Search Results for author: Mohit Bansal

Found 210 papers, 138 papers with code

GraDA: Graph Generative Data Augmentation for Commonsense Reasoning

1 code implementation COLING 2022 Adyasha Maharana, Mohit Bansal

Recent advances in commonsense reasoning have been fueled by the availability of large-scale human annotated datasets.

Data Augmentation Knowledge Graphs

Enhancing Knowledge Selection for Grounded Dialogues via Document Semantic Graphs

no code implementations NAACL 2022 Sha Li, Mahdi Namazifar, Di Jin, Mohit Bansal, Heng Ji, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

In this work, we propose to automatically convert the background knowledge documents into document semantic graphs and then perform knowledge selection over such graphs.

Multi-Task Learning Response Generation

On Curriculum Learning for Commonsense Reasoning

1 code implementation NAACL 2022 Adyasha Maharana, Mohit Bansal

Hence, we examine the effect of a human-like easy-to-difficult curriculum during finetuning of language models for commonsense reasoning tasks.

Learning-To-Rank Natural Language Understanding +1

Multimodal Intent Discovery from Livestream Videos

no code implementations Findings (NAACL) 2022 Adyasha Maharana, Quan Tran, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Mohit Bansal

We construct and present a new multimodal dataset consisting of software instructional livestreams and containing manual annotations for both detailed and abstract procedural intent that enable training and evaluation of joint video and text understanding models.

Intent Discovery Video Summarization +1

Continual Few-Shot Learning for Text Classification

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Ramakanth Pasunuru, Veselin Stoyanov, Mohit Bansal

In this work, we propose a continual few-shot learning (CFL) task, in which a system is challenged with a difficult phenomenon and asked to learn to correct mistakes with only a few (10 to 15) training examples.

continual few-shot learning Few-Shot Learning +4

Inducing Transformer’s Compositional Generalization Ability via Auxiliary Sequence Prediction Tasks

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Yichen Jiang, Mohit Bansal

Motivated by the failure of a Transformer model on the SCAN compositionality challenge (Lake and Baroni, 2018), which requires parsing a command into actions, we propose two auxiliary sequence prediction tasks as additional training supervision.

NDH-Full: Learning and Evaluating Navigational Agents on Full-Length Dialogue

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Hyounghun Kim, Jialu Li, Mohit Bansal

In this paper, we explore the Navigation from Dialogue History (NDH) task, which is based on the Cooperative Vision-and-Dialogue Navigation (CVDN) dataset, and present a state-of-the-art model which is built upon Vision-Language transformers.

Data Augmentation Dynamic Time Warping +1

Integrating Visuospatial, Linguistic, and Commonsense Structure into Story Visualization

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Adyasha Maharana, Mohit Bansal

Such information is even more important for story visualization since its inputs have an explicit narrative structure that needs to be translated into an image sequence (or visual story).

Dense Captioning Image Generation +1

An Overview of Uncertainty Calibration for Text Classification and the Role of Distillation

no code implementations ACL (RepL4NLP) 2021 Han Guo, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Mohit Bansal

Many recalibration methods have been proposed in the literature for quantifying predictive uncertainty and calibrating model outputs, with varying degrees of complexity.

text-classification Text Classification

Faithfulness-Aware Decoding Strategies for Abstractive Summarization

1 code implementation6 Mar 2023 David Wan, Mengwen Liu, Kathleen McKeown, Markus Dreyer, Mohit Bansal

We present a systematic study of the effect of generation techniques such as beam search and nucleus sampling on faithfulness in abstractive summarization.

Abstractive Text Summarization

Does Localization Inform Editing? Surprising Differences in Causality-Based Localization vs. Knowledge Editing in Language Models

1 code implementation10 Jan 2023 Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal, Been Kim, Asma Ghandeharioun

In this paper, we find that we can change how a fact is stored in a model by editing weights that are in a different location than where existing methods suggest that the fact is stored.

Denoising

MURMUR: Modular Multi-Step Reasoning for Semi-Structured Data-to-Text Generation

no code implementations16 Dec 2022 Swarnadeep Saha, Xinyan Velocity Yu, Mohit Bansal, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Asli Celikyilmaz

We propose MURMUR, a neuro-symbolic modular approach to text generation from semi-structured data with multi-step reasoning.

Data-to-Text Generation

Vision Transformers are Parameter-Efficient Audio-Visual Learners

1 code implementation15 Dec 2022 Yan-Bo Lin, Yi-Lin Sung, Jie Lei, Mohit Bansal, Gedas Bertasius

To do so, we propose a latent audio-visual hybrid (LAVISH) adapter that adapts pretrained ViTs to audio-visual tasks by injecting a small number of trainable parameters into every layer of a frozen ViT.

Audio-visual Question Answering

VindLU: A Recipe for Effective Video-and-Language Pretraining

1 code implementation9 Dec 2022 Feng Cheng, Xizi Wang, Jie Lei, David Crandall, Mohit Bansal, Gedas Bertasius

Furthermore, our model also obtains state-of-the-art video question-answering results on ActivityNet-QA, MSRVTT-QA, MSRVTT-MC and TVQA.

Question Answering Retrieval +3

Unifying Vision, Text, and Layout for Universal Document Processing

2 code implementations5 Dec 2022 Zineng Tang, ZiYi Yang, Guoxin Wang, Yuwei Fang, Yang Liu, Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Cha Zhang, Mohit Bansal

UDOP leverages the spatial correlation between textual content and document image to model image, text, and layout modalities with one uniform representation.

Document AI Image Reconstruction

Mutual Exclusivity Training and Primitive Augmentation to Induce Compositionality

1 code implementation28 Nov 2022 Yichen Jiang, Xiang Zhou, Mohit Bansal

Recent datasets expose the lack of the systematic generalization ability in standard sequence-to-sequence models.

Data Augmentation Inductive Bias +1

Perceiver-VL: Efficient Vision-and-Language Modeling with Iterative Latent Attention

1 code implementation21 Nov 2022 Zineng Tang, Jaemin Cho, Jie Lei, Mohit Bansal

We present Perceiver-VL, a vision-and-language framework that efficiently handles high-dimensional multimodal inputs such as long videos and text.

Cross-Modal Retrieval Language Modelling +1

Evaluating the Factual Consistency of Large Language Models Through Summarization

1 code implementation15 Nov 2022 Derek Tam, Anisha Mascarenhas, Shiyue Zhang, Sarah Kwan, Mohit Bansal, Colin Raffel

To generate summaries that are factually inconsistent, we generate summaries from a suite of summarization models that we have manually annotated as factually inconsistent.

