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As an alternative to question answering methods based on feature engineering, deep learning approaches such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Long Short-Term Memory Models (LSTMs) have recently been proposed for semantic matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Liu Yang , Qingyao Ai , Jiafeng Guo , W. Bruce Croft

Building a persona-based conversation agent is challenging owing to the lack of large amounts of speaker-specific conversation data for model training. This paper addresses the problem by proposing a multi-task learning approach to training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Yi Luan , Chris Brockett , Bill Dolan , Jianfeng Gao , Michel Galley

Existing methods for vision-and-language learning typically require designing task-specific architectures and objectives for each task. For example, a multi-label answer classifier for visual question answering, a region scorer for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Jaemin Cho , Jie Lei , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

Relevance is an underlying concept in the field of Information Science and Retrieval. It is a cognitive notion consisting of several different criteria or dimensions. Theoretical models of relevance allude to interdependence between these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Sagar Uprety , Shahram Dehdashti , Lauren Fell , Peter Bruza , Dawei Song

Lexical and semantic matches are commonly used as relevance measurements for information retrieval. Together they estimate the semantic equivalence between the query and the candidates. However, semantic equivalence is not the only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Fan Luo , Mihai Surdeanu

Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping automated fact-checking (AFC) by enabling unified, end-to-end verification pipelines rather than isolated components. While large proprietary models achieve strong performance, their closed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Malin Astrid Larsson , Harald Fosen Grunnaleite , Vinay Setty

This study explores the recently proposed and challenging multi-view Anomaly Detection (AD) task. Single-view tasks will encounter blind spots from other perspectives, resulting in inaccuracies in sample-level prediction. Therefore, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoyang He , Jiangning Zhang , Guanzhong Tian , Chengjie Wang , Lei Xie

We propose a novel multi-task learning architecture, which allows learning of task-specific feature-level attention. Our design, the Multi-Task Attention Network (MTAN), consists of a single shared network containing a global feature pool,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Shikun Liu , Edward Johns , Andrew J. Davison

Benefiting from the joint learning of the multiple tasks in the deep multi-task networks, many applications have shown the promising performance comparing to single-task learning. However, the performance of multi-task learning framework is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Zuheng Ming , Junshi Xia , Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman , Jean-Christophe Burie , Kaixing Zhao

Existing learning-based point feature descriptors are usually task-agnostic, which pursue describing the individual 3D point clouds as accurate as possible. However, the matching task aims at describing the corresponding points consistently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Zhiyuan Zhang , Yuchao Dai , Bin Fan , Jiadai Sun , Mingyi He

Estimating multiple attributes from a single facial image gives comprehensive descriptions on the high level semantics of the face. It is naturally regarded as a multi-task supervised learning problem with a single deep CNN, in which lower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Yan Zhang , Li Sun

In the rapidly evolving field of e-commerce, the effectiveness of search re-ranking models is crucial for enhancing user experience and driving conversion rates. Despite significant advancements in feature representation and model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Enqiang Xu , Xinhui Li , Zhigong Zhou , Jiahao Ji , Jinyuan Zhao , Dadong Miao , Songlin Wang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu

Semantic annotation, the process of identifying key-phrases in texts and linking them to concepts in a knowledge base, is an important basis for semantic information retrieval and the Semantic Web uptake. Despite the emergence of semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Gagnon Michel , Zouaq Amal , Aranha Francisco , Ensan Faezeh , Jean-Louis Ludovic

Multi-Task Learning is a learning paradigm that uses correlated tasks to improve performance generalization. A common way to learn multiple tasks is through the hard parameter sharing approach, in which a single architecture is used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Angelica Tiemi Mizuno Nakamura , Denis Fernando Wolf , Valdir Grassi

Most recent successes in robot reinforcement learning involve learning a specialized single-task agent. However, robots capable of performing multiple tasks can be much more valuable in real-world applications. Multi-task reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Elie Aljalbout , Nikolaos Sotirakis , Patrick van der Smagt , Maximilian Karl , Nutan Chen

This paper is a contribution towards interpretability of the deep learning models in different applications of time-series. We propose a temporal attention layer that is capable of selecting the relevant information to perform various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Phongtharin Vinayavekhin , Subhajit Chaudhury , Asim Munawar , Don Joven Agravante , Giovanni De Magistris , Daiki Kimura , Ryuki Tachibana

An important problem in multiview representation learning is finding the optimal combination of views with respect to the specific task at hand. To this end, we introduce NAM: a Neural Attentive Multiview machine that learns multiview item…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Oren Barkan , Ori Katz , Noam Koenigstein

Extracting valuable facts or informative summaries from multi-dimensional tables, i.e. insight mining, is an important task in data analysis and business intelligence. However, ranking the importance of insights remains a challenging and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Qi Zeng , Liangchen Luo , Wenhao Huang , Yang Tang

Sequence models lie at the heart of modern deep learning. However, rapid advancements have produced a diversity of seemingly unrelated architectures, such as Transformers and recurrent alternatives. In this paper, we introduce a unifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Ke Alexander Wang , Jiaxin Shi , Emily B. Fox

Search advertising is essential for merchants to reach the target users on short video platforms. Short video ads aligned with user search intents are displayed through relevance matching and bid ranking mechanisms. This paper focuses on…

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