Search Results for author: Chinnadhurai Sankar

Found 23 papers, 11 papers with code

DialogStitch: Synthetic Deeper and Multi-Context Task-Oriented Dialogs

1 code implementation SIGDIAL (ACL) 2021 Satwik Kottur, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Zhou Yu, Alborz Geramifard

Real-world conversational agents must effectively handle long conversations that span multiple contexts.

Continual Dialogue State Tracking via Example-Guided Question Answering

1 code implementation23 May 2023 Hyundong Cho, Andrea Madotto, Zhaojiang Lin, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Satwik Kottur, Jing Xu, Jonathan May, Chinnadhurai Sankar

Dialogue systems are frequently updated to accommodate new services, but naively updating them by continually training with data for new services in diminishing performance on previously learnt services.

Continual Learning Dialogue State Tracking +3

AUTODIAL: Efficient Asynchronous Task-Oriented Dialogue Model

no code implementations10 Mar 2023 Prajjwal Bhargava, Pooyan Amini, Shahin Shayandeh, Chinnadhurai Sankar

As large dialogue models become commonplace in practice, the problems surrounding high compute requirements for training, inference and larger memory footprint still persists.

Dialogue State Tracking

Data-Efficiency with a Single GPU: An Exploration of Transfer Methods for Small Language Models

no code implementations8 Oct 2022 Alon Albalak, Akshat Shrivastava, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Adithya Sagar, Mike Ross

Multi-task learning (MTL), instruction tuning, and prompting have recently been shown to improve the generalizability of large language models to new tasks.

Multi-Task Learning

Know Thy Strengths: Comprehensive Dialogue State Tracking Diagnostics

2 code implementations15 Dec 2021 Hyundong Cho, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Christopher Lin, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Shahin Shayandeh, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jonathan May, Ahmad Beirami

Recent works that revealed the vulnerability of dialogue state tracking (DST) models to distributional shifts have made holistic comparisons on robustness and qualitative analyses increasingly important for understanding their relative performance.

Ranked #4 on Multi-domain Dialogue State Tracking on MULTIWOZ 2.1 (using extra training data)

Dialogue State Tracking Multi-domain Dialogue State Tracking +1

Database Search Results Disambiguation for Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

no code implementations NAACL 2022 Kun Qian, Ahmad Beirami, Satwik Kottur, Shahin Shayandeh, Paul Crook, Alborz Geramifard, Zhou Yu, Chinnadhurai Sankar

We find that training on our augmented dialog data improves the model's ability to deal with ambiguous scenarios, without sacrificing performance on unmodified turns.

Multi-Task Learning

Robustness through Data Augmentation Loss Consistency

1 code implementation21 Oct 2021 Tianjian Huang, Shaunak Halbe, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Pooyan Amini, Satwik Kottur, Alborz Geramifard, Meisam Razaviyayn, Ahmad Beirami

Our experiments show that DAIR consistently outperforms ERM and DA-ERM with little marginal computational cost and sets new state-of-the-art results in several benchmarks involving covariant data augmentation.

Multi-domain Dialogue State Tracking Visual Question Answering

Annotation Inconsistency and Entity Bias in MultiWOZ

no code implementations SIGDIAL (ACL) 2021 Kun Qian, Ahmad Beirami, Zhouhan Lin, Ankita De, Alborz Geramifard, Zhou Yu, Chinnadhurai Sankar

In this work, we identify an overlooked issue with dialog state annotation inconsistencies in the dataset, where a slot type is tagged inconsistently across similar dialogs leading to confusion for DST modeling.

dialog state tracking Memorization +1

DVD: A Diagnostic Dataset for Multi-step Reasoning in Video Grounded Dialogue

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Hung Le, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Seungwhan Moon, Ahmad Beirami, Alborz Geramifard, Satwik Kottur

A video-grounded dialogue system is required to understand both dialogue, which contains semantic dependencies from turn to turn, and video, which contains visual cues of spatial and temporal scene variations.

Object Tracking Visual Reasoning

ProFormer: Towards On-Device LSH Projection Based Transformers

no code implementations EACL 2021 Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva

At the heart of text based neural models lay word representations, which are powerful but occupy a lot of memory making it challenging to deploy to devices with memory constraints such as mobile phones, watches and IoT.

General Classification text-classification +1

Neural Assistant: Joint Action Prediction, Response Generation, and Latent Knowledge Reasoning

1 code implementation31 Oct 2019 Arvind Neelakantan, Semih Yavuz, Sharan Narang, Vishaal Prasad, Ben Goodrich, Daniel Duckworth, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Xifeng Yan

In this paper, we develop Neural Assistant: a single neural network model that takes conversation history and an external knowledge source as input and jointly produces both text response and action to be taken by the system as output.

Response Generation Retrieval +1

Taskmaster-1: Toward a Realistic and Diverse Dialog Dataset

1 code implementation IJCNLP 2019 Bill Byrne, Karthik Krishnamoorthi, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Arvind Neelakantan, Daniel Duckworth, Semih Yavuz, Ben Goodrich, Amit Dubey, Andy Cedilnik, Kyu-Young Kim

A significant barrier to progress in data-driven approaches to building dialog systems is the lack of high quality, goal-oriented conversational data.

On-Device Text Representations Robust To Misspellings via Projections

no code implementations EACL 2021 Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva

Recently, there has been a strong interest in developing natural language applications that live on personal devices such as mobile phones, watches and IoT with the objective to preserve user privacy and have low memory.

Text Classification Word Embeddings

Transferable Neural Projection Representations

2 code implementations NAACL 2019 Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva

Neural word representations are at the core of many state-of-the-art natural language processing models.

Variance Reduction in SGD by Distributed Importance Sampling

1 code implementation20 Nov 2015 Guillaume Alain, Alex Lamb, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio

This leads the model to update using an unbiased estimate of the gradient which also has minimum variance when the sampling proposal is proportional to the L2-norm of the gradient.

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