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Addressing the Fundamental Tension of PCGML with Discriminative Learning
This approach presents a fundamental tension: the more design effort expended to produce detailed training examples for shaping a generator, the lower the return on investment from applying PCGML in the first place. In response, we propose the use of discriminative models (which capture the validity of a design rather the distribution of the content) trained on positive and negative examples.
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A Hierarchical Multi-task Approach for Learning Embeddings from Semantic Tasks
Much efforts has been devoted to evaluate whether multi-task learning can be leveraged to learn rich representations that can be used in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) down-stream applications. The model is trained in a hierarchical fashion to introduce an inductive bias by supervising a set of low level tasks at the bottom layers of the model and more complex tasks at the top layers of the model.
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BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
We introduce a new language representation model called BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. Unlike recent language representation models, BERT is designed to pre-train deep bidirectional representations by jointly conditioning on both left and right context in all layers.
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AirSim: High-Fidelity Visual and Physical Simulation for Autonomous Vehicles
Developing and testing algorithms for autonomous vehicles in real world is an expensive and time consuming process. Also, in order to utilize recent advances in machine intelligence and deep learning we need to collect a large amount of annotated training data in a variety of conditions and environments.
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Aequitas: A Bias and Fairness Audit Toolkit
Recent work has raised concerns on the risk of unintended bias in algorithmic decision making systems being used nowadays that can affect individuals unfairly based on race, gender or religion, among other possible characteristics. While a lot of bias metrics and fairness definitions have been proposed in recent years, there is no consensus on which metric/definition should be used and there are very few available resources to operationalize them.
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Gather-Excite: Exploiting Feature Context in Convolutional Neural Networks
In this work, we propose a simple, lightweight approach for better context exploitation in CNNs. We also propose a parametric gather-excite operator pair which yields further performance gains, relate it to the recently-introduced Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks, and analyse the effects of these changes to the CNN feature activation statistics.
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Scene Text Detection and Recognition: The Deep Learning Era
As an important research area in computer vision, scene text detection and recognition has been inescapably influenced by this wave of revolution, consequentially entering the era of deep learning. In recent years, the community has witnessed substantial advancements in mindset, approach and performance.
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Transfer learning for time series classification
Transfer learning for deep neural networks is the process of first training a base network on a source dataset, and then transferring the learned features (the network's weights) to a second network to be trained on a target dataset. Therefore, in an effort to predict the best source dataset for a given target dataset, we propose a new method relying on Dynamic Time Warping to measure inter-datasets similarities.
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Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Networks
In this paper, we propose the Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Network (SAGAN) which allows attention-driven, long-range dependency modeling for image generation tasks. Traditional convolutional GANs generate high-resolution details as a function of only spatially local points in lower-resolution feature maps.
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Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation
We describe a new training methodology for generative adversarial networks. The key idea is to grow both the generator and discriminator progressively: starting from a low resolution, we add new layers that model increasingly fine details as training progresses.
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GANs Trained by a Two Time-Scale Update Rule Converge to a Local Nash Equilibrium
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) excel at creating realistic images with complex models for which maximum likelihood is infeasible. However, the convergence of GAN training has still not been proved.
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Deep contextualized word representations
We introduce a new type of deep contextualized word representation that models both (1) complex characteristics of word use (e.g., syntax and semantics), and (2) how these uses vary across linguistic contexts (i.e., to model polysemy). Our word vectors are learned functions of the internal states of a deep bidirectional language model (biLM), which is pre-trained on a large text corpus.
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Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
We present a residual learning framework to ease the training of networks that are substantially deeper than those used previously. Deep residual nets are foundations of our submissions to ILSVRC & COCO 2015 competitions, where we also won the 1st places on the tasks of ImageNet detection, ImageNet localization, COCO detection, and COCO segmentation.
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TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
TensorFlow is an interface for expressing machine learning algorithms, and an implementation for executing such algorithms. A computation expressed using TensorFlow can be executed with little or no change on a wide variety of heterogeneous systems, ranging from mobile devices such as phones and tablets up to large-scale distributed systems of hundreds of machines and thousands of computational devices such as GPU cards.
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Speech Intention Understanding in a Head-final Language: A Disambiguation Utilizing Intonation-dependency
This paper suggests a system which identifies the intention of an utterance, given its acoustic feature and text. Based on an intuitive understanding of Korean language which is engaged in data annotation, we construct a network identifying the intention of a speech and validate its utility with sample sentences.
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Consistent Individualized Feature Attribution for Tree Ensembles
Interpreting predictions from tree ensemble methods such as gradient boosting machines and random forests is important, yet feature attribution for trees is often heuristic and not individualized for each prediction. Here we show that popular feature attribution methods are inconsistent, meaning they can lower a feature's assigned importance when the true impact of that feature actually increases.
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Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
Image-to-image translation is a class of vision and graphics problems where the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image using a training set of aligned image pairs. Our goal is to learn a mapping $G: X \rightarrow Y$ such that the distribution of images from $G(X)$ is indistinguishable from the distribution $Y$ using an adversarial loss.
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Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks
We investigate conditional adversarial networks as a general-purpose solution to image-to-image translation problems. These networks not only learn the mapping from input image to output image, but also learn a loss function to train this mapping.
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Learning Named Entity Tagger using Domain-Specific Dictionary
Recent advances in deep neural models allow us to build reliable named entity recognition (NER) systems without handcrafting features. However, such methods require large amounts of manually-labeled training data.
