141 accepted papers
Adjuvants play a critical role in modulating immune responses and are central to the development of vaccines and immunotherapies. Yet progress in this field is constrained by data scarcity and incomplete understanding of mechanisms of action, which limit the transition from experience-based design t…
Masked Image Modeling (MIM) has been widely recognized as a powerful self-supervised paradigm for learning general-purpose visual representations. However, standard MIM based on random masking tends to underperform in domain-specific tasks like Scene Text Recognition (STR), due to challenges such as
Dynamic multimodal fusion methods lack robust theoretical guidance for handling modal conflicts and inconsistent data quality. While recent theoretical work has associated modal weights with scalar quantities such as loss or confidence, this paradigm struggles to comprehensively address the risks ca
Narrative comprehension on long stories and novels has been a challenging domain attributed to their intricate plotlines and entangled, often evolving relations among characters and entities. Given the LLM
Unlearning in Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for protecting private data and removing harmful knowledge. Most existing approaches rely on fine-tuning to balance unlearning efficiency with general language capabilities. However, these methods typically require training or access to retain da…
Existing methods for learning with noisy labels (LNL) predominantly rely on the small-loss trick, assuming that low-loss samples are more likely to be correctly labeled. While effective, this strategy suffers from two overlooked confirmation biases: (1) Class-level confirmation bias: samples from ea
Offline reinforcement learning (RL) seeks to learn an optimal policy from a fixed dataset, but distributional shift between the dataset and the learned policy often leads to suboptimal real-world performance. Existing methods typically use behavior policy regularization to constrain the learned poli…
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate how specific users respond to any context, enabling more user-centric applications that rely on user feedback. However, existing user simulators mostly imitate surface-level patterns and language styles, which fails to reflect the underl…
Inference time optimization techniques, such as repeated sampling, have significantly advanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the critical role of model uncertainty remains largely underexplored in these optimization strategies. In this paper, we investigate the…
Given the inherently costly and time-intensive nature of pixel-level annotation, the generation of synthetic datasets comprising sufficiently diverse synthetic images paired with ground-truth pixel-level annotations has garnered increasing attention recently for training high-performance semantic se
Cross-domain few-shot image interpretation (CD-FSII) has been significantly advanced by fine-tuning pre-trained visual feature models using limited labeled samples in target domains. However, profound cross-domain distribution discrepancies, along with inherent conflicts between extensive object vis
Agentic workflows, where multiple AI agents collaborate to accomplish complex tasks like reasoning or planning, play a substantial role in many cutting-edge commercial applications. These workflows depend critically on the prompts used to provide the roles models play in such workflows. Poorly desig
Generalization remains a central challenge in offline reinforcement learning (RL), where policies are trained solely from static datasets and must perform reliably under distribution shift. While most existing offline RL methods focus on reducing training loss using standard optimizers such as Adam,…
Change detection and semantic segmentation are key techniques for satellite image analysis in remote sensing. However, acquiring high-quality labeled data is costly and time-consuming. Although recent studies have explored generative models to ease data scarcity, a unified framework supporting both
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate powerful generative capabilities yet remain prone to object hallucinations. Most existing methods mitigate this issue through training or decoding strategies, but provide limited exploration of how hallucinations arise from internal representations du
Image-text alignment relies on large-scale, well-aligned image-text pairs, yet web-crawled datasets inevitably introduce noisy correspondence. Existing methods typically re-weight training pairs by estimating semantic matching degrees from the model's own similarity predictions, which are inherently
Recent studies have demonstrated that learning a meaningful internal represen- tation can accelerate generative training. However, existing approaches necessi- tate to either introduce an off-the-shelf external representation task or rely on a large-scale, pre-trained external representation encoder…
Multimodal Large Language Models struggle to maintain reliable performance under extreme real-world visual degradations, which impede their practical robustness. Existing robust MLLMs predominantly rely on implicit training/adaptation that focuses solely on visual encoder generalization, suffering f
