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Unlearning has emerged as a critical capability for large language models (LLMs) to support data privacy, regulatory compliance, and ethical AI deployment. Recent techniques often rely on obfuscation by injecting incorrect or irrelevant…

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Question generation is a widely used data augmentation approach with extensive applications, and extracting qualified candidate answers from context passages is a critical step for most question generation systems. However, existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Zhuoer Wang , Yicheng Wang , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

Semisupervised learning is a learning standard which deals with the study of how computers and natural systems such as human beings acquire knowledge in the presence of both labeled and unlabeled data. Semisupervised learning based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-20 V. Jothi Prakash , Dr. L. M. Nithya

State-of-the-art Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) models for Open-domain Question Answering (QA) are typically trained for span selection using distantly supervised positive examples and heuristically retrieved negative examples. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Srinivasan Iyer , Sewon Min , Yashar Mehdad , Wen-tau Yih

Unsupervised learning methods have a soft inspiration in cognition models. To this day, the most successful unsupervised learning methods revolve around clustering samples in a mathematical space. In this paper we propose a primitive-based,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alfredo Ibias , Hector Antona , Guillem Ramirez-Miranda , Enric Guinovart , Eduard Alarcon

Large Language Models (LLMs) for unsupervised code correctness evaluation have recently gained attention because they can judge if code runs as intended without requiring reference implementations or unit tests, which may be unavailable,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Bhrij Patel , Souradip Chakraborty , Mengdi Wang , Dinesh Manocha , Amrit Singh Bedi

In this paper, we address the Online Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (OUDA) problem, where the target data are unlabelled and arriving sequentially. The traditional methods on the OUDA problem mainly focus on transforming each arriving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 J. H. Moon , Debasmit Das , C. S. George Lee

Leveraging datasets available to learn a model with high generalization ability to unseen domains is important for computer vision, especially when the unseen domain's annotated data are unavailable. We study a novel and practical problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yang Shu , Zhangjie Cao , Chenyu Wang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Human mind is the palace of curious questions that seek answers. Computational resolution of this challenge is possible through Natural Language Processing techniques. Statistical techniques like machine learning and deep learning require a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Pragya Katyayan , Nisheeth Joshi

Machine reading comprehension (MRC) requires reasoning about both the knowledge involved in a document and knowledge about the world. However, existing datasets are typically dominated by questions that can be well solved by context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Yibo Sun , Daya Guo , Duyu Tang , Nan Duan , Zhao Yan , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

Open-Domain Generative Question Answering has achieved impressive performance in English by combining document-level retrieval with answer generation. These approaches, which we refer to as GenQA, can generate complete sentences,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Benjamin Muller , Luca Soldaini , Rik Koncel-Kedziorski , Eric Lind , Alessandro Moschitti

In recent years, low-resource Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) has made significant progress, with models getting remarkable performance on various language datasets. However, none of these models have been customized for the Urdu…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Samreen Kazi , Shakeel Khoja

Deep neural networks have achieved promising performance in supervised point cloud applications, but manual annotation is extremely expensive and time-consuming in supervised learning schemes. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xiaoyuan Luo , Shaolei Liu , Kexue Fu , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song

To avoid giving wrong answers, question answering (QA) models need to know when to abstain from answering. Moreover, users often ask questions that diverge from the model's training data, making errors more likely and thus abstention more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Amita Kamath , Robin Jia , Percy Liang

In open question answering (QA), the answer to a question is produced by retrieving and then analyzing documents that might contain answers to the question. Most open QA systems have considered only retrieving information from unstructured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Wenhu Chen , Ming-Wei Chang , Eva Schlinger , William Wang , William W. Cohen

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is important for applications where large scale annotation of representative data is challenging. For semantic segmentation in particular, it helps deploy on real "target domain" data models that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Tuan-Hung Vu , Himalaya Jain , Maxime Bucher , Matthieu Cord , Patrick Pérez

Despite recent interest in open domain question answering (ODQA) over tables, many studies still rely on datasets that are not truly optimal for the task with respect to utilizing structural nature of table. These datasets assume answers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Sunjun Kweon , Yeonsu Kwon , Seonhee Cho , Yohan Jo , Edward Choi

A fundamental trade-off between effectiveness and efficiency needs to be balanced when designing an online question answering system. Effectiveness comes from sophisticated functions such as extractive machine reading comprehension (MRC),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ming Yan , Jiangnan Xia , Chen Wu , Bin Bi , Zhongzhou Zhao , Ji Zhang , Luo Si , Rui Wang , Wei Wang , Haiqing Chen

Reading Comprehension (RC) is a task of answering a question from a given passage or a set of passages. In the case of multiple passages, the task is to find the best possible answer to the question. Recent trials and experiments in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Avi Chawla

The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the recent advancements in the Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) of deep networks for semantic segmentation. This task is attracting a wide interest, since semantic segmentation models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Marco Toldo , Andrea Maracani , Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh