4 papers
Toward Machine Learning with the Unit as a Primitive: Learning from Unit-Linked Events
Heyang Gong
Machine learning is usually formalized through samples, while the persistent individual to which multiple observed or possible events refer often remains implicit. We propose the \…
From Attention Masks to Inert Zero-Vector Tokens: OAttention and O-Closure for Token Dynamics
Heyang Gong
Attention masks are relation-level controls: they specify which query--source pairs may interact. They do not provide a representation-carried token state that is non-participating…
IP-Dialog: Evaluating Implicit Personalization in Dialogue Systems with Synthetic Data
Bo Peng, Zhiheng Wang, Heyang Gong +1
In modern dialogue systems, the ability to implicitly infer user backgrounds from conversations and leverage this information for personalized assistance is crucial. However, the s…
Distribution-consistency Structural Causal Models
Heyang Gong, Chaochao Lu, Yu Zhang
In the field of causal modeling, potential outcomes (PO) and structural causal models (SCMs) stand as the predominant frameworks. However, these frameworks face notable challenges…