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in visual understanding, yet their performance degrades significantly under real-world visual corruptions. While existing robustness enhancement approaches exist, they are limited: black-box feature alignment lacks interpr…
Dexterous functional tool-use grasping is essential for effective robotic manipulation of tools. However, existing approaches face significant challenges in efficiently constructing large-scale datasets and ensuring generalizability to everyday object scales. These issues primarily arise from size m
Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (TKGR) aims at inferring missing (especially future) events from historical data. Current evaluation in TKGR uniformly weights all events, ignoring that most are trivial repetitions, which overestimate the true reasoning ability. Therefore, the rare outstanding eve
Fine-tuning large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is crucial for specialized tasks, but their performance is often undermined by the label noise prevalent in real-world datasets. Traditional approaches to learning with noisy labels typically rely on a self-referential loop, using a model's own p
Autoregressive (AR) visual generation relies on tokenizers to map images to and from discrete sequences. However, tokenizers are trained to reconstruct clean images from ground-truth tokens, while AR generators are optimized only for token likelihood. This misalignment leads to generated token seque
In a rapidly evolving world where information updates swiftly, knowledge in large language models (LLMs) becomes outdated quickly. Retraining LLMs is not a cost-effective option, making knowledge editing (KE) without modifying parameters particularly necessary. We find that although existing retriev
Controllable diffusion models have been widely applied in image stylization. However, existing methods often treat the style in the reference image as a single, indivisible entity, which makes it difficult to transfer specific stylistic attributes. To address this issue, we propose a fine-grained co…
Highly realistic human-machine interaction is challenging for open-domain dialogue systems. Although existing methods have achieved notable progress by leveraging various interaction factors (e.g., emotion, personality, topic) for delivering human-like (e.g., empathetic, personalized and semanticall…
Despite the remarkable success of attention-based large language models (LLMs), the precise interaction mechanisms between attention heads remain poorly understood. In contrast to prevalent methods that focus on individual head contributions, we rigorously analyze the intricate interplay among atten…
Offline reinforcement learning confronts the distributional shift challenge, a consequence of learning policy from static datasets. Current methods primarily handle this issue by aligning the learned policy with the behavior policy or conservatively estimating Q-values for out-of-distribution (OOD)…
Model editing is a novel research topic in large language models (LLMs), aimed at efficiently handling various knowledge editing tasks. Since irrelevant knowledge is difficult to measure, existing editing methods often lack explicit ways to preserve it, especially for editing methods based on the f…
We propose a novel sample selection method for image classification in the presence of noisy labels. Existing methods typically consider small-loss samples as correctly labeled. However, some correctly labeled samples are inherently difficult for the model to learn and can exhibit high loss similar…
Traditional retrieval methods rely on transforming user queries into vector representations and retrieving documents based on cosine similarity within an embedding space. While efficient and scalable, this approach often fails to handle complex queries involving logical constructs such as negations,…
Large language models (LLMs) possess extensive prior knowledge and powerful in-context learning (ICL) capabilities, presenting significant opportunities for low-resource tasks. Though effective, several key issues still have not been well-addressed when focusing on zero-shot named entity recognition…
Image-to-Video (I2V) generation aims to synthesize a video clip according to a given image and condition (e.g., text). The key challenge of this task lies in simultaneously generating natural motions while preserving the original appearance of the images. However, current I2V diffusion models (I2V-D…
Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn optimal policies from static datasets while enhancing generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) data. To mitigate overfitting to suboptimal behaviors in offline datasets, existing methods often relax constraints on policy and data or extract inform…
Recent advancements in large language models have significantly improved their context windows, yet challenges in effective long-term memory management remain. We introduce MemTree, an algorithm that leverages a dynamic, tree-structured memory representation to optimize the organization, retrieval,…
