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Natural language often exhibits inherent hierarchical structure ingrained with complex syntax and semantics. However, most state-of-the-art deep generative models learn embeddings only in Euclidean vector space, without accounting for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Shuyang Dai , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Chenyang Tao , Lawrence Carin , Jingjing Liu

This paper focuses on the problem of unsupervised alignment of hierarchical data such as ontologies or lexical databases. This is a problem that appears across areas, from natural language processing to bioinformatics, and is typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 David Alvarez-Melis , Youssef Mroueh , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Bilingual word embeddings have been widely used to capture the similarity of lexical semantics in different human languages. However, many applications, such as cross-lingual semantic search and question answering, can be largely benefited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Muhao Chen , Yingtao Tian , Haochen Chen , Kai-Wei Chang , Steven Skiena , Carlo Zaniolo

Euclidean word embedding models such as GloVe and Word2Vec have been shown to reflect human-like gender biases. In this paper, we extend the study of gender bias to the recently popularized hyperbolic word embeddings. We propose gyrocosine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Vaibhav Kumar , Tenzin Singhay Bhotia , Vaibhav Kumar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Selective state-space models excel at long-sequence modeling, but their capacity for language representation -- in complex hierarchical reasoning -- remains underexplored. Most large language models rely on \textit{flat} Euclidean…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Sarang Patil , Ashish Parmanand Pandey , Ioannis Koutis , Mengjia Xu

Conventional text classification models make a bag-of-words assumption reducing text into word occurrence counts per document. Recent algorithms such as word2vec are capable of learning semantic meaning and similarity between words in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Vincent Major , Alisa Surkis , Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs

Word embeddings, which represent a word as a point in a vector space, have become ubiquitous to several NLP tasks. A recent line of work uses bilingual (two languages) corpora to learn a different vector for each sense of a word, by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Shyam Upadhyay , Kai-Wei Chang , Matt Taddy , Adam Kalai , James Zou

Hyperbolic embeddings have recently gained attention in machine learning due to their ability to represent hierarchical data more accurately and succinctly than their Euclidean analogues. However, multi-relational knowledge graphs often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Ivana Balažević , Carl Allen , Timothy Hospedales

Crosslingual word embeddings represent lexical items from different languages in the same vector space, enabling transfer of NLP tools. However, previous attempts had expensive resource requirements, difficulty incorporating monolingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Long Duong , Hiroshi Kanayama , Tengfei Ma , Steven Bird , Trevor Cohn

Different from the traditional classification tasks which assume mutual exclusion of labels, hierarchical multi-label classification (HMLC) aims to assign multiple labels to every instance with the labels organized under hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Boli Chen , Xin Huang , Lin Xiao , Zixin Cai , Liping Jing

Text word embeddings that encode distributional semantics work by modeling contextual similarities of frequently occurring words. Acoustic word embeddings, on the other hand, typically encode low-level phonetic similarities. Semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Mohammad Amaan Sayeed , Hanan Aldarmaki

Recent research in representation learning has shown that hierarchical data lends itself to low-dimensional and highly informative representations in hyperbolic space. However, even if hyperbolic embeddings have gathered attention in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Gabriel Moreira , Manuel Marques , João Paulo Costeira , Alexander Hauptmann

We propose an unsupervised method to obtain cross-lingual embeddings without any parallel data or pre-trained word embeddings. The proposed model, which we call multilingual neural language models, takes sentences of multiple languages as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Takashi Wada , Tomoharu Iwata

Deep learning natural language processing models often use vector word embeddings, such as word2vec or GloVe, to represent words. A discrete sequence of words can be much more easily integrated with downstream neural layers if it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Aliakbar Panahi , Seyran Saeedi , Tom Arodz

Hyperbolic spaces, which have the capacity to embed tree structures without distortion owing to their exponential volume growth, have recently been applied to machine learning to better capture the hierarchical nature of data. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Ryohei Shimizu , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

Embedded topic models are able to learn interpretable topics even with large and heavy-tailed vocabularies. However, they generally hold the Euclidean embedding space assumption, leading to a basic limitation in capturing hierarchical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yishi Xu , Dongsheng Wang , Bo Chen , Ruiying Lu , Zhibin Duan , Mingyuan Zhou

Recent word embeddings techniques represent words in a continuous vector space, moving away from the atomic and sparse representations of the past. Each such technique can further create multiple varieties of embeddings based on different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Mohit Mayank

The variational auto-encoder (VAE) is a popular method for learning a generative model and embeddings of the data. Many real datasets are hierarchically structured. However, traditional VAEs map data in a Euclidean latent space which cannot…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-27 Emile Mathieu , Charline Le Lan , Chris J. Maddison , Ryota Tomioka , Yee Whye Teh

Word embedding is designed to represent the semantic meaning of a word with low dimensional vectors. The state-of-the-art methods of learning word embeddings (word2vec and GloVe) only use the word co-occurrence information. The learned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ruixuan Luo

Incomplete Multi-View Clustering (IMVC) faces the challenge of learning discriminative representations from fragmentary observations while maintaining robustness against missing views. However, prevalent Euclidean-based methods suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tianyi Chen , Haobo Wang , Kai Tang , Gengyu Lyu , Tianlei Hu , Gang Chen , Hong Ma , Meixiang Xiang