1 code implementation • NAACL 2022 • Zhexin Zhang, Jiaxin Wen, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang
In this paper, we aim to control the protagonist’s persona in story generation, i. e., generating a story from a leading context and a persona description, where the protagonist should exhibit the specified personality through a coherent event sequence.
1 code implementation • 23 Oct 2023 • Jian Guan, Jesse Dodge, David Wadden, Minlie Huang, Hao Peng
Recent progress in natural language processing (NLP) owes much to remarkable advances in large language models (LLMs).
no code implementations • 14 Sep 2023 • Haiyan Lan, Qiaoxi Zhu, Jian Guan, Yuming Wei, Wenwu Wang
Self-supervised learning methods have achieved promising performance for anomalous sound detection (ASD) under domain shift, where the type of domain shift is considered in feature learning by incorporating section IDs.
1 code implementation • 4 Jul 2023 • Jian Guan, Minlie Huang
Despite the huge progress in myriad generation tasks, pretrained language models (LMs) such as GPT2 still tend to generate repetitive texts with maximization-based decoding algorithms for open-ended generation.
1 code implementation • 5 May 2023 • Jian Guan, Youde Liu, Qiaoxi Zhu, Tieran Zheng, Jiqing Han, Wenwu Wang
This paper presents Time-Weighted Frequency Domain Representation (TWFR) with the GMM method (TWFR-GMM) for anomalous sound detection.
1 code implementation • 4 May 2023 • Jiaxin Wen, Hao Zhou, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang
However, the pre-trained dialogue model's ability to utilize long-range context is limited due to the scarcity of long-turn dialogue sessions.
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2023 • Jian Guan, Feiyang Xiao, Youde Liu, Qiaoxi Zhu, Wenwu Wang
This paper uses contrastive learning to refine audio representations for each machine ID, rather than for each audio sample.
1 code implementation • 14 Jan 2023 • Jian Guan, Mingjie Xie, Youtian Lin, Guangjun He, Pengming Feng
In addition, a dynamic elliptical distribution aided sampling (DED) strategy is proposed to make the sample distribution more flexible to fit the shapes and orientations of targets, and filter out low-quality samples.
no code implementations • 18 Sep 2022 • Jianzhu Yao, Ziqi Liu, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang
We build a new dataset DialStory, which consists of 105k Chinese stories with a large amount of dialogue weaved into the plots to support the evaluation.
1 code implementation • 29 Aug 2022 • Xuekai Zhu, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang, Juan Liu
Moreover, to enhance content preservation, we design a mask-and-fill framework to explicitly fuse style-specific keywords of source texts into generation.
1 code implementation • 8 Aug 2022 • Jian Guan, Zhenyu Yang, Rongsheng Zhang, Zhipeng Hu, Minlie Huang
Despite advances in generating fluent texts, existing pretraining models tend to attach incoherent event sequences to involved entities when generating narratives such as stories and news.
1 code implementation • 22 Apr 2022 • Zhexin Zhang, Jiaxin Wen, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang
Endowing the protagonist with a specific personality is essential for writing an engaging story.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2022 • Jian Guan, Ziqi Liu, Minlie Huang
Teaching morals is one of the most important purposes of storytelling.
1 code implementation • 10 Jan 2022 • Feiyang Xiao, Jian Guan, Haiyan Lan, Qiaoxi Zhu, Wenwu Wang
Although this method effectively captures global information within audio data via the self-attention mechanism, it may ignore the event with short time duration, due to its limitation in capturing local information in an audio signal, leading to inaccurate prediction of captions.
no code implementations • 27 Dec 2021 • Yuan YAO, Qingxiu Dong, Jian Guan, Boxi Cao, Zhengyan Zhang, Chaojun Xiao, Xiaozhi Wang, Fanchao Qi, Junwei Bao, Jinran Nie, Zheni Zeng, Yuxian Gu, Kun Zhou, Xuancheng Huang, Wenhao Li, Shuhuai Ren, Jinliang Lu, Chengqiang Xu, Huadong Wang, Guoyang Zeng, Zile Zhou, Jiajun Zhang, Juanzi Li, Minlie Huang, Rui Yan, Xiaodong He, Xiaojun Wan, Xin Zhao, Xu sun, Yang Liu, Zhiyuan Liu, Xianpei Han, Erhong Yang, Zhifang Sui, Maosong Sun
We argue that for general-purpose language intelligence evaluation, the benchmark itself needs to be comprehensive and systematic.
2 code implementations • 30 Aug 2021 • Jian Guan, Zhuoer Feng, Yamei Chen, Ruilin He, Xiaoxi Mao, Changjie Fan, Minlie Huang
Therefore, we propose a story-centric benchmark named LOT for evaluating Chinese long text modeling, which aggregates two understanding tasks and two generation tasks.
2 code implementations • 20 Jun 2021 • Zhengyan Zhang, Yuxian Gu, Xu Han, Shengqi Chen, Chaojun Xiao, Zhenbo Sun, Yuan YAO, Fanchao Qi, Jian Guan, Pei Ke, Yanzheng Cai, Guoyang Zeng, Zhixing Tan, Zhiyuan Liu, Minlie Huang, Wentao Han, Yang Liu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Maosong Sun
We present a suite of cost-effective techniques for the use of PLMs to deal with the efficiency issues of pre-training, fine-tuning, and inference.
