Francisco Garcia — accepted AI-conference papers

2021

Industry Scale Semi-Supervised Learning for Natural Language Understanding

Luoxin Chen, Francisco Garcia, Varun Kumar, He Xie, Jianhua Lu

NAACL 2021industry

This paper presents a production Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) pipeline based on the student-teacher framework, which leverages millions of unlabeled examples to improve Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks. We investigate two questions related to the use of unlabeled data in production SSL c…

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2019

A Meta-MDP Approach to Exploration for Lifelong Reinforcement Learning

Francisco Garcia, Philip S. Thomas

NeurIPS 2019poster

In this paper we consider the problem of how a reinforcement learning agent that is tasked with solving a sequence of reinforcement learning problems (a sequence of Markov decision processes) can use knowledge acquired early in its lifetime to improve its ability to solve new problems. We argue that…

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