Sarcasm Detection has enjoyed great interest from the research community, however the task of predicting sarcasm in a text remains an elusive problem for machines. Past studies mostly make use of twitter datasets collected using hashtag based supervision but such datasets are noisy in terms of labels and language. To overcome these shortcoming, we introduce a new dataset which contains news headlines from a sarcastic news website and a real news website. Next, we propose a hybrid Neural Network architecture with attention mechanism which provides insights about what actually makes sentences sarcastic. Through experiments, we show that the proposed model improves upon the baseline by ~ 5% in terms of classification accuracy.
School of Computer Science and Engineering（计算机科学与工程学院）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）
The existence of multiple datasets for sarcasm detection prompts us to apply transfer learning to exploit their commonality. The adversarial neural transfer (ANT) framework utilizes multiple loss terms that encourage the source-domain and the target-domain feature distributions to be similar while optimizing for domain-specific performance. However, these objectives may be in conflict, which can lead to optimization difficulties and sometimes diminished transfer. We propose a generalized latent optimization strategy that allows different losses to accommodate each other and improves training d…
In this paper, we propose hybrid building/floor classification and floor-level two-dimensional location coordinates regression using a single-input and multi-output (SIMO) deep neural network (DNN) for large-scale indoor localization based on Wi-Fi fingerprinting. The proposed scheme exploits the different nature of the estimation of building/floor and floor-level location coordinates and uses a different estimation framework for each task with a dedicated output and hidden layers enabled by SIMO DNN architecture. We carry out preliminary evaluation of the performance of the hybrid floor class…
Since their inception, transformer-based language models have led to impressive performance gains across multiple natural language processing tasks. For Arabic, the current state-of-the-art results on most datasets are achieved by the AraBERT language model. Notwithstanding these recent advancements, sarcasm and sentiment detection persist to be challenging tasks in Arabic, given the language's rich morphology, linguistic disparity and dialectal variations. This paper proffers team SPPU-AASM's submission for the WANLP ArSarcasm shared-task 2021, which centers around the sarcasm and sentiment p…
We propose a neural architecture with the main characteristics of the most successful neural models of the last years: bidirectional RNNs, encoder-decoder, and the Transformer model. Evaluation on three sequence labelling tasks yields results that are close to the state-of-the-art for all tasks and better than it for some of them, showing the pertinence of this hybrid architecture for this kind of tasks.
Kennesaw State University（肯尼索州立大学）；Atlanticus Services Corporation（大西洋服务公司）
We propose a two-stage hybrid approach with neural networks as the new feature construction algorithms for bankcard response classifications. The hybrid model uses a very simple neural network structure as the new feature construction tool in the first stage, then the newly created features are used as the additional input variables in logistic regression in the second stage. The model is compared with the traditional one-stage model in credit customer response classification. It is observed that the proposed two-stage model outperforms the one-stage model in terms of accuracy, the area under …
Machine learning-based applications are increasingly prevalent in IoT devices. The power and storage constraints of these devices make it particularly challenging to run modern neural networks, limiting the number of new applications that can be deployed on an IoT system. A number of compression techniques have been proposed, each with its own trade-offs. We propose a hybrid network which combines the strengths of current neural- and tree-based learning techniques in conjunction with ternary quantization, and show a detailed analysis of the associated model design space. Using this hybrid mode…
Trier University（特里尔大学）；IEE S.A.（IEE公司）；Trier University of Applied Sciences（特里尔应用技术大学）
In several studies, hybrid neural networks have proven to be more robust against noisy input data compared to plain data driven neural networks. We consider the task of estimating parameters of a mechanical vehicle model based on acceleration profiles. We introduce a convolutional neural network architecture that is capable to predict the parameters for a family of vehicle models that differ in the unknown parameters. We introduce a convolutional neural network architecture that given sequential data predicts the parameters of the underlying data's dynamics. This network is trained with two ob…
National Institute of Standards and Technology（美国国家标准与技术研究院）
When people try to understand nuanced language they typically process multiple input sensor modalities to complete this cognitive task. It turns out the human brain has even a specialized neuron formation, called sagittal stratum, to help us understand sarcasm. We use this biological formation as the inspiration for designing a neural network architecture that combines predictions of different models on the same text to construct robust, accurate and computationally efficient classifiers for sentiment analysis and study several different realizations. Among them, we propose a systematic new ap…
