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Gemma 4 Technical Report
Gemma Team, Sherif El Abd, Vaibhav Aggarwal +320
We introduce Gemma 4, a new generation of open-weight, natively multimodal language models in the Gemma model family. Designed to advance compute efficiency and reasoning, the Gemm…
An Efficient Algorithm for Thresholding Monte Carlo Tree Search
Shoma Nameki, Atsuyoshi Nakamura, Junpei Komiyama +1
We introduce the Thresholding Monte Carlo Tree Search problem, in which, given a tree and a threshold , a player must answer whether the root node value of $\mathc…
Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Self-supervised Reinforcement Learning
Ying Ma, Owen Burns, Mingqiu Wang +6
Reinforcement learning (RL) is an effective method of finding reasoning pathways in incomplete knowledge graphs (KGs). To overcome the challenges of a large action space, a self-su…
Are LLMs Good Cryptic Crossword Solvers?
Abdelrahman Sadallah, Daria Kotova, Ekaterina Kochmar
Cryptic crosswords are puzzles that rely not only on general knowledge but also on the solver's ability to manipulate language on different levels and deal with various types of wo…
Retrieval Augmented End-to-End Spoken Dialog Models
Mingqiu Wang, Izhak Shafran, Hagen Soltau +4
We recently developed SLM, a joint speech and language model, which fuses a pretrained foundational speech model and a large language model (LLM), while preserving the in-context l…
Learning to Learn Faster from Human Feedback with Language Model Predictive Control
Jacky Liang, Fei Xia, Wenhao Yu +47
Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to exhibit a wide range of capabilities, such as writing robot code from language commands -- enabling non-experts to direct robot beha…
RoboVQA: Multimodal Long-Horizon Reasoning for Robotics
Pierre Sermanet, Tianli Ding, Jeffrey Zhao +18
We present a scalable, bottom-up and intrinsically diverse data collection scheme that can be used for high-level reasoning with long and medium horizons and that has 2.2x higher t…
Detecting Speech Abnormalities with a Perceiver-based Sequence Classifier that Leverages a Universal Speech Model
Hagen Soltau, Izhak Shafran, Alex Ottenwess +7
We propose a Perceiver-based sequence classifier to detect abnormalities in speech reflective of several neurological disorders. We combine this classifier with a Universal Speech…
SLM: Bridge the thin gap between speech and text foundation models
Mingqiu Wang, Wei Han, Izhak Shafran +15
We present a joint Speech and Language Model (SLM), a multitask, multilingual, and dual-modal model that takes advantage of pretrained foundational speech and language models. SLM…
Efficient Adapters for Giant Speech Models
Nanxin Chen, Izhak Shafran, Yu Zhang +4
Large pre-trained speech models are widely used as the de-facto paradigm, especially in scenarios when there is a limited amount of labeled data available. However, finetuning all…
Speech-to-Text Adapter and Speech-to-Entity Retriever Augmented LLMs for Speech Understanding
Mingqiu Wang, Izhak Shafran, Hagen Soltau +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) have been applied in the speech domain, often incurring a performance drop due to misaligned between speech and language representations. To bridge thi…
Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models
Shunyu Yao, Dian Yu, Jeffrey Zhao +4
Language models are increasingly being deployed for general problem solving across a wide range of tasks, but are still confined to token-level, left-to-right decision-making proce…
MUX-PLMs: Data Multiplexing for High-throughput Language Models
Vishvak Murahari, Ameet Deshpande, Carlos E. Jimenez +4
The widespread adoption of large language models such as ChatGPT and Bard has led to unprecedented demand for these technologies. The burgeoning cost of inference for ever-increasi…
Speech Aware Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC11)
Hagen Soltau, Izhak Shafran, Mingqiu Wang +6
Most research on task oriented dialog modeling is based on written text input. However, users interact with practical dialog systems often using speech as input. Typically, systems…
AnyTOD: A Programmable Task-Oriented Dialog System
Jeffrey Zhao, Yuan Cao, Raghav Gupta +6
We propose AnyTOD, an end-to-end, zero-shot task-oriented dialog (TOD) system capable of handling unseen tasks without task-specific training. We view TOD as a program executed by…
Knowledge-grounded Dialog State Tracking
Dian Yu, Mingqiu Wang, Yuan Cao +3
Knowledge (including structured knowledge such as schema and ontology, and unstructured knowledge such as web corpus) is a critical part of dialog understanding, especially for uns…
ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
Shunyu Yao, Jeffrey Zhao, Dian Yu +4
While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across tasks in language understanding and interactive decision making, their abilities for reasoning (…
Unsupervised Slot Schema Induction for Task-oriented Dialog
Dian Yu, Mingqiu Wang, Yuan Cao +3
Carefully-designed schemas describing how to collect and annotate dialog corpora are a prerequisite towards building task-oriented dialog systems. In practical applications, manual…
RNN Transducers for Nested Named Entity Recognition with constraints on alignment for long sequences
Hagen Soltau, Izhak Shafran, Mingqiu Wang +1
Popular solutions to Named Entity Recognition (NER) include conditional random fields, sequence-to-sequence models, or utilizing the question-answering framework. However, they are…
Description-Driven Task-Oriented Dialog Modeling
Jeffrey Zhao, Raghav Gupta, Yuan Cao +6
Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems are required to identify key information from conversations for the completion of given tasks. Such information is conventionally specified in…
Word-level confidence estimation for RNN transducers
Mingqiu Wang, Hagen Soltau, Laurent El Shafey +1
Confidence estimate is an often requested feature in applications such as medical transcription where errors can impact patient care and the confidence estimate could be used to al…
R2D2: Relational Text Decoding with Transformers
Aryan Arbabi, Mingqiu Wang, Laurent El Shafey +2
We propose a novel framework for modeling the interaction between graphical structures and the natural language text associated with their nodes and edges. Existing approaches typi…
Understanding Medical Conversations: Rich Transcription, Confidence Scores & Information Extraction
Hagen Soltau, Mingqiu Wang, Izhak Shafran +1
In this paper, we describe novel components for extracting clinically relevant information from medical conversations which will be available as Google APIs. We describe a transfor…
Google COVID-19 Search Trends Symptoms Dataset: Anonymization Process Description (version 1.0)
Shailesh Bavadekar, Andrew Dai, John Davis +27
This report describes the aggregation and anonymization process applied to the initial version of COVID-19 Search Trends symptoms dataset (published at https://goo.gle/covid19sympt…