Enhancing large models for complex multi-hop question-answering has become a research focus in the Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) area. Many existing approaches aim to mimic human thought processes by enabling large models to perform retrieval-augmented generation step by step. However, these…
Grasp is at the core of robotic manipulation tasks. Nonetheless, most 6-DOF methods resort to a one-time setup via intensive analytics and targeting a predetermined domain. On the other hand, learning and adapting in real environments is of great promise to robotics yet challenging. In this context,
Instruction tuning is critical for adapting large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks, and recent studies have demonstrated that small amounts of human-curated data can outperform larger datasets, challenging traditional data scaling laws. While LLM-based data quality rating systems offer a c…
Dealing with the distribution shift is a significant challenge when building offline reinforcement learning (RL) models that can generalize from a static dataset to out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. Previous approaches have employed pessimism or conservatism strategies. More recently, data-driven…
Domain generalization (DG) aims to train models on multiple source domains to generalize effectively to unseen target domains, addressing performance degradation caused by domain shifts. Many existing methods rely on direct feature alignment, which disrupts natural sequence relationships, causes mis
This paper introduces a 3D shape reconstruction technique for interventional devices in endovascular surgery, utilizing a flexible magnetic tip guidewire that preserves the fundamental attributes of standard guidewires. We developed a model that correlates the magnetic tip's shape with the surroundi
We describe KVLink, an approach for efficient key-value (KV) cache reuse in large language models (LLMs). In many LLM applications, different inputs can share overlapping context, such as the same retrieved document appearing in multiple queries. However, the LLMs still need to encode the entire con…
Unlearning in Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential for ensuring ethical and responsible AI use, especially in addressing privacy leak, bias, safety, and evolving regulations. Existing approaches to LLM unlearning often rely on retain data or a reference LLM, yet they struggle to adequately bala…
Recently, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in multi-modal context comprehension. However, they still suffer from hallucination problems referring to generating inconsistent outputs with the image content. To mitigate hallucinations, previous studies main…
Pre-training backbone networks on a general annotated dataset (e.g., ImageNet) that comprises numerous manually collected images with category annotations has proven to be indispensable for enhancing the generalization capacity of downstream visual tasks. However, those manually collected images oft…
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown promise across many tasks, yet their scientific reasoning capabilities remain untested, particularly in multimodal settings. We present MMSciBench, a benchmark for evaluating mathematical and physical reaso…
While Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) enables parameter-efficient fine-tuning for Large Language Models (LLMs), its performance often falls short of Full Fine-Tuning (Full FT). Current methods optimize LoRA by initializing with static singular value decomposition (SVD) subsets, leading to suboptimal lev…
Human action recognition is a crucial task for intelligent robotics, particularly within the context of human-robot collaboration research. In self-supervised skeleton-based action recognition, the mask-based reconstruction paradigm learns the spatial structure and motion patterns of the skeleton by
Multimodal sentiment analysis(MSA) is mostly used to understand human emotional states through multimodal. However, due to the fact that the effective information carried by multimodal is not balanced, the modality containing less effective information cannot fully play the complementary role betwee…
Continual reinforcement learning (CRL) empowers RL agents with the ability to learn a sequence of tasks, accumulating knowledge learned in the past and using the knowledge for problemsolving or future task learning. However, existing methods often focus on transferring fine-grained knowledge across
Dialogue Aspect-based Sentiment Quadruple (DiaASQ) analysis aims to identify all quadruples (i.e., target, aspect, opinion, sentiment) from the dialogue. This task is challenging as different elements within a quadruple may manifest in different utterances, requiring precise handling of associations…
Diffusion model has underpinned much recent advances of dataset augmentation in various computer vision tasks. However, when involving generating multi-object images as real scenarios, most existing methods either rely entirely on text condition, resulting in a deviation between the generated object
Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact extraction of physiological signals, providing significant advantages in medical monitoring, emotion recognition, and face anti-spoofing. However, the extraction of reliable rPPG signals is hindered by motion variations in real-world environment…
