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We present a set of new instances of the maximum weight independent set problem. These instances are derived from a real-world vehicle routing problem and are challenging to solve in part because of their large size. We present instances with up to 881 thousand nodes and 383 million edges.

This is the official PyTorch implementation of our CNSN paper, in which we propose CrossNorm (CN) and SelfNorm (SN), two simple, effective, and complementary normalization techniques to improve generalization robustness under distribution shifts.

Quantile regression is a fundamental problem in statistical learning motivated by the need to quantify uncertainty in predictions, or to model a diverse population without being overly reductive. For instance, epidemiological forecasts, cost estimates, and revenue predictions all benefit from being able to quantify the range of possible values accurately. As such, many models have been developed for this

Graph neural networks (GNNs) constitute a class of deep learning methods for graph data. They have wide applications in chemistry and biology, such as molecular property prediction, reaction prediction, and drug−target interaction prediction. Despite the interest, GNN-based modeling is challenging as it requires graph data preprocessing and modeling in addition to programming and deep learning. Here, we

Fine-tuning a deep network trained with the standard cross-entropy loss is a strong baseline for few-shot learning. When fine-tuned transductively, this outperforms the current state-of-the-art on standard datasets such as Mini-ImageNet, TieredImageNet, CIFAR-FS and FC-100 with the same hyper-parameters. The simplicity of this approach enables us to demonstrate the first few-shot learning results on the

We present Commonsense-Dialogues, a crowdsourced dataset of ~11K dialogues grounded in social contexts involving utilization of commonsense. The social contexts used were sourced from the train split of the SocialIQA dataset, a multiple-choice question-answering based social commonsense reasoning benchmark. For the collection of the Commonsense-Dialogues dataset, each Turker was presented a social context

Despite profound successes, contrastive representation learning relies on carefully designed data augmentations using domain-specific knowledge. This challenge is magnified in natural language processing, where no general rules exist for data augmentation due to the discrete nature of natural language. We tackle this challenge by presenting a Virtual augmentation Supported Contrastive Learning of sentence

Question Answering NLU (QANLU) is an approach that maps the NLU task into question answering, leveraging pre-trained question-answering models to perform well on few-shot settings. Instead of training an intent classifier or a slot tagger, for example, we can ask the model intent- and slot-related questions in natural language: Context : I'm looking for a cheap flight to Boston. Question: Is the user looking

We propose, implement, and evaluate a new algorithm for releasing answers to very large numbers of statistical queries like k-way marginals, subject to differential privacy. Our algorithm makes adaptive use of a continuous relaxation of the Projection Mechanism, which answers queries on the private dataset using simple perturbation, and then attempts to find the synthetic dataset that most closely matches

The transformer architectures, based on self-attention mechanism and convolution-free design, recently found superior performance and booming applications in computer vision. However, the discontinuous patch-wise tokenization process implicitly introduces jagged artifacts into attention maps, arising the traditional problem of aliasing for vision transformers. Aliasing effect occurs when discrete patterns

The training data used in NMT is rarely controlled with respect to specific attributes, such as word casing or gender, which can cause errors in translations. We argue that predicting the target word and attributes simultaneously is an effective way to ensure that translations are more faithful to the training data distribution with respect to these attributes. Experimental results on two tasks, uppercased

In this paper, we focus on improving online multi-object tracking (MOT). In particular, we introduce a region-based Siamese Multi-Object Tracking network, which we name SiamMOT. SiamMOT includes a motion model that estimates the instance’s movement between two frames such that detected instances are associated. To explore how the motion modelling affects its tracking capability, we present two variants

Multilingual semantic parsing is a cost-effective method that allows a single model to understand different languages. However, researchers face a great imbalance of availability of training data, with English being resource rich, and other languages having much less data. To tackle the data limitation problem, we propose using machine translation to bootstrap multilingual training data from the more abundant

This repo contains the UI tool and ML model development process to convert natural language questions to SQL queries.

Even though large pre-trained multilingual models (e.g. mBERT, XLM-R) have led to significant performance gains on a wide range of cross-lingual NLP tasks, success on many downstream tasks still relies on the availability of sufficient annotated data. Traditional fine-tuning of pre-trained models using only a few target samples can cause over-fitting. This can be quite limiting as most languages in the

We present a plug-in replacement for batch normalization (BN) called exponential moving average normalization (EMAN), which improves the performance of existing student-teacher based self- and semi-supervised learning techniques. Unlike the standard BN, where the statistics are computed within each batch, EMAN, used in the teacher, updates its statistics by exponential moving average from the BN statistics

Contrastive learning has revolutionized the self-supervised image representation learning field and recently been adapted to the video domain. One of the greatest advantages of contrastive learning is that it allows us to flexibly define powerful loss objectives as long as we can find a reasonable way to formulate positive and negative samples to contrast. However, existing approaches rely heavily on the

We provide the code for the papers: "Entity-level factual consistency of abstractive text summarization", EACL 2021. We provide a set of new metrics to quantify the entity-level factual consistency of generated summaries. We also provide code for the two methods in our paper: JAENS: joint entity and summary generation, and Summary-worthy entity classification with summarization (multi-task learning) "Improving

Measuring bias is key for better understanding and addressing unfairness in NLP/ML models. This is often done via fairness metrics which quantify the differences in a model's behaviour across a range of demographic groups. In this work, we shed more light on the differences and similarities between the fairness metrics used in NLP. First, we unify a broad range of existing metrics under three generalized

Semantic segmentation is a challenging problem due to difficulties in modeling context in complex scenes and class confusions along boundaries. Most literature either focuses on context modeling or boundary refinement, which is less generalizable in open-world scenarios. In this work, we advocate a unified framework (UN-EPT) to segment objects by considering both context information and boundary artifacts