This paper introduces mFST, a new Python library for working with Finite-State Machines based on OpenFST. mFST is a thin wrapper for OpenFST and exposes all of OpenFST’s methods for manipulating FSTs… Additionally, mFST is the only Python wrapper for OpenFST that exposes OpenFST’s ability to define a custom semirings. This makes mFST ideal for developing models that involve learning the weights on a FST or creating neuralized FSTs. mFST has been designed to be easy to get started with […]

Latent Factor Model (LFM) is one of the most successful methods for Collaborative filtering (CF) in the recommendation system, in which both users and items are projected into a joint latent factor space. Base on matrix factorization applied usually in pattern recognition, LFM models user-item interactions as inner products of factor vectors of user and item in that space and can be efficiently solved by least square methods with optimal estimation… However, such optimal estimation methods are prone to overfitting […]

We propose a new semantic scheme for capturing predicate-argument relations for nominalizations, termed QANom. This scheme extends the QA-SRL formalism (He et al., 2015), modeling the relations between nominalizations and their arguments via natural language question-answer pairs… We construct the first QANom dataset using controlled crowdsourcing, analyze its quality and compare it to expertly annotated nominal-SRL annotations, as well as to other QA-driven annotations. In addition, we train a baseline QANom parser for identifying nominalizations and labeling their arguments with […]

Human beings can imagine the colours of a grayscale image with no particular effort thanks to their ability of semantic feature extraction. Can an autonomous system achieve that?.. Can it hallucinate plausible and vibrant colours? This is the colourisation problem. Different from existing works relying on convolutional neural network models pre-trained with supervision, we cast such colourisation problem as a self-supervised learning task. We tackle the problem with the introduction of a novel architecture based on Capsules trained following the […]

We address the problem of retrieving a specific moment from an untrimmed video by natural language. It is a challenging problem because a target moment may take place in the context of other temporal moments in the untrimmed video… Existing methods cannot tackle this challenge well since they do not fully consider the temporal contexts between temporal moments. In this paper, we model the temporal context between video moments by a set of predefined two-dimensional maps under different temporal scales. […]

We consider a scenario in which two reinforcement learning agents repeatedly play a matrix game against each other and update their parameters after each round. The agents’ decision-making is transparent to each other, which allows each agent to predict how their opponent will play against them… To prevent an infinite regress of both agents recursively predicting each other indefinitely, each agent is required to give an opponent-independent response with some probability at least epsilon. Transparency also allows each agent to […]

Super-Selfish is an easy to use PyTorch framework for image-based self-supervised learning. Features can be learned with 13 algorithms that span from simple classification to more complex state of theart contrastive pretext tasks… The framework is easy to use and allowsfor pretraining any PyTorch neural network with only two lines of code. Simultaneously, full flexibility is maintained through modular design choices. The code can be found at https://github.com/MECLabTUDA/Super_Selfish and installed using pip install super-selfish. (read more) PDF

Model-X knockoffs is a general procedure that can leverage any feature importance measure to produce a variable selection algorithm, which discovers true effects while rigorously controlling the number or fraction of false positives. Model-X knockoffs is a randomized procedure which relies on the one-time construction of synthetic (random) variables… This paper introduces a derandomization method by aggregating the selection results across multiple runs of the knockoffs algorithm. The derandomization step is designed to be flexible and can be adapted to […]

The study of adversarial vulnerabilities of deep neural networks (DNNs) has progressed rapidly. Existing attacks require either internal access (to the architecture, parameters, or training set of the victim model) or external access (to query the model)… However, both the access may be infeasible or expensive in many scenarios. We investigate no-box adversarial examples, where the attacker can neither access the model information or the training set nor query the model. Instead, the attacker can only gather a small number […]

Interpersonal language style shifting in dialogues is an interesting and almost instinctive ability of human. Understanding interpersonal relationship from language content is also a crucial step toward further understanding dialogues… Previous work mainly focuses on relation extraction between named entities in texts. In this paper, we propose the task of relation classification of interlocutors based on their dialogues. We crawled movie scripts from IMSDb, and annotated the relation labels for each session according to 13 pre-defined relationships. The annotated dataset […]