When fine-tuning pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) to align with human values and intentions, maximizing the estimated reward can lead to superior performance, but it also introduces potential risks due to deviations from the reference model's intended behavior. Most existing methods typicall…
Moment Retrieval aims to locate specific video segments related to the given text. Recently, DETR-based methods, originating from Object Detection, have emerged as effective solutions for Moment Retrieval. These approaches focus on multimodal feature fusion and refining Queries composed of span anch…
Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is widely used to align large language models (LLMs) with information extraction (IE) tasks, such as named entity recognition (NER). However, annotating such fine-grained labels and training domain-specific models is costly. Existing works typically train a unified model…
Collaborative Filtering (CF) based on graph neural networks (GNNs) has yielded immense success for recommendation systems by capturing high-order dependencies from implicit feedback. Recently, the outstanding text comprehension ability of the Large Language Models (LLMs) has shown promising potentia…
Large-scale pre-trained foundation models have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities across diverse computer vision tasks through fine-tuning. However, existing fine-tuning approaches often encounter challenges in extreme cross-domain few-shot learning scenarios, primarily due to the s…
The significant advancements in embodied vision navigation have raised concerns about its susceptibility to adversarial attacks exploiting deep neural networks. Investigating the adversarial robustness of embodied vision navigation is crucial, especially given the threat of 3D physical attacks that
Cross-domain aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) aims at learning specific knowledge from a source domain to perform various ABSA tasks on a target domain. Recent works mainly focus on how to use domain adaptation techniques to transfer the domain-agnostic features from the labeled source domain
Representing and rendering dynamic scenes has been an important but challenging task. Especially to accurately model complex motions high efficiency is usually hard to guarantee. To achieve real-time dynamic scene rendering while also enjoying high training and storage efficiency we propose 4D Gauss…
Adapting state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Gemini for specific tasks is challenging. Due to the opacity in their parameters, embeddings, and even output probabilities, existing fine-tuning adaptation methods are inapplicable. Consequently, adapting these black-box LLMs is…
Complex logical reasoning over knowledge graphs lies at the heart of many semantic downstream applications and thus has been extensively explored in recent years. However, nearly all of them overlook the rich semantics of numerical entities (e.g., magnitude, unit, and distribution) and are simply tr…
Recently, Temporal Knowledge Graph Forecasting (TKGF) has emerged as a pivotal domain for forecasting future events. Unlike black-box neural network methods, rule-based approaches are lauded for their efficiency and interpretability. For this line of work, it is crucial to correctly estimate the pre…
Recently, neural module networks (NMNs) have yielded ongoing success in answering compositional visual questions, especially those involving multi-hop visual and logical reasoning. NMNs decompose the complex question into several sub-tasks using instance-modules from the reasoning paths of that ques…
Recently, prompt-tuning with pre-trained language models (PLMs) has demonstrated the significantly enhancing ability of relation extraction (RE) tasks. However, in low-resource scenarios, where the available training data is scarce, previous prompt-based methods may still perform poorly for prompt-…
Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) achieves impressive performance on tasks like image classification and image-text retrieval by learning on large-scale image-text datasets. However, CLIP struggles with dense prediction tasks due to the poor grasp of the fine-grained details. Although e…
Personalization has emerged as a prominent aspect within the field of generative AI enabling the synthesis of individuals in diverse contexts and styles while retaining high-fidelity to their identities. However the process of personalization presents inherent challenges in terms of time and memory…
Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) commonly suffers from the out-of-distribution (OOD) overestimation issue due to the distribution shift. Prior work gradually shifts their focus from suppressing OOD overestimation to avoiding overly conservative learning from suboptimal behavior policies to improv…
Cross-lingual named entity recognition (NER) aims to train an NER model for the target language leveraging only labeled source language data and unlabeled target language data. Prior approaches either perform label projection on translated source language data or employ a source model to assign pseu…
Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) is an extension of regular knowledge graph by attaching the time scope. Existing temporal knowledge graph question answering (TKGQA) models solely approach simple questions, owing to the prior assumption that each question only contains a single temporal fact with expl…
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…
Grasping is one of the most fundamental skills for humans to interact with objects. However, it remains a challenging problem for anthropomorphic hands, due to the lack of object affordance understanding and high-dimensional grasp planning. In this work, we propose an anthropomorphic hand grasping f…
Meta-learning offers a promising avenue for few-shot learning (FSL), enabling models to glean a generalizable feature embedding through episodic training on synthetic FSL tasks in a source domain. Yet, in practical scenarios where the target task diverges from that in the source domain, meta-learnin…
Text classification is a crucial task encountered frequently in practical scenarios, yet it is still under-explored in the era of large language models (LLMs). This study shows that LLMs are vulnerable to changes in the number and arrangement of options in text classification. Our extensive empirica…
Efficient fine-tuning of large language models for task-specific applications is imperative, yet the vast number of parameters in these models makes their training increasingly challenging. Despite numerous proposals for effective methods, a substantial memory overhead remains for gradient computati…
Reward finetuning has emerged as a promising approach to aligning foundation models with downstream objectives. Remarkable success has been achieved in the language domain by using reinforcement learning (RL) to maximize rewards that reflect human preference. However in the vision domain existing RL…
Recently, the topic-grounded dialogue (TGD) system has become increasingly popular as its powerful capability to actively guide users to accomplish specific tasks through topic-guided conversations. Most existing works utilize side information (e.g. topics or personas) in isolation to enhance the to…
The core of the dialogue system is to generate relevant, informative, and human-like responses based on extensive dialogue history. Recently, dialogue generation domain has seen mainstream adoption of large language models (LLMs), due to its powerful capability in generating utterances. However, the…
To meet the requirements of real-world applications, it is essential to control generations of large language models (LLMs). Prior research has tried to introduce reinforcement learning (RL) into controllable text generation while most existing methods suffer from overfitting issues (finetuning-base…
A challenging problem in seeking to bring multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) techniques into real-world applications, such as autonomous driving and drone swarms, is how to control multiple agents safely and cooperatively to accomplish tasks. Most existing safe MARL methods learn the centrali…
In the era of large language models, model merging is a promising way to combine multiple task-specific models into a single multitask model without extra training. However, two challenges remain: (a) interference between different models and (b) heterogeneous data during testing. Traditional model…
Generalization beyond in-domain experience to out-of-distribution data is of paramount significance in the AI domain. Of late, state-of-the-art Visual Question Answering (VQA) models have shown impressive performance on in-domain data, partially due to the language prior bias which, however, hinders…
Annotating long-document question answering (long-document QA) pairs is time-consuming and expensive. To alleviate the problem, it might be possible to generate long-document QA pairs via unsupervised question answering (UQA) methods. However, existing UQA tasks are based on short documents, and can…
Despite recent success on various tasks, deep learning techniques still perform poorly on adversarial examples with small perturbations. While optimization-based methods for adversarial attacks are well-explored in the field of computer vision, it is impractical to directly apply them in natural lan…
Few-shot open-set recognition (FSOR) is a challenging task of great practical value. It aims to categorize a sample to one of the pre-defined, closed-set classes illustrated by few examples while being able to reject the sample from unknown classes. In this work, we approach the FSOR task by proposi…
Exploiting pseudo labels (e.g., categories and bounding boxes) of unannotated objects produced by a teacher detector have underpinned much of recent progress in semi-supervised object detection (SSOD). However, due to the limited generalization capacity of the teacher detector caused by the scarce a…
Personalized dialogue systems aim to endow the chatbot agent with more anthropomorphic traits for human-like interactions. Previous approaches have explored explicitly user profile modeling using text descriptions, implicit derivation of user embeddings, or utilizing handicraft prompts for ChatGPT-…
Visually-rich document entity retrieval (VDER), which extracts key information (e.g. date, address) from document images like invoices and receipts, has become an important topic in industrial NLP applications. The emergence of new document types at a constant pace, each with its unique entity types…
