Customer-obsessed science

We investigate the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into query encoders to improve dense retrieval without increasing latency and cost, by circumventing the dependency on LLMs at inference time. SoftQE incorporates knowledge from LLMs by mapping embeddings of input queries to those of the LLM-expanded queries. While improvements over various strong baselines on in-domain MS-MARCO metrics are

Given a network, allocating resources at clusters level, rather than at each node, enhances efficiency in resource allocation and usage. In this paper, we study the problem of finding fully connected disjoint clusters to minimize the intra-cluster distances and maximize the number of nodes assigned to the clusters, while also ensuring that no two nodes within a cluster exceed a threshold distance. While

Foundation models (FMs) learn from large volumes of unlabeled data to demonstrate superior performance across a wide range of tasks. However, FMs developed for biomedical domains have largely remained unimodal, i.e., independently trained and used for tasks on protein sequences alone, small-molecule structures alone, or clinical data alone. To overcome this limitation, we present BioBRIDGE, a parameter-efficient

Recent developments in active learning algorithms for NLP tasks show promising results in terms of reducing labelling complexity. In this paper we extend this effort to imbalanced datasets; we bridge between the active learning approach of obtaining diverse and informative examples, and the heuristic of class balancing used in imbalanced datasets. We develop a novel tune-free weighting technique that can

Voice conversion (VC) systems are widely used for several applications, from speaker anonymisation to personalised speech synthesis. Supervised approaches learn a mapping between different speakers using parallel data, which is expensive to produce. Un-supervised approaches are typically trained to reconstruct the in-put signal, which is composed of the content and the speaker in-formation. Disentangling