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Semantic embeddings to represent objects such as image, text and audio are widely used in machine learning and have spurred the development of vector similarity search methods for retrieving semantically related objects. In this work, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Stephen Mussmann , Mehul Smriti Raje , Kavya Tumkur , Oumayma Messoussi , Cyprien Hachem , Seby Jacob

Semantic code search is the task of retrieving relevant code snippet given a natural language query. Different from typical information retrieval tasks, code search requires to bridge the semantic gap between the programming language and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Chen Wu , Ming Yan

Pre-trained sentence embeddings have been shown to be very useful for a variety of NLP tasks. Due to the fact that training such embeddings requires a large amount of data, they are commonly trained on a variety of text data. An adaptation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Anna Kruspe

In this paper, a genetic algorithm, one of the evolutionary algorithms optimization methods, is used for the first time for the problem of finding extremal binary self-dual codes. We present a comparison of the computational times between a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Adrian Korban , Serap Sahinkaya , Deniz Ustun

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a prevalent approach to infuse a private knowledge base of documents with Large Language Models (LLM) to build Generative Q\&A (Question-Answering) systems. However, RAG accuracy becomes increasingly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Kunal Sawarkar , Abhilasha Mangal , Shivam Raj Solanki

In a convergence of machine learning and biology, we reveal that diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms. By considering evolution as a denoising process and reversed evolution as diffusion, we mathematically demonstrate that diffusion…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanbo Zhang , Benedikt Hartl , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

Semantic vector embedding techniques have proven useful in learning semantic representations of data across multiple domains. A key application enabled by such techniques is the ability to measure semantic similarity between given data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Shalisha Witherspoon , Dean Steuer , Graham Bent , Nirmit Desai

Modern recommender systems perform large-scale retrieval by first embedding queries and item candidates in the same unified space, followed by approximate nearest neighbor search to select top candidates given a query embedding. In this…

Recently, a new paradigm called Differentiable Search Index (DSI) has been proposed for document retrieval, wherein a sequence-to-sequence model is learned to directly map queries to relevant document identifiers. The key idea behind DSI is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yubao Tang , Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Jiangui Chen , Zuowei Zhu , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Xueqi Cheng

Semantic sentence embedding models encode natural language sentences into vectors, such that closeness in embedding space indicates closeness in the semantics between the sentences. Bilingual data offers a useful signal for learning such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 John Wieting , Graham Neubig , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Recent work exhibited that distributed word representations are good at capturing linguistic regularities in language. This allows vector-oriented reasoning based on simple linear algebra between words. Since many different methods have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Fei Sun , Jiafeng Guo , Yanyan Lan , Jun Xu , Xueqi Cheng

Capturing the compositional process which maps the meaning of words to that of documents is a central challenge for researchers in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. We introduce a model that is able to represent the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Misha Denil , Alban Demiraj , Nal Kalchbrenner , Phil Blunsom , Nando de Freitas

In open-domain question answering, a model receives a text question as input and searches for the correct answer using a large evidence corpus. The retrieval step is especially difficult as typical evidence corpora have \textit{millions} of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Christopher Sciavolino

Generative models for Information Retrieval, where ranking of documents is viewed as the task of generating a query from a document's language model, were very successful in various IR tasks in the past. However, with the advent of modern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Cicero Nogueira dos Santos , Xiaofei Ma , Ramesh Nallapati , Zhiheng Huang , Bing Xiang

Dense retrievers have made significant strides in text retrieval and open-domain question answering. However, most of these achievements have relied heavily on extensive human-annotated supervision. In this study, we aim to develop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Rui Meng , Ye Liu , Semih Yavuz , Divyansh Agarwal , Lifu Tu , Ning Yu , Jianguo Zhang , Meghana Bhat , Yingbo Zhou

In recent years, with the rapid proliferation of research publications in the field of Artificial Intelligence, it is becoming increasingly difficult for researchers to effectively keep up with all the latest research in one's own domains.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Jieli Zhou , Yuntao Zhou , Yi Xu

This paper summarizes our work on the first track of the ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC 9), "Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access". The goal of the task is to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-10 David Thulke , Nico Daheim , Christian Dugast , Hermann Ney

In this paper, we propose a deep convolutional neural network-based acoustic word embedding system on code-switching query by example spoken term detection. Different from previous configurations, we combine audio data in two languages for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Murong Ma , Haiwei Wu , Xuyang Wang , Lin Yang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

We present our experience in applying distributional semantics (neural word embeddings) to the problem of representing and clustering documents in a bilingual comparable corpus. Our data is a collection of Russian and Ukrainian academic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Andrey Kutuzov , Mikhail Kopotev , Tatyana Sviridenko , Lyubov Ivanova

Differential evolution(DE) is a conventional algorithm with fast convergence speed. However, DE may be trapped in local optimal solution easily. Many researchers devote themselves to improving DE. In our previously work, whale swarm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Haozhen Dong , Liang Gao , Xinyu Li , Haoran Zhong , Bing Zeng