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Wen-Mei Hwu

10 accepted papers

2024

Faster Neighborhood Attention: Reducing the O(n^2) Cost of Self Attention at the Threadblock Level

NeurIPS 2024poster

Neighborhood attention reduces the cost of self attention by restricting each token’s attention span to its nearest neighbors. This restriction, parameterized by a window size and dilation factor, draws a spectrum of possible attention patterns between linear projection and self attention. Neighborh…

2023

Can Language Models Be Specific? How?

ACL 2023findings

“He is a person”, “Paris is located on the earth”. Both statements are correct but meaningless - due to lack of specificity. In this paper, we propose to measure how specific the language of pre-trained language models (PLMs) is. To achieve this, we introduce a novel approach to build a benchmark fo…

2022

DEER: Descriptive Knowledge Graph for Explaining Entity Relationships

EMNLP 2022main

We propose DEER (Descriptive Knowledge Graph for Explaining Entity Relationships) - an open and informative form of modeling entity relationships. In DEER, relationships between entities are represented by free-text relation descriptions. For instance, the relationship between entities of machine le…

2022

Open Relation Modeling: Learning to Define Relations between Entities

ACL 2022findings

Relations between entities can be represented by different instances, e.g., a sentence containing both entities or a fact in a Knowledge Graph (KG). However, these instances may not well capture the general relations between entities, may be difficult to understand by humans, even may not be found d…

2022

Understanding Jargon: Combining Extraction and Generation for Definition Modeling

EMNLP 2022main

Can machines know what twin prime is? From the composition of this phrase, machines may guess twin prime is a certain kind of prime, but it is still difficult to deduce exactly what twin stands for without additional knowledge. Here, twin prime is a jargon - a specialized term used by experts in a p…

2021

Interpretable Visual Reasoning via Induced Symbolic Space

ICCV 2021poster

We study the problem of concept induction in visual reasoning, i.e., identifying concepts and their hierarchical relationships from question-answer pairs associated with images; and achieve an interpretable model via working on the induced symbolic concept space. To this end, we first design a new f…

Cited by 22PDFcodeScholar
2021

Measuring Fine-Grained Domain Relevance of Terms: A Hierarchical Core-Fringe Approach

ACL 2021long

We propose to measure fine-grained domain relevance– the degree that a term is relevant to a broad (e.g., computer science) or narrow (e.g., deep learning) domain. Such measurement is crucial for many downstream tasks in natural language processing. To handle long-tail terms, we build a core-anchore…

2020

Differential Treatment for Stuff and Things: A Simple Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Method for Semantic Segmentation

CVPR 2020poster

We consider the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation for semantic segmentation by easing the domain shift between the source domain (synthetic data) and the target domain (real data) in this work. State-of-the-art approaches prove that performing semantic-level alignment is helpful in tackling…

Cited by 289PDFcodeScholar
2019

SPGNet: Semantic Prediction Guidance for Scene Parsing

ICCV 2019poster

Multi-scale context module and single-stage encoder-decoder structure are commonly employed for semantic segmentation. The multi-scale context module refers to the operations to aggregate feature responses from a large spatial extent, while the single-stage encoder-decoder structure encodes the high…

Cited by 142PDFScholar
2017

Interpretable and Globally Optimal Prediction for Textual Grounding using Image Concepts

NeurIPS 2017oral

Textual grounding is an important but challenging task for human-computer inter- action, robotics and knowledge mining. Existing algorithms generally formulate the task as selection from a set of bounding box proposals obtained from deep net based systems. In this work, we demonstrate that we can ca…

Cited by 62SourcePDFScholar