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Learning representations of words in a continuous space is perhaps the most fundamental task in NLP, however words interact in ways much richer than vector dot product similarity can provide. Many relationships between words can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Shib Sankar Dasgupta , Michael Boratko , Siddhartha Mishra , Shriya Atmakuri , Dhruvesh Patel , Xiang Lorraine Li , Andrew McCallum

Relational representation learning transforms relational data into continuous and low-dimensional vector representations. However, vector-based representations fall short in capturing crucial properties of relational data that are complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Bo Xiong

State of the art approaches for (embedding based) unsupervised semantic search exploits either compositional similarity (of a query and a passage) or pair-wise word (or term) similarity (from the query and the passage). By design, word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Rishav Chakravarti , Alfio M. Gliozzo

Compositionality is a key aspect of human intelligence, essential for reasoning and generalization. While transformer-based models have become the de facto standard for many language modeling tasks, little is known about how they represent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Aishik Nagar , Ishaan Singh Rawal , Mansi Dhanania , Cheston Tan

Vector embeddings have been tasked with an ever-increasing set of retrieval tasks over the years, with a nascent rise in using them for reasoning, instruction-following, coding, and more. These new benchmarks push embeddings to work for any…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Orion Weller , Michael Boratko , Iftekhar Naim , Jinhyuk Lee

Human-annotated datasets with explicit difficulty ratings are essential in intelligent educational systems. Although embedding vector spaces are widely used to represent semantic closeness and are promising for analyzing text difficulty,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yo Ehara

We provide a comparative study between neural word representations and traditional vector spaces based on co-occurrence counts, in a number of compositional tasks. We use three different semantic spaces and implement seven tensor-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Dmitrijs Milajevs , Dimitri Kartsaklis , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Matthew Purver

The main idea of this paper is to represent shopping items through vectors because these vectors act as the base for building em- beddings for customers and shopping carts. Also, these vectors are input to the mathematical models that act…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Bibek Behera , Manoj Joshi , Abhilash KK , Mohammad Ansari Ismail

Geometric relational embeddings map relational data as geometric objects that combine vector information suitable for machine learning and structured/relational information for structured/relational reasoning, typically in low dimensions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Bo Xiong , Mojtaba Nayyeri , Ming Jin , Yunjie He , Michael Cochez , Shirui Pan , Steffen Staab

During the last decade, entity embeddings have become ubiquitous in Artificial Intelligence. Such embeddings essentially serve as compact but semantically meaningful representations of the entities of interest. In most approaches, vectors…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Steven Schockaert

Constructing latent vector representation for nodes in a network through embedding models has shown its practicality in many graph analysis applications, such as node classification, clustering, and link prediction. However, despite the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Quan Li , Kristanto Sean Njotoprawiro , Hammad Haleem , Qiaoan Chen , Chris Yi , Xiaojuan Ma

Similarity query is the family of queries based on some similarity metrics. Unlike the traditional database queries which are mostly based on value equality, similarity queries aim to find targets "similar enough to" the given data objects,…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yifan Wang

Vector representations of natural language are ubiquitous in search applications. Recently, various methods based on contrastive learning have been proposed to learn textual representations from unlabelled data; by maximizing alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Sachin J. Chanchani , Ruihong Huang

Vector retrieval systems exhibit significant performance variance across queries due to heterogeneous embedding quality. We propose a lightweight framework for predicting retrieval performance at the query level by combining quantization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Y. Du

This paper studies visual search using structured queries. The structure is in the form of a 2D composition that encodes the position and the category of the objects. The transformation of the position and the category of the objects leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Mert Kilickaya , Arnold W. M. Smeulders

Vector representations have become a central element in semantic language modelling, leading to mathematical overlaps with many fields including quantum theory. Compositionality is a core goal for such representations: given representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Dominic Widdows , Kristen Howell , Trevor Cohen

Mathematical notation makes up a large portion of STEM literature, yet finding semantic representations for formulae remains a challenging problem. Because mathematical notation is precise, and its meaning changes significantly with small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Neeraj Gangwar , Nickvash Kani

In several domains, data objects can be decomposed into sets of simpler objects. It is then natural to represent each object as the set of its components or parts. Many conventional machine learning algorithms are unable to process this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Konstantinos Skianis , Giannis Nikolentzos , Stratis Limnios , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Vector representations of graphs and relational structures, whether hand-crafted feature vectors or learned representations, enable us to apply standard data analysis and machine learning techniques to the structures. A wide range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Martin Grohe

Vectors are universal mathematical objects that can represent text, images, speech, or a mix of these data modalities. That happens regardless of whether data is represented by hand-crafted features or learnt embeddings. Collect a large…

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