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We investigate tasks that can be accomplished with unlabeled graphs, which are graphs with nodes that do not have persistent or semantically meaningful labels attached. New visualization techniques to represent unlabeled graphs have been…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Matt I. B. Oddo , Ryan Smith , Stephen Kobourov , Tamara Munzner

Recent breakthroughs in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have been driven by language models trained on a massive amount of plain text. While powerful, deriving supervision from textual resources is still an open question. For example,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Mingda Chen

Multi-step manipulation tasks where robots interact with their environment and must apply process forces based on the perceived situation remain challenging to learn and prone to execution errors. Accurately simulating these tasks is also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Christoph Willibald , Dongheui Lee

We consider the problem of understanding real world tasks depicted in visual images. While most existing image captioning methods excel in producing natural language descriptions of visual scenes involving human tasks, there is often the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Sebastin Santy , Wazeer Zulfikar , Rishabh Mehrotra , Emine Yilmaz

Goal-oriented generative script learning aims to generate subsequent steps to reach a particular goal, which is an essential task to assist robots or humans in performing stereotypical activities. An important aspect of this process is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Qingyun Wang , Manling Li , Hou Pong Chan , Lifu Huang , Julia Hockenmaier , Girish Chowdhary , Heng Ji

We introduce an unsupervised multi-task model to jointly learn point and shape features on point clouds. We define three unsupervised tasks including clustering, reconstruction, and self-supervised classification to train a multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Kaveh Hassani , Mike Haley

Two important tasks at the intersection of knowledge graphs and natural language processing are graph-to-text (G2T) and text-to-graph (T2G) conversion. Due to the difficulty and high cost of data collection, the supervised data available in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Qipeng Guo , Zhijing Jin , Xipeng Qiu , Weinan Zhang , David Wipf , Zheng Zhang

Paraphrase generation has benefited extensively from recent progress in the designing of training objectives and model architectures. However, previous explorations have largely focused on supervised methods, which require a large amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Tong Niu , Semih Yavuz , Yingbo Zhou , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong

We propose a realistic scenario for the unsupervised video learning where neither task boundaries nor labels are provided when learning a succession of tasks. We also provide a non-parametric learning solution for the under-explored problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Nattapong Kurpukdee , Adrian G. Bors

Continual learning aims to learn new tasks incrementally using less computation and memory resources instead of retraining the model from scratch whenever new task arrives. However, existing approaches are designed in supervised fashion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Procedural videos, exemplified by recipe demonstrations, are instrumental in conveying step-by-step instructions. However, understanding such videos is challenging as it involves the precise localization of steps and the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Anil Batra , Davide Moltisanti , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Marcus Rohrbach , Frank Keller

Instruction tuning (IT) achieves impressive zero-shot generalization results by training large language models (LLMs) on a massive amount of diverse tasks with instructions. However, how to select new tasks to improve the performance and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Po-Nien Kung , Fan Yin , Di Wu , Kai-Wei Chang , Nanyun Peng

Among numerous videos shared on the web, well-edited ones always attract more attention. However, it is difficult for inexperienced users to make well-edited videos because it requires professional expertise and immense manual labor. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yu Xiong , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Dahua Lin

A large number of annotated training images is crucial for training successful scene text recognition models. However, collecting sufficient datasets can be a labor-intensive and costly process, particularly for low-resource languages. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yangchen Xie , Xinyuan Chen , Hongjian Zhan , Palaiahankote Shivakum , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Yue Lu

Humans can perform unseen tasks by recalling relevant skills acquired previously and then generalizing them to the target tasks, even if there is no supervision at all. In this paper, we aim to improve this kind of cross-task generalization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Bill Yuchen Lin , Kangmin Tan , Chris Miller , Beiwen Tian , Xiang Ren

Existing models for extractive summarization are usually trained from scratch with a cross-entropy loss, which does not explicitly capture the global context at the document level. In this paper, we aim to improve this task by introducing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Hong Wang , Xin Wang , Wenhan Xiong , Mo Yu , Xiaoxiao Guo , Shiyu Chang , William Yang Wang

Defeasible reasoning is the mode of reasoning where conclusions can be overturned by taking into account new evidence. A commonly used method in cognitive science and logic literature is to handcraft argumentation supporting inference…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Aman Madaan , Dheeraj Rajagopal , Niket Tandon , Yiming Yang , Eduard Hovy

Video consumption is a key part of daily life, but watching entire videos can be tedious. To address this, researchers have explored video summarization and highlight detection to identify key video segments. While some works combine video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Spyros Barbakos , Charalampos Antoniadis , Gerasimos Potamianos , Gianluca Setti

Training general agents to follow complex instructions (tasks) in intricate environments (levels) remains a core challenge in reinforcement learning. Random sampling of task-level pairs often produces unsolvable combinations, highlighting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Daniel Furelos-Blanco , Charles Pert , Frederik Kelbel , Alex F. Spies , Alessandra Russo , Michael Dennis

Capturing and labeling real-world 3D data is laborious and time-consuming, which makes it costly to train strong 3D models. To address this issue, recent works present a simple method by generating randomized 3D scenes without simulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Lanxiao Li , Michael Heizmann