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Automated Phrase Mining from Massive Text Corpora
As one of the fundamental tasks in text analysis, phrase mining aims at extracting quality phrases from a text corpus. Since one can easily obtain many quality phrases from public knowledge bases to a scale that is much larger than that produced by human experts, in this paper, we propose a novel framework for automated phrase mining, AutoPhrase, which leverages this large amount of high-quality phrases in an effective way and achieves better performance compared to limited human labeled phrases.
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Relational inductive biases, deep learning, and graph networks
This has been due, in part, to cheap data and cheap compute resources, which have fit the natural strengths of deep learning. As a companion to this paper, we have released an open-source software library for building graph networks, with demonstrations of how to use them in practice.
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Mask R-CNN
Our approach efficiently detects objects in an image while simultaneously generating a high-quality segmentation mask for each instance. We show top results in all three tracks of the COCO suite of challenges, including instance segmentation, bounding-box object detection, and person keypoint detection.
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AllenNLP: A Deep Semantic Natural Language Processing Platform
This paper describes AllenNLP, a platform for research on deep learning methods in natural language understanding. AllenNLP is designed to support researchers who want to build novel language understanding models quickly and easily.
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BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
We introduce a new language representation model called BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. Unlike recent language representation models, BERT is designed to pre-train deep bidirectional representations by jointly conditioning on both left and right context in all layers.
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Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information
Continuous word representations, trained on large unlabeled corpora are useful for many natural language processing tasks. A vector representation is associated to each character $n$-gram; words being represented as the sum of these representations.
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FastText.zip: Compressing text classification models
We consider the problem of producing compact architectures for text classification, such that the full model fits in a limited amount of memory. After considering different solutions inspired by the hashing literature, we propose a method built upon product quantization to store word embeddings.
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Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification
This paper explores a simple and efficient baseline for text classification. Our experiments show that our fast text classifier fastText is often on par with deep learning classifiers in terms of accuracy, and many orders of magnitude faster for training and evaluation.
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Subword Regularization: Improving Neural Network Translation Models with Multiple Subword Candidates
Subword units are an effective way to alleviate the open vocabulary problems in neural machine translation (NMT). While sentences are usually converted into unique subword sequences, subword segmentation is potentially ambiguous and multiple segmentations are possible even with the same vocabulary.
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Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation
Also, most NMT systems have difficulty with rare words. These issues have hindered NMT's use in practical deployments and services, where both accuracy and speed are essential.
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Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields
We present an approach to efficiently detect the 2D pose of multiple people in an image. The approach uses a nonparametric representation, which we refer to as Part Affinity Fields (PAFs), to learn to associate body parts with individuals in the image.
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Hand Keypoint Detection in Single Images using Multiview Bootstrapping
We call this procedure multiview bootstrapping: first, an initial keypoint detector is used to produce noisy labels in multiple views of the hand. The method is used to train a hand keypoint detector for single images.
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Convolutional Pose Machines
Pose Machines provide a sequential prediction framework for learning rich implicit spatial models. In this work we show a systematic design for how convolutional networks can be incorporated into the pose machine framework for learning image features and image-dependent spatial models for the task of pose estimation.
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Image Super-Resolution Using Very Deep Residual Channel Attention Networks
To solve these problems, we propose the very deep residual channel attention networks (RCAN). Specifically, we propose a residual in residual (RIR) structure to form very deep network, which consists of several residual groups with long skip connections.
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A guide to convolution arithmetic for deep learning
We introduce a guide to help deep learning practitioners understand and manipulate convolutional neural network architectures. The guide clarifies the relationship between various properties (input shape, kernel shape, zero padding, strides and output shape) of convolutional, pooling and transposed convolutional layers, as well as the relationship between convolutional and transposed convolutional layers.
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GPyTorch: Blackbox Matrix-Matrix Gaussian Process Inference with GPU Acceleration
Despite advances in scalable models, the inference tools used for Gaussian processes (GPs) have yet to fully capitalize on developments in computing hardware. We present an efficient and general approach to GP inference based on Blackbox Matrix-Matrix multiplication (BBMM).
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PennyLane: Automatic differentiation of hybrid quantum-classical computations
PennyLane is a Python 3 software framework for optimization and machine learning of quantum and hybrid quantum-classical computations. The library provides a unified architecture for near-term quantum computing devices, supporting both qubit and continuous-variable paradigms.
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Detecting Text in Natural Image with Connectionist Text Proposal Network
We propose a novel Connectionist Text Proposal Network (CTPN) that accurately localizes text lines in natural image. The sequential proposals are naturally connected by a recurrent neural network, which is seamlessly incorporated into the convolutional network, resulting in an end-to-end trainable model.
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Revisiting Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data in Deep Learning Era
The success of deep learning in vision can be attributed to: (a) models with high capacity; (b) increased computational power; and (c) availability of large-scale labeled data. What will happen if we increase the dataset size by 10x or 100x?
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Implicit Quantile Networks for Distributional Reinforcement Learning
In this work, we build on recent advances in distributional reinforcement learning to give a generally applicable, flexible, and state-of-the-art distributional variant of DQN. We achieve this by using quantile regression to approximate the full quantile function for the state-action return distribution.
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Progressive Neural Architecture Search
We propose a new method for learning the structure of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that is more efficient than recent state-of-the-art methods based on reinforcement learning and evolutionary algorithms. Our approach uses a sequential model-based optimization (SMBO) strategy, in which we search for structures in order of increasing complexity, while simultaneously learning a surrogate model to guide the search through structure space.
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DensePose: Dense Human Pose Estimation In The Wild
In this work, we establish dense correspondences between RGB image and a surface-based representation of the human body, a task we refer to as dense human pose estimation. We first gather dense correspondences for 50K persons appearing in the COCO dataset by introducing an efficient annotation pipeline.
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