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November 5, 20266 min readAmazon senior applied scientist and coauthors showed that an overlooked mathematical condition from 1963 proves why frequently used machine-learning optimization methods work well.
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ICML 20232023In this work, we initiate the idea of using denoising diffusion models to learn priors for online decision making problems. We specifically focus on bandit meta-learning, aiming to learn a policy that performs well across bandit tasks of a same class. To this end, we train a diffusion model that learns the underlying task distribution and combine Thompson sampling with the learned prior to deal with new
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ICML 20232023Many practical problems involve solving similar tasks. In recommender systems, the tasks can be users with similar preferences; in search engines, the tasks can be items with similar affinities. To learn statistically efficiently, the tasks can be organized in a hierarchy, where the task affinity is captured using an unknown latent parameter. We study the problem of off-policy learning for similar tasks
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Interspeech 20232023We present eCat, a novel end-to-end multi-speaker model capable of: a) generating long-context speech with expressive and contextually appropriate prosody, and b) performing fine-grained prosody transfer between any pair of seen speakers. eCat is trained using a two-stage training approach. In Stage I, the model learns speaker-independent word-level prosody representations in an end-to-end fashion from
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ICML 20232023Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have displayed considerable promise in graph representation learning across various applications. The core learning process requires the initialization of model weight matrices within each GNN layer, which is typically accomplished via classic initialization methods such as Xavier initialization. However, these methods were originally motivated to stabilize the variance of hidden
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Interspeech 20232023An End-to-End Speech Translation (E2E-ST) model takes input audio in one language and directly produces output text in another language. The model requires to learn both speech-to-text modality conversion and translation tasks, which demands a large architecture for effective learning of this joint task. Yet, to the best of our knowledge, we are the first to optimize compression of E2E-ST models. In this
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