Are Hard Examples also Harder to Explain? A Study with Human and Model-Generated Explanations

1 code implementation14 Nov 2022 Swarnadeep Saha, Peter Hase, Nazneen Rajani, Mohit Bansal

We observe that (1) GPT-3 explanations are as grammatical as human explanations regardless of the hardness of the test samples, (2) for easy examples, GPT-3 generates highly supportive explanations but human explanations are more generalizable, and (3) for hard examples, human explanations are significantly better than GPT-3 explanations both in terms of label-supportiveness and generalizability judgements.

Evaluating and Improving Factuality in Multimodal Abstractive Summarization

1 code implementation4 Nov 2022 David Wan, Mohit Bansal

Current metrics for evaluating factuality for abstractive document summarization have achieved high correlations with human judgment, but they do not account for the vision modality and thus are not adequate for vision-and-language summarization.

Abstractive Text Summarization Document Summarization

Exclusive Supermask Subnetwork Training for Continual Learning

1 code implementation18 Oct 2022 Prateek Yadav, Mohit Bansal

Furthermore, we propose a novel KNN-based Knowledge Transfer (KKT) module that dynamically initializes a new task's mask based on previous tasks for improving knowledge transfer.

Continual Learning Text Classification +1

TVLT: Textless Vision-Language Transformer

2 code implementations28 Sep 2022 Zineng Tang, Jaemin Cho, Yixin Nie, Mohit Bansal

In this work, we present the Textless Vision-Language Transformer (TVLT), where homogeneous transformer blocks take raw visual and audio inputs for vision-and-language representation learning with minimal modality-specific design, and do not use text-specific modules such as tokenization or automatic speech recognition (ASR).

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +7

Summarization Programs: Interpretable Abstractive Summarization with Neural Modular Trees

1 code implementation21 Sep 2022 Swarnadeep Saha, Shiyue Zhang, Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal

We demonstrate that SP-Search effectively represents the generative process behind human summaries using modules that are typically faithful to their intended behavior.

Abstractive Text Summarization Sentence Fusion

StoryDALL-E: Adapting Pretrained Text-to-Image Transformers for Story Continuation

1 code implementation13 Sep 2022 Adyasha Maharana, Darryl Hannan, Mohit Bansal

Hence, we first propose the task of story continuation, where the generated visual story is conditioned on a source image, allowing for better generalization to narratives with new characters.

Image Generation Story Continuation +2

Extractive is not Faithful: An Investigation of Broad Unfaithfulness Problems in Extractive Summarization

1 code implementation8 Sep 2022 Shiyue Zhang, David Wan, Mohit Bansal

Though extractive summarization is less prone to the common unfaithfulness issues of abstractive summaries, does that mean extractive is equal to faithful?

Abstractive Text Summarization Extractive Summarization

WinoGAViL: Gamified Association Benchmark to Challenge Vision-and-Language Models

1 code implementation25 Jul 2022 Yonatan Bitton, Nitzan Bitton Guetta, Ron Yosef, Yuval Elovici, Mohit Bansal, Gabriel Stanovsky, Roy Schwartz

While vision-and-language models perform well on tasks such as visual question answering, they struggle when it comes to basic human commonsense reasoning skills.

Association Common Sense Reasoning +5

CoSIm: Commonsense Reasoning for Counterfactual Scene Imagination

1 code implementation NAACL 2022 Hyounghun Kim, Abhay Zala, Mohit Bansal

Next, a counterfactual imagined scene change (in textual form) is applied, and the model has to predict the new response to the initial question based on this scene change.

SETSum: Summarization and Visualization of Student Evaluations of Teaching

1 code implementation NAACL (ACL) 2022 Yinuo Hu, Shiyue Zhang, Viji Sathy, A. T. Panter, Mohit Bansal

Ten university professors from diverse departments serve as evaluators of the system and all agree that SETSum helps them interpret SET results more efficiently; and 6 out of 10 instructors prefer our system over the standard static PDF report (while the remaining 4 would like to have both).

Aspect Extraction Sentiment Analysis

CLEAR: Improving Vision-Language Navigation with Cross-Lingual, Environment-Agnostic Representations

1 code implementation Findings (NAACL) 2022 Jialu Li, Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal

Empirically, on the Room-Across-Room dataset, we show that our multilingual agent gets large improvements in all metrics over the strong baseline model when generalizing to unseen environments with the cross-lingual language representation and the environment-agnostic visual representation.

Navigate Representation Learning +2

Masked Part-Of-Speech Model: Does Modeling Long Context Help Unsupervised POS-tagging?

1 code implementation NAACL 2022 Xiang Zhou, Shiyue Zhang, Mohit Bansal

MPoSM can model arbitrary tag dependency and perform POS induction through the objective of masked POS reconstruction.

POS TAG

VisFIS: Visual Feature Importance Supervision with Right-for-the-Right-Reason Objectives

1 code implementation22 Jun 2022 Zhuofan Ying, Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal

In this paper, we show that model FI supervision can meaningfully improve VQA model accuracy as well as performance on several Right-for-the-Right-Reason (RRR) metrics by optimizing for four key model objectives: (1) accurate predictions given limited but sufficient information (Sufficiency); (2) max-entropy predictions given no important information (Uncertainty); (3) invariance of predictions to changes in unimportant features (Invariance); and (4) alignment between model FI explanations and human FI explanations (Plausibility).

Feature Importance Question Answering +2

Enhanced Knowledge Selection for Grounded Dialogues via Document Semantic Graphs

no code implementations15 Jun 2022 Sha Li, Mahdi Namazifar, Di Jin, Mohit Bansal, Heng Ji, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Providing conversation models with background knowledge has been shown to make open-domain dialogues more informative and engaging.

Multi-Task Learning Response Generation

LST: Ladder Side-Tuning for Parameter and Memory Efficient Transfer Learning

1 code implementation13 Jun 2022 Yi-Lin Sung, Jaemin Cho, Mohit Bansal

LST saves 69% of the memory costs to fine-tune the whole network, while other methods only save 26% of that in similar parameter usages (hence, 2. 7x more memory savings).

