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On the Evolution of Knowledge Graphs: A Survey and Perspective
Jiang, Xuhui, Xu, Chengjin, Shen, Yinghan, Sun, Xun, Tang, Lumingyuan, Wang, Saizhuo, Chen, Zhongwu, Wang, Yuanzhuo, Guo, Jian
Knowledge graphs (KGs) are structured representations of diversified knowledge. They are widely used in various intelligent applications. In this article, we provide a comprehensive survey on the evolution of various types of knowledge graphs (i.e., static KGs, dynamic KGs, temporal KGs, and event KGs) and techniques for knowledge extraction and reasoning. Furthermore, we introduce the practical applications of different types of KGs, including a case study in financial analysis. Finally, we propose our perspective on the future directions of knowledge engineering, including the potential of combining the power of knowledge graphs and large language models (LLMs), and the evolution of knowledge extraction, reasoning, and representation.
Lemur: Harmonizing Natural Language and Code for Language Agents
Xu, Yiheng, Su, Hongjin, Xing, Chen, Mi, Boyu, Liu, Qian, Shi, Weijia, Hui, Binyuan, Zhou, Fan, Liu, Yitao, Xie, Tianbao, Cheng, Zhoujun, Zhao, Siheng, Kong, Lingpeng, Wang, Bailin, Xiong, Caiming, Yu, Tao
We introduce Lemur and Lemur-Chat, openly accessible language models optimized for both natural language and coding capabilities to serve as the backbone of versatile language agents. The evolution from language chat models to functional language agents demands that models not only master human interaction, reasoning, and planning but also ensure grounding in the relevant environments. This calls for a harmonious blend of language and coding capabilities in the models. Lemur and Lemur-Chat are proposed to address this necessity, demonstrating balanced proficiencies in both domains, unlike existing open-source models that tend to specialize in either. Through meticulous pre-training using a code-intensive corpus and instruction fine-tuning on text and code data, our models achieve state-of-the-art averaged performance across diverse text and coding benchmarks among open-source models. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate Lemur's superiority over existing open-source models and its proficiency across various agent tasks involving human communication, tool usage, and interaction under fully- and partially- observable environments. The harmonization between natural and programming languages enables Lemur-Chat to significantly narrow the gap with proprietary models on agent abilities, providing key insights into developing advanced open-source agents adept at reasoning, planning, and operating seamlessly across environments. https://github.com/OpenLemur/Lemur
A Supervised Embedding and Clustering Anomaly Detection method for classification of Mobile Network Faults
Mosayebi, R., Kia, H., Raki, A. Kianpour
The paper introduces Supervised Embedding and Clustering Anomaly Detection (SEMC-AD), a method designed to efficiently identify faulty alarm logs in a mobile network and alleviate the challenges of manual monitoring caused by the growing volume of alarm logs. SEMC-AD employs a supervised embedding approach based on deep neural networks, utilizing historical alarm logs and their labels to extract numerical representations for each log, effectively addressing the issue of imbalanced classification due to a small proportion of anomalies in the dataset without employing one-hot encoding. The robustness of the embedding is evaluated by plotting the two most significant principle components of the embedded alarm logs, revealing that anomalies form distinct clusters with similar embeddings. Multivariate normal Gaussian clustering is then applied to these components, identifying clusters with a high ratio of anomalies to normal alarms (above 90%) and labeling them as the anomaly group. To classify new alarm logs, we check if their embedded vectors' two most significant principle components fall within the anomaly-labeled clusters. If so, the log is classified as an anomaly. Performance evaluation demonstrates that SEMC-AD outperforms conventional random forest and gradient boosting methods without embedding. SEMC-AD achieves 99% anomaly detection, whereas random forest and XGBoost only detect 86% and 81% of anomalies, respectively. While supervised classification methods may excel in labeled datasets, the results demonstrate that SEMC-AD is more efficient in classifying anomalies in datasets with numerous categorical features, significantly enhancing anomaly detection, reducing operator burden, and improving network maintenance.
