41 accepted papers
Accurate recall from large-scale memories remains a core challenge for memory-augmented AI assistants performing question answering (QA), especially in similarity-dense scenarios where existing methods mainly rely on semantic distance to the query for retrieval. Inspired by how humans link informati…
Foundational vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, are emerging as a promising paradigm in vision tasks due to their strong generalization ability. Nevertheless, adapting them to downstream tasks remains challenging, especially in biomedical imaging, where scarce annotations, low-contrast fea
Large Language Models (LLMs) still exhibit limited capability in following complex instructions. While existing approaches often rely on preference learning to enhance this ability, they typically overlook the relationships between the permissible response spaces of different instructions, which res
The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has relied on access to high-quality, large-scale datasets, yet growing concerns around data privacy and security have spurred substantial research into pre-training data detection. While state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods such as RECALL and CON-REC
LLM Ensemble---which involves the comprehensive use of multiple large language models (LLMs), each aimed at handling user queries during downstream inference, to benefit from their individual strengths---has gained substantial attention recently. The widespread availability of LLMs, coupled with the
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), inspired by biological neurons, are attractive for their event-driven energy efficiency but still fall short of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in accuracy. Knowledge distillation (KD) has emerged as a promising approach to narrow this gap by transferring ANN knowle…
Partial label learning is a prominent weakly supervised classification task, where each training instance is ambiguously labeled with a set of candidate labels. In real-world scenarios, candidate labels are often influenced by instance features, leading to the emergence of instance-dependent PLL (ID
Spiking neural networks (SNNs), which are brain-inspired and spike-driven, achieve high energy efficiency. However, a performance gap between SNNs and artificial neural networks (ANNs) still remains. Knowledge distillation (KD) is commonly adopted to improve SNN performance, but existing methods typ
Semi-structured content in HTML tables, lists, and infoboxes accounts for a substantial share of factual data on the web, yet the formatting complicates usage, and reliably extracting structured information from them remains challenging. Existing methods either lack generalization or are resource-in…
We introduce SceneTransporter, an end-to-end framework for structured 3D scene generation from a single image. While existing methods generate part-level 3D objects, they often fail to organize these parts into distinct instances in open-world scenes. Through a debiased clustering probe, we reveal a…
Large language models (LLMs) are seeing growing adoption in multi-agent systems. In these systems, efficient failure attribution is critical for ensuring robustness and interpretability. Current LLM-based attribution methods often face challenges with lengthy logs and lacking expert knowledge. Drawi
End-to-end speech-in, speech-out dialogue systems are emerging as a powerful alternative to traditional ASR–LLM–TTS pipelines but remain prone to hallucinations due to limited factual grounding. While text-based dialogue models have effectively mitigated this issue through tools such as web search A…
While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on factoid question answering, they are still prone to hallucination and untruthful responses, particularly when tasks demand information outside their parametric knowledge. Indeed, truthfulness requires more than accuracy---mod…
Wearable devices such as AI glasses are transforming voice assistants into always-available, hands-free collaborators that integrate seamlessly with daily life, but they also introduce challenges like egocentric audio affected by motion and noise, rapid micro-interactions, and the need to distinguis…
The Spiking Neural Network (SNN) has drawn increasing attention for its energy-efficient, event-driven processing and biological plausibility. To train SNNs via backpropagation, surrogate gradients are used to approximate the non-differentiable spike function, but they only maintain nonzero derivati
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating external data, with Knowledge Graphs (KGs) offering crucial information for question answering. Traditional Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) methods rely on semantic parsing, which
Soft robots, compared to regular rigid robots, as their multiple segments with soft materials bring flexibility and compliance, have the advantages of safe interaction and dexterous operation in the environment. However, due to its characteristics of high dimensional, nonlinearity, time-varying natu
Temporal sequences, even after stationarization, often exhibit leptokurtic distributions with fat tails and persistent distribution shifts. These properties destabilize feature dynamics, amplify model variance, and hinder model convergence in time series forecasting. To address this, we propose Morp…
Deep learning approaches for multimodal aspect-level sentiment classification (MALSC) often require extensive data, which is costly and time-consuming to obtain. To mitigate this, current methods typically fine-tune small-scale pretrained models like BERT and BART with few-shot examples. While these…
Existing recommendation systems either rely on user interaction logs, such as online shopping history for shopping recommendations, or focus on text signals. However, item-based histories are not always accessible and generalizable for multimodal recommendation. We hypothesize that a user's visual…
