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Curating labeled training data has become the primary bottleneck in machine learning. Recent frameworks address this bottleneck with generative models to synthesize labels at scale from weak supervision sources. The generative model's…
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TalkBank is an online database that facilitates the sharing of linguistics research data. However, the existing TalkBank's API has limited data filtering and batch processing capabilities. To overcome these limitations, this paper…
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Large-scale industrial recommenders typically use a fixed multi-stage pipeline (recall, ranking, re-ranking) and have progressed from collaborative filtering to deep and large pre-trained models. However, both multi-stage and so-called One…
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