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This paper investigates an unsupervised approach towards deriving a universal, cross-lingual word embedding space, where words with similar semantics from different languages are close to one another. Previous adversarial approaches have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Liping Tang , Zhen Li , Zhiquan Luo , Helen Meng

The key idea behind the unsupervised learning of disentangled representations is that real-world data is generated by a few explanatory factors of variation which can be recovered by unsupervised learning algorithms. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Francesco Locatello , Stefan Bauer , Mario Lucic , Gunnar Rätsch , Sylvain Gelly , Bernhard Schölkopf , Olivier Bachem

Machine learning is at the heart of managing the real-world problems associated with massive data. With the success of neural networks on such large-scale problems, more research in machine learning is being conducted now than ever before.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Ryan O'Dowd

Large language models (LLMs) are probabilistic in nature and perform more reliably when augmented with external information. As complex queries often require multi-step reasoning over the retrieved information, with no clear or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Roxana Petcu , Evangelos Kanoulas , Maarten de Rijke

Self-supervised learning, which learns by constructing artificial labels given only the input signals, has recently gained considerable attention for learning representations with unlabeled datasets, i.e., learning without any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Hankook Lee , Sung Ju Hwang , Jinwoo Shin

Supervised Dictionary Learning has gained much interest in the recent decade and has shown significant performance improvements in image classification. However, in general, supervised learning needs a large number of labelled samples per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Khanh-Hung Tran , Fred-Maurice Ngole-Mboula , Jean-Luc Starck , Vincent Prost

Many complex real-world tasks are composed of several levels of sub-tasks. Humans leverage these hierarchical structures to accelerate the learning process and achieve better generalization. In this work, we study the inductive bias and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yuchen Lu , Yikang Shen , Siyuan Zhou , Aaron Courville , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Semi-supervised learning is a promising way to reduce the annotation cost for text-classification. Combining with pre-trained language models (PLMs), e.g., BERT, recent semi-supervised learning methods achieved impressive performance. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Hai-Ming Xu , Lingqiao Liu , Ehsan Abbasnejad

A variety of contextualised language models have been proposed in the NLP community, which are trained on diverse corpora to produce numerous Neural Language Models (NLMs). However, different NLMs have reported different levels of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Keigo Takahashi , Danushka Bollegala

Meta-learning enables learning systems to adapt quickly to new tasks, similar to humans. Different meta-learning approaches all work under/with the mini-batch episodic training framework. Such framework naturally gives the information about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Shiguang Wu , Yaqing Wang , Yatao Bian , Quanming Yao

Natural language processing (NLP) tasks tend to suffer from a paucity of suitably annotated training data, hence the recent success of transfer learning across a wide variety of them. The typical recipe involves: (i) training a deep,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Lyan Verwimp , Jerome R. Bellegarda

Inspired by recent work on learning with distribution shift, we give a general outlier removal algorithm called iterative polynomial filtering and show a number of striking applications for supervised learning with contamination: (1) We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Kevin Tian , Arsen Vasilyan

Endowing robots with the human ability to learn a growing set of skills over the course of a lifetime as opposed to mastering single tasks is an open problem in robot learning. While multi-task learning approaches have been proposed to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Muhammad Burhan Hafez , Stefan Wermter

Sequence to sequence learning has recently emerged as a new paradigm in supervised learning. To date, most of its applications focused on only one task and not much work explored this framework for multiple tasks. This paper examines three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Minh-Thang Luong , Quoc V. Le , Ilya Sutskever , Oriol Vinyals , Lukasz Kaiser

Unsupervised meta-learning approaches rely on synthetic meta-tasks that are created using techniques such as random selection, clustering and/or augmentation. Unfortunately, clustering and augmentation are domain-dependent, and thus they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Siavash Khodadadeh , Sharare Zehtabian , Saeed Vahidian , Weijia Wang , Bill Lin , Ladislau Bölöni

Supervised Learning is a way of developing Artificial Intelligence systems in which a computer algorithm is trained on labeled data inputs. Effectiveness of a Supervised Learning algorithm is determined by its performance on a given dataset…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Shubhi Bansal , Atharva Tendulkar , Nagendra Kumar

Deep neural networks are typically trained under a supervised learning framework where a model learns a single task using labeled data. Instead of relying solely on labeled data, practitioners can harness unlabeled or related data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Huanru Henry Mao

In this paper, we present a novel cross-consistency based semi-supervised approach for semantic segmentation. Consistency training has proven to be a powerful semi-supervised learning framework for leveraging unlabeled data under the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yassine Ouali , Céline Hudelot , Myriam Tami

One daunting problem for semantic parsing is the scarcity of annotation. Aiming to reduce nontrivial human labor, we propose a two-stage semantic parsing framework, where the first stage utilizes an unsupervised paraphrase model to convert…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Ruisheng Cao , Su Zhu , Chenyu Yang , Chen Liu , Rao Ma , Yanbin Zhao , Lu Chen , Kai Yu

One of the main arguments behind studying disentangled representations is the assumption that they can be easily reused in different tasks. At the same time finding a joint, adaptable representation of data is one of the key challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Łukasz Maziarka , Aleksandra Nowak , Maciej Wołczyk , Andrzej Bedychaj