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Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) is a model for data synthesis, which creates plausible data through the competition of generator and discriminator. Although GAN application to image synthesis is extensively studied, it has inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jun-Min Lee , Tae-Bin Ha

The wave of pre-training language models has been continuously improving the quality of the machine-generated conversations, however, some of the generated responses still suffer from excessive repetition, sometimes repeating words from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Yadong Xi , Jiashu Pu , Xiaoxi Mao

This paper investigates negative sampling for contrastive learning in the context of audio-text retrieval. The strategy for negative sampling refers to selecting negatives (either audio clips or textual descriptions) from a pool of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Huang Xie , Okko Räsänen , Tuomas Virtanen

Traditional image tagging and retrieval algorithms have limited value as a result of being trained with heavily curated datasets. These limitations are most evident when arbitrary search words are used that do not intersect with training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Karl Ni , Kyle Zaragoza , Charles Foster , Carmen Carrano , Barry Chen , Yonas Tesfaye , Alex Gude

We present a dataset for evaluating the grammaticality of the predictions of a language model. We automatically construct a large number of minimally different pairs of English sentences, each consisting of a grammatical and an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Rebecca Marvin , Tal Linzen

Retrieval-based chatbot selects the appropriate response from candidates according to the context, which heavily depends on a response selection module. A response selection module is generally a scoring model to evaluate candidates and is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Yao Qiu , Jinchao Zhang , Huiying Ren , Jie Zhou

Negative sampling has emerged as an effective technique that enables deep learning models to learn better representations by introducing the paradigm of learn-to-compare. The goal of this approach is to add robustness to deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Suman Adhya , Avishek Lahiri , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal , Partha Pratim Das

Topic modeling has emerged as a dominant method for exploring large document collections. Recent approaches to topic modeling use large contextualized language models and variational autoencoders. In this paper, we propose a negative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Suman Adhya , Avishek Lahiri , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal , Partha Pratim Das

In this paper we explore the effects of negative sampling in dual encoder models used to retrieve passages for automatic question answering. We explore four negative sampling strategies that complement the straightforward random sampling of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Jing Lu , Gustavo Hernandez Abrego , Ji Ma , Jianmo Ni , Yinfei Yang

Negative sampling approaches are prevalent in implicit collaborative filtering for obtaining negative labels from massive unlabeled data. As two major concerns in negative sampling, efficiency and effectiveness are still not fully achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Jingtao Ding , Yuhan Quan , Quanming Yao , Yong Li , Depeng Jin

Unsupervised learning has recently made exceptional progress because of the development of more effective contrastive learning methods. However, CNNs are prone to depend on low-level features that humans deem non-semantic. This dependency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Songwei Ge , Shlok Mishra , Haohan Wang , Chun-Liang Li , David Jacobs

Following SimCSE, contrastive learning based methods have achieved the state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in learning sentence embeddings. However, the unsupervised contrastive learning methods still lag far behind the supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Wei Wang , Liangzhu Ge , Jingqiao Zhang , Cheng Yang

The Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) task aims to retrieve target images using a composed query consisting of a reference image and a modified text. Advanced methods often utilize contrastive learning as the optimization objective, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Zhangchi Feng , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie

Conventional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for text generation tend to have issues of reward sparsity and mode collapse that affect the quality and diversity of generated samples. To address the issues, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Wangchunshu Zhou , Tao Ge , Ke Xu , Furu Wei , Ming Zhou

Negative sampling (NS) strategies play a crucial role in knowledge graph representation. In order to overcome the limitations of existing negative sampling strategies, such as vulnerability to false negatives, limited generalization, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Haoning Li , Qinghua Huang

Negative sampling methods are vital in implicit recommendation models as they allow us to obtain negative instances from massive unlabeled data. Most existing approaches focus on sampling hard negative samples in various ways. These studies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Fuyuan Lyu , Yaochen Hu , Xing Tang , Yingxue Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Xue Liu

Negative sampling stands as a pivotal technique in dense retrieval, essential for training effective retrieval models and significantly impacting retrieval performance. While existing negative sampling methods have made commendable progress…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhen Yang , Zhou Shao , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang

The goal of text-to-image synthesis is to generate a visually realistic image that matches a given text description. In practice, the captions annotated by humans for the same image have large variance in terms of contents and the choice of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Hui Ye , Xiulong Yang , Martin Takac , Rajshekhar Sunderraman , Shihao Ji

Unsupervised sentence embeddings task aims to convert sentences to semantic vector representations. Most previous works directly use the sentence representations derived from pretrained language models. However, due to the token bias in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Junlong Liu , Xichen Shang , Huawen Feng , Junhao Zheng , Qianli Ma

The article describes the new approach for quality improvement of automated dialogue systems for customer support service. Analysis produced in the paper demonstrates the dependency of the quality of the retrieval-based dialogue system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Aigul Nugmanova , Andrei Smirnov , Galina Lavrentyeva , Irina Chernykh