Transfer Learning Visual Question Answering (VQA)

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

1 code implementation9 Jun 2022 Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao, Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Abubakar Abid, Adam Fisch, Adam R. Brown, Adam Santoro, Aditya Gupta, Adrià Garriga-Alonso, Agnieszka Kluska, Aitor Lewkowycz, Akshat Agarwal, Alethea Power, Alex Ray, Alex Warstadt, Alexander W. Kocurek, Ali Safaya, Ali Tazarv, Alice Xiang, Alicia Parrish, Allen Nie, Aman Hussain, Amanda Askell, Amanda Dsouza, Ambrose Slone, Ameet Rahane, Anantharaman S. Iyer, Anders Andreassen, Andrea Madotto, Andrea Santilli, Andreas Stuhlmüller, Andrew Dai, Andrew La, Andrew Lampinen, Andy Zou, Angela Jiang, Angelica Chen, Anh Vuong, Animesh Gupta, Anna Gottardi, Antonio Norelli, Anu Venkatesh, Arash Gholamidavoodi, Arfa Tabassum, Arul Menezes, Arun Kirubarajan, Asher Mullokandov, Ashish Sabharwal, Austin Herrick, Avia Efrat, Aykut Erdem, Ayla Karakaş, B. Ryan Roberts, Bao Sheng Loe, Barret Zoph, Bartłomiej Bojanowski, Batuhan Özyurt, Behnam Hedayatnia, Behnam Neyshabur, Benjamin Inden, Benno Stein, Berk Ekmekci, Bill Yuchen Lin, Blake Howald, Cameron Diao, Cameron Dour, Catherine Stinson, Cedrick Argueta, César Ferri Ramírez, Chandan Singh, Charles Rathkopf, Chenlin Meng, Chitta Baral, Chiyu Wu, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Waites, Christian Voigt, Christopher D. Manning, Christopher Potts, Cindy Ramirez, Clara E. Rivera, Clemencia Siro, Colin Raffel, Courtney Ashcraft, Cristina Garbacea, Damien Sileo, Dan Garrette, Dan Hendrycks, Dan Kilman, Dan Roth, Daniel Freeman, Daniel Khashabi, Daniel Levy, Daniel Moseguí González, Danielle Perszyk, Danny Hernandez, Danqi Chen, Daphne Ippolito, Dar Gilboa, David Dohan, David Drakard, David Jurgens, Debajyoti Datta, Deep Ganguli, Denis Emelin, Denis Kleyko, Deniz Yuret, Derek Chen, Derek Tam, Dieuwke Hupkes, Diganta Misra, Dilyar Buzan, Dimitri Coelho Mollo, Diyi Yang, Dong-Ho Lee, Ekaterina Shutova, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Elad Segal, Eleanor Hagerman, Elizabeth Barnes, Elizabeth Donoway, Ellie Pavlick, Emanuele Rodola, Emma Lam, Eric Chu, Eric Tang, Erkut Erdem, Ernie Chang, Ethan A. Chi, Ethan Dyer, Ethan Jerzak, Ethan Kim, Eunice Engefu Manyasi, Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Fanyue Xia, Fatemeh Siar, Fernando Martínez-Plumed, Francesca Happé, Francois Chollet, Frieda Rong, Gaurav Mishra, Genta Indra Winata, Gerard de Melo, Germán Kruszewski, Giambattista Parascandolo, Giorgio Mariani, Gloria Wang, Gonzalo Jaimovitch-López, Gregor Betz, Guy Gur-Ari, Hana Galijasevic, Hannah Kim, Hannah Rashkin, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Harsh Mehta, Hayden Bogar, Henry Shevlin, Hinrich Schütze, Hiromu Yakura, Hongming Zhang, Hugh Mee Wong, Ian Ng, Isaac Noble, Jaap Jumelet, Jack Geissinger, Jackson Kernion, Jacob Hilton, Jaehoon Lee, Jaime Fernández Fisac, James B. Simon, James Koppel, James Zheng, James Zou, Jan Kocoń, Jana Thompson, Jared Kaplan, Jarema Radom, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Jason Phang, Jason Wei, Jason Yosinski, Jekaterina Novikova, Jelle Bosscher, Jennifer Marsh, Jeremy Kim, Jeroen Taal, Jesse Engel, Jesujoba Alabi, Jiacheng Xu, Jiaming Song, Jillian Tang, Joan Waweru, John Burden, John Miller, John U. Balis, Jonathan Berant, Jörg Frohberg, Jos Rozen, Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Joseph Boudeman, Joseph Jones, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Joshua S. Rule, Joyce Chua, Kamil Kanclerz, Karen Livescu, Karl Krauth, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Katerina Ignatyeva, Katja Markert, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Kevin Gimpel, Kevin Omondi, Kory Mathewson, Kristen Chiafullo, Ksenia Shkaruta, Kumar Shridhar, Kyle McDonell, Kyle Richardson, Laria Reynolds, Leo Gao, Li Zhang, Liam Dugan, Lianhui Qin, Lidia Contreras-Ochando, Louis-Philippe Morency, Luca Moschella, Lucas Lam, Lucy Noble, Ludwig Schmidt, Luheng He, Luis Oliveros Colón, Luke Metz, Lütfi Kerem Şenel, Maarten Bosma, Maarten Sap, Maartje ter Hoeve, Maheen Farooqi, Manaal Faruqui, Mantas Mazeika, Marco Baturan, Marco Marelli, Marco Maru, Maria Jose Ramírez Quintana, Marie Tolkiehn, Mario Giulianelli, Martha Lewis, Martin Potthast, Matthew L. Leavitt, Matthias Hagen, Mátyás Schubert, Medina Orduna Baitemirova, Melody Arnaud, Melvin McElrath, Michael A. Yee, Michael Cohen, Michael Gu, Michael Ivanitskiy, Michael Starritt, Michael Strube, Michał Swędrowski, Michele Bevilacqua, Michihiro Yasunaga, Mihir Kale, Mike Cain, Mimee Xu, Mirac Suzgun, Mo Tiwari, Mohit Bansal, Moin Aminnaseri, Mor Geva, Mozhdeh Gheini, Mukund Varma T, Nanyun Peng, Nathan Chi, Nayeon Lee, Neta Gur-Ari Krakover, Nicholas Cameron, Nicholas Roberts, Nick Doiron, Nikita Nangia, Niklas Deckers, Niklas Muennighoff, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Niveditha S. Iyer, Noah Constant, Noah Fiedel, Nuan Wen, Oliver Zhang, Omar Agha, Omar Elbaghdadi, Omer Levy, Owain Evans, Pablo Antonio Moreno Casares, Parth Doshi, Pascale Fung, Paul Pu Liang, Paul Vicol, Pegah Alipoormolabashi, Peiyuan Liao, Percy Liang, Peter Chang, Peter Eckersley, Phu Mon Htut, Pinyu Hwang, Piotr Miłkowski, Piyush Patil, Pouya Pezeshkpour, Priti Oli, Qiaozhu Mei, Qing Lyu, Qinlang Chen, Rabin Banjade, Rachel Etta Rudolph, Raefer Gabriel, Rahel Habacker, Ramón Risco Delgado, Raphaël Millière, Rhythm Garg, Richard Barnes, Rif A. Saurous, Riku Arakawa, Robbe Raymaekers, Robert Frank, Rohan Sikand, Roman Novak, Roman Sitelew, Ronan LeBras, Rosanne Liu, Rowan Jacobs, Rui Zhang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Ryan Chi, Ryan Lee, Ryan Stovall, Ryan Teehan, Rylan Yang, Sahib Singh, Saif M. Mohammad, Sajant Anand, Sam Dillavou, Sam Shleifer, Sam Wiseman, Samuel Gruetter, Samuel R. Bowman, Samuel S. Schoenholz, Sanghyun Han, Sanjeev Kwatra, Sarah A. Rous, Sarik Ghazarian, Sayan Ghosh, Sean Casey, Sebastian Bischoff, Sebastian Gehrmann, Sebastian Schuster, Sepideh Sadeghi, Shadi Hamdan, Sharon Zhou, Shashank Srivastava, Sherry Shi, Shikhar Singh, Shima Asaadi, Shixiang Shane Gu, Shubh Pachchigar, Shubham Toshniwal, Shyam Upadhyay, Shyamolima, Debnath, Siamak Shakeri, Simon Thormeyer, Simone Melzi, Siva Reddy, Sneha Priscilla Makini, Soo-Hwan Lee, Spencer Torene, Sriharsha Hatwar, Stanislas Dehaene, Stefan Divic, Stefano Ermon, Stella Biderman, Stephanie Lin, Stephen Prasad, Steven T. Piantadosi, Stuart M. Shieber, Summer Misherghi, Svetlana Kiritchenko, Swaroop Mishra, Tal Linzen, Tal Schuster, Tao Li, Tao Yu, Tariq Ali, Tatsu Hashimoto, Te-Lin Wu, Théo Desbordes, Theodore Rothschild, Thomas Phan, Tianle Wang, Tiberius Nkinyili, Timo Schick, Timofei Kornev, Timothy Telleen-Lawton, Titus Tunduny, Tobias Gerstenberg, Trenton Chang, Trishala Neeraj, Tushar Khot, Tyler Shultz, Uri Shaham, Vedant Misra, Vera Demberg, Victoria Nyamai, Vikas Raunak, Vinay Ramasesh, Vinay Uday Prabhu, Vishakh Padmakumar, Vivek Srikumar, William Fedus, William Saunders, William Zhang, Wout Vossen, Xiang Ren, Xiaoyu Tong, Xinran Zhao, Xinyi Wu, Xudong Shen, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Yair Lakretz, Yangqiu Song, Yasaman Bahri, Yejin Choi, Yichi Yang, Yiding Hao, Yifu Chen, Yonatan Belinkov, Yu Hou, Yufang Hou, Yuntao Bai, Zachary Seid, Zhuoye Zhao, Zijian Wang, Zijie J. Wang, ZiRui Wang, Ziyi Wu

