no code implementations • 2 Jun 2022 • Afrina Tabassum, Muntasir Wahed, Hoda Eldardiry, Ismini Lourentzou
One of the challenges in contrastive learning is the selection of appropriate \textit{hard negative} examples, in the absence of label information.
no code implementations • 21 Apr 2022 • Muntasir Wahed, Afrina Tabassum, Ismini Lourentzou
Contrastive learning has gained popularity as an effective self-supervised representation learning technique.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2021 • Muntasir Wahed, Daniel Gruhl, Alfredo Alba, Anna Lisa Gentile, Petar Ristoski, Chad Deluca, Steve Welch, Ismini Lourentzou
In this paper, we consider the problem of fast approximate corpus expansion given a small seed corpus with a few relevant documents as a query, with the goal of capturing the long tail of a domain-specific set of concept terms.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2020 • Nur Ahmed, Muntasir Wahed
Using machine learning based text analysis methods, we provide additional evidence that the divergence between these two groups - large firms and non-elite universities - is driven by access to computing power or compute, which we term as the "compute divide".