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Learningtoreasonbyreadingtextandansweringquestions

MinjoonSeoNaturalLanguageProcessingGroup

UniversityofWashingtonMay26,2017

@Kakao Brain

Whatisreasoning?

SimpleQuestionAnsweringModel

Whatis“Hello”inFrench? Bonjour.

Examples

• Mostneuralmachinetranslationsystems(Choetal.,2014;Bahdanau etal., 2014)• Needveryhighhiddenstatesize(~1000)• Noneedtoquerythedatabase(context)à veryfast

• Mostdependency,constituencyparser(Chenetal.,2014;Kleinetal.,2003)• Sentimentclassification(Socher etal.,2013)

• Classifyingwhetherasentenceispositiveornegative• Mostneuralimageclassificationsystems

• Thequestionisalways“Whatisintheimage?”

• Mostclassificationsystems

SimpleQuestionAnsweringModel


Problem:parametricmodelhasfinitecapacity.

“Youcan’tevenfitasentenceintoasinglevector”-DanRoth

QAModelwithContext

English French

Hello Bonjour

Thankyou Merci


Context(KnowledgeBase)

Examples

• WikiQA(Yangetal.,2015)• QASent(Wangetal.,2007)• WebQuestions (Berant etal.,2013)• WikiAnswer (Wikia)• Free917(Cai andYates,2013)

• Manydeeplearningmodelswithexternalmemory (e.g.MemoryNetworks)

QAModelwithContext

Eats IsA

(Amphibian, insect) (Frog, amphibian)

(insect,flower) (Fly,insect)

Whatdoesafrogeat? Fly


Somethingismissing…

QAModelwithReasoningCapability

Eats IsA





FirstOrderLogicIsA(A, B)^IsA(C,D)^Eats(B,D)à Eats(A,C)

Examples

• Semanticparsing• GeoQuery (Krishnamurthyetal.,2013;Artzi etal.,2015)

• Sciencequestions• AristoChallenge(Clarketal.,2015)• ProcessBank (Berant etal.,2014)

• Machinecomprehension• MCTest (Richardsonetal.,2013)

“Vague”linebetweennon-reasoningQAandreasoningQA• Non-reasoning:• Therequiredinformationisexplicitinthecontext• Themodeloftenneedstohandlelexical/syntacticvariations

• Reasoning:• Therequiredinformationmaynot beexplicitinthecontext• Needtocombinemultiplefactstoderivetheanswer

• Thereisnoclearlinebetweenthetwo!

Ifourobjectiveisto“answer”difficultquestions…• Wecantrytomakethemachinemorecapableofreasoning(bettermodel)

• Wecantrytomakemoreinformationexplicitinthecontext(moredata)

OR

QAModelwithReasoningCapability

Eats IsA





FirstOrderLogicIsA(A, B)^IsA(C,D)^Eats(B,D)à Eats(A,C)

Whomakesthis?Tellmeit’s notme…

ReasoningQAModelwithUnstructuredData


Frogisanexampleofamphibian.Fliesareoneofthemostcommoninsectsaroundus.Insectsaregoodsourcesofproteinforamphibians.…

Contextinnaturallanguage

Iaminterestedin…

• Naturallanguageunderstanding• Naturallanguagehasdiversesurfaceforms(lexically,syntactically)

• Learningtoreadtextandreasonbyquestionanswering(dialog)• Textisunstructureddata• Derivingnewknowledgefromexistingknowledge

• End-to-endtraining• Minimizinghumanefforts

Reasoningcapability

NLUcapability End-to-end

AAAI2014EMNLP2015

ECCV2016CVPR2017

ICLR2017ACL2017

ICLR2017

Reasoningcapability


GeometryQA

GeometryQA

In the diagram at the right, circle O has a radius of 5, and CE = 2. Diameter AC is perpendicular to chord BD. What is the length of BD?

a) 2 b) 4 c) 6d) 8 e) 10

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GeometryQAModel

WhatisthelengthofBD? 8

In the diagram at the right, circle O has a radius of 5, and CE = 2. Diameter AC is perpendicular to chord BD.