BIG-bench focuses on tasks that are believed to be beyond the capabilities of current language models.

Common Sense Reasoning Memorization

Fine-grained Image Captioning with CLIP Reward

1 code implementation Findings (NAACL) 2022 Jaemin Cho, Seunghyun Yoon, Ajinkya Kale, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, Mohit Bansal

Toward more descriptive and distinctive caption generation, we propose using CLIP, a multimodal encoder trained on huge image-text pairs from web, to calculate multimodal similarity and use it as a reward function.

Image Captioning Image Retrieval +3

Language Models with Image Descriptors are Strong Few-Shot Video-Language Learners

1 code implementation22 May 2022 Zhenhailong Wang, Manling Li, Ruochen Xu, Luowei Zhou, Jie Lei, Xudong Lin, Shuohang Wang, ZiYi Yang, Chenguang Zhu, Derek Hoiem, Shih-Fu Chang, Mohit Bansal, Heng Ji

The goal of this work is to build flexible video-language models that can generalize to various video-to-text tasks from few examples, such as domain-specific captioning, question answering, and future event prediction.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5

On the Limits of Evaluating Embodied Agent Model Generalization Using Validation Sets

no code implementations insights (ACL) 2022 Hyounghun Kim, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Di Jin, Mohit Bansal, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Natural language guided embodied task completion is a challenging problem since it requires understanding natural language instructions, aligning them with egocentric visual observations, and choosing appropriate actions to execute in the environment to produce desired changes.

FactPEGASUS: Factuality-Aware Pre-training and Fine-tuning for Abstractive Summarization

1 code implementation NAACL 2022 David Wan, Mohit Bansal

We present FactPEGASUS, an abstractive summarization model that addresses the problem of factuality during pre-training and fine-tuning: (1) We augment the sentence selection strategy of PEGASUS's (Zhang et al., 2020) pre-training objective to create pseudo-summaries that are both important and factual; (2) We introduce three complementary components for fine-tuning.

Abstractive Text Summarization Contrastive Learning

Few-Shot Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning is Better and Cheaper than In-Context Learning

1 code implementation11 May 2022 Haokun Liu, Derek Tam, Mohammed Muqeeth, Jay Mohta, Tenghao Huang, Mohit Bansal, Colin Raffel

ICL incurs substantial computational, memory, and storage costs because it involves processing all of the training examples every time a prediction is made.

Few-Shot Text Classification

Efficient Few-Shot Fine-Tuning for Opinion Summarization

1 code implementation Findings (NAACL) 2022 Arthur Bražinskas, Ramesh Nallapati, Mohit Bansal, Markus Dreyer

In the same vein, we pre-train the adapters in a query-based manner on customer reviews and then fine-tune them on annotated datasets.

Abstractive Text Summarization

How can NLP Help Revitalize Endangered Languages? A Case Study and Roadmap for the Cherokee Language

1 code implementation ACL 2022 Shiyue Zhang, Ben Frey, Mohit Bansal

We hope that our work serves not only to inform the NLP community about Cherokee, but also to provide inspiration for future work on endangered languages in general.

FactGraph: Evaluating Factuality in Summarization with Semantic Graph Representations

1 code implementation NAACL 2022 Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Mengwen Liu, Iryna Gurevych, Markus Dreyer, Mohit Bansal

Despite recent improvements in abstractive summarization, most current approaches generate summaries that are not factually consistent with the source document, severely restricting their trust and usage in real-world applications.

Abstractive Text Summarization

Explanation Graph Generation via Pre-trained Language Models: An Empirical Study with Contrastive Learning

1 code implementation ACL 2022 Swarnadeep Saha, Prateek Yadav, Mohit Bansal

In this work, we study pre-trained language models that generate explanation graphs in an end-to-end manner and analyze their ability to learn the structural constraints and semantics of such graphs.

Contrastive Learning Graph Generation +1

EnvEdit: Environment Editing for Vision-and-Language Navigation

1 code implementation CVPR 2022 Jialu Li, Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal

Training on these edit-augmented environments prevents the agent from overfitting to existing environments and helps generalize better to new, unseen environments.

