Semanlink - Internet AND NLP: use cases

1. synthetic queries
are generated for each passage from the target corpus (using an existing pre-trained [T5](tag:text_to_text_transfer_transformer)
encoder-decoder)
2. the generated queries are used for mining negative
passages (retrieving the most similar
paragraphs using an existing dense retrieval
model == hard negatives!)
3. the query-passage pairs are labeled by a cross-encoder and used to train the domain-adapted
dense retriever (using method described in [Hofstätter et al.,
2020](doc:2021/12/2010_02666_improving_efficien))

[Nils Reimers sur Twitter](doc:2021/12/nils_reimers_sur_twitter_do_), [GitHub](https://github.com/UKPLab/gpl),  by the author of [TSDAE](doc:2021/09/2104_06979_tsdae_using_trans)

Claims to improve "Doc2Query" [Document Expansion by Query Prediction](doc:2022/01/1904_08375_document_expansion): ([src](https://twitter.com/KexinWang2049/status/1471435779415150598))

> - GPL: Uses doc2query to construct synthetic data and does knowledge distillation (i.e. training) on that data.
> - Doc2query: Generates queries to extend the documents and use BM25 on top of them w/o training.

2021-12-15 A propos

Semantic search through a vectorized Wikipedia (SentenceBERT) with the Weaviate vector search engine

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2021-12-05 A propos

Sea - Internet-Augmented Dialogue Generation

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2021-11-25 A propos

Unsupervised Training for Sentence Transformers | Pinecone

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2021-11-24 A propos

[1705.06476] ParlAI: A Dialog Research Software Platform

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2021-11-21 A propos

Tutorial: Training AI bots to chat using MTurk and Facebook’s ParlAI | by Amazon Mechanical Turk | Happenings at MTurk

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2021-11-19 A propos

ParlAI

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ParlAI

2021-11-19 A propos

Blenderbot2

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2021-11-19 A propos

Multilingual Sentence Transformers | Pinecone

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2021-11-04 A propos

Train embeddings by using the Two-Tower built-in algorithm | Vertex AI

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> The Two-Tower model pairs similar types of objects, such as user profiles, search queries, web documents, answer passages, or images, in the same vector space, so that related items are close to each other. **The Two-Tower model consists of two encoder towers: the query tower and the candidate tower**. These towers embed independent items into a shared embedding space, which lets Matching Engine retrieve similarly matched items.
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> To train a Two-Tower model, Google uses **pairs of relevant items**. Each pair consists of a query document and a candidate document. Documents contain arbitrary customer-defined features including text, numeric, and categorical features. After training, the Two-Tower built-in algorithm exports two TensorFlow SavedModels—a query encoder and a candidate encoder... Given a query item, Matching Engine uses the query encoder to generate a query embedding, and uses the index to find similar candidate embeddings. Matching Engine uses the candidate encoder to index all the items and serve them by using an approximate nearest neighbor solution.

2021-11-04 A propos

Next-Gen Sentence Embeddings with Multiple Negatives Ranking Loss | Pinecone

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2021-10-27 A propos

Sentence Embeddings and Transformers | Pinecone

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2021-10-23 A propos

Building a sentence embedding index with fastText and BM25 | by David Mezzetti | Towards Data Science

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2021-09-30 A propos

neuml/txtai: Build AI-powered semantic search applications

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txtai

2021-09-30 A propos

Agostina Calabrese sur Twitter : Structured Sentiment Analysis as Dependency Graph Parsing

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2021-08-02 A propos

A Moderate Proposal for Radically Better AI-powered Web Search

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2021-07-10 A propos

[2004.04906] Dense Passage Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering

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2021-06-03 A propos

[2007.12603] IR-BERT: Leveraging BERT for Semantic Search in Background Linking for News Articles

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2021-04-12 A propos

[2007.15779] Domain-Specific Language Model Pretraining for Biomedical Natural Language Processing

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2021-04-11 A propos

exBERT: Extending Pre-trained Models with Domain-specific Vocabulary Under Constrained Training Resources - ACL Anthology

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**Focus on the Embedding of Domain-specific Vocabulary.**

> exBERT
adds a new domain-specific vocabulary and the corresponding
embedding layer, as well as a small
extension module to the original unmodified model

> a pretraining
method allowing **low-cost embedding of
domain-specific vocabulary in the context of an
existing large pre-trained model such as BERT**

> exBERT... explicitly incorporates
the new domain’s vocabulary, while being able to
**reuse the original pre-trained model’s weights as is**
to reduce required computation and training data. Specifically, exBERT extends BERT by augmenting
its embeddings for the original vocabulary with
new embeddings for the domain-specific vocabulary
via **a learned small “extension” module**. **The
output of the original and extension modules are
combined via a trainable weighted sum operation**

In a way similar to concept developed in

> [[1902.00751] Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning for NLP](doc:2021/04/1902_00751_parameter_efficien), but not in the fine-tuning paradigm.

