no code implementations • 28 Jul 2022 • Robert Belfer, Ekaterina Kochmar, Iulian Vlad Serban
We present an adaptive learning Intelligent Tutoring System, which uses model-based reinforcement learning in the form of contextual bandits to assign learning activities to students.
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2022 • Devang Kulshreshtha, Muhammad Shayan, Robert Belfer, Siva Reddy, Iulian Vlad Serban, Ekaterina Kochmar
Our personalized feedback can pinpoint correct and incorrect or missing phrases in student answers as well as guide them towards correct answer by asking a question in natural language.
no code implementations • 3 Mar 2022 • Francois St-Hilaire, Dung Do Vu, Antoine Frau, Nathan Burns, Farid Faraji, Joseph Potochny, Stephane Robert, Arnaud Roussel, Selene Zheng, Taylor Glazier, Junfel Vincent Romano, Robert Belfer, Muhammad Shayan, Ariella Smofsky, Tommy Delarosbil, Seulmin Ahn, Simon Eden-Walker, Kritika Sony, Ansona Onyi Ching, Sabina Elkins, Anush Stepanyan, Adela Matajova, Victor Chen, Hossein Sahraei, Robert Larson, Nadia Markova, Andrew Barkett, Laurent Charlin, Yoshua Bengio, Iulian Vlad Serban, Ekaterina Kochmar
AI-powered learning can provide millions of learners with a highly personalized, active and practical learning experience, which is key to successful learning.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2021 • Devang Kulshreshtha, Robert Belfer, Iulian Vlad Serban, Siva Reddy
We run UDA experiments on question generation and passage retrieval from the \textit{Natural Questions} domain to machine learning and biomedical domains.
no code implementations • 15 Apr 2021 • Francois St-Hilaire, Nathan Burns, Robert Belfer, Muhammad Shayan, Ariella Smofsky, Dung Do Vu, Antoine Frau, Joseph Potochny, Farid Faraji, Vincent Pavero, Neroli Ko, Ansona Onyi Ching, Sabina Elkins, Anush Stepanyan, Adela Matajova, Laurent Charlin, Yoshua Bengio, Iulian Vlad Serban, Ekaterina Kochmar
Personalization and active learning are key aspects to successful learning.
no code implementations • 6 May 2020 • Iulian Vlad Serban, Varun Gupta, Ekaterina Kochmar, Dung D. Vu, Robert Belfer, Joelle Pineau, Aaron Courville, Laurent Charlin, Yoshua Bengio
We present Korbit, a large-scale, open-domain, mixed-interface, dialogue-based intelligent tutoring system (ITS).
no code implementations • 5 May 2020 • Ekaterina Kochmar, Dung Do Vu, Robert Belfer, Varun Gupta, Iulian Vlad Serban, Joelle Pineau
Our model is used in Korbit, a large-scale dialogue-based ITS with thousands of students launched in 2019, and we demonstrate that the personalized feedback leads to considerable improvement in student learning outcomes and in the subjective evaluation of the feedback.
no code implementations • 12 Jul 2018 • Iulian Vlad Serban, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Michael Pieper, Joelle Pineau, Yoshua Bengio
Deep reinforcement learning has recently shown many impressive successes.
Model-based Reinforcement Learning reinforcement-learning +1
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2017 • Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Vlad Serban, Laurent Charlin, Chia-Wei Liu, Joelle Pineau
In this paper, we analyze neural network-based dialogue systems trained in an end-to-end manner using an updated version of the recent Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus, a dataset containing almost 1 million multi-turn dialogues, with a total of over 7 million utterances and 100 million words.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2016 • Iulian Vlad Serban, Ryan Lowe, Laurent Charlin, Joelle Pineau
Researchers have recently started investigating deep neural networks for dialogue applications.
