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In this task, you are given a part of an article. Your task is to generate headline (title) for this text. Preferred headlines are under fifteen words.
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Reactive (memoryless) policies are sufficient in completely observable Markov decision pro­ cesses (MDPs), but some kind of memory is usually necessary for optimal control of a par­ tially observable MDP. Policies with finite mem­ ory can be represented as finite-state automata. In this paper, we extend Baird and Moore's YAPS algorithm to the problem of learning gen­ eral finite-state automata. Because it performs stochastic gradient descent, this algorithm can be shown to converge to a locally optimal finite­ state controller. We provide the details of the algorithm and then consider the question of un­ der what conditions stochastic gradient descent will outperform exact gradient descent. We con­ clude with empirical results comparing the per­ formance of stochastic and exact gradient de­ scent, and showing the ability of our algorithm to extract the useful information contained in the sequence of past observations to compensate for the lack of observability at each time-step.
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Learning Finite-State Controllers for Partially Observable Environments


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Speaker intent detection and semantic slot filling are two critical tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) for dialogue systems. In this paper, we describe a recurrent neural network (RNN) model that jointly performs intent detection, slot filling, and language modeling. The neural network model keeps updating the intent prediction as word in the transcribed utterance arrives and uses it as contextual features in the joint model. Evaluation of the language model and online SLU model is made on the ATIS benchmarking data set. On language modeling task, our joint model achieves 11.8% relative reduction on perplexity comparing to the independent training language model. On SLU tasks, our joint model outperforms the independent task training model by 22.3% on intent detection error rate, with slight degradation on slot filling F1 score. The joint model also shows advantageous performance in the realistic ASR settings with noisy speech input.
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Joint Online Spoken Language Understanding and Language Modeling with Recurrent Neural Networks


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The paper systematically studies the impact of a range of recent advances in CNN architectures and learning methods on the object categorization (ILSVRC) problem. The evalution tests the influence of the following choices of the architecture: non-linearity (ReLU, ELU, maxout, compatability with batch normalization), pooling variants (stochastic, max, average, mixed), network width, classifier design (convolutional, fully-connected, SPP), image pre-processing, and of learning parameters: learning rate, batch size, cleanliness of the data, etc. The performance gains of the proposed modifications are first tested individually and then in combination. The sum of individual gains is bigger than the observed improvement when all modifications are introduced, but the ”deficit” is small suggesting independence of their benefits. We show that the use of 128x128 pixel images is sufficient to make qualitative conclusions about optimal network structure that hold for the full size Caffe and VGG nets. The results are obtained an order of magnitude faster than with the standard 224 pixel images.
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Systematic evaluation of CNN advances on the ImageNet