Phonation modes play a vital role in voice quality evaluation and vocal health diagnosis. Existing studies on phonation modes cover feature analysis and classification of vowels, which does not apply to real-life scenarios. In this paper, we define the phonation mode detection (PMD) problem, which e…
Prototypical Network is a popular few-shot solver that aims at establishing a feature metric generalizable to novel few-shot classification (FSC) tasks using deep neural networks. However, its performance drops dramatically when generalizing to the FSC tasks in new domains. In this study, we revisit…
Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction (ASTE) has become an emerging task in sentiment analysis research, aiming to extract triplets of the aspect term, its corresponding opinion term, and its associated sentiment polarity from a given sentence. Recently, many neural networks based models with differen…
Despite the proliferation of generative models, achieving fast sampling during inference without compromising sample diversity and quality remains challenging. Existing models such as Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) deliver high-quality, diverse samples but are slowed by an inherentl…
Reinforcement learning (RL) has made significant progress in areas such as Atari games and robotic control, where the agents have perfect sensing capabilities. However, in many real-world sequential decision-making tasks, the observation data could be noisy or incomplete due to the intrinsic low qua…
Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to timely trace the dynamic interests of users through dialogues and generate relevant responses for item recommendations. Recently, various external knowledge bases (especially knowledge graphs) are incorporated into CRS to enhance the understanding of c…
Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) aim to timely and proactively acquire user dynamic preferred attributes through conversations for item recommendation. In each turn of CRS, there naturally have two decision-making processes with different roles that influence each other: 1) director, whic…
Fine-grained entity typing (FET) aims to assign proper semantic types to entity mentions according to their context, which is a fundamental task in various entity-leveraging applications. Current FET systems usually establish on large-scale weaklysupervised/distantly annotation data, which may conta…
"The subpopulation shifting challenge, known as some subpopulations of a category that are not seen during training, severely limits the classification performance of the state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks. Thus, to mitigate this practical issue, we explore incremental subpopulation lear…
Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a fine-grained sentiment analysis task that aims to align aspects and corresponding sentiments for aspect-specific sentiment polarity inference. It is challenging because a sentence may contain multiple aspects or complicated (e.g., conditional, coordinating…
Long document question answering is a challenging task due to its demands for complex reasoning over long text. Previous works usually take long documents as non-structured flat texts or only consider the local structure in long documents. However, these methods usually ignore the global structure o…
How to get a good value estimation is one of the key problems in reinforcement learning (RL). Current off-policy methods, such as Maxmin Q-learning, TD3 and TADD, suffer from the underestimation problem when solving the overestimation problem. In this paper, we propose the Quasi-Median Operation, a…
Cross-lingual retrieval aims to retrieve relevant text across languages. Current methods typically achieve cross-lingual retrieval by learning language-agnostic text representations in word or sentence level. However, how to learn phrase representations for cross-lingual phrase retrieval is still an…
Grasping with anthropomorphic robotic hands involves much more hand-object interactions compared to parallel-jaw grippers. Modeling hand-object interactions is essential to the study of multi-finger hand dextrous manipulation. This work presents DVGG, an efficient grasp generation network that takes
In recent years, the pre-training-then-fine-tuning paradigm has yielded immense success on a wide spectrum of cross-modal tasks, such as visual question answering (VQA), in which a visual-language (VL) model is first optimized via self-supervised task objectives, e.g., masked language modeling (MLM)…
Event detection has been suffering from constantly emerging event types with lack of sufficient data. Existing works formulate the new problem as few-shot event detection (FSED), and employ two-stage or unified models based on meta-learning to address the problem. However, these methods fall far sho…
Grasping in cluttered environments is one of the most fundamental skills in robotic manipulation. Most of the current works focus on estimating grasp poses for parallel-jaw or suction-cup end effectors. However, the study for dexterous anthropomorphic hand grasping in clutter remains a great challen…
