no code implementations • 13 May 2025 • George Saon, Avihu Dekel, Alexander Brooks, Tohru Nagano, Abraham Daniels, Aharon Satt, Ashish Mittal, Brian Kingsbury, David Haws, Edmilson Morais, Gakuto Kurata, Hagai Aronowitz, Ibrahim Ibrahim, Jeff Kuo, Kate Soule, Luis Lastras, Masayuki Suzuki, Ron Hoory, Samuel Thomas, Sashi Novitasari, Takashi Fukuda, Vishal Sunder, Xiaodong Cui, Zvi Kons
The speech-specific components are: a conformer acoustic encoder using block attention and self-conditioning trained with connectionist temporal classification, a windowed query-transformer speech modality adapter used to do temporal downsampling of the acoustic embeddings and map them to the LLM text embedding space, and LoRA adapters to further fine-tune the text LLM.
no code implementations • 12 May 2025 • Mingjian Jiang, Yangjun Ruan, Luis Lastras, Pavan Kapanipathi, Tatsunori Hashimoto
Recent advances in language model (LM) agents have demonstrated significant potential for automating complex real-world tasks.
1 code implementation • 16 Apr 2025 • Kristjan Greenewald, Luis Lastras, Thomas Parnell, Vraj Shah, Lucian Popa, Giulio Zizzo, Chulaka Gunasekara, Ambrish Rawat, David Cox
This change crucially allows aLoRA to accept the base model's KV cache of the input string, meaning that aLoRA can be instantly activated whenever needed in a chain without recomputing the cache.
no code implementations • 27 Feb 2025 • Parul Awasthy, Aashka Trivedi, Yulong Li, Mihaela Bornea, David Cox, Abraham Daniels, Martin Franz, Gabe Goodhart, Bhavani Iyer, Vishwajeet Kumar, Luis Lastras, Scott McCarley, Rudra Murthy, Vignesh P, Sara Rosenthal, Salim Roukos, Jaydeep Sen, Sukriti Sharma, Avirup Sil, Kate Soule, Arafat Sultan, Radu Florian
We introduce the Granite Embedding models, a family of encoder-based embedding models designed for retrieval tasks, spanning dense-retrieval and sparse retrieval architectures, with both English and Multilingual capabilities.
no code implementations • 15 Jan 2025 • Vishal Sunder, Brian Kingsbury, George Saon, Samuel Thomas, Slava Shechtman, Hagai Aronowitz, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Luis Lastras
In this paper, we take a step towards jointly modeling automatic speech recognition (STT) and speech synthesis (TTS) in a fully non-autoregressive way.
no code implementations • 27 Jun 2024 • Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Kinjal Basu, Mayank Agarwal, Sadhana Kumaravel, Matthew Stallone, Rameswar Panda, Yara Rizk, GP Bhargav, Maxwell Crouse, Chulaka Gunasekara, Shajith Ikbal, Sachin Joshi, Hima Karanam, Vineet Kumar, Asim Munawar, Sumit Neelam, Dinesh Raghu, Udit Sharma, Adriana Meza Soria, Dheeraj Sreedhar, Praveen Venkateswaran, Merve Unuvar, David Cox, Salim Roukos, Luis Lastras, Pavan Kapanipathi
We present a comprehensive evaluation on multiple out-of-domain datasets comparing GRANITE-20B-FUNCTIONCALLING to more than 15 other best proprietary and open models.
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2023 • Maxwell Crouse, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Ramon Astudillo, Kinjal Basu, Soham Dan, Sadhana Kumaravel, Achille Fokoue, Pavan Kapanipathi, Salim Roukos, Luis Lastras
We demonstrate how the proposed framework can be used to implement recent LLM-based agents (e. g., ReACT), and show how the flexibility of our approach can be leveraged to define a new agent with more complex behavior, the Plan-Act-Summarize-Solve (PASS) agent.
no code implementations • NAACL 2021 • Hui Wan, Song Feng, Chulaka Gunasekara, Siva Sankalp Patel, Sachindra Joshi, Luis Lastras
Machine reading comprehension is a challenging task especially for querying documents with deep and interconnected contexts.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2020 • Jatin Ganhotra, Haggai Roitman, Doron Cohen, Nathaniel Mills, Chulaka Gunasekara, Yosi Mass, Sachindra Joshi, Luis Lastras, David Konopnicki
A frequent pattern in customer care conversations is the agents responding with appropriate webpage URLs that address users' needs.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2020 • Kshitij Fadnis, Nathaniel Mills, Jatin Ganhotra, Haggai Roitman, Gaurav Pandey, Doron Cohen, Yosi Mass, Shai Erera, Chulaka Gunasekara, Danish Contractor, Siva Patel, Q. Vera Liao, Sachindra Joshi, Luis Lastras, David Konopnicki
Customer support agents play a crucial role as an interface between an organization and its end-users.
no code implementations • 30 Sep 2020 • Hong-Kwang J. Kuo, Zoltán Tüske, Samuel Thomas, Yinghui Huang, Kartik Audhkhasi, Brian Kingsbury, Gakuto Kurata, Zvi Kons, Ron Hoory, Luis Lastras
For our speech-to-entities experiments on the ATIS corpus, both the CTC and attention models showed impressive ability to skip non-entity words: there was little degradation when trained on just entities versus full transcripts.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Najoung Kim, Song Feng, Chulaka Gunasekara, Luis Lastras
Implicit relation classification on Penn Discourse TreeBank (PDTB) 2. 0 is a common benchmark task for evaluating the understanding of discourse relations.
no code implementations • 14 Nov 2019 • Seokhwan Kim, Michel Galley, Chulaka Gunasekara, Sungjin Lee, Adam Atkinson, Baolin Peng, Hannes Schulz, Jianfeng Gao, Jinchao Li, Mahmoud Adada, Minlie Huang, Luis Lastras, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Walter S. Lasecki, Chiori Hori, Anoop Cherian, Tim K. Marks, Abhinav Rastogi, Xiaoxue Zang, Srinivas Sunkara, Raghav Gupta
This paper introduces the Eighth Dialog System Technology Challenge.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2019 • Adi Botea, Christian Muise, Shubham Agarwal, Oznur Alkan, Ondrej Bajgar, Elizabeth Daly, Akihiro Kishimoto, Luis Lastras, Radu Marinescu, Josef Ondrej, Pablo Pedemonte, Miroslav Vodolan
Dialogue systems have many applications such as customer support or question answering.