li , Yinghui Li , Xi Chen , Hai-Tao Zheng , Ying Shen , Hong-Gee Kim

A challenge in training discriminative models like neural networks is obtaining enough labeled training data. Recent approaches use generative models to combine weak supervision sources, like user-defined heuristics or knowledge bases, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Paroma Varma , Bryan He , Dan Iter , Peng Xu , Rose Yu , Christopher De Sa , Christopher Ré

There has been recent interest in improving performance of simple models for multiple reasons such as interpretability, robust learning from small data, deployment in memory constrained settings as well as environmental considerations. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Amit Dhurandhar , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Ronny Luss

Document-level relation extraction aims to categorize the association between any two entities within a document. We find that previous methods for document-level relation extraction are ineffective in exploiting the full potential of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Chufan Gao , Xuan Wang , Jimeng Sun