Ranked #2 on Vision and Language Navigation on RxR (using extra training data)

Data Augmentation Navigate +1

GrIPS: Gradient-free, Edit-based Instruction Search for Prompting Large Language Models

1 code implementation14 Mar 2022 Archiki Prasad, Peter Hase, Xiang Zhou, Mohit Bansal

In this work, we introduce Gradient-free Instructional Prompt Search (GrIPS), a gradient-free, edit-based search approach for improving task instructions for large language models.

CAISE: Conversational Agent for Image Search and Editing

1 code implementation24 Feb 2022 Hyounghun Kim, Doo Soon Kim, Seunghyun Yoon, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, Mohit Bansal

To our knowledge, this is the first dataset that provides conversational image search and editing annotations, where the agent holds a grounded conversation with users and helps them to search and edit images according to their requests.

Image Retrieval

DALL-Eval: Probing the Reasoning Skills and Social Biases of Text-to-Image Generative Models

2 code implementations8 Feb 2022 Jaemin Cho, Abhay Zala, Mohit Bansal

In this work, we investigate the visual reasoning capabilities and social biases of different text-to-image models, covering both multimodal transformer language models and diffusion models.

Image Captioning Image Classification +7

MuMuQA: Multimedia Multi-Hop News Question Answering via Cross-Media Knowledge Extraction and Grounding

2 code implementations20 Dec 2021 Revanth Gangi Reddy, Xilin Rui, Manling Li, Xudong Lin, Haoyang Wen, Jaemin Cho, Lifu Huang, Mohit Bansal, Avirup Sil, Shih-Fu Chang, Alexander Schwing, Heng Ji

Specifically, the task involves multi-hop questions that require reasoning over image-caption pairs to identify the grounded visual object being referred to and then predicting a span from the news body text to answer the question.

Answer Generation Data Augmentation +2

Proposition-Level Clustering for Multi-Document Summarization

2 code implementations NAACL 2022 Ori Ernst, Avi Caciularu, Ori Shapira, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Mohit Bansal, Jacob Goldberger, Ido Dagan

Text clustering methods were traditionally incorporated into multi-document summarization (MDS) as a means for coping with considerable information repetition.

Document Summarization Multi-Document Summarization +1

Analyzing the Limits of Self-Supervision in Handling Bias in Language

no code implementations16 Dec 2021 Lisa Bauer, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Spandana Gella, Yang Liu, Mohit Bansal, Dilek Hakkani-Tur

We define three broad classes of task descriptions for these tasks: statement, question, and completion, with numerous lexical variants within each class.

Learning and Analyzing Generation Order for Undirected Sequence Models

1 code implementation Findings (EMNLP) 2021 Yichen Jiang, Mohit Bansal

On examples with a maximum source and target length of 30 from De-En, WMT'16 English-Romanian, and WMT'21 English-Chinese translation tasks, our learned order outperforms all heuristic generation orders on four out of six tasks.

Machine Translation Translation

VL-Adapter: Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning for Vision-and-Language Tasks

1 code implementation CVPR 2022 Yi-Lin Sung, Jaemin Cho, Mohit Bansal

Our results demonstrate that training the adapter with the weight-sharing technique (4. 18% of total parameters for image-text tasks and 3. 39% for video-text tasks) can match the performance of fine-tuning the entire model.

Image Captioning Transfer Learning

MLP Architectures for Vision-and-Language Modeling: An Empirical Study

1 code implementation8 Dec 2021 Yixin Nie, Linjie Li, Zhe Gan, Shuohang Wang, Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Zicheng Liu, Mohit Bansal, Lijuan Wang

Based on this, we ask an even bolder question: can we have an all-MLP architecture for VL modeling, where both VL fusion and the vision encoder are replaced with MLPs?

Language Modelling Visual Question Answering (VQA)

Detecting Moments and Highlights in Videos via Natural Language Queries

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Jie Lei, Tamara Berg, Mohit Bansal

Each video in the dataset is annotated with: (1) a human-written free-form NL query, (2) relevant moments in the video w. r. t.

Moment Retrieval Natural Language Queries +1

Do Language Models Have Beliefs? Methods for Detecting, Updating, and Visualizing Model Beliefs

1 code implementation26 Nov 2021 Peter Hase, Mona Diab, Asli Celikyilmaz, Xian Li, Zornitsa Kozareva, Veselin Stoyanov, Mohit Bansal, Srinivasan Iyer

In this paper, we discuss approaches to detecting when models have beliefs about the world, and we improve on methods for updating model beliefs to be more truthful, with a focus on methods based on learned optimizers or hypernetworks.

Low-Cost Algorithmic Recourse for Users With Uncertain Cost Functions

1 code implementation1 Nov 2021 Prateek Yadav, Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal

Current approaches try to optimize for the cost incurred by users when adopting a recourse, but they assume that all users share the same cost function.

Fairness

Integrating Visuospatial, Linguistic and Commonsense Structure into Story Visualization

1 code implementation21 Oct 2021 Adyasha Maharana, Mohit Bansal

Prior work in this domain has shown that there is ample room for improvement in the generated image sequence in terms of visual quality, consistency and relevance.

Dense Captioning Image Generation +1

Inducing Transformer's Compositional Generalization Ability via Auxiliary Sequence Prediction Tasks

1 code implementation30 Sep 2021 Yichen Jiang, Mohit Bansal

Motivated by the failure of a Transformer model on the SCAN compositionality challenge (Lake and Baroni, 2018), which requires parsing a command into actions, we propose two auxiliary sequence prediction tasks that track the progress of function and argument semantics, as additional training supervision.

Finding a Balanced Degree of Automation for Summary Evaluation

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Shiyue Zhang, Mohit Bansal

In this work, we propose flexible semiautomatic to automatic summary evaluation metrics, following the Pyramid human evaluation method.

Natural Language Inference Semantic Role Labeling

Continuous Language Generative Flow

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Zineng Tang, Shiyue Zhang, Hyounghun Kim, Mohit Bansal

Recent years have witnessed various types of generative models for natural language generation (NLG), especially RNNs or transformer based sequence-to-sequence models, as well as variational autoencoder (VAE) and generative adversarial network (GAN) based models.

Data Augmentation Density Estimation +8

MTVR: Multilingual Moment Retrieval in Videos

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Jie Lei, Tamara L. Berg, Mohit Bansal

We introduce mTVR, a large-scale multilingual video moment retrieval dataset, containing 218K English and Chinese queries from 21. 8K TV show video clips.

Moment Retrieval Retrieval

EmailSum: Abstractive Email Thread Summarization

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Shiyue Zhang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Mohit Bansal

Furthermore, we find that widely used automatic evaluation metrics (ROUGE, BERTScore) are weakly correlated with human judgments on this email thread summarization task.

