Targeted syntactic evaluations of language models ask whether models show stable preferences for syntactically acceptable content over minimal-pair unacceptable inputs. Most targeted syntactic evaluation datasets ask models to make these judgements with just a single context-free sentence as input. This does not match language models' training regime, in which input sentences are always highly contextualized by the surrounding corpus. This mismatch raises an important question: how robust are models' syntactic judgements in different contexts? In this paper, we investigate the stability of language models' performance on targeted syntactic evaluations as we vary properties of the input context: the length of the context, the types of syntactic phenomena it contains, and whether or not there are violations of grammaticality. We find that model judgements are generally robust when placed in randomly sampled linguistic contexts. However, they are substantially unstable for contexts containing syntactic structures matching those in the critical test content. Among all tested models (GPT-2 and five variants of OPT), we significantly improve models' judgements by providing contexts with matching syntactic structures, and conversely significantly worsen them using unacceptable contexts with matching but violated syntactic structures. This effect is amplified by the length of the context, except for unrelated inputs. We show that these changes in model performance are not explainable by simple features matching the context and the test inputs, such as lexical overlap and dependency overlap. This sensitivity to highly specific syntactic features of the context can only be explained by the models' implicit in-context learning abilities.

我的博士研究侧重于理解培训的神经网络模型中的语义知识，通过绘制认知科学的概念和类别研究的洞察来预测自然语言（称为语言模型或LMS）。我提出了一个受“归纳推理”启发的框架，这是一种揭示人类如何利用背景知识来实现归纳的现象，并从关于概念及其属性的新信息中展开归纳。从研究归纳推理的实验中绘制，我建议使用人类感应文献中观察到的现象分析LMS中的语义感应概括，调查诸如隐性推理和紧急特征识别等任务的归纳行为，以及分析和将感应动态分析到学习的概念表示空间。

t-SNE remains one of the most popular embedding techniques for visualizing high-dimensional data. Most standard packages of t-SNE, such as scikit-learn, use the Barnes-Hut t-SNE (BH t-SNE) algorithm for large datasets. However, existing CPU implementations of this algorithm are inefficient. In this work, we accelerate the BH t-SNE on CPUs via cache optimizations, SIMD, parallelizing sequential steps, and improving parallelization of multithreaded steps. Our implementation (Acc-t-SNE) is up to 261x and 4x faster than scikit-learn and the state-of-the-art BH t-SNE implementation from daal4py, respectively, on a 32-core Intel(R) Icelake cloud instance.

By transferring knowledge from large, diverse, task-agnostic datasets, modern machine learning models can solve specific downstream tasks either zero-shot or with small task-specific datasets to a high level of performance. While this capability has been demonstrated in other fields such as computer vision, natural language processing or speech recognition, it remains to be shown in robotics, where the generalization capabilities of the models are particularly critical due to the difficulty of collecting real-world robotic data. We argue that one of the keys to the success of such general robotic models lies with open-ended task-agnostic training, combined with high-capacity architectures that can absorb all of the diverse, robotic data. In this paper, we present a model class, dubbed Robotics Transformer, that exhibits promising scalable model properties. We verify our conclusions in a study of different model classes and their ability to generalize as a function of the data size, model size, and data diversity based on a large-scale data collection on real robots performing real-world tasks. The project's website and videos can be found at robotics-transformer.github.io

We introduce LaViLa, a new approach to learning video-language representations by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs). We repurpose pre-trained LLMs to be conditioned on visual input, and finetune them to create automatic video narrators. Our auto-generated narrations offer a number of advantages, including dense coverage of long videos, better temporal synchronization of the visual information and text, and much higher diversity of text. The video-text embedding learned contrastively with these additional auto-generated narrations outperforms the previous state-of-the-art on multiple first-person and third-person video tasks, both in zero-shot and finetuned setups. Most notably, LaViLa obtains an absolute gain of 10.1% on EGTEA classification and 5.9% Epic-Kitchens-100 multi-instance retrieval benchmarks. Furthermore, LaViLa trained with only half the narrations from the Ego4D dataset outperforms baseline models trained on the full set, and shows positive scaling behavior on increasing pre-training data and model size.