"Advances in 3D generation have facilitated sequential 3D model generation (a.k.a 4D generation), yet its application for animatable objects with large motion remains scarce. Our work proposes AnimatableDreamer, a text-to-4D generation framework capable of generating diverse categories of non-rigid…
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has recently emerged as a promising solution to alleviate Large Language Model (LLM)’s deficiency in lack of knowledge. Existing RAG datasets, however, do not adequately represent the diverse and dynamic nature of real-world Question Answering (QA) tasks. To brid…
Since the recent prosperity of Large Language Models (LLMs), there have been interleaved discussions regarding how to reduce hallucinations from LLM responses, how to increase the factuality of LLMs, and whether Knowledge Graphs (KGs), which store the world knowledge in a symbolic form, will be repl…
Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (TKGR) is the process of utilizing temporal information to capture complex relations within a Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) to infer new knowledge. Conventional methods in TKGR typically depend on deep learning algorithms or temporal logical rules. However, deep l…
To advance the evaluation of multimodal math reasoning in large multimodal models (LMMs), this paper introduces a novel benchmark, MM-MATH. MM-MATH consists of 5,929 open-ended middle school math problems with visual contexts, with fine-grained classification across difficulty, grade level, and know…
STOchastic Recursive Momentum (STORM)-based algorithms have been widely developed to solve one to $K$-level ($K \geq 3$) stochastic optimization problems. Specifically, they use estimators to mitigate the biased gradient issue and achieve near-optimal convergence results. However, there is relativel…
Document-level relation extraction (DocRE) involves identifying relations between entities distributed in multiple sentences within a document. Existing methods focus on building a heterogeneous document graph to model the internal structure of an entity and the external interaction between entities…
State-of-the-art target-oriented opinion word extraction (TOWE) models typically use BERT-based text encoders that operate on the word level, along with graph convolutional networks (GCNs) that incorporate syntactic information extracted from syntax trees. These methods achieve limited gains with GC…
Angle of arrival (AoA) and angle of departure (AoD) are introduced in Bluetooth 5 to better support indoor localization and tracking. However, the performance of AoA estimation using Bluetooth 5 is not thoroughly understood at present. In this paper, a Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) model, taking int…
Recent interest in entity linking has focused in the zero-shot scenario, where at test time the entity mention to be labelled is never seen during training, or may belong to a different domain from the source domain. Current work leverage pre-trained BERT with the implicit assumption that it bridges…
Event argument extraction is a challenging subtask of event extraction, aiming to identify and assign roles to arguments under a certain event. Existing methods extract arguments of each role independently, ignoring the relationship between different roles. Such an approach hinders the model from le…
To perform well on a machine reading comprehension (MRC) task, machine readers usually require commonsense knowledge that is not explicitly mentioned in the given documents. This paper aims to extract a new kind of structured knowledge from scripts and use it to improve MRC. We focus on scripts as t…
Existing dialogue corpora and models are typically designed under two disjoint motives: while task-oriented systems focus on achieving functional goals (e.g., booking hotels), open-domain chatbots aim at making socially engaging conversations. In this work, we propose to integrate both types of syst…
Target-oriented opinion words extraction (TOWE) (Fan et al., 2019b) is a new subtask of target-oriented sentiment analysis that aims to extract opinion words for a given aspect in text. Current state-of-the-art methods leverage position embeddings to capture the relative position of a word to the ta…
Pan-sharpening is an important technique for remote sensing imaging systems to obtain high resolution multispectral images. Recently, deep learning has become the most popular tool for pan-sharpening. This paper develops a model-based deep pan-sharpening approach. Specifically, two optimization prob…
Multitask learning has shown promising performance in learning multiple related tasks simultaneously, and variants of model architectures have been proposed, especially for supervised classification problems. One goal of multitask learning is to extract a good representation that sufficiently captur…
Despite considerable progress, most machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks still lack sufficient training data to fully exploit powerful deep neural network models with millions of parameters, and it is laborious, expensive, and time-consuming to create large-scale, high-quality MRC data through…
Recent work has shown that dense passage retrieval techniques achieve better ranking accuracy in open-domain question answering compared to sparse retrieval techniques such as BM25, but at the cost of large space and memory requirements. In this paper, we analyze the redundancy present in encoded de…
The advent of natural language understanding (NLU) benchmarks for English, such as GLUE and SuperGLUE allows new NLU models to be evaluated across a diverse set of tasks. These comprehensive benchmarks have facilitated a broad range of research and applications in natural language processing (NLP).…
Monocular 3D object detection is an essential component in autonomous driving while challenging to solve, especially for those occluded samples which are only partially visible. Most detectors consider each 3D object as an independent training target, inevitably resulting in a lack of useful informa…