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Meeting the Needs of Low-Resource Languages: The Value of Automatic Alignments via Pretrained Models

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Large multilingual models have inspired a new class of word alignment methods, which work well for the model's pretraining languages. However, the languages most in need of automatic alignment are low-resource and, thus, not typically included in the pretraining data. In this work, we ask: How do modern aligners perform on unseen languages, and are they better than traditional methods? We contribute gold-standard alignments for Bribri--Spanish, Guarani--Spanish, Quechua--Spanish, and Shipibo-Konibo--Spanish. With these, we evaluate state-of-the-art aligners with and without model adaptation to the target language. Finally, we also evaluate the resulting alignments extrinsically through two downstream tasks: named entity recognition and part-of-speech tagging. We find that although transformer-based methods generally outperform traditional models, the two classes of approach remain competitive with each other.


ChatGPT-written love letters: How AI may ruin your Valentine's Day

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The survey results are published in McAfee's new'Modern Love' research report. As per the report, 65% of the total surveyed people prefer a machine-generated note in the style of e.e. cummings to his original 1952 poem I carry your heart with me. The most popular reason given for using AI as a writer to pen down love letters was that it would make the sender feel more confident. About 27% of the respondents feel this way. While 21% cited lack of time or lack of inspiration.


ChatGPT vs Chatsonic - Big Data Analytics News

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When it comes to chatbot technologies, ChatGPT and Chatsonic are two of the most popular choices in the market. Both have their own distinct features, benefits, and drawbacks, making it difficult to decide between the two. In this article, we will discuss the comparison between ChatGPT and Chatsonic to help you make an informed decision. ChatGPT and Chatsonic are both natural language processing (NLP) technologies that enable users to create conversational chatbots. ChatGPT is a cloud-based platform that provides users with a wide range of AI-driven features for creating powerful chatbot applications.


GeoFault: A well-founded fault ontology for interoperability in geological modeling

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Geological modeling currently uses various computer-based applications. Data harmonization at the semantic level by means of ontologies is essential for making these applications interoperable. Since geo-modeling is currently part of multidisciplinary projects, semantic harmonization is required to model not only geological knowledge but also to integrate other domain knowledge at a general level. For this reason, the domain ontologies used for describing geological knowledge must be based on a sound ontology background to ensure the described geological knowledge is integratable. This paper presents a domain ontology: GeoFault, resting on the Basic Formal Ontology BFO (Arp et al., 2015) and the GeoCore ontology (Garcia et al., 2020). It models the knowledge related to geological faults. Faults are essential to various industries but are complex to model. They can be described as thin deformed rock volumes or as spatial arrangements resulting from the different displacements of geological blocks. At a broader scale, faults are currently described as mere surfaces, which are the components of complex fault arrays. The reference to the BFO and GeoCore package allows assigning these various fault elements to define ontology classes and their logical linkage within a consistent ontology framework. The GeoFault ontology covers the core knowledge of faults 'strico sensu,' excluding ductile shear deformations. This considered vocabulary is essentially descriptive and related to regional to outcrop scales, excluding microscopic, orogenic, and tectonic plate structures. The ontology is molded in OWL 2, validated by competency questions with two use cases, and tested using an in-house ontology-driven data entry application. The work of GeoFault provides a solid framework for disambiguating fault knowledge and a foundation of fault data integration for the applications and the users.


Heterogeneous Anomaly Detection for Software Systems via Semi-supervised Cross-modal Attention

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Prompt and accurate detection of system anomalies is essential to ensure the reliability of software systems. Unlike manual efforts that exploit all available run-time information, existing approaches usually leverage only a single type of monitoring data (often logs or metrics) or fail to make effective use of the joint information among different types of data. Consequently, many false predictions occur. To better understand the manifestations of system anomalies, we conduct a systematical study on a large amount of heterogeneous data, i.e., logs and metrics. Our study demonstrates that logs and metrics can manifest system anomalies collaboratively and complementarily, and neither of them only is sufficient. Thus, integrating heterogeneous data can help recover the complete picture of a system's health status. In this context, we propose Hades, the first end-to-end semi-supervised approach to effectively identify system anomalies based on heterogeneous data. Our approach employs a hierarchical architecture to learn a global representation of the system status by fusing log semantics and metric patterns. It captures discriminative features and meaningful interactions from heterogeneous data via a cross-modal attention module, trained in a semi-supervised manner. We evaluate Hades extensively on large-scale simulated data and datasets from Huawei Cloud. The experimental results present the effectiveness of our model in detecting system anomalies. We also release the code and the annotated dataset for replication and future research.


Tracking the industrial growth of modern China with high-resolution panchromatic imagery: A sequential convolutional approach

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Satellite imagery analysis using deep learning methods, specifically convolutional neural networks (CNNs), has grown in popularity since 2012, with uses extending into the estimation of population [1], wealth [2], poverty [3], conflict [4], migration [5], education [6], and infrastructure [7], among other applications [8, 9, 10, 11]. These techniques have broadly illustrated that harnessing satellites to remotely track development over time in otherwise data sparse regions is a potentially effective strategy [12]. One currently untested application of deep learning with satellite imagery is the identification and monitoring of industrial sites (e.g., factories, power plants, ports). The development of industrial sites is of broad interest, as it can serve as a proxy for everything from economic development [13] to the projection of soft power [14]. Because of its interrelationship with national security or proprietary corporate interests, information on such large-scale development is often undocumented or difficult to obtain openly by interested parties. This article focuses on testing our capability to automatically detect and monitor industrial sites within China using high-resolution panchromatic satellite imagery. Largely unrecorded in structured open source text information, the size and extent of industrial sites in China can be observed through routine or targeted satellite collection. From select sources, many locations appear, on average, at least yearly in cloud-free high-resolution imagery from satellite-based sensors over the past 15 years; some locations of interest have temporal granularity of as high as one day. To-date, no work has explored the use of machine learning methods trained on satellite imagery to estimate, and monitor over time, the development of particular economic industries at the scale of individual sites.