1 code implementation • ACL 2021 • Jian Guan, Zhexin Zhang, Zhuoer Feng, Zitao Liu, Wenbiao Ding, Xiaoxi Mao, Changjie Fan, Minlie Huang
Automatic metrics are essential for developing natural language generation (NLG) models, particularly for open-ended language generation tasks such as story generation.
1 code implementation • ACL 2021 • Jian Guan, Xiaoxi Mao, Changjie Fan, Zitao Liu, Wenbiao Ding, Minlie Huang
Generating long and coherent text is an important but challenging task, particularly for open-ended language generation tasks such as story generation.
no code implementations • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Xiangzhe Kong, Jialiang Huang, Ziquan Tung, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang
Current storytelling systems focus more ongenerating stories with coherent plots regard-less of the narration style, which is impor-tant for controllable text generation.
no code implementations • 31 Mar 2021 • Jian Guan, Wenbo Wang, Pengming Feng, Xinxin Wang, Wenwu Wang
However, the high-dimensional embedding obtained via 1-D convolution and positional encoding can lead to the loss of the signal's own temporal information and a large amount of training parameters.
1 code implementation • 30 Mar 2021 • Feiyang Xiao, Jian Guan, Qiuqiang Kong, Wenwu Wang
Speech enhancement aims to obtain speech signals with high intelligibility and quality from noisy speech.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Fei Huang, Jian Guan, Pei Ke, Qihan Guo, Xiaoyan Zhu, Minlie Huang
Despite the great success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in generating high-quality images, GANs for text generation still face two major challenges: first, most text GANs are unstable in training mainly due to ineffective optimization of the generator, and they heavily rely on maximum likelihood pretraining; second, most text GANs adopt autoregressive generators without latent variables, which largely limits the ability to learn latent representations for natural language text.
5 code implementations • 1 Dec 2020 • Zhengyan Zhang, Xu Han, Hao Zhou, Pei Ke, Yuxian Gu, Deming Ye, Yujia Qin, Yusheng Su, Haozhe Ji, Jian Guan, Fanchao Qi, Xiaozhi Wang, Yanan Zheng, Guoyang Zeng, Huanqi Cao, Shengqi Chen, Daixuan Li, Zhenbo Sun, Zhiyuan Liu, Minlie Huang, Wentao Han, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li, Xiaoyan Zhu, Maosong Sun
However, applying GPT-3 to address Chinese NLP tasks is still challenging, as the training corpus of GPT-3 is primarily English, and the parameters are not publicly available.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2020 • Jian Guan, Minlie Huang
Experiments on two story datasets demonstrate that UNION is a reliable measure for evaluating the quality of generated stories, which correlates better with human judgments and is more generalizable than existing state-of-the-art metrics.
1 code implementation • 3 Feb 2020 • Fei Huang, Dazhen Wan, Zhihong Shao, Pei Ke, Jian Guan, Yilin Niu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Minlie Huang
In text generation evaluation, many practical issues, such as inconsistent experimental settings and metric implementations, are often ignored but lead to unfair evaluation and untenable conclusions.
1 code implementation • TACL 2020 • Jian Guan, Fei Huang, Zhihao Zhao, Xiaoyan Zhu, Minlie Huang
To further capture the causal and temporal dependencies between the sentences in a reasonable story, we employ multi-task learning which combines a discriminative objective to distinguish true and fake stories during fine-tuning.
no code implementations • 13 Dec 2019 • Ye Yuan, Jian Guan, Pengming Feng, Yanxia Wu
In this letter, we aim to address a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) despeckling problem with the necessity of neither clean (speckle-free) SAR images nor independent speckled image pairs from the same scene, and a practical solution for SAR despeckling (PSD) is proposed.
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2019 • Youtian Lin, Pengming Feng, Jian Guan, Wenwu Wang, Jonathon Chambers
First, a novel geometric transformation is employed to better represent the oriented object in angle prediction, then a branch interactive module with a self-attention mechanism is developed to fuse features from classification and box regression branches.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2019 • Xueying Bai, Jian Guan, Hongning Wang
Reinforcement learning is effective in optimizing policies for recommender systems.
Model-based Reinforcement Learning
Recommendation Systems
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3 code implementations • NeurIPS 2019 • Xueying Bai, Jian Guan, Hongning Wang
Reinforcement learning is well suited for optimizing policies of recommender systems.
Model-based Reinforcement Learning
Recommendation Systems
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1 code implementation • 30 Aug 2018 • Jian Guan, Yansen Wang, Minlie Huang
This task requires not only to understand the context clues which play an important role in planning the plot but also to handle implicit knowledge to make a reasonable, coherent story.
Ranked #3 on
Image-guided Story Ending Generation
on VIST-E
1 code implementation • ACL 2018 • Pei Ke, Jian Guan, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu
Experiments show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, and it has the ability to generate responses with both controlled sentence function and informative content.