FirstOrderLogic

Localcontext Globalcontext

Method

• Learntomapquestiontologicalform• Learntomaplocalcontexttologicalform• Textà logicalform• Diagramà logicalform

• Globalcontextisalreadyformal!• Manually defined• “IfAB=BC,then<CAB=<ACB”

• Solveronalllogicalforms• Wecreatedareasonablenumericalsolver

Mappingquestion/texttologicalform

IntriangleABC,lineDEisparallelwithlineAC,DBequals4,ADis8,andDEis5.FindAC.(a)9(b)10(c)12.5(d)15(e)17

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IsTriangle(ABC) ∧ Parallel(AC, DE) ∧

Equals(LengthOf(DB), 4) ∧ Equals(LengthOf(AD), 8) ∧ Equals(LengthOf(DE), 5) ∧ Find(LengthOf(AC))

TextInput

Logicalform

Difficulttodirectlymaptexttoalonglogicalform!

Mappingquestion/texttologicalformIntriangleABC,lineDEisparallelwithlineAC,DBequals4,ADis8,andDEis5.FindAC.(a)9(b)10(c)12.5(d)15(e)17

B

D E

A C

IsTriangle(ABC)Parallel(AC, DE)Parallel(AC, DB)Equals(LengthOf(DB), 4)Equals(LengthOf(AD), 8)Equals(LengthOf(DE), 5)Equals(4, LengthOf(AD))…

Over-generatedliterals0.960.910.740.970.940.940.31…

Textscores1.000.990.02n/an/an/an/a…

Diagramscores

Selectedsubset

TextInput

Logicalform

Ourmethod

IsTriangle(ABC) ∧ Parallel(AC, DE) ∧

Equals(LengthOf(DB), 4) ∧ Equals(LengthOf(AD), 8) ∧ Equals(LengthOf(DE), 5) ∧ Find(LengthOf(AC))

Numericalsolver

Literal EquationEquals(LengthOf(AB),d) (Ax-Bx)2+(Ay-By)2-d2 =0Parallel(AB,CD) (Ax-Bx)(Cy-Dy)-(Ay-By)(Cx-Dx)=0PointLiesOnLine(B,AC) (Ax-Bx)(By-Cy)-(Ay-By)(Bx-Cx)=0Perpendicular(AB,CD) (Ax-Bx)(Cx-Dx)+(Ay-By)(Cy-Dy)=0

• Findthesolutiontotheequationsystem• Useoff-the-shelfnumericalminimizers(WalesandDoye,1997;Kraft,1988)

• Numericalsolvercanchoosenot toanswerquestion

• Translateliteralstonumericequations

Dataset• Trainingquestions(67questions,121sentences)• Seoetal.,2014• Highschoolgeometryquestions

• Testquestions (119questions,215sentences)• Wecollectedthem• SAT(UScollegeentranceexam)geometryquestions

• Wemanuallyannotatedthetextparseofallquestions

Results(EMNLP2015)

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Rule-based GeoS Studentaverage

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***0.25penaltyforincorrectanswer

Demo(geometry.allenai.org/demo)

Limitations

• Datasetissmall• Requiredlevelofreasoningisveryhigh• Alotofmanualefforts(annotations,ruledefinitions,etc.)• End-to-endsystemissimplyhopeless

• Collectmoredata?• Changetask?• Curriculumlearning?(Domorehopeful tasksfirst?)

Reasoningcapability


DiagramQA

DiagramQA

Q:Theprocessofwaterbeingheatedbysunandbecominggasiscalled

A:Evaporation

IsDQAsubsetofVQA?

