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July 10, 20265 min readHydroShear, a new physics-based simulator, teaches robots how to use their sense of touch to perform complex manipulation tasks, in a way that transfers seamlessly to the real world. -
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ICML 20232023We study efficient mechanisms for differentially private kernel density estimation (DP-KDE). Prior work for the Gaussian kernel described algorithms that run in time exponential in the number of dimensions d. This paper breaks the exponential barrier, and shows how the KDE can privately be approximated in time linear in d, making it feasible for high-dimensional data. We also present improved bounds for
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ACL 20232023Bias in machine learning models can be an issue when the models are trained on particular types of data that do not generalize well, causing under performance in certain groups of users. In this work, we focus on reducing the bias related to new customers in a digital voice assistant system. It is observed that natural language understanding models often have lower performance when dealing with requests
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Machine Translation Summit 2023 (MTS)2023Brand translations need to be consistently localized in e-commerce stores. Emerging brands and their localized forms are constantly appearing in the dynamic e-commerce landscape. These variant brand forms and aliases pose a challenge to brand handling in MT. This study examines the enforcement of brand consistency in MT at scale on the e-commerce sites worldwide. We propose various practical and sustainable
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Interspeech 20232023Speech-to-text errors made by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems negatively impact downstream models. Error correction models as a post-processing text editing method have been recently developed for refining the ASR outputs. However, efficient models that meet the low latency requirements of industrial grade production systems have not been well studied. We propose PATCorrect-a novel non-autoregressive
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ACL 20232023User Satisfaction Modeling (USM) is one of the popular choices for task-oriented dialogue systems evaluation, where user satisfaction typically depends on whether the user’s task goals were fulfilled by the system. Task-oriented dialogue systems use task schema, which is a set of task attributes, to encode the user’s task goals. Existing studies on USM neglect explicitly modeling the user’s task goals fulfillment
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