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cs.CL2018★ 15 cited
Quantifying Uncertainties in Natural Language Processing Tasks
Yijun Xiao, William Yang Wang
Reliable uncertainty quantification is a first step towards building explainable, transparent, and accountable artificial intelligent systems. Recent progress in Bayesian deep lear…
cs.CL2018★ 8 cited
Implicit Regularization of Stochastic Gradient Descent in Natural Language Processing: Observations and Implications
Deren Lei, Zichen Sun, Yijun Xiao +1
Deep neural networks with remarkably strong generalization performances are usually over-parameterized. Despite explicit regularization strategies are used for practitioners to avo…
cs.CL2018★ 14 cited
Dirichlet Variational Autoencoder for Text Modeling
Yijun Xiao, Tiancheng Zhao, William Yang Wang
We introduce an improved variational autoencoder (VAE) for text modeling with topic information explicitly modeled as a Dirichlet latent variable. By providing the proposed model t…