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20152021
most citedTalking-Heads Attention

49 citations · 80 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2021

Bridging the Gap Between Practice and PAC-Bayes Theory in Few-Shot Meta-Learning

Nan Ding, Xi Chen, Tomer Levinboim +2

Despite recent advances in its theoretical understanding, there still remains a significant gap in the ability of existing PAC-Bayesian theories on meta-learning to explain perform…

cs.CV20213 cited

Conceptual 12M: Pushing Web-Scale Image-Text Pre-Training To Recognize Long-Tail Visual Concepts

Soravit Changpinyo, Piyush Sharma, Nan Ding +1

The availability of large-scale image captioning and visual question answering datasets has contributed significantly to recent successes in vision-and-language pre-training. Howev…

cs.LG2021

Do Transformer Modifications Transfer Across Implementations and Applications?

Sharan Narang, Hyung Won Chung, Yi Tay +13

The research community has proposed copious modifications to the Transformer architecture since it was introduced over three years ago, relatively few of which have seen widespread…

cs.CL2020

Improving Text Generation Evaluation with Batch Centering and Tempered Word Mover Distance

Xi Chen, Nan Ding, Tomer Levinboim +1

Recent advances in automatic evaluation metrics for text have shown that deep contextualized word representations, such as those generated by BERT encoders, are helpful for designi…

cs.CL2020

TeaForN: Teacher-Forcing with N-grams

Sebastian Goodman, Nan Ding, Radu Soricut

Sequence generation models trained with teacher-forcing suffer from issues related to exposure bias and lack of differentiability across timesteps. Our proposed method, Teacher-For…

cs.LG20201 cited

Attention that does not Explain Away

Nan Ding, Xinjie Fan, Zhenzhong Lan +2

Models based on the Transformer architecture have achieved better accuracy than the ones based on competing architectures for a large set of tasks. A unique feature of the Transfor…