Papers with learning approach
SAAS: Solving Ability Amplification Strategy for Enhanced Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models (2024.emnlp-industry)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to enhance mathematical reasoning and problem-solving abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) despite their remarkable performance across domains, a notable challenge persists in the realm of mathematical reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose a sequential learning approach that integrates the Chain-of-Thought and the Program-ofThough. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance by integrating CoT and PoT learning. |
Democratizing Reasoning Ability: Tailored Learning from Large Language Model (2023.emnlp-main)
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Zhaoyang Wang, Shaohan Huang, Yuxuan Liu, Jiahai Wang, Minghui Song, Zihan Zhang, Haizhen Huang, Furu Wei, Weiwei Deng, Feng Sun, Qi Zhang
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive emergent abilities in natural language processing, but their democratization is hindered due to huge computation requirements and closed-source nature. |
| Approach: | They propose a tailored learning approach to distill the exclusive reasoning ability to smaller LMs to facilitate democratization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach enables the democratization of the exclusive reasoning ability by leveraging the black-box model as a reasoning teacher. |
Situated Mapping of Sequential Instructions to Actions with Single-step Reward Observation (P18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to map context-dependent sequential instructions to actions are based on discourse and state dependencies . we evaluate on SCONE domains and show absolute accuracy improvements of 9.8%-25.3% . |
| Approach: | They propose a model that considers previous utterances and the state of the world to map sequential instructions to actions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on the SCONE domains and on the target domains. |
Executing Instructions in Situated Collaborative Interactions (D19-1)
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Alane Suhr, Claudia Yan, Jack Schluger, Stanley Yu, Hadi Khader, Marwa Mouallem, Iris Zhang, Yoav Artzi
| Challenge: | a collaborative game with natural language instruction allows users to adapt to the system abilities by changing their language or deciding to accomplish tasks themselves. |
| Approach: | They propose a collaborative game where a user instructs a system to complete tasks, but acts alongside it. |
| Outcome: | The proposed game allows users to adapt to the system abilities by changing their language or deciding to accomplish tasks themselves. |
Towards Faithful Dialogues via Focus Learning (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge-grounded models rely on elaborate data engineering or increasing the model’s parameters ignoring to track the tokens that significantly influence losses, which is decisive for the optimization direction of the model in each iteration. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel learning approach that adjusts the contribution of each token to the optimization direction by directly scaling the corresponding objective loss. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves the new state-of-the-art results and generates more reliable responses while maintaining training stability. |
Learning a Matching Model with Co-teaching for Multi-turn Response Selection in Retrieval-based Dialogue Systems (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for learning a robust matching model from noisy training data are retrieval-based or generation-based. |
| Approach: | They propose a general co-teaching framework that learns matching models from noisy training data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed learning framework can improve existing models on two public data sets. |
Multilevel Text Alignment with Cross-Document Attention (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing alignment methods operate at a single, predefined level and cannot learn to align texts at sentence and document levels. |
| Approach: | They propose a learning approach that equips hierarchical attention encoders for representing documents with a cross-document attention component, enabling structural comparisons across different levels. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing hierarchical, attention encoders on citation recommendation and plagiarism detection tasks. |
Contrastive Distant Supervision for Debiased and Denoised Machine Reading Comprehension (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Distant supervision (DS) is a promising learning approach for machine reading comprehension (MRC) however, the annotated dataset will inevitably lead to mislabeled instances, resulting in answer bias and context noise problems. |
| Approach: | They propose an algorithm that can learn to distinguish confusing and noisy instances via confidence-aware contrastive learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed algorithm can learn to distinguish confusing and noisy instances via confidence-aware contrastive learning. |