Bayesian neural networks provide a direct and natural way to extend standard deep neural networks to support probabilistic deep learning through the use of probabilistic layers that, traditionally, encode weight (and bias) uncertainty. In particular, hybrid Bayesian neural networks utilize standard deterministic layers together with few probabilistic layers judicially positioned in the networks for uncertainty estimation. A major aspect and benefit of Bayesian inference is that priors, in principle, provide the means to encode prior knowledge for use in inference and prediction. However, it is…
The recent advent of `Internet of Things' (IOT) has increased the demand for enabling AI-based edge computing. This has necessitated the search for efficient implementations of neural networks in terms of both computations and storage. Although extreme quantization has proven to be a powerful tool to achieve significant compression over full-precision networks, it can result in significant degradation in performance. In this work, we propose extremely quantized hybrid network architectures with both binary and full-precision sections to emulate the classification performance of full-precision …
Neural Architecture Search has shown potential to automate the design of neural networks. Deep Reinforcement Learning based agents can learn complex architectural patterns, as well as explore a vast and compositional search space. On the other hand, evolutionary algorithms offer higher sample efficiency, which is critical for such a resource intensive application. In order to capture the best of both worlds, we propose a class of Evolutionary-Neural hybrid agents (Evo-NAS). We show that the Evo-NAS agent outperforms both neural and evolutionary agents when applied to architecture search for a …
Model quantization is a widely used technique to compress and accelerate deep neural network (DNN) inference, especially when deploying to edge or IoT devices with limited computation capacity and power consumption budget. The uniform bit width quantization across all the layers is usually sub-optimal and the exploration of hybrid quantization for different layers is vital for efficient deep compression. In this paper, we employ the meta learning method to automatically realize low-bit hybrid quantization of neural networks. A MetaQuantNet, together with a Quantization function, are trained to…
Hybrid clustering-classification neural network in the medical diagnostics of reactive arthritis
Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics（哈尔科夫国立无线电电子大学）；Kharkiv Medical Academia of Post-Graduate Education（哈尔科夫医学研究生教育学院）；Uzhhorod National University（乌日霍罗德国立大学）
NVIDIA（英伟达）；Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA)（航空技术学院（ITA））；University of Klagenfurt（克拉根福大学）
We describe a hybrid meta-architecture -- the CHAMELEON -- for session-based news recommendation that is able to leverage a variety of information types using Recurrent Neural Networks. We evaluated our approach on two public datasets, using a temporal evaluation protocol that simulates the dynamics of a news portal in a realistic way. Our results confirm the benefits of modeling the sequence of session clicks with RNNs and leveraging side information about users and articles, resulting in significantly higher recommendation accuracy and catalog coverage than other session-based algorithms.
Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）
The key to electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain-computer interface (BCI) lies in neural decoding, and its accuracy can be improved by using hybrid BCI paradigms, that is, fusing multiple paradigms. However, hybrid BCIs usually require separate processing processes for EEG signals in each paradigm, which greatly reduces the efficiency of EEG feature extraction and the generalizability of the model. Here, we propose a two-stream convolutional neural network (TSCNN) based hybrid brain-computer interface. It combines steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) and motor imagery (MI) paradigms…
Michigan State University（密歇根州立大学）；InStat Sports Performance Analysis Company（InStat运动表现分析公司）
In this paper, we present Mambanet: a hybrid neural network for predicting the outcomes of Basketball games. Contrary to other studies, which focus primarily on season games, this study investigates playoff games. MambaNet is a hybrid neural network architecture that processes a time series of teams' and players' game statistics and generates the probability of a team winning or losing an NBA playoff match. In our approach, we utilize Feature Imitating Networks to provide latent signal-processing feature representations of game statistics to further process with convolutional, recurrent, and d…
China University of Petroleum-Beijing（中国石油大学（北京））；PST Service Corporation（PST服务公司）；Beijing Power Concord Technology Co. Ltd.（北京康达电力科技有限公司）
Rapid development of big data and high-performance computing have encouraged explosive studies of deep learning in geoscience. However, most studies only take single-type data as input, frittering away invaluable multisource, multi-scale information. We develop a general architecture of hybrid deep neural networks (HDNNs) to support mixed inputs. Regarding as a combination of feature learning and target learning, the new proposed networks provide great capacity in high-hierarchy feature extraction and in-depth data mining. Furthermore, the hybrid architecture is an aggregation of multiple netw…
Universidade da Beira Interior（贝拉内格罗大学）；Instituto de Telecomunicações（电信研究所）