Watt For What: Rethinking Deep Learning's Energy-Performance Relationship
Gowda, Shreyank N, Hao, Xinyue, Li, Gen, Sevilla-Lara, Laura, Gowda, Shashank Narayana
Deep learning models have revolutionized various fields, from image recognition to natural language processing, by achieving unprecedented levels of accuracy. However, their increasing energy consumption has raised concerns about their environmental impact, disadvantaging smaller entities in research and exacerbating global energy consumption. In this paper, we explore the trade-off between model accuracy and electricity consumption, proposing a metric that penalizes large consumption of electricity. We conduct a comprehensive study on the electricity consumption of various deep learning models across different GPUs, presenting a detailed analysis of their accuracy-efficiency trade-offs. By evaluating accuracy per unit of electricity consumed, we demonstrate how smaller, more energy-efficient models can significantly expedite research while mitigating environmental concerns. Our results highlight the potential for a more sustainable approach to deep learning, emphasizing the importance of optimizing models for efficiency. This research also contributes to a more equitable research landscape, where smaller entities can compete effectively with larger counterparts. This advocates for the adoption of efficient deep learning practices to reduce electricity consumption, safeguarding the environment for future generations whilst also helping ensure a fairer competitive landscape. Deep learning has emerged as a powerful technology, achieving remarkable breakthroughs across various domains. From image recognition and natural language processing to autonomous driving and healthcare diagnostics, deep learning models have redefined the boundaries of what machines can accomplish. The stunning advances in accuracy have transformed industries, offering new solutions to long-standing problems.
Cultural Compass: Predicting Transfer Learning Success in Offensive Language Detection with Cultural Features
Zhou, Li, Karamolegkou, Antonia, Chen, Wenyu, Hershcovich, Daniel
The increasing ubiquity of language technology necessitates a shift towards considering cultural diversity in the machine learning realm, particularly for subjective tasks that rely heavily on cultural nuances, such as Offensive Language Detection (OLD). Current understanding underscores that these tasks are substantially influenced by cultural values, however, a notable gap exists in determining if cultural features can accurately predict the success of cross-cultural transfer learning for such subjective tasks. Addressing this, our study delves into the intersection of cultural features and transfer learning effectiveness. The findings reveal that cultural value surveys indeed possess a predictive power for cross-cultural transfer learning success in OLD tasks and that it can be further improved using offensive word distance. Based on these results, we advocate for the integration of cultural information into datasets. Additionally, we recommend leveraging data sources rich in cultural information, such as surveys, to enhance cultural adaptability. Our research signifies a step forward in the quest for more inclusive, culturally sensitive language technologies.
Retromorphic Testing: A New Approach to the Test Oracle Problem
Yu, Boxi, Mang, Qiuyang, Guo, Qingshuo, He, Pinjia
A test oracle serves as a criterion or mechanism to assess the correspondence between software output and the anticipated behavior for a given input set. In automated testing, black-box techniques, known for their non-intrusive nature in test oracle construction, are widely used, including notable methodologies like differential testing and metamorphic testing. Inspired by the mathematical concept of inverse function, we present Retromorphic Testing, a novel black-box testing methodology. It leverages an auxiliary program in conjunction with the program under test, which establishes a dual-program structure consisting of a forward program and a backward program. The input data is first processed by the forward program and then its program output is reversed to its original input format using the backward program. In particular, the auxiliary program can operate as either the forward or backward program, leading to different testing modes. The process concludes by examining the relationship between the initial input and the transformed output within the input domain. For example, to test the implementation of the sine function $\sin(x)$, we can employ its inverse function, $\arcsin(x)$, and validate the equation $x = \sin(\arcsin(x)+2k\pi), \forall k \in \mathbb{Z}$. In addition to the high-level concept of Retromorphic Testing, this paper presents its three testing modes with illustrative use cases across diverse programs, including algorithms, traditional software, and AI applications.
