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Recent advances, such as GPT and BERT, have shown success in incorporating a pre-trained transformer language model and fine-tuning operation to improve downstream NLP systems. However, this framework still has some fundamental problems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Zhongyang Li , Xiao Ding , Ting Liu

Transformer-based models such as BERT, XLNET, and XLM-R have achieved state-of-the-art performance across various NLP tasks including the identification of offensive language and hate speech, an important problem in social media. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Diptanu Sarkar , Marcos Zampieri , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Alexander Ororbia

In the era of digitization, different actors in agriculture produce numerous data. Such data contains already latent historical knowledge in the domain. This knowledge enables us to precisely study natural hazards within global or local…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Shufan Jiang , Rafael Angarita , Stephane Cormier , Francis Rousseaux

Large-scale pretraining and task-specific fine-tuning is now the standard methodology for many tasks in computer vision and natural language processing. Recently, a multitude of methods have been proposed for pretraining vision and language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Emanuele Bugliarello , Ryan Cotterell , Naoaki Okazaki , Desmond Elliott

Protecting privileged communications and data from inadvertent disclosure is a paramount task in the US legal practice. Traditionally counsels rely on keyword searching and manual review to identify privileged documents in cases. As data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Haozhen Zhao , Shi Ye , Jingchao Yang

Gathering cyber threat intelligence from open sources is becoming increasingly important for maintaining and achieving a high level of security as systems become larger and more complex. However, these open sources are often subject to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Markus Bayer , Tobias Frey , Christian Reuter

Database systems are extensively used to store critical data across various domains. However, the frequency of abnormal database access behaviors, such as database intrusion by internal and external attacks, continues to rise. Internal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Meital Shlezinger , Shay Akirav , Lei Zhou , Liang Guo , Avi Kessel , Guoliang Li

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) represent standard means for sharing publicly known information security vulnerabilities. One or more CVEs are grouped into the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classes for the purpose of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Ehsan Aghaei , Waseem Shadid , Ehab Al-Shaer

The increasing reliance on machine learning systems has made their security a critical concern. Evasion attacks enable adversaries to manipulate the decision-making processes of AI systems, potentially causing security breaches or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Kasper Cools , Clara Maathuis , Alexander M. van Oers , Claudia S. Hübner , Nikos Deligiannis , Marijke Vandewal , Geert De Cubber

Vulnerability detection has always been the most important task in the field of software security. With the development of technology, in the face of massive source code, automated analysis and detection of vulnerabilities has become a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jiajie Wu

Large pretrained Transformer-based language models like BERT and GPT have changed the landscape of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, fine tuning such models still requires a large number of training examples for each target task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Arijit Sehanobish , Kawshik Kannan , Nabila Abraham , Anasuya Das , Benjamin Odry

Automated detection of software vulnerabilities is critical for enhancing security, yet existing methods often struggle with the complexity and diversity of modern codebases. In this paper, we introduce EnStack, a novel ensemble stacking…

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Deep neural network models have been very successfully applied to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Image based tasks. Their application to network analysis and management tasks is just recently being pursued. Our interest is in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Franck Le , Davis Wertheimer , Seraphin Calo , Erich Nahum

Named entity recognition (NER) of chemicals and drugs is a critical domain of information extraction in biochemical research. NER provides support for text mining in biochemical reactions, including entity relation extraction, attribute…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jian Liu , Lei Gao , Sujie Guo , Rui Ding , Xin Huang , Long Ye , Qinghua Meng , Asef Nazari , Dhananjay Thiruvady

We present ViLBERT (short for Vision-and-Language BERT), a model for learning task-agnostic joint representations of image content and natural language. We extend the popular BERT architecture to a multi-modal two-stream model, pro-cessing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Jiasen Lu , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh , Stefan Lee

Recognizing vulnerability is crucial for understanding and implementing targeted support to empower individuals in need. This is especially important at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), where the court adapts Convention standards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Shanshan Xu , Leon Staufer , T. Y. S. S Santosh , Oana Ichim , Corina Heri , Matthias Grabmair

The utilization of third-party open-source libraries is widespread in modern software development. Due to the dependency relationships, vulnerabilities within open-source libraries pose significant security threats to downstream software.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Liyou Chen , Hailong Sun , Xiang Gao , Lin Shi , Yixin Yang , Yi Xu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as popular models in computer vision, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance across various tasks. This success typically follows a two-stage strategy involving pre-training on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zijun Long , Zaiqiao Meng , Gerardo Aragon Camarasa , Richard McCreadie

Pathology reports contain useful information such as the main involved organ, diagnosis, etc. These information can be identified from the free text reports and used for large-scale statistical analysis or serve as annotation for other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Ruibin Ma , Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen , Gang Li , Wei-Hung Weng , Angela Lin , Krishna Gadepalli , Yuannan Cai

Multi-label Text Classification (MLTC) is the task of categorizing documents into one or more topics. Considering the large volumes of data and varying domains of such tasks, fully supervised learning requires manually fully annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Ziwen Liu , Josep Grau-Bove , Scott Allan Orr