Artificial Intelligence algorithms have been steadily increasing in popularity and usage. Deep Learning, allows neural networks to be trained using huge datasets and also removes the need for human extracted features, as it automates the feature learning process. In the hearth of training deep neural networks, such as Convolutional Neural Networks, we find backpropagation, that by computing the gradient of the loss function with respect to the weights of the network for a given input, it allows the weights of the network to be adjusted to better perform in the given task. In this paper, we pro…
National School for Computer Science and Systems analysis, Mohammed V University（穆罕默德五世大学国家计算机科学与系统分析学院）
Predicting firm's failure is one of the most interesting subjects for investors and decision makers. In this paper, a bankruptcy prediction model is proposed based on Artificial Neural networks (ANN). Taking into consideration that the choice of variables to discriminate between bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms influences significantly the model's accuracy and considering the problem of local minima, we propose a hybrid ANN based on variables selection techniques. Moreover, we evolve the convergence of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) by proposing a training algorithm based on an improved PSO …
South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）；University of Oulu（奥卢大学）
Inspired by the success of classical neural networks, there has been tremendous effort to develop classical effective neural networks into quantum concept. In this paper, a novel hybrid quantum-classical neural network with deep residual learning (Res-HQCNN) is proposed. We firstly analysis how to connect residual block structure with a quantum neural network, and give the corresponding training algorithm. At the same time, the advantages and disadvantages of transforming deep residual learning into quantum concept are provided. As a result, the model can be trained in an end-to-end fashion, a…
Beyond the generally deployed features for microstructure property prediction this study aims to improve the machine learned prediction by developing novel feature descriptors. Therefore, Bayesian infused data mining is conducted to acquire samples containing characteristics inexplicable to the current feature set, and suitable feature descriptors to describe these characteristics are proposed. The iterative development of feature descriptors resulted in 37 novel features, being able to reduce the prediction error by roughly one third. To further improve the predictive model, convolutional neu…
In this article, we present a new EEG signal classification framework by integrating the complex-valued and real-valued Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) with discrete Fourier transform (DFT). The proposed neural network architecture consists of one complex-valued convolutional layer, two real-valued convolutional layers, and three fully connected layers. Our method can efficiently utilize the phase information contained in the DFT. We validate our approach using two simulated EEG signals and a benchmark data set and compare it with two widely used frameworks. Our method drastically reduces th…
Neural networks are largely black boxes. A neural network trained to classify fruit may classify a picture of a giraffe as a banana. A neural network watchdog's job is to identify such inputs, allowing a classifier to disregard such data. We investigate whether the watchdog should be separate from the neural network or symbiotically attached. We present empirical evidence that the symbiotic watchdog performs better than when the neural networks are disjoint.
The term NeuralODE describes the structural combination of an Artifical Neural Network (ANN) and a numerical solver for Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs), the former acts as the right-hand side of the ODE to be solved. This concept was further extended by a black-box model in the form of a Functional Mock-up Unit (FMU) to obtain a subclass of NeuralODEs, named NeuralFMUs. The resulting structure features the advantages of first-principle and data-driven modeling approaches in one single simulation model: A higher prediction accuracy compared to conventional First Principle Models (FPMs), …
Optical neural networks are emerging as a promising type of machine learning hardware capable of energy-efficient, parallel computation. Today's optical neural networks are mainly developed to perform optical inference after in silico training on digital simulators. However, various physical imperfections that cannot be accurately modelled may lead to the notorious reality gap between the digital simulator and the physical system. To address this challenge, we demonstrate hybrid training of optical neural networks where the weight matrix is trained with neuron activation functions computed opt…
University of Florida（佛罗里达大学）；Oak Ridge National Laboratory（橡树岭国家实验室）
Deep learning is one of the most successful and far-reaching strategies used in machine learning today. However, the scale and utility of neural networks is still greatly limited by the current hardware used to train them. These concerns have become increasingly pressing as conventional computers quickly approach physical limitations that will slow performance improvements in years to come. For these reasons, scientists have begun to explore alternative computing platforms, like quantum computers, for training neural networks. In recent years, variational quantum circuits have emerged as one o…
Efficient Neural Hybrid System Learning and Transition System Abstraction for Dynamical Systems
School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University（奥古斯塔大学计算机与网络科学学院）；School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University（西南交通大学电气工程学院）
