26 research outputs found
3D Question Answering
Visual Question Answering (VQA) has witnessed tremendous progress in recent
years. However, most efforts only focus on the 2D image question answering
tasks. In this paper, we present the first attempt at extending VQA to the 3D
domain, which can facilitate artificial intelligence's perception of 3D
real-world scenarios. Different from image based VQA, 3D Question Answering
(3DQA) takes the color point cloud as input and requires both appearance and 3D
geometry comprehension ability to answer the 3D-related questions. To this end,
we propose a novel transformer-based 3DQA framework "3DQA-TR", which consists
of two encoders for exploiting the appearance and geometry information,
respectively. The multi-modal information of appearance, geometry, and the
linguistic question can finally attend to each other via a 3D-Linguistic Bert
to predict the target answers. To verify the effectiveness of our proposed 3DQA
framework, we further develop the first 3DQA dataset "ScanQA", which builds on
the ScanNet dataset and contains 6K questions, 30K answers for
scenes. Extensive experiments on this dataset demonstrate the obvious
superiority of our proposed 3DQA framework over existing VQA frameworks, and
the effectiveness of our major designs. Our code and dataset will be made
publicly available to facilitate the research in this direction.Comment: To Appear at IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
(TVCG) 202
LOGEN: Few-shot Logical Knowledge-Conditioned Text Generation with Self-training
Natural language generation from structured data mainly focuses on
surface-level descriptions, suffering from uncontrollable content selection and
low fidelity. Previous works leverage logical forms to facilitate logical
knowledge-conditioned text generation. Though achieving remarkable progress,
they are data-hungry, which makes the adoption for real-world applications
challenging with limited data. To this end, this paper proposes a unified
framework for logical knowledge-conditioned text generation in the few-shot
setting. With only a few seeds logical forms (e.g., 20/100 shot), our approach
leverages self-training and samples pseudo logical forms based on content and
structure consistency. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach can
obtain better few-shot performance than baselines.Comment: Work in progres
Contrastive Demonstration Tuning for Pre-trained Language Models
Pretrained language models can be effectively stimulated by textual prompts
or demonstrations, especially in low-data scenarios. Recent works have focused
on automatically searching discrete or continuous prompts or optimized
verbalizers, yet studies for the demonstration are still limited. Concretely,
the demonstration examples are crucial for an excellent final performance of
prompt-tuning. In this paper, we propose a novel pluggable, extensible, and
efficient approach named contrastive demonstration tuning, which is free of
demonstration sampling. Furthermore, the proposed approach can be: (i) Plugged
to any previous prompt-tuning approaches; (ii) Extended to widespread
classification tasks with a large number of categories. Experimental results on
16 datasets illustrate that our method integrated with previous approaches
LM-BFF and P-tuning can yield better performance. Code is available in
https://github.com/zjunlp/PromptKG/tree/main/research/Demo-Tuning.Comment: Work in progres
Joint Inference for Knowledge Base Population
Populating Knowledge Base (KB) with new knowledge facts from reliable text resources usually consists of linking name mentions to KB entities and identifying relationship between entity pairs. However, the task often suffers from errors propagating from upstream entity linkers to downstream relation extractors. In this paper, we propose a novel joint inference framework to allow interactions between the two subtasks and find an optimal assignment by addressing the coherence among preliminary local predictions: whether the types of entities meet the expectations of relations explicitly or implicitly, and whether the local predictions are globally compatible. We further measure the confidence of the extracted triples by looking at the details of the complete extraction process. Experiments show that the proposed framework can significantly reduce the error propagations thus obtain more reliable facts, and outperforms competitive baselines with state-of-the-art relation extraction models. ? 2014 Association for Computational Linguistics.EI
Gut microbiota alterations are associated with functional outcomes in patients of acute ischemic stroke with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
IntroductionPatients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) frequently have poor prognosis. Many evidences suggested that the changes in gut microbiota may play an important role in the occurrence and development of AIS patients with NAFLD. The purpose of this study was to explore microbial characteristics in patients of AIS with NAFLD, and the correlation between gut microbiota and functional outcomes.MethodsThe patients of AIS were recruited and divided into NAFLD group and non-NAFLD group. The stool samples and clinical information were collected. 16 s rRNA sequencing was used to analyze the characteristics of gut microbiota. The patients of AIS with NAFLD were followed-up to evaluate the functional outcomes of disease. The adverse outcomes were determined by modified Rankin scale (mRS) scores at 3 months after stroke. The diagnostic performance of microbial marker in predicting adverse outcomes was assessed by recipient operating characteristic (ROC) curves.ResultsOur results showed that the composition of gut microbiota between non-NAFLD group and NAFLD group were different. The characteristic bacteria in the patients of AIS with NAFLD was that the relative abundance of Dorea, Dialister, Intestinibacter and Flavonifractor were decreased, while the relative abundance of Enorma was increased. Moreover, the characteristic microbiota was correlated with many clinical parameters, such as mRS scores, mean arterial pressure and fasting blood glucose level. In addition, ROC models based on the characteristic microbiota or the combination of characteristic microbiota with independent risk factors could distinguish functional dependence patients and functional independence patients in AIS with NAFLD (area under curve is 0.765 and 0.882 respectively).ConclusionThese findings revealed the microbial characteristics in patients of AIS with NAFLD, and further demonstrated the predictive capability of characteristic microbiota for adverse outcomes in patients of AIS with NAFLD