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A Novel Approach to WaveNet Architecture for RF Signal Separation with Learnable Dilation and Data Augmentation
Tian, Yu, Alhammadi, Ahmed, Quran, Abdullah, Ali, Abubakar Sani
ABSTRACT In this paper, we address the intricate issue of RF signal separation by presenting a novel adaptation of the WaveNet architecture that introduces learnable dilation parameters, significantly enhancing signal separation in dense RF spectrums. Our focused architectural refinements and innovative data augmentation strategies have markedly improved the model's ability to discern complex signal sources. This paper details our comprehensive methodology, including the refined model architecture, data preparation techniques, and the strategic training strategy that have been pivotal to our success. The efficacy of our approach is evidenced by the substantial improvements recorded: a 58.82% increase in SINR at a BER of 10 Notably, our model achieved first place in the challenge [1], demonstrating its Figure 1: Modified Wavenet with Learnable Dilation and superior performance and establishing a new standard for Padding machine learning applications within the RF communications domain. Index Terms-- Radio Frequency Signal Separation, Machine Learning, WaveNet Architecture, Learnable Dilation, Data Augmentation 1. INTRODUCTION The co-channel signal separation in the crowded radiofrequency Figure 1: An Illustration of Learnable Dilation Rate (RF) spectrum is a crucial task for enabling various wireless systems to operate simultaneously.
LLMs Among Us: Generative AI Participating in Digital Discourse
Radivojevic, Kristina, Clark, Nicholas, Brenner, Paul
The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has great potential to reshape the landscape of many social media platforms. While this can bring promising opportunities, it also raises many threats, such as biases and privacy concerns, and may contribute to the spread of propaganda by malicious actors. We developed the "LLMs Among Us" experimental framework on top of the Mastodon social media platform for bot and human participants to communicate without knowing the ratio or nature of bot and human participants. We built 10 personas with three different LLMs, GPT-4, LLama 2 Chat, and Claude. We conducted three rounds of the experiment and surveyed participants after each round to measure the ability of LLMs to pose as human participants without human detection. We found that participants correctly identified the nature of other users in the experiment only 42% of the time despite knowing the presence of both bots and humans. We also found that the choice of persona had substantially more impact on human perception than the choice of mainstream LLMs.
MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models
Zhang, Yixiao, Ikemiya, Yukara, Xia, Gus, Murata, Naoki, Martínez, Marco, Liao, Wei-Hsiang, Mitsufuji, Yuki, Dixon, Simon
Recent advances in text-to-music generation models have opened new avenues in musical creativity. However, music generation usually involves iterative refinements, and how to edit the generated music remains a significant challenge. This paper introduces a novel approach to the editing of music generated by such models, enabling the modification of specific attributes, such as genre, mood and instrument, while maintaining other aspects unchanged. Our method transforms text editing to \textit{latent space manipulation} while adding an extra constraint to enforce consistency. It seamlessly integrates with existing pretrained text-to-music diffusion models without requiring additional training. Experimental results demonstrate superior performance over both zero-shot and certain supervised baselines in style and timbre transfer evaluations. Additionally, we showcase the practical applicability of our approach in real-world music editing scenarios.
A Prompt Response to the Demand for Automatic Gender-Neutral Translation
Savoldi, Beatrice, Piergentili, Andrea, Fucci, Dennis, Negri, Matteo, Bentivogli, Luisa
Gender-neutral translation (GNT) that avoids biased and undue binary assumptions is a pivotal challenge for the creation of more inclusive translation technologies. Advancements for this task in Machine Translation (MT), however, are hindered by the lack of dedicated parallel data, which are necessary to adapt MT systems to satisfy neutral constraints. For such a scenario, large language models offer hitherto unforeseen possibilities, as they come with the distinct advantage of being versatile in various (sub)tasks when provided with explicit instructions. In this paper, we explore this potential to automate GNT by comparing MT with the popular GPT-4 model. Through extensive manual analyses, our study empirically reveals the inherent limitations of current MT systems in generating GNTs and provides valuable insights into the potential and challenges associated with prompting for neutrality.
FACT-GPT: Fact-Checking Augmentation via Claim Matching with LLMs
Choi, Eun Cheol, Ferrara, Emilio
The fact-checking process, though complex and labor-intensive encompassing several stages from claim identification to drawing final conclusions, [5, 7] could be made more efficient through AI tools [1]. It is, however, critical to note that a complete automation could undermine journalistic principles and practices [18], thereby indicating the goal lies in enhancing, not replacing, human expertise [4]. A key element in monitoring the spread of false claims across various communication platforms is claim matching, where new instances of previously fact-checked claims are identified [21]. The importance of claim matching stems from the tendency of false claims to be reused and reiterated in different formats [18]. Effective claim matching can expedite the early detection of misinformation, content moderation, and automated debunking [8]. This paper explores the potential utilization of large language models (LLMs) to support the claim matching stage in the fact-checking procedure. Our study reveals that when fine-tuned appropriately, LLMs can effectively match claims. Our framework could benefit fact-checkers by minimizing redundant verification, support online platforms in content moderation, and assist researchers in the extensive analysis of misinformation from a large corpus.
