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most citedEnhancing Text-based Reinforcement Learning Agents with Commonsense Knowledge

17 citations · 101 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.LG2025

MiGrATe: Mixed-Policy GRPO for Adaptation at Test-Time

Peter Phan, Dhruv Agarwal, Kavitha Srinivas +3

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being applied to black-box optimization tasks, from program synthesis to molecule design. Prior work typically leverages in-context le…

cs.AI2021

Learning to Guide a Saturation-Based Theorem Prover

Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Maxwell Crouse, Bassem Makni +8

Traditional automated theorem provers have relied on manually tuned heuristics to guide how they perform proof search. Recently, however, there has been a surge of interest in the…

cs.AI2021★ 7 cited

Logic Embeddings for Complex Query Answering

Francois Luus, Prithviraj Sen, Pavan Kapanipathi +4

Answering logical queries over incomplete knowledge bases is challenging because: 1) it calls for implicit link prediction, and 2) brute force answering of existential first-order…

cs.CL2020★ 9 cited

Leveraging Abstract Meaning Representation for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Pavan Kapanipathi, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Srinivas Ravishankar +27

Knowledge base question answering (KBQA)is an important task in Natural Language Processing. Existing approaches face significant challenges including complex question understandin…

cs.AI2020★ 6 cited

Text-based RL Agents with Commonsense Knowledge: New Challenges, Environments and Baselines

Keerthiram Murugesan, Mattia Atzeni, Pavan Kapanipathi +6

Text-based games have emerged as an important test-bed for Reinforcement Learning (RL) research, requiring RL agents to combine grounded language understanding with sequential deci…

cs.CL2020★ 4 cited

Reading Comprehension as Natural Language Inference: A Semantic Analysis

Anshuman Mishra, Dhruvesh Patel, Aparna Vijayakumar +3

In the recent past, Natural language Inference (NLI) has gained significant attention, particularly given its promise for downstream NLP tasks. However, its true impact is limited…

cs.CL2020★ 4 cited

Looking Beyond Sentence-Level Natural Language Inference for Downstream Tasks

Anshuman Mishra, Dhruvesh Patel, Aparna Vijayakumar +3

In recent years, the Natural Language Inference (NLI) task has garnered significant attention, with new datasets and models achieving near human-level performance on it. However, t…

cs.CL2020★ 13 cited

Leveraging Semantic Parsing for Relation Linking over Knowledge Bases

Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Gaetano Rossiello, Pavan Kapanipathi +6

Knowledgebase question answering systems are heavily dependent on relation extraction and linking modules. However, the task of extracting and linking relations from text to knowle…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Type-augmented Relation Prediction in Knowledge Graphs

Zijun Cui, Pavan Kapanipathi, Kartik Talamadupula +2

Knowledge graphs (KGs) are of great importance to many real world applications, but they generally suffer from incomplete information in the form of missing relations between entit…

cs.AI2020★ 17 cited

Enhancing Text-based Reinforcement Learning Agents with Commonsense Knowledge

Keerthiram Murugesan, Mattia Atzeni, Pushkar Shukla +3

In this paper, we consider the recent trend of evaluating progress on reinforcement learning technology by using text-based environments and games as evaluation environments. This…

cs.CL2019

Infusing Knowledge into the Textual Entailment Task Using Graph Convolutional Networks

Pavan Kapanipathi, Veronika Thost, Siva Sankalp Patel +10

Textual entailment is a fundamental task in natural language processing. Most approaches for solving the problem use only the textual content present in training data. A few approa…

cs.AI2019★ 4 cited

Path-Based Contextualization of Knowledge Graphs for Textual Entailment

Kshitij Fadnis, Kartik Talamadupula, Pavan Kapanipathi +3

In this paper, we introduce the problem of knowledge graph contextualization -- that is, given a specific NLP task, the problem of extracting meaningful and relevant sub-graphs fro…

cs.AI2019

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to First-Order Logic Theorem Proving

Maxwell Crouse, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Bassem Makni +7

Automated theorem provers have traditionally relied on manually tuned heuristics to guide how they perform proof search. Deep reinforcement learning has been proposed as a way to o…

cs.AI2019

High-Fidelity Vector Space Models of Structured Data

Maxwell Crouse, Achille Fokoue, Maria Chang +6

Machine learning systems regularly deal with structured data in real-world applications. Unfortunately, such data has been difficult to faithfully represent in a way that most mach…

cs.AI2018★ 12 cited

Answering Science Exam Questions Using Query Rewriting with Background Knowledge

Ryan Musa, Xiaoyan Wang, Achille Fokoue +6

Open-domain question answering (QA) is an important problem in AI and NLP that is emerging as a bellwether for progress on the generalizability of AI methods and techniques. Much o…

cs.AI2018★ 16 cited

Improving Natural Language Inference Using External Knowledge in the Science Questions Domain

Xiaoyan Wang, Pavan Kapanipathi, Ryan Musa +8

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is fundamental to many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications including semantic search and question answering. The NLI problem has gained…

cs.AI2018

A Systematic Classification of Knowledge, Reasoning, and Context within the ARC Dataset

Michael Boratko, Harshit Padigela, Divyendra Mikkilineni +10

The recent work of Clark et al. introduces the AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC) and the associated ARC dataset that partitions open domain, complex science questions into an Easy Set…

cs.CL2017★ 6 cited

A Measure for Dialog Complexity and its Application in Streamlining Service Operations

Q Vera Liao, Biplav Srivastava, Pavan Kapanipathi

Dialog is a natural modality for interaction between customers and businesses in the service industry. As customers call up the service provider, their interactions may be routine…