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most citedEnhancing Biomedical Knowledge Discovery for Diseases: An Open-Source Framework Applied on Rett Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease

2 citations · 5 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

cs.CL2026

Implicit Causal Graph Construction in Text via Chain Discovery

Liesbeth Allein, Marie-Francine Moens

Causal graphs in text are typically populated by observable, predefined events. In contrast, we study implicit causal graph construction from text by treating each described cause-…

cs.CL2026

NewsRECON: News Article Retrieval for Image Contextualization

Jonathan Tonglet, Iryna Gurevych, Tinne Tuytelaars +1

Identifying when and where a news image was taken is crucial for journalists and forensic experts to produce credible stories and debunk misinformation. While many existing methods…

cs.AI2025

Reduction of Supervision for Biomedical Knowledge Discovery

Christos Theodoropoulos, Andrei Catalin Coman, James Henderson +1

Knowledge discovery is hindered by the increasing volume of publications and the scarcity of extensive annotated data. To tackle the challenge of information overload, it is essent…

cs.CV2025

Towards More Accurate Personalized Image Generation: Addressing Overfitting and Evaluation Bias

Mingxiao Li, Tingyu Qu, Tinne Tuytelaars +1

Personalized image generation via text prompts has great potential to improve daily life and professional work by facilitating the creation of customized visual content. The aim of…

cs.CL2025

Protecting multimodal large language models against misleading visualizations

Jonathan Tonglet, Tinne Tuytelaars, Marie-Francine Moens +1

Visualizations play a pivotal role in daily communication in an increasingly data-driven world. Research on multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for automated chart understandi…

cs.CV2024

TS-LLaVA: Constructing Visual Tokens through Thumbnail-and-Sampling for Training-Free Video Large Language Models

Tingyu Qu, Mingxiao Li, Tinne Tuytelaars +1

Recent advances in multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great success in understanding multi-modal contents. For video understanding tasks, training-based video LLMs…

cs.CL2024

End-to-end Planner Training for Language Modeling

Nathan Cornille, Florian Mai, Jingyuan Sun +1

Through end-to-end training to predict the next token, LLMs have become valuable tools for various tasks. Enhancing their core training in language modeling can improve numerous do…

cs.CL2024

Learning to Plan Long-Term for Language Modeling

Florian Mai, Nathan Cornille, Marie-Francine Moens

Modern language models predict the next token in the sequence by considering the past text through a powerful function such as attention. However, language models have no explicit…

cs.CL2024

"Image, Tell me your story!" Predicting the original meta-context of visual misinformation

Jonathan Tonglet, Marie-Francine Moens, Iryna Gurevych

To assist human fact-checkers, researchers have developed automated approaches for visual misinformation detection. These methods assign veracity scores by identifying inconsistenc…

cs.LG2024

Learning to Route for Dynamic Adapter Composition in Continual Learning with Language Models

Vladimir Araujo, Marie-Francine Moens, Tinne Tuytelaars

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods are increasingly used with pre-trained language models (PLMs) for continual learning (CL). These methods typically involve training a…

cs.CL2024

Fast-and-Frugal Text-Graph Transformers are Effective Link Predictors

Andrei C. Coman, Christos Theodoropoulos, Marie-Francine Moens +1

We propose Fast-and-Frugal Text-Graph (FnF-TG) Transformers, a Transformer-based framework that unifies textual and structural information for inductive link prediction in text-att…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Enhancing Biomedical Knowledge Discovery for Diseases: An Open-Source Framework Applied on Rett Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease

Christos Theodoropoulos, Andrei Catalin Coman, James Henderson +1

The ever-growing volume of biomedical publications creates a critical need for efficient knowledge discovery. In this context, we introduce an open-source end-to-end framework desi…

cs.CV2024

DM-Align: Leveraging the Power of Natural Language Instructions to Make Changes to Images

Maria Mihaela Trusca, Tinne Tuytelaars, Marie-Francine Moens

Text-based semantic image editing assumes the manipulation of an image using a natural language instruction. Although recent works are capable of generating creative and qualitativ…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Object-Attribute Binding in Text-to-Image Generation: Evaluation and Control

Maria Mihaela Trusca, Wolf Nuyts, Jonathan Thomm +4

Current diffusion models create photorealistic images given a text prompt as input but struggle to correctly bind attributes mentioned in the text to the right objects in the image…

cs.CL2024

Learning to Plan for Language Modeling from Unlabeled Data

Nathan Cornille, Marie-Francine Moens, Florian Mai

By training to predict the next token in an unlabeled corpus, large language models learn to perform many tasks without any labeled data. However, their next-token-prediction objec…

cs.CV2024

Animate Your Motion: Turning Still Images into Dynamic Videos

Mingxiao Li, Bo Wan, Marie-Francine Moens +1

In recent years, diffusion models have made remarkable strides in text-to-video generation, sparking a quest for enhanced control over video outputs to more accurately reflect user…

cs.CV2024

Introducing Routing Functions to Vision-Language Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Low-Rank Bottlenecks

Tingyu Qu, Tinne Tuytelaars, Marie-Francine Moens

Mainstream parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, such as LoRA or Adapter, project a model's hidden states to a lower dimension, allowing pre-trained models to adapt to ne…

cs.CL2023

Tuning In to Neural Encoding: Linking Human Brain and Artificial Supervised Representations of Language

Jingyuan Sun, Xiaohan Zhang, Marie-Francine Moens

To understand the algorithm that supports the human brain's language representation, previous research has attempted to predict neural responses to linguistic stimuli using embeddi…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

Fine-tuned vs. Prompt-tuned Supervised Representations: Which Better Account for Brain Language Representations?

Jingyuan Sun, Marie-Francine Moens

To decipher the algorithm underlying the human brain's language representation, previous work probed brain responses to language input with pre-trained artificial neural network (A…

cs.CL2023

Sequence-to-Sequence Spanish Pre-trained Language Models

Vladimir Araujo, Maria Mihaela Trusca, Rodrigo Tufiño +1

In recent years, significant advancements in pre-trained language models have driven the creation of numerous non-English language variants, with a particular emphasis on encoder-o…

cs.CL2023

GADePo: Graph-Assisted Declarative Pooling Transformers for Document-Level Relation Extraction

Andrei C. Coman, Christos Theodoropoulos, Marie-Francine Moens +1

Document-level relation extraction typically relies on text-based encoders and hand-coded pooling heuristics to aggregate information learned by the encoder. In this paper, we leve…

cs.CV2023

Beyond Document Page Classification: Design, Datasets, and Challenges

Jordy Van Landeghem, Sanket Biswas, Matthew B. Blaschko +1

This paper highlights the need to bring document classification benchmarking closer to real-world applications, both in the nature of data tested (: multi-channel, multi-paged,…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Visually-Aware Context Modeling for News Image Captioning

Tingyu Qu, Tinne Tuytelaars, Marie-Francine Moens

News Image Captioning aims to create captions from news articles and images, emphasizing the connection between textual context and visual elements. Recognizing the significance of…

cs.CV2023

Multimodal Distillation for Egocentric Action Recognition

Gorjan Radevski, Dusan Grujicic, Marie-Francine Moens +2

The focal point of egocentric video understanding is modelling hand-object interactions. Standard models, e.g. CNNs or Vision Transformers, which receive RGB frames as input perfor…