no code implementations • 26 Jul 2024 • Lei Guo, Wei Chen, Yuxuan Sun, Bo Ai, Nikolaos Pappas, Tony Quek
This paper introduces a diffusion-driven semantic communication framework with advanced VAE-based compression for bandwidth-constrained generative model.
no code implementations • 19 Jul 2024 • Pouya Agheli, Nikolaos Pappas, Petar Popovski, Marios Kountouris
This paper studies decision-making for goal-oriented effective communication.
no code implementations • 25 Jun 2024 • Devang Kulshreshtha, Saket Dingliwal, Brady Houston, Nikolaos Pappas, Srikanth Ronanki
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) traditionally assumes known domains, but adding data from a new domain raises concerns about computational inefficiencies linked to retraining models on both existing and new domains.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3
no code implementations • 21 Jun 2024 • Dhananjay Ram, Aditya Rawal, Momchil Hardalov, Nikolaos Pappas, Sheng Zha
Training with mixed data distributions is a common and important part of creating multi-task and instruction-following models.
no code implementations • 30 Apr 2024 • Kristina Levina, Nikolaos Pappas, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan, Jendrik Seipp
We compare our new approaches to a baseline reward machine in the Craft domain, where the numeric feature is the agent-to-target distance.
no code implementations • 25 Mar 2024 • Jiping Luo, Nikolaos Pappas
This paper studies semantic-aware communication for remote estimation of multiple Markov sources over a lossy and rate-constrained channel.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2024 • Chenhao Wang, Zihan Chen, Nikolaos Pappas, Howard H. Yang, Tony Q. S. Quek, H. Vincent Poor
In contrast, an Adam-like algorithm converges at the $\mathcal{O}( 1/T )$ rate, demonstrating its advantage in expediting the model training process.
1 code implementation • 5 Mar 2024 • Hossein Aboutalebi, Hwanjun Song, Yusheng Xie, Arshit Gupta, Justin Sun, Hang Su, Igor Shalyminov, Nikolaos Pappas, Siffi Singh, Saab Mansour
Development of multimodal interactive systems is hindered by the lack of rich, multimodal (text, images) conversational data, which is needed in large quantities for LLMs.
no code implementations • 5 Mar 2024 • Bryan Li, Tamer Alkhouli, Daniele Bonadiman, Nikolaos Pappas, Saab Mansour
xSTREET exposes a gap in base LLM performance between English and non-English reasoning tasks.
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2024 • Bhavani A Madhabhavi, Gangadhar Karevvanavar, Rajshekhar V Bhat, Nikolaos Pappas
We obtain $(\bar{c}, \bar{s})$ pairs for neural language and first-order Markov chain-based small language models (SLM) for prediction, using both a threshold policy that transmits a word if its cosine similarity with that predicted/completed at the destination is below a threshold, and a periodic policy, which transmits words after a specific interval and predicts/completes the words in between, at the destination.
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2024 • Xinyi Hu, Nikolaos Pappas, Howard H. Yang
Motivated by this, we introduce the novel concept of Version Age of Information (VAoI) to FL.
no code implementations • 5 Feb 2024 • James Y. Huang, Sailik Sengupta, Daniele Bonadiman, Yi-An Lai, Arshit Gupta, Nikolaos Pappas, Saab Mansour, Katrin Kirchhoff, Dan Roth
Current work focuses on alignment at model training time, through techniques such as Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF).
no code implementations • 26 Dec 2023 • Jie Cao, Ernest Kurniawan, Amnart Boonkajay, Nikolaos Pappas, Sumei Sun, Petar Popovski
This status information, such as dynamic plant state and Markov Process-based context information, is then received/estimated by the controller for remote control.
no code implementations • 16 Dec 2023 • Muhammad Azeem Khan, Howard H. Yang, Zihan Chen, Antonio Iera, Nikolaos Pappas
Federated Learning (FL) offers a solution by preserving data privacy during training.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2023 • Jiping Luo, Nikolaos Pappas
The destination is tasked with source reconstruction for actuation.
no code implementations • 6 Oct 2023 • Yanwu Lu, Howard Yang, Nikolaos Pappas, Giovanni Geraci, Chuan Ma, Tony Q. S. Quek
Our work fills a gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive analysis of AoI in NTN and offers new insights into the performance of LEO satellite networks.
no code implementations • 18 Jun 2023 • Polina Kutsevol, Onur Ayan, Nikolaos Pappas, Wolfgang Kellerer
In contrast, in WNCSs, the efficiency of the network is measured by its ability to facilitate control applications, and the data transmission rate should be limited to avoid network congestion.
