35 citations · 88 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
cs.CL2019★ 35 cited
Multi-step Retriever-Reader Interaction for Scalable Open-domain Question Answering
Rajarshi Das, Shehzaad Dhuliawala, Manzil Zaheer +1
This paper introduces a new framework for open-domain question answering in which the retriever and the reader iteratively interact with each other. The framework is agnostic to th…
cs.LG2017★ 29 cited
State Space LSTM Models with Particle MCMC Inference
Xun Zheng, Manzil Zaheer, Amr Ahmed +3
Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is one of the most powerful sequence models. Despite the strong performance, however, it lacks the nice interpretability as in state space models. In…
cs.LG2017★ 24 cited
A Generic Approach for Escaping Saddle points
Sashank J Reddi, Manzil Zaheer, Suvrit Sra +4
A central challenge to using first-order methods for optimizing nonconvex problems is the presence of saddle points. First-order methods often get stuck at saddle points, greatly d…