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most citedDeep Sentence Embedding Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks: Analysis and Application to Information Retrieval

618 citations · 1.9k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

eess.AS2023

OTF: Optimal Transport based Fusion of Supervised and Self-Supervised Learning Models for Automatic Speech Recognition

Li Fu, Siqi Li, Qingtao Li +6

Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models have shown great promise over Supervised Learning (SL) ones in low-resource settings. However, the advantag…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Learning to Generate Poetic Chinese Landscape Painting with Calligraphy

Shaozu Yuan, Aijun Dai, Zhiling Yan +5

In this paper, we present a novel system (denoted as Polaca) to generate poetic Chinese landscape painting with calligraphy. Unlike previous single image-to-image painting generati…

cs.CV2022★ 27 cited

SegCLIP: Patch Aggregation with Learnable Centers for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

Huaishao Luo, Junwei Bao, Youzheng Wu +2

Recently, the contrastive language-image pre-training, e.g., CLIP, has demonstrated promising results on various downstream tasks. The pre-trained model can capture enriched visual…

cs.SD2022

MaskedSpeech: Context-aware Speech Synthesis with Masking Strategy

Ya-Jie Zhang, Wei Song, Yanghao Yue +3

Humans often speak in a continuous manner which leads to coherent and consistent prosody properties across neighboring utterances. However, most state-of-the-art speech synthesis s…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

MoNET: Tackle State Momentum via Noise-Enhanced Training for Dialogue State Tracking

Haoning Zhang, Junwei Bao, Haipeng Sun +4

Dialogue state tracking (DST) aims to convert the dialogue history into dialogue states which consist of slot-value pairs. As condensed structural information memorizing all histor…

eess.AS2022

UFO2: A unified pre-training framework for online and offline speech recognition

Li Fu, Siqi Li, Qingtao Li +5

In this paper, we propose a Unified pre-training Framework for Online and Offline (UFO2) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), which 1) simplifies the two separate training workflows…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

AutoQGS: Auto-Prompt for Low-Resource Knowledge-based Question Generation from SPARQL

Guanming Xiong, Junwei Bao, Wen Zhao +2

This study investigates the task of knowledge-based question generation (KBQG). Conventional KBQG works generated questions from fact triples in the knowledge graph, which could no…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Composable Text Controls in Latent Space with ODEs

Guangyi Liu, Zeyu Feng, Yuan Gao +7

Real-world text applications often involve composing a wide range of text control operations, such as editing the text w.r.t. an attribute, manipulating keywords and structure, and…

cs.CL2021★ 7 cited

CUGE: A Chinese Language Understanding and Generation Evaluation Benchmark

Yuan Yao, Qingxiu Dong, Jian Guan +32

Realizing general-purpose language intelligence has been a longstanding goal for natural language processing, where standard evaluation benchmarks play a fundamental and guiding ro…

eess.AS2021

SCaLa: Supervised Contrastive Learning for End-to-End Speech Recognition

Li Fu, Xiaoxiao Li, Runyu Wang +5

End-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models are usually trained to optimize the loss of the whole token sequence, while neglecting explicit phonemic-granularity supervisio…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Conversational AI Systems for Social Good: Opportunities and Challenges

Peng Qi, Jing Huang, Youzheng Wu +2

Conversational artificial intelligence (ConvAI) systems have attracted much academic and commercial attention recently, making significant progress on both fronts. However, little…

cs.LG2017★ 2 cited

Reinforcement Learning To Adapt Speech Enhancement to Instantaneous Input Signal Quality

Rasool Fakoor, Xiaodong He, Ivan Tashev +1

Today, the optimal performance of existing noise-suppression algorithms, both data-driven and those based on classic statistical methods, is range bound to specific levels of insta…

cs.CV2017★ 37 cited

CleanNet: Transfer Learning for Scalable Image Classifier Training with Label Noise

Kuang-Huei Lee, Xiaodong He, Lei Zhang +1

In this paper, we study the problem of learning image classification models with label noise. Existing approaches depending on human supervision are generally not scalable as manua…

cs.LG2017★ 56 cited

On the Discrimination-Generalization Tradeoff in GANs

Pengchuan Zhang, Qiang Liu, Dengyong Zhou +2

Generative adversarial training can be generally understood as minimizing certain moment matching loss defined by a set of discriminator functions, typically neural networks. The d…

cs.CL2017★ 1 cited

A Neural-Symbolic Approach to Design of CAPTCHA

Qiuyuan Huang, Paul Smolensky, Xiaodong He +2

CAPTCHAs based on reading text are susceptible to machine-learning-based attacks due to recent significant advances in deep learning (DL). To address this, this paper promotes imag…

cs.CV2017★ 93 cited

Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering

Peter Anderson, Xiaodong He, Chris Buehler +4

Top-down visual attention mechanisms have been used extensively in image captioning and visual question answering (VQA) to enable deeper image understanding through fine-grained an…

cs.CL2017★ 157 cited

Adversarial Ranking for Language Generation

Kevin Lin, Dianqi Li, Xiaodong He +2

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have great successes on synthesizing data. However, the existing GANs restrict the discriminator to be a binary classifier, and thus limit th…

cs.CL2017★ 10 cited

Question-Answering with Grammatically-Interpretable Representations

Hamid Palangi, Paul Smolensky, Xiaodong He +1

We introduce an architecture, the Tensor Product Recurrent Network (TPRN). In our application of TPRN, internal representations learned by end-to-end optimization in a deep neural…

cs.CL2017★ 8 cited

Reinforcement Learning with External Knowledge and Two-Stage Q-functions for Predicting Popular Reddit Threads

Ji He, Mari Ostendorf, Xiaodong He

This paper addresses the problem of predicting popularity of comments in an online discussion forum using reinforcement learning, particularly addressing two challenges that arise…

cs.CV2016★ 18 cited

Semantic Compositional Networks for Visual Captioning

Zhe Gan, Chuang Gan, Xiaodong He +5

A Semantic Compositional Network (SCN) is developed for image captioning, in which semantic concepts (i.e., tags) are detected from the image, and the probability of each tag is us…

cs.CL2016★ 16 cited

Learning Generic Sentence Representations Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Zhe Gan, Yunchen Pu, Ricardo Henao +3

We propose a new encoder-decoder approach to learn distributed sentence representations that are applicable to multiple purposes. The model is learned by using a convolutional neur…

cs.CL2016★ 13 cited

Bi-directional Attention with Agreement for Dependency Parsing

Hao Cheng, Hao Fang, Xiaodong He +2

We develop a novel bi-directional attention model for dependency parsing, which learns to agree on headword predictions from the forward and backward parsing directions. The parsin…

cs.CV2016★ 162 cited

MS-Celeb-1M: A Dataset and Benchmark for Large-Scale Face Recognition

Yandong Guo, Lei Zhang, Yuxiao Hu +2

In this paper, we design a benchmark task and provide the associated datasets for recognizing face images and link them to corresponding entity keys in a knowledge base. More speci…

cs.CL2016★ 9 cited

Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Combinatorial Action Space for Predicting Popular Reddit Threads

Ji He, Mari Ostendorf, Xiaodong He +4

We introduce an online popularity prediction and tracking task as a benchmark task for reinforcement learning with a combinatorial, natural language action space. A specified numbe…