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Introducing attentional mechanism in neural network is a powerful concept, and has achieved impressive results in many natural language processing tasks. However, most of the existing models impose attentional distribution on a flat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-25 PengFei Liu , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Neural NLP models are often miscalibrated and overconfident, assigning high confidence to incorrect predictions and failing to express uncertainty during internal evidence aggregation. This undermines selective prediction and high-stakes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Elias Hossain , Shubhashis Roy Dipta , Subash Neupane , Rajib Rana , Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , Ivan Garibay , Niloofar Yousefi

We investigate the extent to which individual attention heads in pretrained transformer language models, such as BERT and RoBERTa, implicitly capture syntactic dependency relations. We employ two methods---taking the maximum attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Phu Mon Htut , Jason Phang , Shikha Bordia , Samuel R. Bowman

Recent years have seen an increasing need for gender-neutral and inclusive language. Within the field of NLP, there are various mono- and bilingual use cases where gender inclusive language is appropriate, if not preferred due to ambiguity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Eva Vanmassenhove , Chris Emmery , Dimitar Shterionov

Attention mechanism has played critical roles in various state-of-the-art NLP models such as Transformer and BERT. It can be formulated as a ternary function that maps the input queries, keys and values into an output by using a summation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang

This work proposes an extensive analysis of the Transformer architecture in the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) setting. Focusing on the encoder-decoder attention mechanism, we prove that attention weights systematically make alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Javier Ferrando , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Recent neural models for relation extraction with distant supervision alleviate the impact of irrelevant sentences in a bag by learning importance weights for the sentences. Efforts thus far have focused on improving extraction accuracy but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Hamed Shahbazi , Xiaoli Z. Fern , Reza Ghaeini , Prasad Tadepalli

Language Models are the underpin of all modern Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. The introduction of the Transformers architecture has contributed significantly into making Language Modeling very effective across many NLP task,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Nikolaos Stylianou , Ioannis Vlahavas

Keyphrase extraction as a task to identify important words or phrases from a text, is a crucial process to identify main topics when analyzing texts from a social media platform. In our study, we focus on text written in Indonesia language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Miftahul Mahfuzh , Sidik Soleman , Ayu Purwarianti

Diffusion models achieve remarkable fidelity in image synthesis, yet precise control over their outputs for targeted editing remains challenging. A key step toward controllability is to identify interpretable directions in the model's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Tharun Anand , Mohammad Hassan Vali , Arno Solin , Green Rosh , BH Pawan Prasad

In this work, we explore multiple neural architectures adapted for the task of automatic post-editing of machine translation output. We focus on neural end-to-end models that combine both inputs $mt$ (raw MT output) and $src$ (source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt , Roman Grundkiewicz

Machine unlearning poses challenges in removing mislabeled, contaminated, or problematic data from a pretrained model. Current unlearning approaches and evaluation metrics are solely focused on model predictions, which limits insight into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Khoa Tran , Simon S. Woo

Inverse text normalization (ITN) is crucial for converting spoken-form into written-form, especially in the context of automatic speech recognition (ASR). While most downstream tasks of ASR rely on written-form, ASR systems often output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Juntae Kim , Minkyu Lim , Seokjin Hong

Transformers provide a class of expressive architectures that are extremely effective for sequence modeling. However, the key limitation of transformers is their quadratic memory and time complexity $\mathcal{O}(L^2)$ with respect to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Hongyu Ren , Hanjun Dai , Zihang Dai , Mengjiao Yang , Jure Leskovec , Dale Schuurmans , Bo Dai

Despite the well-developed cut-edge representation learning for language, most language representation models usually focus on specific level of linguistic unit, which cause great inconvenience when being confronted with handling multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yian Li , Hai Zhao

In this paper, we propose Stacked DeBERT, short for Stacked Denoising Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. This novel model improves robustness in incomplete data, when compared to existing systems, by designing a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Gwenaelle Cunha Sergio , Minho Lee

Summarizing content contributed by individuals can be challenging, because people make different lexical choices even when describing the same events. However, there remains a significant need to summarize such content. Examples include the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Wencan Luo , Fei Liu , Zitao Liu , Diane Litman

Concept unlearning aims to erase a target concept from a pretrained text-to-image diffusion model without retraining. Closed-form methods are attractive in this setting because they apply a single deterministic edit to the cross-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Saemi Moon , Suhyeon Jun , Seoyeon Lee , Dongwoo Kim

The RepEval 2017 Shared Task aims to evaluate natural language understanding models for sentence representation, in which a sentence is represented as a fixed-length vector with neural networks and the quality of the representation is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Qian Chen , Xiaodan Zhu , Zhen-Hua Ling , Si Wei , Hui Jiang , Diana Inkpen

Training deep neural networks from scratch on natural language processing (NLP) tasks requires significant amount of manually labeled text corpus and substantial time to converge, which usually cannot be satisfied by the customers. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Yunzhe Tao , Saurabh Gupta , Satyapriya Krishna , Xiong Zhou , Orchid Majumder , Vineet Khare