cs.CL 1710.04087

Word Translation Without Parallel Data

Unsupervised cross-lingual word mapping via adversarial training and Procrustes refinement surpasses supervised methods, achieving 66.2% accuracy on English-Italian translation.

Alexis Conneau, Guillaume Lample, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato et al.

2017-10-11 58
math.ST 1710.03863

On Estimation of $L_{r}$-Norms in Gaussian White Noise Models

Proposes polynomial approximation and Hermite polynomial-based estimators for asymptotically minimax estimation of L_r norms in Gaussian white noise models over Nikolskii-Besov spaces.

Yanjun Han, Jiantao Jiao, Rajarshi Mukherjee

2017-10-11 45
cs.AI 1710.03740

Mixed Precision Training

Proposes mixed precision training using FP16 storage, FP32 master weights, and loss scaling, achieving accuracy parity with FP32 while halving memory usage.

Paulius Micikevicius, Sharan Narang, Jonah Alben et al.

2017-10-11 32
eess.SY 1710.02573

Tuning Windowed Chi-Squared Detectors for Sensor Attacks

Proposes windowed chi-squared detector for sensor falsification, analyzing attack-induced system state deviations and comparing with static and CUSUM detectors.

Tunga R, Carlos Murguia, Justin Ruths

2017-10-07 21
cs.RO 1710.02410

End-to-end Driving via Conditional Imitation Learning

Proposes conditional imitation learning with high-level commands, enabling end-to-end autonomous driving with improved controllability and robustness.

Felipe Codevilla, Matthias Müller, Antonio López et al.

2017-10-06 27
cs.LG 1709.10207

Provably Minimally-Distorted Adversarial Examples

Construct minimally distorted adversarial examples via formal verification, enhancing adversarial training robustness by 4.2x.

Nicholas Carlini, Guy Katz, Clark Barrett et al.

2017-09-29 6
cs.LG 1709.08267

HDLTex: Hierarchical Deep Learning for Text Classification

HDLTex employs hierarchical deep neural networks to improve multi-level text classification, outperforming traditional methods with up to 97.97% accuracy.

Kamran Kowsari, Donald E. Brown, Mojtaba Heidarysafa et al.

2017-09-25 32
cs.CV 1709.07871

FiLM: Visual Reasoning with a General Conditioning Layer

Introduces FiLM: Feature-wise Linear Modulation, reducing error on CLEVR from 4.5% to 2.3%, surpassing prior state-of-the-art in visual reasoning.

Ethan Perez, Florian Strub, Harm de Vries et al.

2017-09-23 4590 citations 29
cs.LG 1709.06560

Deep Reinforcement Learning that Matters

This paper systematically analyzes reproducibility issues in deep RL, highlighting the impact of randomness, environment variability, and implementation details.

Peter Henderson, Riashat Islam, Philip Bachman et al.

2017-09-19 54
cs.CV 1709.06158

Matterport3D: Learning from RGB-D Data in Indoor Environments

Matterport3D provides a large-scale indoor RGB-D panorama dataset with 10,800 views, enabling multi-task scene understanding including keypoint matching and semantic segmentation.

Angel Chang, Angela Dai, Thomas Funkhouser et al.

2017-09-19 29