Abstractive Text Summarization Email Thread Summarization

ChrEnTranslate: Cherokee-English Machine Translation Demo with Quality Estimation and Corrective Feedback

2 code implementations ACL 2021 Shiyue Zhang, Benjamin Frey, Mohit Bansal

The quantitative evaluation demonstrates that our backbone translation models achieve state-of-the-art translation performance and our quality estimation well correlates with both BLEU and human judgment.

Machine Translation NMT +2

QVHighlights: Detecting Moments and Highlights in Videos via Natural Language Queries

2 code implementations20 Jul 2021 Jie Lei, Tamara L. Berg, Mohit Bansal

Each video in the dataset is annotated with: (1) a human-written free-form NL query, (2) relevant moments in the video w. r. t.

Highlight Detection Moment Retrieval +2

How Much Can CLIP Benefit Vision-and-Language Tasks?

4 code implementations13 Jul 2021 Sheng Shen, Liunian Harold Li, Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal, Anna Rohrbach, Kai-Wei Chang, Zhewei Yao, Kurt Keutzer

Most existing Vision-and-Language (V&L) models rely on pre-trained visual encoders, using a relatively small set of manually-annotated data (as compared to web-crawled data), to perceive the visual world.

Ranked #4 on Vision and Language Navigation on RxR (using extra training data)

Question Answering Vision and Language Navigation +2

VidLanKD: Improving Language Understanding via Video-Distilled Knowledge Transfer

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Zineng Tang, Jaemin Cho, Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal

We train a multi-modal teacher model on a video-text dataset, and then transfer its knowledge to a student language model with a text dataset.

Image Retrieval Knowledge Distillation +5

VIMPAC: Video Pre-Training via Masked Token Prediction and Contrastive Learning

1 code implementation21 Jun 2021 Hao Tan, Jie Lei, Thomas Wolf, Mohit Bansal

Unlike language, where the text tokens are more independent, neighboring video tokens typically have strong correlations (e. g., consecutive video frames usually look very similar), and hence uniformly masking individual tokens will make the task too trivial to learn useful representations.

Action Classification Action Recognition +2

An Empirical Survey of Data Augmentation for Limited Data Learning in NLP

no code implementations14 Jun 2021 Jiaao Chen, Derek Tam, Colin Raffel, Mohit Bansal, Diyi Yang

NLP has achieved great progress in the past decade through the use of neural models and large labeled datasets.

Data Augmentation News Classification

multiPRover: Generating Multiple Proofs for Improved Interpretability in Rule Reasoning

1 code implementation NAACL 2021 Swarnadeep Saha, Prateek Yadav, Mohit Bansal

In order to jointly learn from all proof graphs and exploit the correlations between multiple proofs for a question, we pose this task as a set generation problem over structured output spaces where each proof is represented as a directed graph.

Multi-Label Classification

Enriching Transformers with Structured Tensor-Product Representations for Abstractive Summarization

1 code implementation NAACL 2021 Yichen Jiang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Paul Smolensky, Paul Soulos, Sudha Rao, Hamid Palangi, Roland Fernandez, Caitlin Smith, Mohit Bansal, Jianfeng Gao

On several syntactic and semantic probing tasks, we demonstrate the emergent structural information in the role vectors and improved syntactic interpretability in the TPR layer outputs.

Abstractive Text Summarization

DeCEMBERT: Learning from Noisy Instructional Videos via Dense Captions and Entropy Minimization

1 code implementation NAACL 2021 Zineng Tang, Jie Lei, Mohit Bansal

Second, to alleviate the temporal misalignment issue, our method incorporates an entropy minimization-based constrained attention loss, to encourage the model to automatically focus on the correct caption from a pool of candidate ASR captions.

Question Answering Retrieval +4

The Out-of-Distribution Problem in Explainability and Search Methods for Feature Importance Explanations

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Peter Hase, Harry Xie, Mohit Bansal

In this paper, we study several under-explored dimensions of FI explanations, providing conceptual and empirical improvements for this form of explanation.

Feature Importance text-classification +1

Extending Multi-Document Summarization Evaluation to the Interactive Setting

1 code implementation NAACL 2021 Ori Shapira, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Hadar Ronen, Mohit Bansal, Yael Amsterdamer, Ido Dagan

In this paper, we develop an end-to-end evaluation framework for interactive summarization, focusing on expansion-based interaction, which considers the accumulating information along a user session.

Document Summarization Multi-Document Summarization

Improving Generation and Evaluation of Visual Stories via Semantic Consistency

1 code implementation NAACL 2021 Adyasha Maharana, Darryl Hannan, Mohit Bansal

Therefore, we also provide an exploration of evaluation metrics for the model, focused on aspects of the generated frames such as the presence/quality of generated characters, the relevance to captions, and the diversity of the generated images.

Image Generation Story Visualization +1

Identify, Align, and Integrate: Matching Knowledge Graphs to Commonsense Reasoning Tasks

1 code implementation EACL 2021 Lisa Bauer, Mohit Bansal

For knowledge integration to yield peak performance, it is critical to select a knowledge graph (KG) that is well-aligned with the given task's objective.

Knowledge Graphs

Hidden Biases in Unreliable News Detection Datasets

no code implementations EACL 2021 Xiang Zhou, Heba Elfardy, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Thomas Butler, Mohit Bansal

Using the observations and experimental results, we provide practical suggestions on how to create more reliable datasets for the unreliable news detection task.

Fact Checking Selection bias

Distributed NLI: Learning to Predict Human Opinion Distributions for Language Reasoning

1 code implementation Findings (ACL) 2022 Xiang Zhou, Yixin Nie, Mohit Bansal

We introduce distributed NLI, a new NLU task with a goal to predict the distribution of human judgements for natural language inference.

Natural Language Inference

ExplaGraphs: An Explanation Graph Generation Task for Structured Commonsense Reasoning

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Swarnadeep Saha, Prateek Yadav, Lisa Bauer, Mohit Bansal

Recent commonsense-reasoning tasks are typically discriminative in nature, where a model answers a multiple-choice question for a certain context.

Graph Generation Multiple-choice +1

FixMyPose: Pose Correctional Captioning and Retrieval

1 code implementation4 Apr 2021 Hyounghun Kim, Abhay Zala, Graham Burri, Mohit Bansal

During the correctional-captioning task, models must generate descriptions of how to move from the current to target pose image, whereas in the retrieval task, models should select the correct target pose given the initial pose and correctional description.

Pose Retrieval Retrieval

Data Augmentation for Abstractive Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization

1 code implementation2 Mar 2021 Ramakanth Pasunuru, Asli Celikyilmaz, Michel Galley, Chenyan Xiong, Yizhe Zhang, Mohit Bansal, Jianfeng Gao

The progress in Query-focused Multi-Document Summarization (QMDS) has been limited by the lack of sufficient largescale high-quality training datasets.

