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stat.ML2017★ 63 cited
Straggler Mitigation in Distributed Optimization Through Data Encoding
Can Karakus, Yifan Sun, Suhas Diggavi +1
Slow running or straggler tasks can significantly reduce computation speed in distributed computation. Recently, coding-theory-inspired approaches have been applied to mitigate the…
cs.CL2017★ 8 cited
A Simple Approach to Learn Polysemous Word Embeddings
Yifan Sun, Nikhil Rao, Weicong Ding
Many NLP applications require disambiguating polysemous words. Existing methods that learn polysemous word vector representations involve first detecting various senses and optimiz…
cs.CL2017
Dynamic Word Embeddings for Evolving Semantic Discovery
Zijun Yao, Yifan Sun, Weicong Ding +2
Word evolution refers to the changing meanings and associations of words throughout time, as a byproduct of human language evolution. By studying word evolution, we can infer socia…