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Mechanisms for encoding positional information are central for transformer-based language models. In this paper, we analyze the position embeddings of existing language models, finding strong evidence of translation invariance, both for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Ulme Wennberg , Gustav Eje Henter

We conducted empirical experiments to assess the transferability of a light curve transformer to datasets with different cadences and magnitude distributions using various positional encodings (PEs). We proposed a new approach to…

Recent approaches to the Automatic Post-Editing (APE) research have shown that better results are obtained by multi-source models, which jointly encode both source (src) and machine translation output (mt) to produce post-edited sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-19 WonKee Lee , Junsu Park , Byung-Hyun Go , Jong-Hyeok Lee

Though language model text embeddings have revolutionized NLP research, their ability to capture high-level semantic information, such as relations between entities in text, is limited. In this paper, we propose a novel contrastive learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Christos Theodoropoulos , James Henderson , Andrei C. Coman , Marie-Francine Moens

We propose a promising neural network model with which to acquire a grounded representation of robot actions and the linguistic descriptions thereof. Properly responding to various linguistic expressions, including polysemous words, is an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Minori Toyoda , Kanata Suzuki , Hiroki Mori , Yoshihiko Hayashi , Tetsuya Ogata

Amortized meta-learning methods based on pre-training have propelled fields like natural language processing and vision. Transformer-based neural processes and their variants are leading models for probabilistic meta-learning with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-06 Paul E. Chang , Nasrulloh Loka , Daolang Huang , Ulpu Remes , Samuel Kaski , Luigi Acerbi

The focus of past machine learning research for Reading Comprehension tasks has been primarily on the design of novel deep learning architectures. Here we show that seemingly minor choices made on (1) the use of pre-trained word embeddings,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Bhuwan Dhingra , Hanxiao Liu , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , William W. Cohen

Learning word embeddings using distributional information is a task that has been studied by many researchers, and a lot of studies are reported in the literature. On the contrary, less studies were done for the case of multiple languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Marco Berlot , Evan Kaplan

The neural architectures of language models are becoming increasingly complex, especially that of Transformers, based on the attention mechanism. Although their application to numerous natural language processing tasks has proven to be very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Pablo Gamallo

Contextualized word embeddings in language models have given much advance to NLP. Intuitively, sentential information is integrated into the representation of words, which can help model polysemy. However, context sensitivity also leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Yile Wang , Yue Zhang

Contemporary deep learning models effectively handle languages with diverse morphology despite not being directly integrated into them. Morphology and word order are closely linked, with the latter incorporated into transformer-based models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Poulami Ghosh , Shikhar Vashishth , Raj Dabre , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Models of acoustic word embeddings (AWEs) learn to map variable-length spoken word segments onto fixed-dimensionality vector representations such that different acoustic exemplars of the same word are projected nearby in the embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Badr M. Abdullah , Bernd Möbius , Dietrich Klakow

Positional bias - where models overemphasize certain positions regardless of content - has been shown to negatively impact model performance across various tasks. While recent research has extensively examined positional bias in text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Kebin Wu , Fatima Albreiki

Word ordering is a constrained language generation task taking unordered words as input. Existing work uses linear models and neural networks for the task, yet pre-trained language models have not been studied in word ordering, let alone…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zebin Ou , Meishan Zhang , Yue Zhang

Dependency context-based word embedding jointly learns the representations of word and dependency context, and has been proved effective in aspect term extraction. In this paper, we design the positional dependency-based word embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Yichun Yin , Chenguang Wang , Ming Zhang

Convolution is an equivariant operation, and image position does not affect its result. A recent study shows that the zero-padding employed in convolutional layers of CNNs provides position information to the CNNs. The study further claims…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Rito Murase , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

Effectively training language models on long inputs poses many technical challenges. As a cost consideration, languages models are pretrained on a fixed sequence length before being adapted to longer sequences. We explore various methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Petros Karypis , Julian McAuley , George Karypis

In 2018, Mikolov et al. introduced the positional language model, which has characteristics of attention-based neural machine translation models and which achieved state-of-the-art performance on the intrinsic word analogy task. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Vít Novotný , Michal Štefánik , Eniafe Festus Ayetiran , Petr Sojka , Radim Řehůřek

Word evolution refers to the changing meanings and associations of words throughout time, as a byproduct of human language evolution. By studying word evolution, we can infer social trends and language constructs over different periods of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Zijun Yao , Yifan Sun , Weicong Ding , Nikhil Rao , Hui Xiong

Absolute pose regressor (APR) networks are trained to estimate the pose of the camera given a captured image. They compute latent image representations from which the camera position and orientation are regressed. APRs provide a different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yoli Shavit , Yosi Keller