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In the realm of task-oriented dialogue systems, a robust intent detection mechanism must effectively handle malformed utterances encountered in real-world scenarios. This study presents a novel fine-tuning framework for large language…

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We present a system for interpretable, symbolic, interactive task learning from dialog using a GPT model as a conversational front-end. The learned tasks are represented as hierarchical decompositions of predicate-argument structures with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Lane Lawley , Christopher J. MacLellan

Most recent successes in robot reinforcement learning involve learning a specialized single-task agent. However, robots capable of performing multiple tasks can be much more valuable in real-world applications. Multi-task reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Elie Aljalbout , Nikolaos Sotirakis , Patrick van der Smagt , Maximilian Karl , Nutan Chen

Business communication digitisation has reorganised the process of persuasive discourse, which allows not only greater transparency but also advanced deception. This inquiry synthesises classical rhetoric and communication psychology with…

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Task-oriented dialogue systems are designed to achieve specific goals while conversing with humans. In practice, they may have to handle simultaneously several domains and tasks. The dialogue manager must therefore be able to take into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Thibault Cordier , Tanguy Urvoy , Fabrice Lefèvre , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona

Pre-trained language models based on general text enable huge success in the NLP scenario. But the intrinsical difference of linguistic patterns between general text and task-oriented dialogues makes existing pre-trained language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Weihao Zeng , Keqing He , Yejie Wang , Chen Zeng , Jingang Wang , Yunsen Xian , Weiran Xu

The increasing level of autonomy of robots poses challenges of trust and social acceptance, especially in human-robot interaction scenarios. This requires an interpretable implementation of robotic cognitive capabilities, possibly based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Daniele Meli , Paolo Fiorini

Embodied agents need to be able to interact in natural language understanding task descriptions and asking appropriate follow up questions to obtain necessary information to be effective at successfully accomplishing tasks for a wide range…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Spandana Gella , Aishwarya Padmakumar , Patrick Lange , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

In this paper, we propose to study language modelling as a multi-task problem, bringing together three strands of research: multi-task learning, linguistics, and interpretability. Based on hypotheses derived from linguistic theory, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Lucas Weber , Jaap Jumelet , Elia Bruni , Dieuwke Hupkes

Randomly masking and predicting word tokens has been a successful approach in pre-training language models for a variety of downstream tasks. In this work, we observe that the same idea also applies naturally to sequential decision-making,…

This paper proposes a new principled multi-task representation learning framework (InfoMTL) to extract noise-invariant sufficient representations for all tasks. It ensures sufficiency of shared representations for all tasks and mitigates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Dou Hu , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

This paper presents a unified model to perform language and speaker recognition simultaneously and altogether. The model is based on a multi-task recurrent neural network where the output of one task is fed as the input of the other,…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Lantian Li , Zhiyuan Tang , Dong Wang , Andrew Abel , Yang Feng , Shiyue Zhang

Incremental learning aims to learn new tasks sequentially without forgetting the previously learned ones. Most of the existing incremental learning methods for audio focus on training the model from scratch on the initial task, and the same…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Manjunath Mulimani , Annamaria Mesaros

Multi-modal Large Language Model (MLLM) refers to a model expanded from a Large Language Model (LLM) that possesses the capability to handle and infer multi-modal data. Current MLLMs typically begin by using LLMs to decompose tasks into…

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Recent work using auxiliary prediction task classifiers to investigate the properties of LSTM representations has begun to shed light on why pretrained representations, like ELMo (Peters et al., 2018) and CoVe (McCann et al., 2017), are so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Kelly W. Zhang , Samuel R. Bowman

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims at boosting the overall performance of each individual task by leveraging useful information contained in multiple related tasks. It has shown great success in natural language processing (NLP). Currently, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jianquan Li , Xiaokang Liu , Wenpeng Yin , Min Yang , Liqun Ma , Yaohong Jin

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a subfield of machine learning in which multiple tasks are simultaneously learned by a shared model. Such approaches offer advantages like improved data efficiency, reduced overfitting through shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Michael Crawshaw

Detecting manipulated images and videos is an important topic in digital media forensics. Most detection methods use binary classification to determine the probability of a query being manipulated. Another important topic is locating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Huy H. Nguyen , Fuming Fang , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen

Pretraining and multitask learning are widely used to improve the speech to text translation performance. In this study, we are interested in training a speech to text translation model along with an auxiliary text to text translation task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Yun Tang , Juan Pino , Xian Li , Changhan Wang , Dmitriy Genzel

Safe reinforcement learning has traditionally relied on predefined constraint functions to ensure safety in complex real-world tasks, such as autonomous driving. However, defining these functions accurately for varied tasks is a persistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Se-Wook Yoo , Seung-Woo Seo