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Real-world categorization is severely hampered by class imbalance because traditional ensembles favor majority classes, which lowers minority performance and overall F1-score. We provide a unique ensemble technique for imbalanced problems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mohamed Ehab , Ali Hamdi , Khaled Shaban

Transformer based models are the modern work horses for neural machine translation (NMT), reaching state of the art across several benchmarks. Despite their impressive accuracy, we observe a systemic and rudimentary class of errors made by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Adithya Renduchintala , Adina Williams

Identifying whether a word carries the same meaning or different meaning in two contexts is an important research area in natural language processing which plays a significant role in many applications such as question answering, document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Hansi Hettiarachchi , Tharindu Ranasinghe

This paper describes the approach of the UniBuc - NLP team in tackling the SemEval 2024 Task 8: Multigenerator, Multidomain, and Multilingual Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection. We explored transformer-based and hybrid deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Teodor-George Marchitan , Claudiu Creanga , Liviu P. Dinu

Thanks to the state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs), language generation has reached outstanding levels. These models are capable of generating high quality content, thus making it a challenging task to detect generated text from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Vijini Liyanage , Davide Buscaldi

The paper describes neural models developed for the DAGPap22 shared task hosted at the Third Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing. This shared task targets the automatic detection of generated scientific papers. Our work focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Anna Glazkova , Maksim Glazkov

We present local ensembles, a method for detecting underspecification -- when many possible predictors are consistent with the training data and model class -- at test time in a pre-trained model. Our method uses local second-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 David Madras , James Atwood , Alex D'Amour

To improve the recognition ability of computer-aided breast mass classification among mammographic images, in this work we explore the state-of-the-art classification networks to develop an ensemble mechanism. First, the regions of interest…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-28 Muhammad Umar Farooq , Zahid Ullah , Jeonghwan Gwak

In the low-data regime, it is difficult to train good supervised models from scratch. Instead practitioners turn to pre-trained models, leveraging transfer learning. Ensembling is an empirically and theoretically appealing way to construct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Basil Mustafa , Carlos Riquelme , Joan Puigcerver , André Susano Pinto , Daniel Keysers , Neil Houlsby

This paper presents the first multi-objective transformer model for constructing open cloze tests that exploits generation and discrimination capabilities to improve performance. Our model is further enhanced by tweaking its loss function…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Mariano Felice , Shiva Taslimipoor , Paula Buttery

People are regularly confronted with potentially deceptive statements (e.g., fake news, misleading product reviews, or lies about activities). Only few works on automated text-based deception detection have exploited the potential of deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Loukas Ilias , Felix Soldner , Bennett Kleinberg

In this paper, we present the Logically submissions to De-Factify 2 challenge (DE-FACTIFY 2023) on the task 1 of Multi-Modal Fact Checking. We describes our submissions to this challenge including explored evidence retrieval and selection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Pim Jordi Verschuuren , Jie Gao , Adelize van Eeden , Stylianos Oikonomou , Anil Bandhakavi

Sexism in online media comments is a pervasive challenge that often manifests subtly, complicating moderation efforts as interpretations of what constitutes sexism can vary among individuals. We study monolingual and multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Florian Bremm , Patrick Gustav Blaneck , Tobias Bornheim , Niklas Grieger , Stephan Bialonski

We present a noise-aware, sensor-specific ensemble approach for robust human activity recognition on the 2nd WEAR Dataset Challenge. Our method leverages the PatchTST transformer architecture, training four independent models-one per…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Pavankumar Chandankar , Robin Burchard

Online sexism appears in various forms, which makes its detection challenging. Although automated tools can enhance the identification of sexist content, they are often restricted to binary classification. Consequently, more subtle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Laura De Grazia , Danae Sánchez Villegas , Desmond Elliott , Mireia Farrús , Mariona Taulé

The proliferation of hate speech on social media necessitates automated detection systems that balance accuracy with computational efficiency. This study evaluates 38 model configurations in detecting hate speech across datasets ranging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Mahmoud Abusaqer , Jamil Saquer , Hazim Shatnawi

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have recently gained significant attention due to their ability to generate high-quality images and are consequently used in a wide range of applications. However, there are concerns about the gender bias of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yunbo Lyu , Zhou Yang , Yuqing Niu , Jing Jiang , David Lo

Memes are one of the most popular types of content used to spread information online. They can influence a large number of people through rhetorical and psychological techniques. The task, Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Kshitij Gupta , Devansh Gautam , Radhika Mamidi

Recent research has demonstrated how racial biases against users who write African American English exists in popular toxic language datasets. While previous work has focused on a single fairness criteria, we propose to use additional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Matan Halevy , Camille Harris , Amy Bruckman , Diyi Yang , Ayanna Howard

This paper illustrates a detail description of the system and its results that developed as a part of the participation at CONSTRAINT shared task in AAAI-2021. The shared task comprises two tasks: a) COVID19 fake news detection in English…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Omar Sharif , Eftekhar Hossain , Mohammed Moshiul Hoque