[Github](https://github.com/cgmhaicenter/exBERT)

2021-04-11 A propos

[2002.08909] REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training

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**Augment language model pre-training with a retriever module**, which
is trained using the masked language modeling objective.

> To capture knowledge in a more modular and interpretable way, we augment language model pre-training with a latent knowledge retriever, which allows the model to retrieve and attend over documents from a large corpus such as Wikipedia, used during pre-training, fine-tuning and inference. **For the first time, we show how to pre-train such a knowledge retriever in an unsupervised manner**, using masked language modeling as the learning signal and backpropagating through a retrieval step that considers millions of documents

Hum, #TODO: parallel to be drawn with techniques in [KG-augmented Language Models](tag:knowledge_graph_augmented_language_models) which focus "on the problem of capturing declarative knowledge in the learned parameters of a language model."

[Google AI Blog Post](doc:2020/08/google_ai_blog_realm_integrat)

[Summary](https://joeddav.github.io/blog/2020/03/03/REALM.html) for the [Hugging Face awesome-papers reading group](doc:2021/03/huggingface_awesome_papers_pap)

2020-12-12 A propos

[2012.04584] Distilling Knowledge from Reader to Retriever for Question Answering

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> a method to train an information retrieval module for downstream tasks, **without using pairs of queries and documents as annotations**.

Uses two models (standard pipeline for open-domain QA):

- the first one retrieves documents from a large source of knowledge (the retriever)
- the second one processes the support documents to solve the task (the reader).

> First the retriever selects support passages in a large knowledge
source. Then these passages are processed by the reader, along with the question, to generate an
answer

Inspired by knowledge distillation: the reader model is the teacher and the retriever is the student.

> More precisely, we use a sequence-to-sequence model as the reader, and use
the attention activations over the input documents as synthetic labels to train the retriever. 
> (**train the retriever by learning to approximate the attention score of the reader**)

Refers to:

- [REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training](doc:2020/12/2002_08909_realm_retrieval_a)
- [Dehghani: Neural Ranking Models with Weak Supervision](doc:?uri=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1704.08803)

2020-12-11 A propos

Building a Faster and Accurate Search Engine on Custom Dataset with Transformers 🤗 | by Shivanand Roy | Analytics Vidhya | Sep, 2020 | Medium

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2020-10-22 A propos

Google AI Blog: REALM: Integrating Retrieval into Language Representation Models

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2020-08-13 A propos

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2020-07-10 A propos

Learning to Tag OOV Tokens by Integrating Contextual Representation and Background Knowledge (ACL Anthology 2020)

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Aim to leverage both contextual representation of input text (deep LMs)  and  knowledge derived
from curated KBs ([Wordnet](tag:wordnet)) to improve [slot tagging](tag:slot_tagging) in the presence of [out-of-vocab](tag:oov) words ([few-shot scenario](tag:few_shot_learning))

Method:

1. retrieve potentially relevant KB entities and
encode them into distributed representations that
describe global graph-structured information
2. BERT encoder
layer to capture context-aware representations of
the sequence and attend to the KB embeddings
using multi-level graph attention
3. integrate
BERT embeddings and the KB embeddings
to predict the slot type

Contributions:

1. feasibility of applying lexical ontology
to facilitate recognizing OOV words. First to consider the large-scale background
knowledge for enhancing context-aware
slot tagging models.
2. a knowledge integration mechanism that uses multi-level graph
attention to model explicit lexical relations.
3.experiments on two benchmark datasets

> our method makes a notable difference in a
scenario where samples are linguistically diverse,
and large vocab exists.

(Better improvements when using RNN than BERT, because BERT already contains a lot of background knowledge)

2020-07-04 A propos

Ranked Entities in Search Results at Google

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