Equivariant Hypergraph Diffusion Neural Operators

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Hypergraph neural networks (HNNs) using neural networks to encode hypergraphs provide a promising way to model higher-order relations in data and further solve relevant prediction tasks built upon such higher-order relations. However, higher-order relations in practice contain complex patterns and are often highly irregular. So, it is often challenging to design an HNN that suffices to express those relations while keeping computational efficiency. Inspired by hypergraph diffusion algorithms, this work proposes a new HNN architecture named ED-HNN, which provably approximates any continuous equivariant hypergraph diffusion operators that can model a wide range of higher-order relations. ED-HNN can be implemented efficiently by combining star expansions of hypergraphs with standard message passing neural networks. ED-HNN further shows great superiority in processing heterophilic hypergraphs and constructing deep models. We evaluate ED-HNN for node classification on nine real-world hypergraph datasets. ED-HNN uniformly outperforms the best baselines over these nine datasets and achieves more than 2% in prediction accuracy over four datasets therein. Machine learning on graphs has recently attracted great attention in the community due to the ubiquitous graph-structured data and the associated inference and prediction problems (Zhu, 2005; Hamilton, 2020; Nickel et al., 2015). Current works primarily focus on graphs which can model only pairwise relations in data. Emerging research has shown that higher-order relations that involve more than two entities often reveal more significant information in many applications (Benson et al., 2021; Schaub et al., 2021; Battiston et al., 2020; Lambiotte et al., 2019; Lee et al., 2021). For example, higher-order network motifs build the fundamental blocks of many real-world networks (Mangan & Alon, 2003; Benson et al., 2016; Tsourakakis et al., 2017; Li et al., 2017; Li & Milenkovic, 2017). Session-based (multi-step) behaviors often indicate the preferences of web users in more precise ways (Xia et al., 2021; Wang et al., 2020; 2021; 2022). To capture these higher-order relations, hypergraphs provide a dedicated mathematical abstraction (Berge, 1984). However, learning algorithms on hypergraphs are still far underdeveloped as opposed to those on graphs.


Parameters for > 300 million Gaia stars: Bayesian inference vs. machine learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3), published in June 2022, delivers a diverse set of astrometric, photometric, and spectroscopic measurements for more than a billion stars. The wealth and complexity of the data makes traditional approaches for estimating stellar parameters for the full Gaia dataset almost prohibitive. We have explored different supervised learning methods for extracting basic stellar parameters as well as distances and line-of-sight extinctions, given spectro-photo-astrometric data (including also the new Gaia XP spectra). For training we use an enhanced high-quality dataset compiled from Gaia DR3 and ground-based spectroscopic survey data covering the whole sky and all Galactic components. We show that even with a simple neural-network architecture or tree-based algorithm (and in the absence of Gaia XP spectra), we succeed in predicting competitive results (compared to Bayesian isochrone fitting) down to faint magnitudes. We will present a new Gaia DR3 stellar-parameter catalogue obtained using the currently best-performing machine-learning algorithm for tabular data, XGBoost, in the near future.


Generative Oversampling for Imbalanced Data via Majority-Guided VAE

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Learning with imbalanced data is a challenging problem in deep learning. Over-sampling is a widely used technique to re-balance the sampling distribution of training data. However, most existing over-sampling methods only use intra-class information of minority classes to augment the data but ignore the inter-class relationships with the majority ones, which is prone to overfitting, especially when the imbalance ratio is large. To address this issue, we propose a novel over-sampling model, called Majority-Guided VAE~(MGVAE), which generates new minority samples under the guidance of a majority-based prior. In this way, the newly generated minority samples can inherit the diversity and richness of the majority ones, thus mitigating overfitting in downstream tasks. Furthermore, to prevent model collapse under limited data, we first pre-train MGVAE on sufficient majority samples and then fine-tune based on minority samples with Elastic Weight Consolidation(EWC) regularization. Experimental results on benchmark image datasets and real-world tabular data show that MGVAE achieves competitive improvements over other over-sampling methods in downstream classification tasks, demonstrating the effectiveness of our method.


SwitchPrompt: Learning Domain-Specific Gated Soft Prompts for Classification in Low-Resource Domains

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Prompting pre-trained language models leads to promising results across natural language processing tasks but is less effective when applied in low-resource domains, due to the domain gap between the pre-training data and the downstream task. In this work, we bridge this gap with a novel and lightweight prompting methodology called SwitchPrompt for the adaptation of language models trained on datasets from the general domain to diverse low-resource domains. Using domain-specific keywords with a trainable gated prompt, SwitchPrompt offers domain-oriented prompting, that is, effective guidance on the target domains for general-domain language models. Our few-shot experiments on three text classification benchmarks demonstrate the efficacy of the general-domain pre-trained language models when used with SwitchPrompt. They often even outperform their domain-specific counterparts trained with baseline state-of-the-art prompting methods by up to 10.7% performance increase in accuracy. This result indicates that SwitchPrompt effectively reduces the need for domain-specific language model pre-training.