no code implementations • 24 May 2023 • Shufan Wang, Sebastien Jean, Sailik Sengupta, James Gung, Nikolaos Pappas, Yi Zhang
In executable task-oriented semantic parsing, the system aims to translate users' utterances in natural language to machine-interpretable programs (API calls) that can be executed according to pre-defined API specifications.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2023 • Mujeen Sung, James Gung, Elman Mansimov, Nikolaos Pappas, Raphael Shu, Salvatore Romeo, Yi Zhang, Vittorio Castelli
Intent classification (IC) plays an important role in task-oriented dialogue systems.
no code implementations • 16 Feb 2023 • Shamik Roy, Raphael Shu, Nikolaos Pappas, Elman Mansimov, Yi Zhang, Saab Mansour, Dan Roth
Conventional text style transfer approaches focus on sentence-level style transfer without considering contextual information, and the style is described with attributes (e. g., formality).
no code implementations • 25 Jan 2023 • Raphael Schumann, Elman Mansimov, Yi-An Lai, Nikolaos Pappas, Xibin Gao, Yi Zhang
This method interpolates between the weights of the old and new model and we show in extensive experiments that it reduces negative flips without sacrificing the improved accuracy of the new model.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2022 • Raphael Shu, Elman Mansimov, Tamer Alkhouli, Nikolaos Pappas, Salvatore Romeo, Arshit Gupta, Saab Mansour, Yi Zhang, Dan Roth
The conversational model interacts with the environment by generating and executing programs triggering a set of pre-defined APIs.
no code implementations • 17 Oct 2022 • Hui Zhou, Yansha Deng, Xiaonan Liu, Nikolaos Pappas, Arumugam Nallanathan
In this article, we propose a generic goal-oriented semantic communication framework for various tasks with diverse data types, which incorporates both semantic level information and effectiveness-aware performance metrics.
1 code implementation • 16 Oct 2022 • Zhaofeng Wu, Hao Peng, Nikolaos Pappas, Noah A. Smith
Document-level machine translation leverages inter-sentence dependencies to produce more coherent and consistent translations.
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2022 • Mohammad Hatami, Markus Leinonen, Zheng Chen, Nikolaos Pappas, Marian Codreanu
We consider a resource-constrained IoT network, where multiple users make on-demand requests to a cache-enabled edge node to send status updates about various random processes, each monitored by an energy harvesting sensor.
no code implementations • ACL 2022 • Hao Peng, Jungo Kasai, Nikolaos Pappas, Dani Yogatama, Zhaofeng Wu, Lingpeng Kong, Roy Schwartz, Noah A. Smith
One way to improve the efficiency is to bound the memory size.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2021 • Ivan Montero, Nikolaos Pappas, Noah A. Smith
Representation learning for text via pretraining a language model on a large corpus has become a standard starting point for building NLP systems.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2021 • Jungo Kasai, Hao Peng, Yizhe Zhang, Dani Yogatama, Gabriel Ilharco, Nikolaos Pappas, Yi Mao, Weizhu Chen, Noah A. Smith
Specifically, we propose a swap-then-finetune procedure: in an off-the-shelf pretrained transformer, we replace the softmax attention with its linear-complexity recurrent alternative and then finetune.
Ranked #2 on Machine Translation on WMT2017 Chinese-English
no code implementations • ICLR 2021 • Hao Peng, Nikolaos Pappas, Dani Yogatama, Roy Schwartz, Noah A. Smith, Lingpeng Kong
RFA can be used as a drop-in replacement for conventional softmax attention and offers a straightforward way of learning with recency bias through an optional gating mechanism.
Ranked #27 on Machine Translation on IWSLT2014 German-English
no code implementations • 31 Dec 2020 • George Stamatakis, Nikolaos Pappas, Alexandros Fragkiadakis, Apostolos Traganitis
Internet of Things (IoT) with its growing number of deployed devices and applications raises significant challenges for network maintenance procedures.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2020 • Cristian Tatino, Nikolaos Pappas, Di Yuan
We present a solution to the optimization problem that exploits mm-wave channel characteristics to decouple beamforming and trajectory optimizations.
Trajectory Planning Networking and Internet Architecture
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2020 • Florian Mai, Nikolaos Pappas, Ivan Montero, Noah A. Smith, James Henderson
Text autoencoders are commonly used for conditional generation tasks such as style transfer.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2020 • Xuhui Zhou, Nikolaos Pappas, Noah A. Smith
Text alignment finds application in tasks such as citation recommendation and plagiarism detection.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2020 • Nikolaos Pappas, Phoebe Mulcaire, Noah A. Smith
To our knowledge, the result is the first word-level language model with a size that does not depend on the training vocabulary.
7 code implementations • ICML 2020 • Angelos Katharopoulos, Apoorv Vyas, Nikolaos Pappas, François Fleuret
Transformers achieve remarkable performance in several tasks but due to their quadratic complexity, with respect to the input's length, they are prohibitively slow for very long sequences.
