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Recently, deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance on the task of object detection and recognition. The reason for this success is mainly grounded in the availability of large scale, fully annotated datasets, but the…

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Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) tries to overcome the tedious work of labeling data by leveraging a labeled source dataset and transferring its knowledge to a similar but different target dataset. Meanwhile, current vision-language…

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With Large Language Models (LLMs) rapidly approaching and potentially surpassing human-level performance, it has become imperative to develop approaches capable of effectively supervising and enhancing these powerful models using smaller,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Aakriti Agrawal , Mucong Ding , Zora Che , Chenghao Deng , Anirudh Satheesh , Bang An , Bayan Bruss , John Langford , Furong Huang

Language agents have achieved considerable performance on various complex question-answering tasks by planning with external tools. Despite the incessant exploration in this field, existing language agent systems still struggle with costly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Shuofei Qiao , Ningyu Zhang , Runnan Fang , Yujie Luo , Wangchunshu Zhou , Yuchen Eleanor Jiang , Chengfei Lv , Huajun Chen

By leveraging data from a fully labeled source domain, unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) improves classification performance on an unlabeled target domain through explicit discrepancy minimization of data distribution or adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Shengjia Zhang , Tiancheng Lin , Yi Xu

Computer use agents (CUA) are systems that automatically interact with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to complete tasks. CUA have made significant progress with the advent of large vision-language models (VLMs). However, these agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Man Luo , David Cobbley , Xin Su , Shachar Rosenman , Vasudev Lal , Shao-Yen Tseng , Phillip Howard

In this paper, we propose a method for training neural networks when we have a large set of data with weak labels and a small amount of data with true labels. In our proposed model, we train two neural networks: a target network, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-01 Mostafa Dehghani , Aliaksei Severyn , Sascha Rothe , Jaap Kamps

Semantic parsing over multiple knowledge bases enables a parser to exploit structural similarities of programs across the multiple domains. However, the fundamental challenge lies in obtaining high-quality annotations of (utterance,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Priyanka Agrawal , Parag Jain , Ayushi Dalmia , Abhishek Bansal , Ashish Mittal , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Most existing policy learning solutions require the learning agents to receive high-quality supervision signals such as well-designed rewards in reinforcement learning (RL) or high-quality expert demonstrations in behavioral cloning (BC).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Jingkang Wang , Hongyi Guo , Zhaowei Zhu , Yang Liu

Agents for computer use (ACUs) are an emerging class of systems capable of executing complex tasks on digital devices -- such as desktops, mobile phones, and web platforms -- given instructions in natural language. These agents can automate…

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is important for applications where large scale annotation of representative data is challenging. For semantic segmentation in particular, it helps deploy on real "target domain" data models that are…

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Data quantity and quality are crucial factors for data-driven learning methods. In some target problem domains, there are not many data samples available, which could significantly hinder the learning process. While data from similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Shichao Xu , Lixu Wang , Yixuan Wang , Qi Zhu

Unsupervised domain adaptation has recently emerged as an effective paradigm for generalizing deep neural networks to new target domains. However, there is still enormous potential to be tapped to reach the fully supervised performance. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Binhui Xie , Longhui Yuan , Shuang Li , Chi Harold Liu , Xinjing Cheng , Guoren Wang

Recent works have demonstrated convolutional neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., inputs to machine learning models that an attacker has intentionally designed to cause the models to make a mistake. To improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xianxu Hou , Jingxin Liu , Bolei Xu , Xiaolong Wang , Bozhi Liu , Guoping Qiu

Named Entity Recognition (NER) performance often degrades rapidly when applied to target domains that differ from the texts observed during training. When in-domain labelled data is available, transfer learning techniques can be used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Pierre Lison , Aliaksandr Hubin , Jeremy Barnes , Samia Touileb

Training deep neural networks with noise and data heterogeneity is a major challenge. We introduce Lightweight Learnable Adaptive Weighting (LiLAW), a method that dynamically adjusts the loss weight of each training sample based on its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Abhishek Moturu , Muhammad Muzammil , Anna Goldenberg , Babak Taati

Deep learning has become the method of choice to tackle real-world problems in different domains, partly because of its ability to learn from data and achieve impressive performance on a wide range of applications. However, its success…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Xiaofeng Liu , Chaehwa Yoo , Fangxu Xing , Hyejin Oh , Georges El Fakhri , Je-Won Kang , Jonghye Woo

The proliferation of massive open online courses (MOOCs) demands an effective way of course recommendation for jobs posted in recruitment websites, especially for the people who take MOOCs to find new jobs. Despite the advances of…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Bowen Hao , Jing Zhang , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen , Hongzhi Yin

Multimodal LLM-powered agents have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in web navigation, enabling agents to complete complex browsing tasks across diverse domains. However, current agents struggle with repetitive errors and lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Genglin Liu , Shijie Geng , Sha Li , Hejie Cui , Sarah Zhang , Xin Liu , Tianyi Liu

We present skweak, a versatile, Python-based software toolkit enabling NLP developers to apply weak supervision to a wide range of NLP tasks. Weak supervision is an emerging machine learning paradigm based on a simple idea: instead of…

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