Kelvin Xu

Beyond Human Data: Scaling Self-Training for Problem-Solving with Language Models

Avi Singh

John D Co-Reyes

Rishabh Agarwal

Ankesh Anand

Piyush Patil

Xavier Garcia

Peter J. Liu

James Harrison

Jaehoon Lee

Kelvin Xu

Aaron T Parisi

Abhishek Kumar

A. Alemi

Alex Rizkowsky

Azade Nova

Ben Adlam

Bernd Bohnet

Hanie Sedghi

Gamaleldin Fathy Elsayed

Igor Mordatch … (see 21 more)

Isabelle Simpson

Izzeddin Gur

Jasper Snoek

Jeffrey Pennington

Jiri Hron

Kathleen Kenealy

Kevin Swersky

Kshiteej Mahajan

Laura Culp

Lechao Xiao

Maxwell Bileschi

Noah Constant

Roman Novak

Rosanne Liu

Tris Brian Warkentin

Yundi Qian

Ethan Dyer

Behnam Neyshabur

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Yamini Bansal

Noah Fiedel

Fine-tuning language models~(LMs) on human-generated data remains a prevalent practice. However, the performance of such models is often lim… (see more)ited by the quantity and diversity of high-quality human data. In this paper, we explore whether we can go beyond human data on tasks where we have access to scalar feedback, for example, on math problems where one can verify correctness. To do so, we investigate a simple self-training method based on expectation-maximization, which we call ReST

2023-11-30

arXiv (published)

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On integrating a language model into neural machine translation

2017-08-31

Computer Speech and Language (published)

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An Actor-Critic Algorithm for Sequence Prediction

We present an approach to training neural networks to generate sequences using actor-critic methods from reinforcement learning (RL). Curren… (see more)t log-likelihood training methods are limited by the discrepancy between their training and testing modes, as models must generate tokens conditioned on their previous guesses rather than the ground-truth tokens. We address this problem by introducing a \textit{critic} network that is trained to predict the value of an output token, given the policy of an \textit{actor} network. This results in a training procedure that is much closer to the test phase, and allows us to directly optimize for a task-specific score such as BLEU. Crucially, since we leverage these techniques in the supervised learning setting rather than the traditional RL setting, we condition the critic network on the ground-truth output. We show that our method leads to improved performance on both a synthetic task, and for German-English machine translation. Our analysis paves the way for such methods to be applied in natural language generation tasks, such as machine translation, caption generation, and dialogue modelling.

2016-12-31

ICLR.cc/2017/conference (poster)

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A Controller Recognizer Framework: How necessary is recognition for control?

Recently there has been growing interest in building active visual object recognizers, as opposed to the usual passive recognizers which cla… (see more)ssifies a given static image into a predefined set of object categories. In this paper we propose to generalize these recently proposed end-to-end active visual recognizers into a controller-recognizer framework. A model in the controller-recognizer framework consists of a controller, which interfaces with an external manipulator, and a recognizer which classifies the visual input adjusted by the manipulator. We describe two most recently proposed controller-recognizer models: recurrent attention model and spatial transformer network as representative examples of controller-recognizer models. Based on this description we observe that most existing end-to-end controller-recognizers tightly, or completely, couple a controller and recognizer. We ask a question whether this tight coupling is necessary, and try to answer this empirically by building a controller-recognizer model with a decoupled controller and recognizer. Our experiments revealed that it is not always necessary to tightly couple them and that by decoupling a controller and recognizer, there is a possibility of building a generic controller that is pretrained and works together with any subsequent recognizer.

2016-02-17

ICLR.cc/2016/workshop (unknown)

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Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions

Rami Al-Rfou

Guillaume Alain

Amjad Almahairi

Christof Angermueller

Dzmitry Bahdanau

Nicolas Ballas

Frédéric Bastien

Justin Bayer

Anatoly Belikov

Alexander Belopolsky

Josh Bleecher Snyder

Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski

Xavier Bouthillier

Alexandre De Brébisson

Olivier Breuleux … (see 92 more)

Pierre-Luc Carrier

Paul Christiano

Myriam Côté

Yann N. Dauphin

Julien Demouth

Sander Dieleman

Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Ziye Fan

Mathieu Germain

Matt Graham

Balázs Hidasi

Arjun Jain

Kai Jia

Mikhail Korobov

Vivek Kulkarni

Alex Lamb

Pascal Lamblin

Eric Larsen

César Laurent

Sean Lee

Simon Lefrancois

Simon Lemieux

Nicholas Léonard

Zhouhan Lin

Jesse A. Livezey

Cory Lorenz

Jeremiah Lowin

Qianli Ma

Pierre-Antoine Manzagol

Robert T. McGibbon

Mehdi Mirza

Alberto Orlandi

Christopher Pal

Razvan Pascanu

Mohammad Pezeshki

Colin Raffel

Daniel Renshaw

Matthew Rocklin

Adriana Romero

Markus Roth

Peter Sadowski

John Salvatier

François Savard

Jan Schlüter

John Schulman

Gabriel Schwartz

Iulian Vlad Serban

Dmitriy Serdyuk

Samira Shabanian

Etienne Simon

Sigurd Spieckermann

S. Ramana Subramanyam

Gijs van Tulder

Sebastian Urban

Dustin J. Webb

Matthew Willson

Lijun Xue

Theano is a Python library that allows to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficie… (see more)ntly. Since its introduction, it has been one of the most used CPU and GPU mathematical compilers - especially in the machine learning community - and has shown steady performance improvements. Theano is being actively and continuously developed since 2008, multiple frameworks have been built on top of it and it has been used to produce many state-of-the-art machine learning models. The present article is structured as follows. Section I provides an overview of the Theano software and its community. Section II presents the principal features of Theano and how to use them, and compares them with other similar projects. Section III focuses on recently-introduced functionalities and improvements. Section IV compares the performance of Theano against Torch7 and TensorFlow on several machine learning models. Section V discusses current limitations of Theano and potential ways of improving it.

2015-12-31

arXiv (preprint)

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