Data Augmentation Document Summarization +1

Dual Reinforcement-Based Specification Generation for Image De-Rendering

no code implementations2 Mar 2021 Ramakanth Pasunuru, David Rosenberg, Gideon Mann, Mohit Bansal

Since these are sequence models, we must choose an ordering of the objects in the graphics programs for likelihood training.

Inductive Bias

Less is More: ClipBERT for Video-and-Language Learning via Sparse Sampling

1 code implementation CVPR 2021 Jie Lei, Linjie Li, Luowei Zhou, Zhe Gan, Tamara L. Berg, Mohit Bansal, Jingjing Liu

Experiments on text-to-video retrieval and video question answering on six datasets demonstrate that ClipBERT outperforms (or is on par with) existing methods that exploit full-length videos, suggesting that end-to-end learning with just a few sparsely sampled clips is often more accurate than using densely extracted offline features from full-length videos, proving the proverbial less-is-more principle.

Ranked #17 on Visual Question Answering (VQA) on MSRVTT-QA (using extra training data)

Question Answering Retrieval +4

Unifying Vision-and-Language Tasks via Text Generation

1 code implementation4 Feb 2021 Jaemin Cho, Jie Lei, Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal

On 7 popular vision-and-language benchmarks, including visual question answering, referring expression comprehension, visual commonsense reasoning, most of which have been previously modeled as discriminative tasks, our generative approach (with a single unified architecture) reaches comparable performance to recent task-specific state-of-the-art vision-and-language models.

Conditional Text Generation Image Captioning +7

When Can Models Learn From Explanations? A Formal Framework for Understanding the Roles of Explanation Data

1 code implementation LNLS (ACL) 2022 Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal

In order to carefully control important properties of the data and explanations, we introduce a synthetic dataset for experiments, and we also make use of three existing datasets with explanations: e-SNLI, TACRED, and SemEval.

Retrieval

Robustness Gym: Unifying the NLP Evaluation Landscape

2 code implementations NAACL 2021 Karan Goel, Nazneen Rajani, Jesse Vig, Samson Tan, Jason Wu, Stephan Zheng, Caiming Xiong, Mohit Bansal, Christopher Ré

Despite impressive performance on standard benchmarks, deep neural networks are often brittle when deployed in real-world systems.

Entity Linking

To what extent do human explanations of model behavior align with actual model behavior?

no code implementations EMNLP (BlackboxNLP) 2021 Grusha Prasad, Yixin Nie, Mohit Bansal, Robin Jia, Douwe Kiela, Adina Williams

Given the increasingly prominent role NLP models (will) play in our lives, it is important for human expectations of model behavior to align with actual model behavior.

Natural Language Inference

I like fish, especially dolphins: Addressing Contradictions in Dialogue Modeling

no code implementations ACL 2021 Yixin Nie, Mary Williamson, Mohit Bansal, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston

To quantify how well natural language understanding models can capture consistency in a general conversation, we introduce the DialoguE COntradiction DEtection task (DECODE) and a new conversational dataset containing both human-human and human-bot contradictory dialogues.

Natural Language Understanding

DORB: Dynamically Optimizing Multiple Rewards with Bandits

no code implementations EMNLP 2020 Ramakanth Pasunuru, Han Guo, Mohit Bansal

Further, it is important to consider using a dynamic combination and curriculum of metric rewards that flexibly changes over time.

Data-to-Text Generation Question Generation +1

ArraMon: A Joint Navigation-Assembly Instruction Interpretation Task in Dynamic Environments

no code implementations Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 Hyounghun Kim, Abhay Zala, Graham Burri, Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal

During this task, the agent (similar to a PokeMON GO player) is asked to find and collect different target objects one-by-one by navigating based on natural language instructions in a complex, realistic outdoor environment, but then also ARRAnge the collected objects part-by-part in an egocentric grid-layout environment.

Referring Expression Referring Expression Comprehension +1

ConjNLI: Natural Language Inference Over Conjunctive Sentences

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Swarnadeep Saha, Yixin Nie, Mohit Bansal

Reasoning about conjuncts in conjunctive sentences is important for a deeper understanding of conjunctions in English and also how their usages and semantics differ from conjunctive and disjunctive boolean logic.

Natural Language Inference

What is More Likely to Happen Next? Video-and-Language Future Event Prediction

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Jie Lei, Licheng Yu, Tamara L. Berg, Mohit Bansal

Given a video with aligned dialogue, people can often infer what is more likely to happen next.

Vokenization: Improving Language Understanding with Contextualized, Visual-Grounded Supervision

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal

We find that the main reason hindering this exploration is the large divergence in magnitude and distributions between the visually-grounded language datasets and pure-language corpora.

Image Captioning Language Modelling

ChrEn: Cherokee-English Machine Translation for Endangered Language Revitalization

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Shiyue Zhang, Benjamin Frey, Mohit Bansal

To help save this endangered language, we introduce ChrEn, a Cherokee-English parallel dataset, to facilitate machine translation research between Cherokee and English.

Language Modelling Machine Translation +3

What Can We Learn from Collective Human Opinions on Natural Language Inference Data?

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Yixin Nie, Xiang Zhou, Mohit Bansal

Analysis reveals that: (1) high human disagreement exists in a noticeable amount of examples in these datasets; (2) the state-of-the-art models lack the ability to recover the distribution over human labels; (3) models achieve near-perfect accuracy on the subset of data with a high level of human agreement, whereas they can barely beat a random guess on the data with low levels of human agreement, which compose most of the common errors made by state-of-the-art models on the evaluation sets.

Natural Language Inference

PRover: Proof Generation for Interpretable Reasoning over Rules

2 code implementations EMNLP 2020 Swarnadeep Saha, Sayan Ghosh, Shashank Srivastava, Mohit Bansal

First, PROVER generates proofs with an accuracy of 87%, while retaining or improving performance on the QA task, compared to RuleTakers (up to 6% improvement on zero-shot evaluation).

Evaluating Interactive Summarization: an Expansion-Based Framework

no code implementations17 Sep 2020 Ori Shapira, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Hadar Ronen, Mohit Bansal, Yael Amsterdamer, Ido Dagan

Allowing users to interact with multi-document summarizers is a promising direction towards improving and customizing summary results.

Summary-Source Proposition-level Alignment: Task, Datasets and Supervised Baseline

1 code implementation CoNLL (EMNLP) 2021 Ori Ernst, Ori Shapira, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Michael Lepioshkin, Jacob Goldberger, Mohit Bansal, Ido Dagan

Aligning sentences in a reference summary with their counterparts in source documents was shown as a useful auxiliary summarization task, notably for generating training data for salience detection.

