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most citedSeq2SQL: Generating Structured Queries from Natural Language using Reinforcement Learning

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cs.LG2017★ 10 cited

Block-diagonal Hessian-free Optimization for Training Neural Networks

Huishuai Zhang, Caiming Xiong, James Bradbury +1

Second-order methods for neural network optimization have several advantages over methods based on first-order gradient descent, including better scaling to large mini-batch sizes…

cs.AI2017★ 58 cited

Hierarchical and Interpretable Skill Acquisition in Multi-task Reinforcement Learning

Tianmin Shu, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher

Learning policies for complex tasks that require multiple different skills is a major challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). It is also a requirement for its deployment in real-…

cs.CL2017★ 12 cited

Improved Regularization Techniques for End-to-End Speech Recognition

Yingbo Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher

Regularization is important for end-to-end speech models, since the models are highly flexible and easy to overfit. Data augmentation and dropout has been important for improving e…

cs.CL2017★ 7 cited

Improving End-to-End Speech Recognition with Policy Learning

Yingbo Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher

Connectionist temporal classification (CTC) is widely used for maximum likelihood learning in end-to-end speech recognition models. However, there is usually a disparity between th…

cs.CL2017★ 86 cited

DCN+: Mixed Objective and Deep Residual Coattention for Question Answering

Caiming Xiong, Victor Zhong, Richard Socher

Traditional models for question answering optimize using cross entropy loss, which encourages exact answers at the cost of penalizing nearby or overlapping answers that are sometim…

cs.CL2017★ 787 cited

Seq2SQL: Generating Structured Queries from Natural Language using Reinforcement Learning

Victor Zhong, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher

A significant amount of the world's knowledge is stored in relational databases. However, the ability for users to retrieve facts from a database is limited due to a lack of unders…