4 code implementations • 2 Jun 2016 • Iulian Vlad Serban, Tim Klinger, Gerald Tesauro, Kartik Talamadupula, Bo-Wen Zhou, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
We introduce the multiresolution recurrent neural network, which extends the sequence-to-sequence framework to model natural language generation as two parallel discrete stochastic processes: a sequence of high-level coarse tokens, and a sequence of natural language tokens.
Ranked #1 on Dialogue Generation on Ubuntu Dialogue (Activity)
9 code implementations • 19 May 2016 • Iulian Vlad Serban, Alessandro Sordoni, Ryan Lowe, Laurent Charlin, Joelle Pineau, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio
Sequential data often possesses a hierarchical structure with complex dependencies between subsequences, such as found between the utterances in a dialogue.
1 code implementation • 9 May 2016 • The Theano Development Team, Rami Al-Rfou, Guillaume Alain, Amjad Almahairi, Christof Angermueller, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Nicolas Ballas, Frédéric Bastien, Justin Bayer, Anatoly Belikov, Alexander Belopolsky, Yoshua Bengio, Arnaud Bergeron, James Bergstra, Valentin Bisson, Josh Bleecher Snyder, Nicolas Bouchard, Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski, Xavier Bouthillier, Alexandre de Brébisson, Olivier Breuleux, Pierre-Luc Carrier, Kyunghyun Cho, Jan Chorowski, Paul Christiano, Tim Cooijmans, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Myriam Côté, Aaron Courville, Yann N. Dauphin, Olivier Delalleau, Julien Demouth, Guillaume Desjardins, Sander Dieleman, Laurent Dinh, Mélanie Ducoffe, Vincent Dumoulin, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Dumitru Erhan, Ziye Fan, Orhan Firat, Mathieu Germain, Xavier Glorot, Ian Goodfellow, Matt Graham, Caglar Gulcehre, Philippe Hamel, Iban Harlouchet, Jean-Philippe Heng, Balázs Hidasi, Sina Honari, Arjun Jain, Sébastien Jean, Kai Jia, Mikhail Korobov, Vivek Kulkarni, Alex Lamb, Pascal Lamblin, Eric Larsen, César Laurent, Sean Lee, Simon Lefrancois, Simon Lemieux, Nicholas Léonard, Zhouhan Lin, Jesse A. Livezey, Cory Lorenz, Jeremiah Lowin, Qianli Ma, Pierre-Antoine Manzagol, Olivier Mastropietro, Robert T. McGibbon, Roland Memisevic, Bart van Merriënboer, Vincent Michalski, Mehdi Mirza, Alberto Orlandi, Christopher Pal, Razvan Pascanu, Mohammad Pezeshki, Colin Raffel, Daniel Renshaw, Matthew Rocklin, Adriana Romero, Markus Roth, Peter Sadowski, John Salvatier, François Savard, Jan Schlüter, John Schulman, Gabriel Schwartz, Iulian Vlad Serban, Dmitriy Serdyuk, Samira Shabanian, Étienne Simon, Sigurd Spieckermann, S. Ramana Subramanyam, Jakub Sygnowski, Jérémie Tanguay, Gijs van Tulder, Joseph Turian, Sebastian Urban, Pascal Vincent, Francesco Visin, Harm de Vries, David Warde-Farley, Dustin J. Webb, Matthew Willson, Kelvin Xu, Lijun Xue, Li Yao, Saizheng Zhang, Ying Zhang
Since its introduction, it has been one of the most used CPU and GPU mathematical compilers - especially in the machine learning community - and has shown steady performance improvements.
1 code implementation • ACL 2016 • Iulian Vlad Serban, Alberto García-Durán, Caglar Gulcehre, Sungjin Ahn, Sarath Chandar, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio
Over the past decade, large-scale supervised learning corpora have enabled machine learning researchers to make substantial advances.
4 code implementations • 17 Dec 2015 • Iulian Vlad Serban, Ryan Lowe, Peter Henderson, Laurent Charlin, Joelle Pineau
During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models.