In-Context Learning Can Re-learn Forbidden Tasks
Xhonneux, Sophie, Dobre, David, Tang, Jian, Gidel, Gauthier, Sridhar, Dhanya
Despite significant investment into safety training, large language models (LLMs) deployed in the real world still suffer from numerous vulnerabilities. One perspective on LLM safety training is that it algorithmically forbids the model from answering toxic or harmful queries. To assess the effectiveness of safety training, in this work, we study forbidden tasks, i.e., tasks the model is designed to refuse to answer. Specifically, we investigate whether in-context learning (ICL) can be used to re-learn forbidden tasks despite the explicit fine-tuning of the model to refuse them. We first examine a toy example of refusing sentiment classification to demonstrate the problem. Then, we use ICL on a model fine-tuned to refuse to summarise made-up news articles. Finally, we investigate whether ICL can undo safety training, which could represent a major security risk. For the safety task, we look at Vicuna-7B, Starling-7B, and Llama2-7B. We show that the attack works out-of-the-box on Starling-7B and Vicuna-7B but fails on Llama2-7B. Finally, we propose an ICL attack that uses the chat template tokens like a prompt injection attack to achieve a better attack success rate on Vicuna-7B and Starling-7B. Trigger Warning: the appendix contains LLM-generated text with violence, suicide, and misinformation.
Self-Alignment of Large Language Models via Monopolylogue-based Social Scene Simulation
Pang, Xianghe, Tang, Shuo, Ye, Rui, Xiong, Yuxin, Zhang, Bolun, Wang, Yanfeng, Chen, Siheng
Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values is imperative to mitigate potential adverse effects resulting from their misuse. Drawing from the sociological insight that acknowledging all parties' concerns is a key factor in shaping human values, this paper proposes a novel direction to align LLMs by themselves: social scene simulation. To achieve this, we present MATRIX, a novel social scene simulator that emulates realistic scenes around a user's input query, enabling the LLM to take social consequences into account before responding. MATRIX serves as a virtual rehearsal space, akin to a Monopolylogue, where the LLM performs diverse roles related to the query and practice by itself. To inject this alignment, we fine-tune the LLM with MATRIX-simulated data, ensuring adherence to human values without compromising inference speed. We theoretically show that the LLM with MATRIX outperforms Constitutional AI under mild assumptions. Finally, extensive experiments validate that our method outperforms over 10 baselines across 4 benchmarks. As evidenced by 875 user ratings, our tuned 13B-size LLM exceeds GPT-4 in aligning with human values.
Merging Facts, Crafting Fallacies: Evaluating the Contradictory Nature of Aggregated Factual Claims in Long-Form Generations
Chiang, Cheng-Han, Lee, Hung-yi
Long-form generations from large language models (LLMs) contains a mix of factual and non-factual claims, making evaluating factuality difficult. To evaluate factual precision of long-form generations in a more fine-grained way, prior works propose to decompose long-form generations into multiple verifiable facts and verify those facts independently. The factuality of the generation is the proportion of verifiable facts among all the facts. Such methods assume that combining factual claims forms a factual paragraph. This paper shows that the assumption can be violated due to entity ambiguity. We show that LLMs can generate paragraphs that contain verifiable facts, but the facts are combined to form a non-factual paragraph due to entity ambiguity. We further reveal that existing factual precision metrics, including FActScore and citation recall, cannot properly evaluate the factuality of these non-factual paragraphs. To address this, we introduce an enhanced metric, D-FActScore, specifically designed for content with ambiguous entities. We evaluate the D-FActScores of people biographies generated with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). We show that D-FActScore can better assess the factuality of paragraphs with entity ambiguity than FActScore. We also find that four widely used open-source LLMs tend to mix information of distinct entities to form non-factual paragraphs.
Establishing degrees of closeness between audio recordings along different dimensions using large-scale cross-lingual models
Fily, Maxime, Wisniewski, Guillaume, Guillaume, Severine, Adda, Gilles, Michaud, Alexis
In the highly constrained context of low-resource language studies, we explore vector representations of speech from a pretrained model to determine their level of abstraction with regard to the audio signal. We propose a new unsupervised method using ABX tests on audio recordings with carefully curated metadata to shed light on the type of information present in the representations. ABX tests determine whether the representations computed by a multilingual speech model encode a given characteristic. Three experiments are devised: one on room acoustics aspects, one on linguistic genre, and one on phonetic aspects. The results confirm that the representations extracted from recordings with different linguistic/extra-linguistic characteristics differ along the same lines. Embedding more audio signal in one vector better discriminates extra-linguistic characteristics, whereas shorter snippets are better to distinguish segmental information. The method is fully unsupervised, potentially opening new research avenues for comparative work on under-documented languages.
Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion
Evans, Zach, Carr, CJ, Taylor, Josiah, Hawley, Scott H., Pons, Jordi
Generating long-form 44.1kHz stereo audio from text prompts can be computationally demanding. Further, most previous works do not tackle that music and sound effects naturally vary in their duration. Our research focuses on the efficient generation of long-form, variable-length stereo music and sounds at 44.1kHz using text prompts with a generative model. Stable Audio is based on latent diffusion, with its latent defined by a fully-convolutional variational autoencoder. It is conditioned on text prompts as well as timing embeddings, allowing for fine control over both the content and length of the generated music and sounds. Stable Audio is capable of rendering stereo signals of up to 95 sec at 44.1kHz in 8 sec on an A100 GPU. Despite its compute efficiency and fast inference, it is one of the best in two public text-to-music and -audio benchmarks and, differently from state-of-the-art models, can generate music with structure and stereo sounds.