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Definition Extraction (DE) is one of the well-known topics in Information Extraction that aims to identify terms and their corresponding definitions in unstructured texts. This task can be formalized either as a sentence classification task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Franck Dernoncourt , Dejing Dou , Thien Huu Nguyen

A central goal of interpretability is to recover representations of causally relevant concepts from the activations of neural networks. The quality of these concept representations is typically evaluated in isolation, and under implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Aaron Mueller , Andrew Lee , Shruti Joshi , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Dhanya Sridhar , Patrik Reizinger

This paper studies the automated categorization and extraction of scientific concepts from titles of scientific articles, in order to gain a deeper understanding of their key contributions and facilitate the construction of a generic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Adit Krishnan , Aravind Sankar , Shi Zhi , Jiawei Han

Even as pre-trained language encoders such as BERT are shared across many tasks, the output layers of question answering, text classification, and regression models are significantly different. Span decoders are frequently used for question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Nitish Shirish Keskar , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

We present a framework for the unsupervised learning of neurosymbolic encoders, which are encoders obtained by composing neural networks with symbolic programs from a domain-specific language. Our framework naturally incorporates symbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Eric Zhan , Jennifer J. Sun , Ann Kennedy , Yisong Yue , Swarat Chaudhuri

We present a system for bottom-up cumulative learning of myriad concepts corresponding to meaningful character strings, and their part-related and prediction edges. The learning is self-supervised in that the concepts discovered are used as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Omid Madani

This study proposes an automated data mining framework based on autoencoders and experimentally verifies its effectiveness in feature extraction and data dimensionality reduction. Through the encoding-decoding structure, the autoencoder can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yaxin Liang , Xinshi Li , Xin Huang , Ziqi Zhang , Yue Yao

Experts across diverse disciplines are often interested in making sense of large text collections. Traditionally, this challenge is approached either by noisy unsupervised techniques such as topic models, or by following a manual theme…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Maria Leonor Pacheco , Tunazzina Islam , Lyle Ungar , Ming Yin , Dan Goldwasser

Despite the remarkable progress in text-to-image generative models, they are prone to adversarial attacks and inadvertently generate unsafe, unethical content. Existing approaches often rely on fine-tuning models to remove specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Dahye Kim , Deepti Ghadiyaram

As pretrained models are increasingly shared on the web, ensuring that models can forget or delete sensitive, copyrighted, or private information upon request has become crucial. Machine unlearning has been proposed to address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yurim Jang , Jaeung Lee , Dohyun Kim , Jaemin Jo , Simon S. Woo

In the majority of the existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) research, the answers consist of short, often single words, as per instructions given to the annotators during dataset construction. This study envisions a VQA task for natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Kohei Uehara , Tatsuya Harada

Understanding the decision-making processes of neural networks is a central goal of mechanistic interpretability. In the context of Large Language Models (LLMs), this involves uncovering the underlying mechanisms and identifying the roles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nils Feldhus , Laura Kopf

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have been successfully used to probe Large Language Models (LLMs) and extract interpretable concepts from their internal representations. These concepts are linear combinations of neuron activations that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Mathis Le Bail , Jérémie Dentan , Davide Buscaldi , Sonia Vanier

Developing inherently interpretable models for prediction has gained prominence in recent years. A subclass of these models, wherein the interpretable network relies on learning high-level concepts, are valued because of closeness of…

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Learning good representations without supervision is still an open issue in machine learning, and is particularly challenging for speech signals, which are often characterized by long sequences with a complex hierarchical structure. Some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Santiago Pascual , Mirco Ravanelli , Joan Serrà , Antonio Bonafonte , Yoshua Bengio

The gap between our ability to collect interesting data and our ability to analyze these data is growing at an unprecedented rate. Recent algorithmic attempts to fill this gap have employed unsupervised tools to discover structure in data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Genevieve Flaspohler , Nicholas Roy , Yogesh Girdhar

To date, most discoveries of network subcomponents that implement human-interpretable computations in deep vision models have involved close study of single units and large amounts of human labor. We explore scalable methods for extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Achyuta Rajaram , Neil Chowdhury , Antonio Torralba , Jacob Andreas , Sarah Schwettmann

A notable challenge in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is the extremely-long length of the input. In this paper, we present an extract-then-abstract Transformer framework to overcome the problem. Specifically, we leverage pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yun-Zhu Song , Yi-Syuan Chen , Hong-Han Shuai

Unified models aim to support both understanding and generation by encoding images into discrete tokens and processing them alongside text within a single autoregressive framework. This unified design offers architectural simplicity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziyao Wang , Chen Chen , Jingtao Li , Weiming Zhuang , Jiabo Huang , Ang Li , Lingjuan Lyu

Deep convolutional networks have been quite successful at various image classification tasks. The current methods to explain the predictions of a pre-trained model rely on gradient information, often resulting in saliency maps that focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Ashish Kumar , Karan Sehgal , Prerna Garg , Vidhya Kamakshi , Narayanan C Krishnan