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Social-Transmotion: Promptable Human Trajectory Prediction

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Saeed Saadatnejad, Yang Gao, Kaouther Messaoud Ben Amor

Accurate human trajectory prediction is crucial for applications such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, and surveillance systems. Yet, existing models often fail to fully leverage the non-verbal social cues human subconsciously communicate when navigating ...

2024

Multi-task prompt-RSVQA to explicitly count objects on aerial images

Devis Tuia, Christel Marie Tartini-Chappuis, Sylvain Lobry, Javiera Francisca Castillo Navarro, Nicola Antonio Santacroce

Introduced to enable a wider use of Earth Observation images using natural language, Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering (RSVQA) remains a challenging task, in particular for questions related to counting. To address this specific challenge, we propos ...

2023

Framing the News: From Human Perception to Large Language Model Inferences

Daniel Gatica-Perez

Identifying the frames of news is important to understand the articles' vision, intention, message to be conveyed, and which aspects of the news are emphasized. Framing is a widely studied concept in journalism, and has emerged as a new topic in computing, ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Revisiting Offline Compression: Going Beyond Factorization-based Methods for Transformer Language Models

Karl Aberer, Rémi Philippe Lebret, Mohammadreza Banaei

Recent transformer language models achieve outstanding results in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, their enormous size often makes them impractical on memory-constrained devices, requiring practitioners to compress them to smaller net ...

Assoc Computational Linguistics-Acl2023

XTab: Cross-table Pretraining for Tabular Transformers

Mahsa Shoaran, Bingzhao Zhu

The success of self-supervised learning in computer vision and natural language processing has motivated pretraining methods on tabular data. However, most existing tabular self-supervised learning models fail to leverage information across multiple data t ...

JMLR.org2023

Modeling Structured Data in Attention-based Models

Alireza Mohammadshahi

Natural language processing has experienced significant improvements with the development of Transformer-based models, which employ self-attention mechanism and pre-training strategies. However, these models still present several obstacles. A notable issue ...

EPFL2023

Towards Novel Evaluation Methods for Social Dialog Systems

Ekaterina Svikhnushina

Language has shaped human evolution and led to the desire to endow machines with language abilities. Recent advancements in natural language processing enable us to achieve this breakthrough in human-machine interaction. However, introducing conversational ...

EPFL2023

Text Representation Learning for Low Cost Natural Language Understanding

Jan Frederik Jonas Florian Mai

Natural language processing and other artificial intelligence fields have witnessed impressive progress over the past decade. Although some of this progress is due to algorithmic advances in deep learning, the majority has arguably been enabled by scaling ...

EPFL2023

Prompt–RSVQA: Prompting visual context to a language model for Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering

Devis Tuia, Christel Marie Tartini-Chappuis, Sylvain Lobry, Valérie Zermatten

Remote sensing visual question answering (RQA) was recently proposed with the aim of interfacing natural language and vision to ease the access of information contained in Earth Observation data for a wide audience, which is granted by simple questions in ...

2022

Bias at a Second Glance: A Deep Dive into Bias for German Educational Peer-Review Data Modeling

Vinitra Swamy, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Thiemo Wambsganss

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has become increasingly utilized to provide adaptivity in educational applications. However, recent research has highlighted a variety of biases in pre-trained language models. While existing studies investigate bias in di ...

2022

Language Transformers for Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering

Devis Tuia, Christel Marie Tartini-Chappuis, Sylvain Lobry, Vincent Alexandre Mendez

Remote sensing visual question answering (RSVQA) opens new avenues to promote the use of satellites data, by interfacing satellite image analysis with natural language processing. Capitalizing on the remarkable advances in natural language processing and c ...

IEEE2022

Textual Explanations and Critiques in Recommendation Systems

Diego Matteo Antognini

Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms have become ubiquitous. Although they offer a wide range of benefits, their adoption in decision-critical fields is limited by their lack of interpretability, particularly with textual data. Moreover, ...

EPFL2022

A Two-Step Approach To Leverage Contextual Data: Speech Recognition In Air-Traffic Communications

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez, Amrutha Prasad

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), as the assistance of speech communication between pilots and air-traffic controllers, can significantly reduce the complexity of the task and increase the reliability of transmitted information. ASR application can lead ...

IEEE2022

RSVQA Meets Bigearthnet: A New, Large-Scale, Visual Question Answering Dataset for Remote Sensing

Devis Tuia, Sylvain Lobry

Visual Question Answering is a new task that can facilitate the extraction of information from images through textual queries: it aims at answering an open-ended question formulated in natural language about a given image. In this work, we introduce a new ...

IEEE2021

Semantics-Aware Spatial-Temporal Binaries for Cross-Modal Video Retrieval

Jie Luo, Mengshi Qi, Yiyu Wang

With the current exponential growth of video-based social networks, video retrieval using natural language is receiving ever-increasing attention. Most existing approaches tackle this task by extracting individual frame-level spatial features to represent ...

2021

Further results on latent discourse models and word embeddings

Youssef Allouah

We discuss some properties of generative models for word embeddings. Namely, (Arora et al., 2016) proposed a latent discourse model implying the concentration of the partition function of the word vectors. This concentration phenomenon led to an asymptotic ...

Microtome Publishing2021

Automatic Call Sign Detection: Matching Air Surveillance Data with Air Traffic Spoken Communications

Petr Motlicek, Amrutha Prasad

Voice communication is the main channel to exchange information between pilots and Air-Traffic Controllers (ATCos). Recently, several projects have explored the employment of speech recognition technology to automatically extract spoken key information suc ...

MDPI2021

Architectural Sampling: A Formal Basis for Machine-Learnable Architecture

Immanuel Chee Beng Koh

The spatial and formal conception of architecture, and thus its modes of design perception and representation, directly contributes to its machine-learnability; and consequently, its capacity in leveraging today's machine learning apparatus for design inno ...

EPFL2019

Learning Explainable User Sentiment and Preferences for Information Filtering

Nikolaos Pappas

In the last decade, online social networks have enabled people to interact in many ways with each other and with content. The digital traces of such actions reveal people's preferences towards online content such as news or products. These traces often res ...

EPFL2016

Interactive Synthesis using Free-Form Queries

Viktor Kuncak, Tihomir Gvero

We present a new code assistance tool for integrated development environments. Our system accepts free-form queries allowing a mixture of English and Java as an input, and produces Java code fragments that take the query into account and respect syntax, ty ...

2015