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Stance detection is the view towards a specific target by a given context (\textit{e.g.} tweets, commercial reviews). Target-related knowledge is often needed to assist stance detection models in understanding the target well and making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Ming Yan , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Ivor W. Tsang

Stance detection seeks to identify the viewpoints of individuals either in favor or against a given target or a controversial topic. Current advanced neural models for stance detection typically employ fully parametric softmax classifiers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yinghan Cheng , Qi Zhang , Chongyang Shi , Liang Xiao , Shufeng Hao , Liang Hu

Contextual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) tackles the problem of solving a set of related Contextual Markov Decision Processes (CMDPs) that vary across different context variables. Traditional approaches--independent training and multi-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tianyue Zhou , Jung-Hoon Cho , Cathy Wu

Context-aware machine translation (MT) leverages document-level information, yet it does not consistently outperform sentence-level MT, as contextual signals are unevenly beneficial across sentences. Existing training objectives do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ying Li , Xinglin Lyu , Junhui Li , Jinlong Yang , Hengchao Shang , Min Zhang , Shimin Tao , Daimeng Wei

Stance detection, as the task of determining the viewpoint of a social media post towards a target as 'favor' or 'against', has been understudied in the challenging yet realistic scenario where there is limited labeled data for a certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Parisa Jamadi Khiabani , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Zero-shot stance detection is challenging because it requires detecting the stance of previously unseen targets in the inference phase. The ability to learn transferable target-invariant features is critical for zero-shot stance detection.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Xuechen Zhao , Jiaying Zou , Zhong Zhang , Feng Xie , Bin Zhou , Lei Tian

Multimodal Stance Detection (MSD) is a crucial task for understanding public opinion on social media. Existing methods predominantly operate by learning to fuse modalities. They lack an explicit reasoning process to discern how inter-modal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Bingbing Wang , Zhengda Jin , Bin Liang , Wenjie Li , Jing Li , Ruifeng Xu , Min Zhang

Multi-modal stance detection (MSD) aims to determine an author's stance toward a given target using both textual and visual content. While recent methods leverage multi-modal fusion and prompt-based learning, most fail to distinguish…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhiyu Xie , Fuqiang Niu , Genan Dai , Qianlong Wang , Li Dong , Bowen Zhang , Hu Huang

The accurate target-background separation in infrared small target detection (IRSTD) highly depends on the discriminability of extracted representations. However, most existing methods are confined to domain-consistent settings, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yimin Fu , Songbo Wang , Feiyan Wu , Jialin Lyu , Zhunga Liu , Michael K. Ng

Large language model (LLM) has achieved promising performance in multilingual machine translation tasks through zero/few-shot prompts or prompt-tuning. However, due to the mixture of multilingual data during the pre-training of LLM, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shaojie Dai , Xin Liu , Ping Luo , Yue Yu

Stance detection is essential for understanding subjective content across various platforms such as social media, news articles, and online reviews. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized stance detection by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Lata Pangtey , Anukriti Bhatnagar , Shubhi Bansal , Shahid Shafi Dar , Nagendra Kumar

Multi-target tracking (MTT) is a classical signal processing task, where the goal is to estimate the states of an unknown number of moving targets from noisy sensor measurements. In this paper, we revisit MTT from a deep learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Damian Owerko , Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis , Jennifer Bondarchuk , Donald J. Bucci , Alejandro Ribeiro

Stance classification, the task of predicting the viewpoint of an author on a subject of interest, has long been a focal point of research in domains ranging from social science to machine learning. Current stance detection methods rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Iain J. Cruickshank , Lynnette Hui Xian Ng

Few-shot, fine-grained classification in computer vision poses significant challenges due to the need to differentiate subtle class distinctions with limited data. This paper presents a novel method that enhances the Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Eric Brouwer , Jan Erik van Woerden , Gertjan Burghouts , Matias Valdenegro-Toro , Marco Zullich

Stance detection classifies stance relations (namely, Favor, Against, or Neither) between comments and targets. Pretrained language models (PLMs) are widely used to mine the stance relation to improve the performance of stance detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jiarui Zhang , Shaojuan Wu , Xiaowang Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

Textual-visual matching aims at measuring similarities between sentence descriptions and images. Most existing methods tackle this problem without effectively utilizing identity-level annotations. In this paper, we propose an identity-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Shuang Li , Tong Xiao , Hongsheng Li , Wei Yang , Xiaogang Wang

Document-level machine translation incorporates inter-sentential dependencies into the translation of a source sentence. In this paper, we propose a new framework to model cross-sentence dependencies by training neural machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Pei Zhang , Xu Zhang , Wei Chen , Jian Yu , Yanfeng Wang , Deyi Xiong

Lane change (LC) is one of the safety-critical manoeuvres in highway driving according to various road accident records. Thus, reliably predicting such manoeuvre in advance is critical for the safe and comfortable operation of automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Sajjad Mozaffari , Eduardo Arnold , Mehrdad Dianati , Saber Fallah

Recent advances in unsupervised domain adaptation have significantly improved the recognition accuracy of CNNs by alleviating the domain shift between (labeled) source and (unlabeled) target data distributions. While the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine , Madhu Kiran , Marco Pedersoli , Jose Dolz , Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin , Eric Granger

While knowledge distillation has seen widespread use in pre-training and instruction tuning, its application to aligning language models with human preferences remains underexplored, particularly in the more realistic cross-tokenizer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Truong Nguyen , Phi Van Dat , Ngan Nguyen , Linh Ngo Van , Trung Le , Thanh Hong Nguyen