Although the Conditional Variational Auto-Encoder (CVAE) model can generate more diversified responses than the traditional Seq2Seq model, the responses often have low relevance with the input words or are illogical with the question. A causal analysis is carried out to study the reasons behind, and…
Bundle recommendation aims to recommend the user a bundle of items as a whole. Previous models capture user’s preferences on both items and the association of items. Nevertheless, they usually neglect the diversity of user’s intents on adopting items and fail to disentangle user’s intents in represe…
Extracting relational triples from unstructured text is an essential task in natural language processing and knowledge graph construction. Existing approaches usually contain two fundamental steps: (1) finding the boundary positions of head and tail entities; (2) concatenating specific tokens to for…
Recently, topic-grounded dialogue system has attracted significant attention due to its effectiveness in predicting the next topic to yield better responses via the historical context and given topic sequence. However, almost all existing topic prediction solutions focus on only the current conversa…
Numerous new dialog domains are being created every day while collecting data for these domains is extremely costly since it involves human interactions. Therefore, it is essential to develop algorithms that can adapt to different domains efficiently when building data-driven dialog models. Most rec…
This paper addresses the problem of temporal sentence grounding (TSG), which aims to identify the temporal boundary of a specific segment from an untrimmed video by a sentence query. Previous works either compare pre-defined candidate segments with the query and select the best one by ranking, or di…
Knowledge graph entity typing aims to infer entities’ missing types in knowledge graphs which is an important but under-explored issue. This paper proposes a novel method for this task by utilizing entities’ contextual information. Specifically, we design two inference mechanisms: i) N2T: independen…
Intelligent agents with visual sensors are allowed to actively explore their observations for better recognition performance. This task is referred to as Active Recognition (AR). Currently, most methods toward AR are implemented under a fixed-category setting, which constrains their applicability in…
Object grasping in cluttered scenes is a widely investigated field of robot manipulation. Most of the current works focus on estimating grasp pose from point clouds based on an efficient single-shot grasp detection network. However, due to the lack of geometry awareness of the local grasping area, i…
Recently, the textual adversarial attack models become increasingly popular due to their successful in estimating the robustness of NLP models. However, existing works have obvious deficiencies. (1)They usually consider only a single granularity of modification strategies (e.g. word-level or sentenc…
In this paper, we propose a new method to over-come catastrophic forgetting by adding generative regularization to Bayesian inference frame-work. Bayesian method provides a general frame-work for continual learning. We could further construct a generative regularization term for all given classifica…
To model the context history in multi-turn conversations has become a critical step towards a better understanding of the user query in question answering systems. To utilize the context history, most existing studies treat the whole context as input, which will inevitably face the following two cha…
This paper addresses the task of segmenting class-agnostic objects in semi-supervised setting. Although previous detection based methods achieve relatively good performance, these approaches extract the best proposal by a greedy strategy, which may lose the local patch details outside the chosen can…
Reliable automatic evaluation of dialogue systems under an interactive environment has long been overdue. An ideal environment for evaluating dialog systems, also known as the Turing test, needs to involve human interaction, which is usually not affordable for large-scale experiments. Though researc…
This paper presents a domain adaptation model for sound event detection. A common challenge for sound event detection is how to deal with the mismatch among different datasets. Typically, the performance of a model will decrease if it is tested on a dataset which is different from the one that the m…
Finding the k largest or smallest elements from a collection of scores, i.e., top-k operation, is an important model component widely used in information retrieval, machine learning, and data mining. However, if the top-k operation is implemented in an algorithmic way, e.g., using bubble algorithm,…
Most of the unsupervised hashing methods usually map images into semantic similarity-preserving hash codes by constructing local semantic similarity structure as guiding information, i.e., treating each point similar to its k nearest neighbours. However, for an image, some of its k nearest neighbour…
Online continual learning is a challenging scenario where a model needs to learn from a continuous stream of data without revisiting any previously encountered data instances. The phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting is worsened since the model should not only address the forgetting at the task-lev…
