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Unsupervised sentence embedding representation has become a hot research topic in natural language processing. As a tensor, sentence embedding has two critical properties: direction and norm. Existing works have been limited to constraining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Tianyu Zong , Bingkang Shi , Hongzhu Yi , Jungang Xu

This paper finds that contrastive learning can produce superior sentence embeddings for pre-trained models but is also vulnerable to backdoor attacks. We present the first backdoor attack framework, BadCSE, for state-of-the-art sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Xiaoyi Chen , Baisong Xin , Shengfang Zhai , Shiqing Ma , Qingni Shen , Zhonghai Wu

We propose reCSE, a self supervised contrastive learning sentence representation framework based on feature reshaping. This framework is different from the current advanced models that use discrete data augmentation methods, but instead…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Fufangchen Zhao , Jian Gao , Danfeng Yan

Following SimCSE, contrastive learning based methods have achieved the state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in learning sentence embeddings. However, the unsupervised contrastive learning methods still lag far behind the supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Wei Wang , Liangzhu Ge , Jingqiao Zhang , Cheng Yang

Contrastive learning is widely used for sentence representation learning. Despite this prevalence, most studies have focused exclusively on English and few concern domain adaptation for domain-specific downstream tasks, especially for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zihao Chen , Hisashi Handa , Kimiaki Shirahama

Self-supervised sentence representation learning is the task of constructing an embedding space for sentences without relying on human annotation efforts. One straightforward approach is to finetune a pretrained language model (PLM) with a…

This paper emphasizes the significance to jointly exploit the problem structure and the parameter structure, in the context of deep modeling. As a specific and interesting example, we describe the deep double sparsity encoder (DDSE), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Zhangyang Wang , Thomas S. Huang

Unsupervised sentence representation learning is one of the fundamental problems in natural language processing with various downstream applications. Recently, contrastive learning has been widely adopted which derives high-quality sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Jiduan Liu , Jiahao Liu , Qifan Wang , Jingang Wang , Wei Wu , Yunsen Xian , Dongyan Zhao , Kai Chen , Rui Yan

Traditional comparative learning sentence embedding directly uses the encoder to extract sentence features, and then passes in the comparative loss function for learning. However, this method pays too much attention to the sentence body and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Wei Zhang , Xu Chen

Many signal processing and machine learning methods share essentially the same linear-in-the-parameter model, with as many parameters as available samples as in kernel-based machines. Sparse approximation is essential in many disciplines,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-19 Paul Honeine

The sparse modeling is an evident manifestation capturing the parsimony principle just described, and sparse models are widespread in statistics, physics, information sciences, neuroscience, computational mathematics, and so on. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jianyi Lin

Generic sentence embeddings provide a coarse-grained approximation of semantic textual similarity but ignore specific aspects that make texts similar. Conversely, aspect-based sentence embeddings provide similarities between texts based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Tim Schopf , Emanuel Gerber , Malte Ostendorff , Florian Matthes

Contrastive learning has been gradually applied to learn high-quality unsupervised sentence embedding. Among the previous un-supervised methods, the latest state-of-the-art method, as far as we know, is unsupervised SimCSE (unsup-SimCSE).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Xing Wu , Chaochen Gao , Yipeng Su , Jizhong Han , Zhongyuan Wang , Songlin Hu

In this paper we propose and carefully evaluate a sequence labeling framework which solely utilizes sparse indicator features derived from dense distributed word representations. The proposed model obtains (near) state-of-the art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Gábor Berend

Sparsity-based models and techniques have been exploited in many signal processing and imaging applications. Data-driven methods based on dictionary and sparsifying transform learning enable learning rich image features from data, and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Anna Ma , Deanna Needell

Contrastive learning has shown great potential in unsupervised sentence embedding tasks, e.g., SimCSE. However, We find that these existing solutions are heavily affected by superficial features like the length of sentences or syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Haochen Tan , Wei Shao , Han Wu , Ke Yang , Linqi Song

Unsupervised sentence embeddings task aims to convert sentences to semantic vector representations. Most previous works directly use the sentence representations derived from pretrained language models. However, due to the token bias in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Junlong Liu , Xichen Shang , Huawen Feng , Junhao Zheng , Qianli Ma

The lack of labeled data is a major obstacle to learning high-quality sentence embeddings. Recently, self-supervised contrastive learning (SCL) is regarded as a promising way to address this problem. However, the existing works mainly rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Junhan Yang , Zheng Liu , Shitao Xiao , Jianxun Lian , Lijun Wu , Defu Lian , Guangzhong Sun , Xing Xie

Sentence embeddings enable us to capture the semantic similarity of short texts. Most sentence embedding models are trained for general semantic textual similarity tasks. Therefore, to use sentence embeddings in a particular domain, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Tim Schopf , Dennis N. Schneider , Florian Matthes

Contrastive learning has become a popular approach in natural language processing, particularly for the learning of sentence embeddings. However, the discrete nature of natural language makes it difficult to ensure the quality of positive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Qinyuan Cheng , Xiaogui Yang , Tianxiang Sun , Linyang Li , Xipeng Qiu