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Variational Question-Answer Pair Generation for Machine Reading Comprehension
Shinoda, Kazutoshi, Aizawa, Akiko
We present a deep generative model of question-answer (QA) pairs for machine reading comprehension. We introduce two independent latent random variables into our model in order to diversify answers and questions separately. We also study the effect of explicitly controlling the KL term in the variational lower bound in order to avoid the "posterior collapse" issue, where the model ignores latent variables and generates QA pairs that are almost the same. Our experiments on SQuAD v1.1 showed that variational methods can aid QA pair modeling capacity, and that the controlled KL term can significantly improve diversity while generating high-quality questions and answers comparable to those of the existing systems.
CSRN: Collaborative Sequential Recommendation Networks for News Retrieval
Bai, Bing, Zhang, Guanhua, Lin, Ye, Li, Hao, Bai, Kun, Luo, Bo
Nowadays, news apps have taken over the popularity of paper-based media, providing a great opportunity for personalization. Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)-based sequential recommendation is a popular approach that utilizes users' recent browsing history to predict future items. This approach is limited that it does not consider the societal influences of news consumption, i.e., users may follow popular topics that are constantly changing, while certain hot topics might be spreading only among specific groups of people. Such societal impact is difficult to predict given only users' own reading histories. On the other hand, the traditional User-based Collaborative Filtering (UserCF) makes recommendations based on the interests of the "neighbors", which provides the possibility to supplement the weaknesses of RNN-based methods. However, conventional UserCF only uses a single similarity metric to model the relationships between users, which is too coarse-grained and thus limits the performance. In this paper, we propose a framework of deep neural networks to integrate the RNN-based sequential recommendations and the key ideas from UserCF, to develop Collaborative Sequential Recommendation Networks (CSRNs). Firstly, we build a directed co-reading network of users, to capture the fine-grained topic-specific similarities between users in a vector space. Then, the CSRN model encodes users with RNNs, and learns to attend to neighbors and summarize what news they are reading at the moment. Finally, news articles are recommended according to both the user's own state and the summarized state of the neighbors. Experiments on two public datasets show that the proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches significantly.
GGA-MG: Generative Genetic Algorithm for Music Generation
Farzaneh, Majid, Toroghi, Rahil Mahdian
Music Generation (MG) is an interesting research topic that links the art of music and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The goal is to train an artificial composer to generate infinite, fresh, and pleasurable musical pieces. Music has different parts such as melody, harmony, and rhythm. In this paper, we propose a Generative Genetic Algorithm (GGA) to produce a melody automatically. The main GGA uses a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network as the objective function, which should be trained by a spectrum of bad-to-good melodies. These melodies have to be provided by another GGA with a different objective function. Good melodies have been provided by CAMPINs collection. We have considered the rhythm in this work, too. The experimental results clearly show that the proposed GGA method is able to generate eligible melodies with natural transitions and without rhythm error.
Guessing What's Plausible But Remembering What's True: Accurate Neural Reasoning for Question-Answering
Sun, Haitian, Arnold, Andrew O., Bedrax-Weiss, Tania, Pereira, Fernando, Cohen, William W.
Neural approaches to natural language processing (NLP) often fail at the logical reasoning needed for deeper language understanding. In particular, neural approaches to reasoning that rely on embedded \emph{generalizations} of a knowledge base (KB) implicitly model which facts that are \emph{plausible}, but may not model which facts are \emph{true}, according to the KB. While generalizing the facts in a KB is useful for KB completion, the inability to distinguish between plausible inferences and logically entailed conclusions can be problematic in settings like as KB question answering (KBQA). We propose here a novel KB embedding scheme that supports generalization, but also allows accurate logical reasoning with a KB. Our approach introduces two new mechanisms for KB reasoning: neural retrieval over a set of embedded triples, and "memorization" of highly specific information with a compact sketch structure. Experimentally, this leads to substantial improvements over the state-of-the-art on two KBQA benchmarks.
Satirical News Detection with Semantic Feature Extraction and Game-theoretic Rough Sets
Zhou, Yue, Zhang, Yan, Yao, JingTao
Satirical news detection is an important yet challenging task to prevent spread of misinformation. Many feature based and end-to-end neural nets based satirical news detection systems have been proposed and delivered promising results. Existing approaches explore comprehensive word features from satirical news articles, but lack semantic metrics using word vectors for tweet form satirical news. Moreover, the vagueness of satire and news parody determines that a news tweet can hardly be classified with a binary decision, that is, satirical or legitimate. To address these issues, we collect satirical and legitimate news tweets, and propose a semantic feature based approach. Features are extracted by exploring inconsistencies in phrases, entities, and between main and relative clauses. We apply game-theoretic rough set model to detect satirical news, in which probabilistic thresholds are derived by game equilibrium and repetition learning mechanism. Experimental results on the collected dataset show the robustness and improvement of the proposed approach compared with Pawlak rough set model and SVM.
The Age of A.I. YouTube series
The YouTube originals series "The Age of A.I." was released in December 2019. If you haven't already seen it now could be a good time to catch up โ with much of the world in enforced or voluntary isolation many of us will be stuck at home with hours to fill. Sit back and marvel at the many incredible, and often heart-warming, applications of AI. Gil makes music using AI and has teamed up other researchers at Georgia Tech to create smart prosthetics for amputees, combining ultrasound signals and machine learning. Episode 3: Using A.I. to build a better human Episode 6: Will a robot take my job?
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