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NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning — Theory and Practice2023Pre-training has been an important ingredient in developing strong monocular depth estimation models in recent years. For instance, self-supervised learning (SSL) is particularly effective by alleviating the need for large datasets with dense ground-truth depth maps. However, despite these improvements, our study reveals that the later layers of the SOTA SSL method are actually suboptimal. By examining
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2023 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)2023To boost training and adaptation of end to end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, several approaches to use paired speech-text input together with unpaired text input have emerged. They aim at improving the model performance on rare words, personalisation, and long tail. In this work, we present a systematic study of the impact of such training/adaptation and compare it to training with synthetic
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EMNLP 20232023While recent studies have looked into the abilities of large language models in various benchmark tasks, few studies have looked into the controllability of large language models on generation tasks. We present a systematic and extensive analysis of the controllability of large language models on ten benchmarks, including a new simple yet challenging numerical planning benchmark with different granularities
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2023 Conference on Digital Experimentation @ MIT (CODE@MIT)2023Network interference, where observed outcomes are influenced by interaction with nearby units, is a fundamental issue in A/B testing and experimentation in social and economic networks. Clustered randomization is a frequently-used strategy that aims to prevent confounding by limiting interaction between treated and untreated units. We study a model of least-squares estimation under network interference,
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NeurIPS 20232023A large body of NLP research has documented the ways gender biases manifest and amplify within large language models (LLMs), though this research has pre- dominantly operated within a gender binary-centric context. A growing body of work has identified the harmful limitations of this gender-exclusive framing; many LLMs cannot correctly and consistently refer to persons outside the gender binary, especially
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