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Multi-modal retrieval has seen tremendous progress with the development of vision-language models. However, further improving these models require additional labelled data which is a huge manual effort. In this paper, we propose a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Avinash Madasu , Estelle Aflalo , Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Shachar Rosenman , Shao-Yen Tseng , Gedas Bertasius , Vasudev Lal

Although existing neural retrieval models reveal promising results when training data is abundant and the performance keeps improving as training data increases, collecting high-quality annotated data is prohibitively costly. To this end,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Fan Jiang , Tom Drummond , Trevor Cohn

Deep metric learning is an important area due to its applicability to many domains such as image retrieval and person re-identification. The main drawback of such models is the necessity for labeled data. In this work, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Xuefei Cao , Bor-Chun Chen , Ser-Nam Lim

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in enhancing dense retrieval through query augmentation. However, most existing methods treat the LLM and the retriever as separate modules, overlooking the alignment…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sijia Yao , Pengcheng Huang , Zhenghao Liu , Yu Gu , Yukun Yan , Shi Yu , Ge Yu

Unsupervised multi-object discovery (MOD) aims to detect and localize distinct object instances in visual scenes without any form of human supervision. Recent approaches leverage object-centric learning (OCL) and motion cues from video to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xinrui Gong , Oliver Hahn , Christoph Reich , Krishnakant Singh , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Daniel Cremers , Stefan Roth

Unlabeled data learning has attracted considerable attention recently. However, it is still elusive to extract the expected high-level semantic feature with mere unsupervised learning. In the meantime, semi-supervised learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Tao Han , Junyu Gao , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

While large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as dense retrievers, the impact of their domain-specific specialization on retrieval effectiveness remains underexplored. This investigation systematically examines how…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hengran Zhang , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo

We consider the task of optimally fine-tuning pre-trained multilingual models, given small amounts of unlabelled target data and an annotation budget. In this paper, we introduce DEMUX, a framework that prescribes the exact data-points to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Simran Khanuja , Srinivas Gowriraj , Lucio Dery , Graham Neubig

For most language combinations, parallel data is either scarce or simply unavailable. To address this, unsupervised machine translation (UMT) exploits large amounts of monolingual data by using synthetic data generation techniques such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Dana Ruiter , Dietrich Klakow , Josef van Genabith , Cristina España-Bonet

We propose a fully unsupervised framework for ad-hoc cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) which requires no bilingual data at all. The framework leverages shared cross-lingual word embedding spaces in which terms, queries, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Robert Litschko , Goran Glavaš , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Ivan Vulić

Recent research demonstrates the effectiveness of using fine-tuned language models~(LM) for dense retrieval. However, dense retrievers are hard to train, typically requiring heavily engineered fine-tuning pipelines to realize their full…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Luyu Gao , Jamie Callan

We propose the new problem of choosing which dense retrieval model to use when searching on a new collection for which no labels are available, i.e. in a zero-shot setting. Many dense retrieval models are readily available. Each model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ekaterina Khramtsova , Shengyao Zhuang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Xi Wang , Guido Zuccon

Semi-supervised learning lately has shown much promise in improving deep learning models when labeled data is scarce. Common among recent approaches is the use of consistency training on a large amount of unlabeled data to constrain model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Qizhe Xie , Zihang Dai , Eduard Hovy , Minh-Thang Luong , Quoc V. Le

Training Transformer-based models demands a large amount of data, while obtaining aligned and labelled data in multimodality is rather cost-demanding, especially for audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR). Thus it makes a lot of sense to…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xichen Pan , Peiyu Chen , Yichen Gong , Helong Zhou , Xinbing Wang , Zhouhan Lin

The amount of labeled data to train models for speech tasks is limited for most languages, however, the data scarcity is exacerbated for speech translation which requires labeled data covering two different languages. To address this issue,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Changhan Wang , Hirofumi Inaguma , Peng-Jen Chen , Ilia Kulikov , Yun Tang , Wei-Ning Hsu , Michael Auli , Juan Pino

Dense retrievers for open-domain question answering (ODQA) have been shown to achieve impressive performance by training on large datasets of question-passage pairs. In this work we ask whether this dependence on labeled data can be reduced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ori Ram , Gal Shachaf , Omer Levy , Jonathan Berant , Amir Globerson

Neural machine translation~(NMT) is ineffective for zero-resource languages. Recent works exploring the possibility of unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) with only monolingual data can achieve promising results. However, there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Mingxuan Wang , Hongxiao Bai , Hai Zhao , Lei Li

Conversational machine reading (CMR) tools have seen a rapid progress in the recent past. The current existing tools rely on the supervised learning technique which require labeled dataset for their training. The supervised technique…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Peter Ochieng , Dennis Mugambi

Unsupervised object re-identification targets at learning discriminative representations for object retrieval without any annotations. Clustering-based methods conduct training with the generated pseudo labels and currently dominate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Xiao Zhang , Yixiao Ge , Yu Qiao , Hongsheng Li

We improve low-resource ASR by integrating the ideas of multilingual training and self-supervised learning. Concretely, we leverage an International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) multilingual model to create frame-level pseudo labels for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-22 Siyuan Feng , Ming Tu , Rui Xia , Chuanzeng Huang , Yuxuan Wang