LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications

2 code implementations • 20 Jan 2022 • Romal Thoppilan, Daniel De Freitas, Jamie Hall, Noam Shazeer, Apoorv Kulshreshtha, Heng-Tze Cheng, Alicia Jin, Taylor Bos, Leslie Baker, Yu Du, Yaguang Li, Hongrae Lee, Huaixiu Steven Zheng, Amin Ghafouri, Marcelo Menegali, Yanping Huang, Maxim Krikun, Dmitry Lepikhin, James Qin, Dehao Chen, Yuanzhong Xu, Zhifeng Chen, Adam Roberts, Maarten Bosma, Vincent Zhao, Yanqi Zhou, Chung-Ching Chang, Igor Krivokon, Will Rusch, Marc Pickett, Pranesh Srinivasan, Laichee Man, Kathleen Meier-Hellstern, Meredith Ringel Morris, Tulsee Doshi, Renelito Delos Santos, Toju Duke, Johnny Soraker, Ben Zevenbergen, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Mark Diaz, Ben Hutchinson, Kristen Olson, Alejandra Molina, Erin Hoffman-John, Josh Lee, Lora Aroyo, Ravi Rajakumar, Alena Butryna, Matthew Lamm, Viktoriya Kuzmina, Joe Fenton, Aaron Cohen, Rachel Bernstein, Ray Kurzweil, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Claire Cui, Marian Croak, Ed Chi, Quoc Le

We demonstrate that fine-tuning with annotated data and enabling the model to consult external knowledge sources can lead to significant improvements towards the two key challenges of safety and factual grounding.

Code Generation Information Retrieval +2

Multilingual Universal Sentence Encoder for Semantic Retrieval

no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Yinfei Yang, Daniel Cer, Amin Ahmad, Mandy Guo, Jax Law, Noah Constant, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Steve Yuan, Chris Tar, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Brian Strope, Ray Kurzweil

We introduce two pre-trained retrieval focused multilingual sentence encoding models, respectively based on the Transformer and CNN model architectures.

Question Answering Retrieval +6

Hierarchical Document Encoder for Parallel Corpus Mining

no code implementations • WS 2019 • Mandy Guo, Yinfei Yang, Keith Stevens, Daniel Cer, Heming Ge, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Brian Strope, Ray Kurzweil

We explore using multilingual document embeddings for nearest neighbor mining of parallel data.

Parallel Corpus Mining Sentence +2

Improving Multilingual Sentence Embedding using Bi-directional Dual Encoder with Additive Margin Softmax

no code implementations • 22 Feb 2019 • Yinfei Yang, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Steve Yuan, Mandy Guo, Qinlan Shen, Daniel Cer, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Brian Strope, Ray Kurzweil

On the UN document-level retrieval task, document embeddings achieve around 97% on P@1 for all experimented language pairs.

NMT Retrieval +3

Universal Sentence Encoder for English

no code implementations • EMNLP 2018 • Daniel Cer, Yinfei Yang, Sheng-yi Kong, Nan Hua, Nicole Limtiaco, Rhomni St. John, Noah Constant, Mario Guajardo-Cespedes, Steve Yuan, Chris Tar, Brian Strope, Ray Kurzweil

We present easy-to-use TensorFlow Hub sentence embedding models having good task transfer performance.

Multi-Task Learning Sentence +2

Learning Cross-Lingual Sentence Representations via a Multi-task Dual-Encoder Model

no code implementations • WS 2019 • Muthuraman Chidambaram, Yinfei Yang, Daniel Cer, Steve Yuan, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Brian Strope, Ray Kurzweil

A significant roadblock in multilingual neural language modeling is the lack of labeled non-English data.

Few-Shot Learning Language Modelling +1

Effective Parallel Corpus Mining using Bilingual Sentence Embeddings

no code implementations • WS 2018 • Mandy Guo, Qinlan Shen, Yinfei Yang, Heming Ge, Daniel Cer, Gustavo Hernandez Abrego, Keith Stevens, Noah Constant, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Brian Strope, Ray Kurzweil

This paper presents an effective approach for parallel corpus mining using bilingual sentence embeddings.

Machine Translation NMT +6

Learning Semantic Textual Similarity from Conversations

1 code implementation • WS 2018 • Yinfei Yang, Steve Yuan, Daniel Cer, Sheng-yi Kong, Noah Constant, Petr Pilar, Heming Ge, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Brian Strope, Ray Kurzweil

We present a novel approach to learn representations for sentence-level semantic similarity using conversational data.

Community Question Answering Natural Language Inference +6

Universal Sentence Encoder

23 code implementations • 29 Mar 2018 • Daniel Cer, Yinfei Yang, Sheng-yi Kong, Nan Hua, Nicole Limtiaco, Rhomni St. John, Noah Constant, Mario Guajardo-Cespedes, Steve Yuan, Chris Tar, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Brian Strope, Ray Kurzweil

For both variants, we investigate and report the relationship between model complexity, resource consumption, the availability of transfer task training data, and task performance.

Conversational Response Selection Semantic Textual Similarity +7

Efficient Natural Language Response Suggestion for Smart Reply

no code implementations • 1 May 2017 • Matthew Henderson, Rami Al-Rfou, Brian Strope, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Laszlo Lukacs, Ruiqi Guo, Sanjiv Kumar, Balint Miklos, Ray Kurzweil

This paper presents a computationally efficient machine-learned method for natural language response suggestion.

Generating High-Quality and Informative Conversation Responses with Sequence-to-Sequence Models

no code implementations • EMNLP 2017 • Louis Shao, Stephan Gouws, Denny Britz, Anna Goldie, Brian Strope, Ray Kurzweil

Sequence-to-sequence models have been applied to the conversation response generation problem where the source sequence is the conversation history and the target sequence is the response.

Response Generation Translation

Conversational Contextual Cues: The Case of Personalization and History for Response Ranking

no code implementations • 1 Jun 2016 • Rami Al-Rfou, Marc Pickett, Javier Snaider, Yun-Hsuan Sung, Brian Strope, Ray Kurzweil

Unlike previous efforts, which focused on modeling messages and responses, we extend the modeling to long context and participant's history.