The widespread of offensive content online, such as hate speech and cyber-bullying, is a global phenomenon. This has sparked interest in the artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) communities, motivating the development of various systems trained to detect potentially harmful content automatically. These systems require annotated datasets to train the machine learning (ML) models. However, with a few notable exceptions, most datasets on this topic have dealt with English and a few other high-resource languages. As a result, the research in offensive language identification has been limited to these languages. This paper addresses this gap by tackling offensive language identification in Sinhala, a low-resource Indo-Aryan language spoken by over 17 million people in Sri Lanka. We introduce the Sinhala Offensive Language Dataset (SOLD) and present multiple experiments on this dataset. SOLD is a manually annotated dataset containing 10,000 posts from Twitter annotated as offensive and not offensive at both sentence-level and token-level, improving the explainability of the ML models. SOLD is the first large publicly available offensive language dataset compiled for Sinhala. We also introduce SemiSOLD, a larger dataset containing more than 145,000 Sinhala tweets, annotated following a semi-supervised approach.

Training Graph Neural Networks, on graphs containing billions of vertices and edges, at scale using minibatch sampling poses a key challenge: strong-scaling graphs and training examples results in lower compute and higher communication volume and potential performance loss. DistGNN-MB employs a novel Historical Embedding Cache combined with compute-communication overlap to address this challenge. On a 32-node (64-socket) cluster of $3^{rd}$ generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors with 36 cores per socket, DistGNN-MB trains 3-layer GraphSAGE and GAT models on OGBN-Papers100M to convergence with epoch times of 2 seconds and 4.9 seconds, respectively, on 32 compute nodes. At this scale, DistGNN-MB trains GraphSAGE 5.2x faster than the widely-used DistDGL. DistGNN-MB trains GraphSAGE and GAT 10x and 17.2x faster, respectively, as compute nodes scale from 2 to 32.

Damage to the inferior frontal gyrus (Broca's area) can cause agrammatic aphasia wherein patients, although able to comprehend, lack the ability to form complete sentences. This inability leads to communication gaps which cause difficulties in their daily lives. The usage of assistive devices can help in mitigating these issues and enable the patients to communicate effectively. However, due to lack of large scale studies of linguistic deficits in aphasia, research on such assistive technology is relatively limited. In this work, we present two contributions that aim to re-initiate research and development in this field. Firstly, we propose a model that uses linguistic features from small scale studies on aphasia patients and generates large scale datasets of synthetic aphasic utterances from grammatically correct datasets. We show that the mean length of utterance, the noun/verb ratio, and the simple/complex sentence ratio of our synthetic datasets correspond to the reported features of aphasic speech. Further, we demonstrate how the synthetic datasets may be utilized to develop assistive devices for aphasia patients. The pre-trained T5 transformer is fine-tuned using the generated dataset to suggest 5 corrected sentences given an aphasic utterance as input. We evaluate the efficacy of the T5 model using the BLEU and cosine semantic similarity scores. Affirming results with BLEU score of 0.827/1.00 and semantic similarity of 0.904/1.00 were obtained. These results provide a strong foundation for the concept that a synthetic dataset based on small scale studies on aphasia can be used to develop effective assistive technology.

人们依靠新闻来了解世界各地正在发生的事情并告知他们的日常生活。在当今的世界中，当假新闻的扩散猖ramp时，拥有大规模且高质量的真实新闻文章来源，其中包含出版类别的信息对于学习真实新闻的自然语言语法和语义是有价值的。作为这项工作的一部分，我们提供了一个新闻类别数据集，其中包含从HuffPost获得的2012年至2018年的200K新闻头条，以及有用的元数据以实现各种NLP任务。在本文中，我们还从数据集中产生了一些新颖的见解，并描述了数据集的各种现有和潜在应用。

大型语言模型（LLM）从人类的指示中解开了任务计划的新功能。但是，事先尝试将LLMS应用于现实世界的机器人任务受到周围场景中缺乏接地的限制。在本文中，我们开发了NLMAP，这是一个开放式摄影和可查询场景表示，以解决此问题。 NLMAP是一个框架，可以将上下文信息收集到LLM计划者中，从而在生成上下文条件条件计划之前，可以在场景中查看和查询可用的对象。 NLMAP首先使用视觉语言模型（VLM）建立自然语言可查询场景表示。基于LLM的对象建议模块解析指令并提出涉及的对象，以查询场景表示以获取对象可用性和位置。然后，LLM规划师计划提供有关场景的此类信息。 NLMAP允许机器人在没有固定的对象列表或可执行选项的情况下操作，从而使真实的机器人操作无法通过以前的方法实现。项目网站：https：//nlmap-saycan.github.io