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December 15, 2015
Pedro Oliveira, Ronan Collobert, Piotr Dollar

In this paper, we propose a new way to generate object proposals, introducing an approach based on a discriminative convolutional network. Our model obtains substantially higher object recall using fewer proposals. We also show that our model is able to generalize to unseen categories it has not seen during training.

November 20, 2015
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Sumit Chopra, Michael Auli, Wojciech Zaremba

This work aims at improving text generation for applications such as summarization, machine translation and image captioning. The key idea is to learn to predict not just the next word but a whole sequence of words, and to train end-to-end at the sequence level.

October 4, 2015
Chunqiang (CQ) Tang, Thawan Kooburat, Pradeep Venkat, Akshay Chander, Zhe Wen, Aravind Narayanan, Patrick Dowell, Robert Karl

This paper gives a comprehensive description of the use cases, design, implementation, and usage statistics of a suite of tools that manage Facebook’s configuration end-to-end...

September 17, 2015
Fei Huang

Arabic dialect classification has been an important and challenging problem for Arabic language processing, especially for social media text analysis and machine translation. In this paper we propose an approach to improving Arabic dialect classification with semi-supervised learning: multiple classifiers are trained with weakly supervised, strongly supervised, and unsupervised data. Their combination yields significant and consistent improvement on two different test sets.