The key for fusion based hyperspectral image (HSI) super-resolution (SR) is to infer the posteriori of a latent HSI using appropriate image prior and likelihood that depends on degeneration. However, in practice the priors of high-dimensional HSIs can be extremely complicated and the degeneration is…
Humans can only interact with part of the surrounding environment due to biological restrictions. Therefore, we learn to reason the spatial relationships across a series of observations to piece together the surrounding environment. Inspired by such behavior and the fact that machines also have comp…
Learning with a primary objective, such as softmax cross entropy for classification and sequence generation, has been the norm for training deep neural networks for years. Although being a widely-adopted approach, using cross entropy as the primary objective exploits mostly the information from the…
Adversarial robustness has emerged as an important topic in deep learning as carefully crafted attack samples can significantly disturb the performance of a model. Many recent methods have proposed to improve adversarial robustness by utilizing adversarial training or model distillation, which adds…
Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has been quite successful in constructing state-of-the-art models on a variety of tasks. Unfortunately, the computational cost can make it difficult to scale. In this paper, we make the first attempt to study Meta Architecture Search which aims at learning a task-agn…
The performance of a reinforcement learning algorithm can vary drastically during learning because of exploration. Existing algorithms provide little information about the quality of their current policy before executing it, and thus have limited use in high-stakes applications like healthcare. We a…
Single image rain removal is a typical inverse problem in computer vision. The deep learning technique has been verified to be effective for this task and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, previous deep learning methods need to pre-collect a large set of image pairs with/without synthe…
In this work, we construct a large-scale dataset for vehicle re-identification (ReID), which contains 137k images of 13k vehicle instances captured by UAV-mounted cameras. To our knowledge, it is the largest UAV-based vehicle ReID dataset. To increase intra-class variation, each vehicle is captured…
Recent breakthroughs in Neural Architectural Search (NAS) have achieved state-of-the-art performances in applications such as image classification and language modeling. However, these techniques typically ignore device-related objectives such as inference time, memory usage, and power consumption.…
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) often suffer from unpredictable mode-collapsing during training. We study the issue of mode collapse of Boundary Equilibrium Generative Adversarial Network (BEGAN), which is one of the state-of-the-art generative models. Despite its potential of generating high…
Accurate identification and localization of abnormalities from radiology images play an integral part in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Building a highly accurate prediction model for these tasks usually requires a large number of images manually annotated with labels and finding sites o…
Videos captured by outdoor surveillance equipments sometimes contain unexpected rain streaks, which brings difficulty in subsequent video processing tasks. Rain streak removal from a video is thus an important topic in recent computer vision research. In this paper, we raise two intrinsic characte…
Videos taken in the wild sometimes contain unexpected rain streaks, which brings difficulty in subsequent video processing tasks. Rain streak removal in a video (RSRV) is thus an important issue and has been attracting much attention in computer vision. Different from previous RSRV methods formulati…
Domain adaption (DA) allows machine learning methods trained on data sampled from one distribution to be applied to data sampled from another. It is thus of great practical importance to the application of such methods. Despite the fact that tensor representations are widely used in Computer Vision…
Feature matching is a key problem in computer vision and pattern recognition. One way to encode the essential interdependence between potential feature matches is to cast the problem as inference in a graphical model, though recently alternatives such as spectral methods, or approaches based on the…
To reconstruct hyperspectral image (HSI) accurately from a few noisy compressive measurements, we present a novel manifold-structured sparsity prior based hyperspectral compressive sensing (HCS) method in this study. A matrix based hierarchical prior is first proposed to represent the spectral struc…
Compressive sensing(CS) has been exploited for hypespectral image(HSI) compression in recent years. Though it can greatly reduce the costs of computation and storage, the reconstruction of HSI from a few linear measurements is challenging. The underlying sparsity of HSI is crucial to improve the rec…