Simple and principled uncertainty estimation with deterministic deep learning via distance awareness

J Liu, Z Lin, S Padhy, D Tran… - Advances in neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Bayesian neural networks (BNN) and deep ensembles are principled approaches to
estimate the predictive uncertainty of a deep learning model. However their practicality in …

A simple approach to improve single-model deep uncertainty via distance-awareness

JZ Liu, S Padhy, J Ren, Z Lin, Y Wen, G Jerfel… - Journal of Machine …, 2023 - jmlr.org
Accurate uncertainty quantification is a major challenge in deep learning, as neural
networks can make overconfident errors and assign high confidence predictions to out-of …

A survey of intent classification and slot-filling datasets for task-oriented dialog

S Larson, K Leach - arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.13211, 2022 - arxiv.org
Interest in dialog systems has grown substantially in the past decade. By extension, so too
has interest in developing and improving intent classification and slot-filling models, which …

Prototyping a Chatbot for site managers using building information modeling (BIM) and natural language understanding (NLU) techniques

WY Lin - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Amidst the domestic labor shortage and worldwide pandemic in recent years, there has
been an urgent need for a digital means that allows construction site workers, particularly …

Discriminant Distance-Aware Representation on Deterministic Uncertainty Quantification Methods

J Zhang, K Das, S Kumar - International Conference on …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
Uncertainty estimation is a crucial aspect of deploying dependable deep learning models in
safety-critical systems. In this study, we introduce a novel and efficient method for …

[HTML][HTML] STABC-IR: An air target intention recognition method based on bidirectional gated recurrent unit and conditional random field with space-time attention …

W Siyuan, W Gang, FU Qiang, S Yafei, LIU Jiayi… - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The battlefield environment is changing rapidly, and fast and accurate identification of the
tactical intention of enemy targets is an important condition for gaining a decision-making …

Incorporating Different Verbal Cues to Improve Text-Based Computer-Delivered Health Messaging

SR Cox - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13633, 2024 - arxiv.org
The ubiquity of smartphones has led to an increase in on demand healthcare being
supplied. For example, people can share their illness-related experiences with others similar …

Crowdsourcing syntactically diverse paraphrases with diversity-aware prompts and workflows

J Ramírez, M Baez, A Berro, B Benatallah… - … Conference on Advanced …, 2022 - Springer
Task-oriented bots (or simply bots) enable humans to perform tasks in natural language. For
example, to book a restaurant or check the weather. Crowdsourcing has become a …

An extensible and reusable pipeline for automated utterance paraphrases

A Berro, MAYZ Fard, M Baez, B Benatallah… - Lecture Notes in …, 2021 - hal.science
In this demonstration paper we showcase an extensible and reusable pipeline for automatic
paraphrase generation, ie, reformulating sentences using different words. Capturing the …

Say What? Real-time Linguistic Guidance Supports Novices in Writing Utterances for Conversational Agent Training

R Ostrand, K Brimijoin, D Piorkowski, J He… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Writing utterances to train conversational agents can be a challenging and time-consuming
task, and usually requires substantial expertise, meaning that novices face a steep learning …