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most citedWarm Up Cold-start Advertisements: Improving CTR Predictions via Learning to Learn ID Embeddings

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cs.CL2021

Layer-wise Model Pruning based on Mutual Information

Chun Fan, Jiwei Li, Xiang Ao +3

The proposed pruning strategy offers merits over weight-based pruning techniques: (1) it avoids irregular memory access since representations and matrices can be squeezed into thei…

cs.LG2021★ 12 cited

Follow the Prophet: Accurate Online Conversion Rate Prediction in the Face of Delayed Feedback

Haoming Li, Feiyang Pan, Xiang Ao +6

The delayed feedback problem is one of the imperative challenges in online advertising, which is caused by the highly diversified feedback delay of a conversion varying from a few…

cs.LG2021

GuideBoot: Guided Bootstrap for Deep Contextual Bandits

Feiyang Pan, Haoming Li, Xiang Ao +4

The exploration/exploitation (E&E) dilemma lies at the core of interactive systems such as online advertising, for which contextual bandit algorithms have been proposed. Bayesian a…

cs.CL2021★ 15 cited

Iterative Network Pruning with Uncertainty Regularization for Lifelong Sentiment Classification

Binzong Geng, Min Yang, Fajie Yuan +3

Lifelong learning capabilities are crucial for sentiment classifiers to process continuous streams of opinioned information on the Web. However, performing lifelong learning is non…

cs.CL2021★ 8 cited

ChineseBERT: Chinese Pretraining Enhanced by Glyph and Pinyin Information

Zijun Sun, Xiaoya Li, Xiaofei Sun +6

Recent pretraining models in Chinese neglect two important aspects specific to the Chinese language: glyph and pinyin, which carry significant syntax and semantic information for l…

cs.CL2021★ 10 cited

Defending Against Backdoor Attacks in Natural Language Generation

Xiaofei Sun, Xiaoya Li, Yuxian Meng +4

The frustratingly fragile nature of neural network models make current natural language generation (NLG) systems prone to backdoor attacks and generate malicious sequences that cou…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Sentence Similarity Based on Contexts

Xiaofei Sun, Yuxian Meng, Xiang Ao +4

Existing methods to measure sentence similarity are faced with two challenges: (1) labeled datasets are usually limited in size, making them insufficient to train supervised neural…