Document Summarization Multi-Document Summarization

Simple Compounded-Label Training for Fact Extraction and Verification

no code implementations WS 2020 Yixin Nie, Lisa Bauer, Mohit Bansal

Automatic fact checking is an important task motivated by the need for detecting and preventing the spread of misinformation across the web.

Claim Verification Fact Checking +3

Dense-Caption Matching and Frame-Selection Gating for Temporal Localization in VideoQA

1 code implementation ACL 2020 Hyounghun Kim, Zineng Tang, Mohit Bansal

Moreover, our model is also comprised of dual-level attention (word/object and frame level), multi-head self/cross-integration for different sources (video and dense captions), and gates which pass more relevant information to the classifier.

Image Captioning Multi-Label Classification +3

MART: Memory-Augmented Recurrent Transformer for Coherent Video Paragraph Captioning

1 code implementation ACL 2020 Jie Lei, Li-Wei Wang, Yelong Shen, Dong Yu, Tamara L. Berg, Mohit Bansal

Generating multi-sentence descriptions for videos is one of the most challenging captioning tasks due to its high requirements for not only visual relevance but also discourse-based coherence across the sentences in the paragraph.

Towards Robustifying NLI Models Against Lexical Dataset Biases

1 code implementation ACL 2020 Xiang Zhou, Mohit Bansal

While deep learning models are making fast progress on the task of Natural Language Inference, recent studies have also shown that these models achieve high accuracy by exploiting several dataset biases, and without deep understanding of the language semantics.

Data Augmentation Natural Language Inference

Diagnosing the Environment Bias in Vision-and-Language Navigation

1 code implementation6 May 2020 Yubo Zhang, Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to follow natural-language instructions, explore the given environments, and reach the desired target locations.

Vision and Language Navigation

Evaluating Explainable AI: Which Algorithmic Explanations Help Users Predict Model Behavior?

1 code implementation ACL 2020 Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal

Through two kinds of simulation tests involving text and tabular data, we evaluate five explanations methods: (1) LIME, (2) Anchor, (3) Decision Boundary, (4) a Prototype model, and (5) a Composite approach that combines explanations from each method.

tabular-classification

The Curse of Performance Instability in Analysis Datasets: Consequences, Source, and Suggestions

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Xiang Zhou, Yixin Nie, Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal

For the first question, we conduct a thorough empirical study over analysis sets and find that in addition to the unstable final performance, the instability exists all along the training curve.

Model Selection Natural Language Inference +1

Adversarial Augmentation Policy Search for Domain and Cross-Lingual Generalization in Reading Comprehension

1 code implementation Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 Adyasha Maharana, Mohit Bansal

In this work, we present several effective adversaries and automated data augmentation policy search methods with the goal of making reading comprehension models more robust to adversarial evaluation, but also improving generalization to the source domain as well as new domains and languages.

Data Augmentation Reading Comprehension

TVR: A Large-Scale Dataset for Video-Subtitle Moment Retrieval

2 code implementations ECCV 2020 Jie Lei, Licheng Yu, Tamara L. Berg, Mohit Bansal

The queries are also labeled with query types that indicate whether each of them is more related to video or subtitle or both, allowing for in-depth analysis of the dataset and the methods that built on top of it.

Moment Retrieval Retrieval +2

ManyModalQA: Modality Disambiguation and QA over Diverse Inputs

1 code implementation22 Jan 2020 Darryl Hannan, Akshay Jain, Mohit Bansal

By analyzing this model, we investigate which words in the question are indicative of the modality.

Question Answering Transfer Learning

Modality-Balanced Models for Visual Dialogue

no code implementations17 Jan 2020 Hyounghun Kim, Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal

The Visual Dialog task requires a model to exploit both image and conversational context information to generate the next response to the dialogue.

Visual Dialog

AvgOut: A Simple Output-Probability Measure to Eliminate Dull Responses

no code implementations15 Jan 2020 Tong Niu, Mohit Bansal

In our work, we build dialogue models that are dynamically aware of what utterances or tokens are dull without any feature-engineering.

Feature Engineering

Multi-Source Domain Adaptation for Text Classification via DistanceNet-Bandits

no code implementations13 Jan 2020 Han Guo, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Mohit Bansal

Next, we develop a DistanceNet model which uses these distance measures, or a mixture of these distance measures, as an additional loss function to be minimized jointly with the task's loss function, so as to achieve better unsupervised domain adaptation.

General Classification Sentiment Analysis +3

Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding

2 code implementations ACL 2020 Yixin Nie, Adina Williams, Emily Dinan, Mohit Bansal, Jason Weston, Douwe Kiela

We introduce a new large-scale NLI benchmark dataset, collected via an iterative, adversarial human-and-model-in-the-loop procedure.

Natural Language Understanding

Automatically Learning Data Augmentation Policies for Dialogue Tasks

1 code implementation IJCNLP 2019 Tong Niu, Mohit Bansal

Automatic data augmentation (AutoAugment) (Cubuk et al., 2019) searches for optimal perturbation policies via a controller trained using performance rewards of a sampled policy on the target task, hence reducing data-level model bias.

Data Augmentation Dialogue Generation +2

Revealing the Importance of Semantic Retrieval for Machine Reading at Scale

2 code implementations IJCNLP 2019 Yixin Nie, Songhe Wang, Mohit Bansal

In this work, we give general guidelines on system design for MRS by proposing a simple yet effective pipeline system with special consideration on hierarchical semantic retrieval at both paragraph and sentence level, and their potential effects on the downstream task.

Fact Verification Information Retrieval +4

Addressing Semantic Drift in Question Generation for Semi-Supervised Question Answering

1 code implementation IJCNLP 2019 Shiyue Zhang, Mohit Bansal

Second, since the traditional evaluation metrics (e. g., BLEU) often fall short in evaluating the quality of generated questions, we propose a QA-based evaluation method which measures the QG model's ability to mimic human annotators in generating QA training data.

Question Answering Question Generation +1

Self-Assembling Modular Networks for Interpretable Multi-Hop Reasoning

1 code implementation IJCNLP 2019 Yichen Jiang, Mohit Bansal

Multi-hop QA requires a model to connect multiple pieces of evidence scattered in a long context to answer the question.

LXMERT: Learning Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from Transformers

6 code implementations IJCNLP 2019 Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal

In LXMERT, we build a large-scale Transformer model that consists of three encoders: an object relationship encoder, a language encoder, and a cross-modality encoder.

Language Modelling Masked Language Modeling +3

Expressing Visual Relationships via Language

1 code implementation ACL 2019 Hao Tan, Franck Dernoncourt, Zhe Lin, Trung Bui, Mohit Bansal

To push forward the research in this direction, we first introduce a new language-guided image editing dataset that contains a large number of real image pairs with corresponding editing instructions.

Image Captioning Retrieval