P5: Plug-and-Play Persona Prompting for Personalized Response Selection
Lee, Joosung, Oh, Minsik, Lee, Donghun
The use of persona-grounded retrieval-based chatbots is crucial for personalized conversations, but there are several challenges that need to be addressed. 1) In general, collecting persona-grounded corpus is very expensive. 2) The chatbot system does not always respond in consideration of persona at real applications. To address these challenges, we propose a plug-and-play persona prompting method. Our system can function as a standard open-domain chatbot if persona information is not available. We demonstrate that this approach performs well in the zero-shot setting, which reduces the dependence on persona-ground training data. This makes it easier to expand the system to other languages without the need to build a persona-grounded corpus. Additionally, our model can be fine-tuned for even better performance. In our experiments, the zero-shot model improved the standard model by 7.71 and 1.04 points in the original persona and revised persona, respectively. The fine-tuned model improved the previous state-of-the-art system by 1.95 and 3.39 points in the original persona and revised persona, respectively. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to solve the problem of personalized response selection using prompt sequences. Our code is available on github~\footnote{https://github.com/rungjoo/plug-and-play-prompt-persona}.
Multi-Modal Knowledge Graph Transformer Framework for Multi-Modal Entity Alignment
Li, Qian, Ji, Cheng, Guo, Shu, Liang, Zhaoji, Wang, Lihong, Li, Jianxin
Multi-Modal Entity Alignment (MMEA) is a critical task that aims to identify equivalent entity pairs across multi-modal knowledge graphs (MMKGs). However, this task faces challenges due to the presence of different types of information, including neighboring entities, multi-modal attributes, and entity types. Directly incorporating the above information (e.g., concatenation or attention) can lead to an unaligned information space. To address these challenges, we propose a novel MMEA transformer, called MoAlign, that hierarchically introduces neighbor features, multi-modal attributes, and entity types to enhance the alignment task. Taking advantage of the transformer's ability to better integrate multiple information, we design a hierarchical modifiable self-attention block in a transformer encoder to preserve the unique semantics of different information. Furthermore, we design two entity-type prefix injection methods to integrate entity-type information using type prefixes, which help to restrict the global information of entities not present in the MMKGs. Our extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our approach outperforms strong competitors and achieves excellent entity alignment performance.
What Learned Representations and Influence Functions Can Tell Us About Adversarial Examples
Tonni, Shakila Mahjabin, Dras, Mark
Adversarial examples, deliberately crafted using small perturbations to fool deep neural networks, were first studied in image processing and more recently in NLP. While approaches to detecting adversarial examples in NLP have largely relied on search over input perturbations, image processing has seen a range of techniques that aim to characterise adversarial subspaces over the learned representations. In this paper, we adapt two such approaches to NLP, one based on nearest neighbors and influence functions and one on Mahalanobis distances. The former in particular produces a state-of-the-art detector when compared against several strong baselines; moreover, the novel use of influence functions provides insight into how the nature of adversarial example subspaces in NLP relate to those in image processing, and also how they differ depending on the kind of NLP task.
Ultra Dual-Path Compression For Joint Echo Cancellation And Noise Suppression
Chen, Hangting, Yu, Jianwei, Luo, Yi, Gu, Rongzhi, Li, Weihua, Lu, Zhuocheng, Weng, Chao
We choose the dual-path transformer-based full-subband network (DPT-FSNet) [12] to explore compression methods for Echo cancellation and noise reduction are essential for fullduplex three reasons. First, the model has exhibited high wide-band communication, yet most existing neural networks have perceptual evaluation of speech quality (WB-PESQ) scores on high computational costs and are inflexible in tuning model the NS task with a small number of parameters but suffers from complexity. In this paper, we introduce time-frequency dualpath large computational cost. Second, DPT-FSNet is conducted compression to achieve a wide range of compression ratios on complete time-frequency (T-F) feature maps, indicating its on computational cost. Specifically, for frequency compression, complexity being closely related to the number of frames and trainable filters are used to replace manually designed frequency bands. Third, the model involves a 2D convolution filters for dimension reduction. For time compression, only using encoder, a dual-path transformer and a 2D convolution decoder, frame skipped prediction causes large performance degradation, implying that compression methods should be applicable to different which can be alleviated by a post-processing network modules.