99 research outputs found
What determines pension insurance participation in China?: triangulation and the intertwined relationship among employers, employees and the government
The current study draws on the Advocacy Coalition Framework to examine what determines employees’ pension participation in China. For the purpose of exploring which employees actually receive pension coverage and why, econometric analysis was conducted with China’s Employer–Employee Matched Survey data (N = 3412). A variety of both individual factors, ranging from age and Hukou status to job characteristics, and macro factors, including interprovincial migration and level of economic development, are all found to predict insurance coverage. Qualitative research results contextualize these findings by discussing the often ambivalent and triangulated relations among employers, employees and government. These three groups primarily use shared core policy beliefs to structure their interactions in the form of advocacy coalitions. Various types of cross-coalition interaction, including negotiation, cooperation and conflict, are examined. These findings carry both theoretical and policy implications
Seen to Unseen: Exploring Compositional Generalization of Multi-Attribute Controllable Dialogue Generation
Existing controllable dialogue generation work focuses on the
single-attribute control and lacks generalization capability to
out-of-distribution multiple attribute combinations. In this paper, we explore
the compositional generalization for multi-attribute controllable dialogue
generation where a model can learn from seen attribute values and generalize to
unseen combinations. We propose a prompt-based disentangled controllable
dialogue generation model, DCG. It learns attribute concept composition by
generating attribute-oriented prompt vectors and uses a disentanglement loss to
disentangle different attributes for better generalization. Besides, we design
a unified reference-free evaluation framework for multiple attributes with
different levels of granularities. Experiment results on two benchmarks prove
the effectiveness of our method and the evaluation metric.Comment: ACL 2023 Main Conferenc
Vectorial structure of a hard-edged-diffracted four-petal Gaussian beam in the far field
Based on the vector angular spectrum method and the stationary phase method
and the fact that a circular aperture function can be expanded into a finite
sum of complex Gaussian functions, the analytical vectorial structure of a
four-petal Gaussian beam (FPGB) diffracted by a circular aperture is derived in
the far field. The energy flux distributions and the diffraction effect
introduced by the aperture are studied and illustrated graphically. Moreover,
the influence of the f-parameter and the truncation parameter on the
nonparaxiality is demonstrated in detail. In addition, the analytical formulas
obtained in this paper can degenerate into un-apertured case when the
truncation parameter tends to infinity. This work is beneficial to strengthen
the understanding of vectorial properties of the FPGB diffracted by a circular
aperture
Revisit Input Perturbation Problems for LLMs: A Unified Robustness Evaluation Framework for Noisy Slot Filling Task
With the increasing capabilities of large language models (LLMs), these
high-performance models have achieved state-of-the-art results on a wide range
of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the models' performance on
commonly-used benchmark datasets often fails to accurately reflect their
reliability and robustness when applied to real-world noisy data. To address
these challenges, we propose a unified robustness evaluation framework based on
the slot-filling task to systematically evaluate the dialogue understanding
capability of LLMs in diverse input perturbation scenarios. Specifically, we
construct a input perturbation evaluation dataset, Noise-LLM, which contains
five types of single perturbation and four types of mixed perturbation data.
Furthermore, we utilize a multi-level data augmentation method (character,
word, and sentence levels) to construct a candidate data pool, and carefully
design two ways of automatic task demonstration construction strategies
(instance-level and entity-level) with various prompt templates. Our aim is to
assess how well various robustness methods of LLMs perform in real-world noisy
scenarios. The experiments have demonstrated that the current open-source LLMs
generally achieve limited perturbation robustness performance. Based on these
experimental observations, we make some forward-looking suggestions to fuel the
research in this direction.Comment: Accepted at NLPCC 2023 (Oral Presentation
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