Research Institute for Signals, Systems and Computational Intelligence, sinc(i)（信号、系统与计算智能研究所）；CONICET（国家科学技术研究委员会）；Universidad Nacional del Litoral（国立滨海大学）
In this work we address the problem of landmark-based segmentation for anatomical structures. We propose HybridGNet, an encoder-decoder neural architecture which combines standard convolutions for image feature encoding, with graph convolutional neural networks to decode plausible representations of anatomical structures. We benchmark the proposed architecture considering other standard landmark and pixel-based models for anatomical segmentation in chest x-ray images, and found that HybridGNet is more robust to image occlusions. We also show that it can be used to construct landmark-based segm…
Domain generation algorithm (DGA) is used by botnets to build a stealthy command and control (C&C) communication channel between the C&C server and the bots. A DGA can periodically produce a large number of pseudo-random algorithmically generated domains (AGDs). AGD detection algorithms provide a lightweight, promising solution in response to the existing DGA techniques. In this paper, a GCNN (gated convolutional neural network)-LSTM (long short-term memory) Hybrid Neural Network (GLHNN) for AGD detection is proposed. In GLHNN, GCNN is applied to extract the informative features from domain na…
To understand the learning process in brains, biologically plausible algorithms have been explored by modeling the detailed neuron properties and dynamics. On the other hand, simplified multi-layer models of neural networks have shown great success on computational tasks such as image classification and speech recognition. However, the computational models that can achieve good accuracy for these learning applications are very different from the bio-plausible models. This paper studies whether a bio-plausible model of a in vitro living neural network can be used to perform machine learning tas…
Design and development of opto-neural processors for simulation of neural networks trained in image detection for potential implementation in hybrid robotics
University of Cincinnati（辛辛那提大学）；Visvesvaraya Technological University（维斯韦斯瓦拉亚理工大学）
Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), neural networks with weights and activations constrained to -1(0) and +1, are an alternative to deep neural networks which offer faster training, lower memory consumption and lightweight models, ideal for use in resource constrained devices while being able to utilize the architecture of their deep neural network counterpart. However, the input binarization step used in BNNs causes a severe accuracy loss. In this paper, we introduce a novel hybrid neural network architecture, Hybrid Binary Neural Network (HyBNN), consisting of a task-independent, general, full-pr…
Rakuten Institute of Technology, Rakuten, Inc.（乐天株式会社乐天技术研究院）
Autoencoder-based hybrid recommender systems have become popular recently because of their ability to learn user and item representations by reconstructing various information sources, including users' feedback on items (e.g., ratings) and side information of users and items (e.g., users' occupation and items' title). However, existing systems still use representations learned by matrix factorization (MF) to predict the rating, while using representations learned by neural networks as the regularizer. In this paper, we define the neural representation for prediction (NRP) framework and apply i…
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique（国立高等计算机学院）；Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France（上法兰西理工大学）
Vision Transformers have enabled recent attention-based Deep Learning (DL) architectures to achieve remarkable results in Computer Vision (CV) tasks. However, due to the extensive computational resources required, these architectures are rarely implemented on resource-constrained platforms. Current research investigates hybrid handcrafted convolution-based and attention-based models for CV tasks such as image classification and object detection. In this paper, we propose HyT-NAS, an efficient Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search (HW-NAS) including hybrid architectures targeting vision tas…
We propose a hybrid coded modulation scheme which composes of inner and outer codes. The outer-code can be any standard binary linear code with efficient soft decoding capability (e.g. low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes). The inner code is designed using a deep neural network (DNN) which takes the channel coded bits and outputs modulated symbols. For training the DNN, we propose to use a loss function that is inspired by the generalized mutual information. The resulting constellations are shown to outperform the conventional quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) based coding scheme for modu…
IBM Research-China（IBM中国研究院）；University of Notre Dame（圣母大学）；University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）
Neural network accelerators with low latency and low energy consumption are desirable for edge computing. To create such accelerators, we propose a design flow for accelerating the extremely low bit-width neural network (ELB-NN) in embedded FPGAs with hybrid quantization schemes. This flow covers both network training and FPGA-based network deployment, which facilitates the design space exploration and simplifies the tradeoff between network accuracy and computation efficiency. Using this flow helps hardware designers to deliver a network accelerator in edge devices under strict resource and p…
