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Recently, contrastive learning has been applied to the sequential recommendation task to address data sparsity caused by users with few item interactions and items with few user adoptions. Nevertheless, the existing contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Lei Wang , Ee-Peng Lim , Zhiwei Liu , Tianxiang Zhao

Generative relation extraction (RE) commonly involves first reformulating RE as a linguistic modeling problem easily tackled with pre-trained language models (PLM) and then fine-tuning a PLM with supervised cross-entropy loss. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jiaxin Duan , Fengyu Lu , Junfei Liu

We present Mixture of Contrastive Experts (MiCE), a unified probabilistic clustering framework that simultaneously exploits the discriminative representations learned by contrastive learning and the semantic structures captured by a latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Tsung Wei Tsai , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

In recent years, the use of edge information provided by knowledge graphs together with the advantages of higher-order connectivity in graph neural networks for recommendation systems has become an important research direction. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhifei Hu , Feng Xia

In dialogue systems, utterances with similar semantics may have distinctive emotions under different contexts. Therefore, modeling long-range contextual emotional relationships with speaker dependency plays a crucial part in dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Shimin Li , Hang Yan , Xipeng Qiu

We propose Automatic Feature Explanation using Contrasting Concepts (FALCON), an interpretability framework to explain features of image representations. For a target feature, FALCON captions its highly activating cropped images using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Neha Kalibhat , Shweta Bhardwaj , Bayan Bruss , Hamed Firooz , Maziar Sanjabi , Soheil Feizi

Large Language Models often generate unfaithful responses in knowledge intensive tasks due to knowledge conflict,that is,a preference for relying on internal parametric knowledge rather than the provided context.To address this issue,we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Shengqiang Fu

In empathetic conversations, individuals express their empathy towards others. Previous work has mainly focused on generating empathetic responses by utilizing the speaker's emotion. Besides, external commonsense knowledge has been applied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Hua Cai , Xuli Shen , Qing Xu , Weilin Shen , Xiaomei Wang , Weifeng Ge , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xiangyang Xue

Pre-trained sequence-to-sequence language models have led to widespread success in many natural language generation tasks. However, there has been relatively less work on analyzing their ability to generate structured outputs such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Swarnadeep Saha , Prateek Yadav , Mohit Bansal

Pre-trained language models (PTLM) have achieved impressive results in a range of natural language understanding (NLU) and generation (NLG) tasks. However, current pre-training objectives such as masked token prediction (for BERT-style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Wangchunshu Zhou , Dong-Ho Lee , Ravi Kiran Selvam , Seyeon Lee , Bill Yuchen Lin , Xiang Ren

Contrastive explanations, where one decision is explained in contrast to another, are supposed to be closer to how humans explain a decision than non-contrastive explanations, where the decision is not necessarily referenced to an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Oliver Eberle , Ilias Chalkidis , Laura Cabello , Stephanie Brandl

Despite their high accuracies, modern complex image classifiers cannot be trusted for sensitive tasks due to their unknown decision-making process and potential biases. Counterfactual explanations are very effective in providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Kamran Alipour , Aditya Lahiri , Ehsan Adeli , Babak Salimi , Michael Pazzani

Since the meaning representations are detailed and accurate annotations which express fine-grained sequence-level semtantics, it is usually hard to train discriminative semantic parsers via Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Shan Wu , Chunlei Xin , Bo Chen , Xianpei Han , Le Sun

Contrastive representation learning has proven to be an effective self-supervised learning method for images and videos. Most successful approaches are based on Noise Contrastive Estimation (NCE) and use different views of an instance as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Julien Denize , Jaonary Rabarisoa , Astrid Orcesi , Romain Hérault

Machine learning models are widely used in real-world applications. However, their complexity makes it often challenging to interpret the rationale behind their decisions. Counterfactual explanations (CEs) have emerged as a viable solution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Muhammad Suffian , Jose M. Alonso-Moral , Alessandro Bogliolo

Recently, the cross-modal pre-training task has been a hotspot because of its wide application in various down-streaming researches including retrieval, captioning, question answering and so on. However, exiting methods adopt a one-stream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Keyu Wen , Zhenshan Tan , Qingrong Cheng , Cheng Chen , Xiaodong Gu

Identifying related entities and events within and across documents is fundamental to natural language understanding. We present an approach to entity and event coreference resolution utilizing contrastive representation learning. Earlier…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Benjamin Hsu , Graham Horwood

Benefiting from the effectiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs) and contrastive learning, GNN-based contrastive learning has become mainstream for knowledge-aware recommendation. However, most existing contrastive learning-based methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shengyin Sun , Chen Ma

We present Semi-Structured Explanations for COPA (COPA-SSE), a new crowdsourced dataset of 9,747 semi-structured, English common sense explanations for Choice of Plausible Alternatives (COPA) questions. The explanations are formatted as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Ana Brassard , Benjamin Heinzerling , Pride Kavumba , Kentaro Inui

With the increasing deployment of machine learning systems in practice, transparency and explainability have become serious issues. Contrastive explanations are considered to be useful and intuitive, in particular when it comes to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 André Artelt , Barbara Hammer