Ranked #5 on Offline RL on D4RL
2 code implementations • ICLR 2021 • Jungo Kasai, Nikolaos Pappas, Hao Peng, James Cross, Noah A. Smith
We show that the speed disadvantage for autoregressive baselines compared to non-autoregressive methods has been overestimated in three aspects: suboptimal layer allocation, insufficient speed measurement, and lack of knowledge distillation.
no code implementations • 2 Mar 2020 • Cristian Tatino, Nikolaos Pappas, Ilaria Malanchini, Lutz Ewe, Di Yuan
Multi-connectivity is emerging as a promising solution to provide reliable communications and seamless connectivity for the millimeter-wave frequency range.
no code implementations • 10 Oct 2019 • Zheng Chen, Nikolaos Pappas, Emil Björnson, Erik G. Larsson
We formulate an optimization problem that aims at minimizing the average age of information (AoI) of the EH node subject to the queue stability condition of the grid-connected node.
Information Theory Networking and Internet Architecture Information Theory
no code implementations • 29 May 2019 • Navid Rekabsaz, Nikolaos Pappas, James Henderson, Banriskhem K. Khonglah, Srikanth Madikeri
In this study, we propose a multilingual neural language model architecture, trained jointly on the domain-specific data of several low-resource languages.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5
1 code implementation • 14 May 2019 • Nikolaos Pappas, James Henderson
Many tasks, including language generation, benefit from learning the structure of the output space, particularly when the space of output labels is large and the data is sparse.
Ranked #12 on Language Modelling on Penn Treebank (Word Level)
1 code implementation • TACL 2018 • Xiao Pu, Nikolaos Pappas, James Henderson, Andrei Popescu-Belis
We show that the concatenation of these vectors, and the use of a sense selection mechanism based on the weighted average of sense vectors, outperforms several baselines including sense-aware ones.
2 code implementations • EMNLP 2018 • Lesly Miculicich, Dhananjay Ram, Nikolaos Pappas, James Henderson
Neural Machine Translation (NMT) can be improved by including document-level contextual information.
1 code implementation • WS 2018 • Nikolaos Pappas, Lesly Miculicich Werlen, James Henderson
The model is a generalized form of weight tying which shares parameters but allows learning a more flexible relationship with input word embeddings and allows the effective capacity of the output layer to be controlled.
1 code implementation • TACL 2019 • Nikolaos Pappas, James Henderson
This forces their parametrization to be dependent on the label set size, and, hence, they are unable to scale to large label sets and generalize to unseen ones.
1 code implementation • NAACL 2018 • Lesly Miculicich Werlen, Nikolaos Pappas, Dhananjay Ram, Andrei Popescu-Belis
Neural sequence-to-sequence networks with attention have achieved remarkable performance for machine translation.
2 code implementations • IJCNLP 2017 • Nikolaos Pappas, Andrei Popescu-Belis
Hierarchical attention networks have recently achieved remarkable performance for document classification in a given language.
no code implementations • EACL 2017 • Renars Liepins, Ulrich Germann, Guntis Barzdins, Alex Birch, ra, Steve Renals, Susanne Weber, Peggy van der Kreeft, Herv{\'e} Bourlard, Jo{\~a}o Prieto, Ond{\v{r}}ej Klejch, Peter Bell, Alex Lazaridis, ros, Alfonso Mendes, Sebastian Riedel, Mariana S. C. Almeida, Pedro Balage, Shay B. Cohen, Tomasz Dwojak, Philip N. Garner, Andreas Giefer, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Hina Imran, David Nogueira, Ahmed Ali, Mir, Sebasti{\~a}o a, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Lesly Miculicich Werlen, Nikos Papasarantopoulos, Abiola Obamuyide, Clive Jones, Fahim Dalvi, Andreas Vlachos, Yang Wang, Sibo Tong, Rico Sennrich, Nikolaos Pappas, Shashi Narayan, Marco Damonte, Nadir Durrani, Sameer Khurana, Ahmed Abdelali, Hassan Sajjad, Stephan Vogel, David Sheppey, Chris Hernon, Jeff Mitchell
We present the first prototype of the SUMMA Platform: an integrated platform for multilingual media monitoring.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5
1 code implementation • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 2017 • Nikolaos Pappas, Andrei Popescu-Belis
Representing documents is a crucial component in many NLP tasks, for instance predicting aspect ratings in reviews.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2016 • Nikolaos Pappas, Miriam Redi, Mercan Topkara, Brendan Jou, Hongyi Liu, Tao Chen, Shih-Fu Chang
The impact of culture in visual emotion perception has recently captured the attention of multimedia research.
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2015 • Brendan Jou, Tao Chen, Nikolaos Pappas, Miriam Redi, Mercan Topkara, Shih-Fu Chang
Our work expressly focuses on the uniqueness of culture and language in relation to human affect, specifically sentiment and emotion semantics, and how they manifest in social multimedia.