• Diagramsandrealimagesareverydifferent• Diagramcomponentsaresimplerthanrealimages• Diagramcontainsalotofinformationinasingleimage• Diagramsarefew(whereasrealimagesarealmostinfinitelymany)

Problem

Whatcomesbeforesecondfeed? 8

Difficulttolatentlylearnrelationships

Strategy


DiagramGraph

DiagramParsing

QuestionAnswering

Attentionvisualization

Results(ECCV2016)

Method Trainingdata Accuracy

Random(expected) - 25.00

LSTM+CNN VQA 29.06

LSTM+CNN AI2D 32.90

Ours AI2D 38.47

Limitations

• Youcan’treallycallthisreasoning…• Rathermatchtingalgorithm• Nocomplexinferenceinvolved

• Youneedalotofpriorknowledgetoanswersomequestions!• E.g.“Flyisaninsect”,“Frogisanamphibian”

TextbookQAtextbookqa.org (CVPR2017)

Reasoningcapability


MachineComprehension

QuestionAnsweringTask(StanfordQuestionAnsweringDataset,2016)

Q:WhichNFLteamrepresentedtheAFCatSuperBowl50?

A:DenverBroncos

WhyNeuralAttention?

Q:WhichNFLteamrepresentedtheAFCatSuperBowl50?

Allowsadeeplearningarchitecturetofocusonthemostrelevantphraseofthecontexttothequery

inadifferentiablemanner.

OurModel:Bi-directionalAttentionFlow(BiDAF)

Attention

Modeling

MLP+softmax

𝑖$ = 0 𝑖' = 1

BarakObamaisthepresidentoftheU.S. WholeadstheUnitedStates?

Attention

(Bidirectional)AttentionFlow

Modeling Layer

Output Layer

Attention Flow Layer

Phrase Embed Layer

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Context2Query

Query2Context

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LSTM + SoftmaxDense + Softmax

Context Query

Query2Context and Context2QueryAttention

WordEmbedding

GLOVE Char-CNN

Character Embed Layer

CharacterEmbedding

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Char/WordEmbeddingLayers

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Context Query


WordEmbedding

GLOVE Char-CNN


CharacterEmbedding

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CharacterandWordEmbedding

• Wordembeddingisfragileagainstunseenwords• Charembeddingcan’teasilylearnsemanticsofwords• Useboth!

• CharembeddingasproposedbyKim(2015)

Seattle

SeattleCNN

+MaxPooling

concat

Embeddingvector

PhraseEmbeddingLayer

Modeling Layer

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Phrase Embed Layer

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Context2Query

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Context Query


WordEmbedding

GLOVE Char-CNN


CharacterEmbedding

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PhraseEmbeddingLayer• Inputs:thechar/wordembeddingofqueryandcontextwords• Outputs:wordrepresentationsawareoftheirneighbors(phrase-awarewords)

• ApplybidirectionalRNN(LSTM)forbothqueryandcontext

Modeling Layer

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Context Query


WordEmbedding

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CharacterEmbedding

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Context Query

AttentionLayer

Modeling Layer

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Context Query


WordEmbedding

GLOVE Char-CNN


CharacterEmbedding

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AttentionLayer

• Inputs:phrase-awarecontextandquerywords• Outputs:query-awarerepresentationsofcontextwords

• Context-to-queryattention:Foreach(phrase-aware)contextword,choosethemostrelevantwordfromthe(phrase-aware)querywords• Query-to-contextattention:Choosethecontextwordthatismostrelevanttoanyofquerywords.

Modeling Layer

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Phrase Embed Layer

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Context Query


WordEmbedding

GLOVE Char-CNN


CharacterEmbedding

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Context-to-QueryAttention(C2Q)

Q:WholeadstheUnitedStates?

C:BarakObamaisthepresidentoftheUSA.

Foreachcontextword,findthemostrelevantqueryword.

Query-to-ContextAttention(Q2C)

WhileSeattle’sweatherisveryniceinsummer,itsweatherisveryrainyinwinter,makingitoneofthemostgloomycitiesintheU.S.LAis…

Q:Whichcityisgloomyinwinter?

ModelingLayer

Modeling Layer

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Phrase Embed Layer

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Context Query


WordEmbedding

GLOVE Char-CNN


CharacterEmbedding

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ModelingLayer

• Attentionlayer:modelinginteractionsbetweenqueryandcontext• Modelinglayer:modelinginteractionswithin(query-aware)contextwordsviaRNN(LSTM)

• Divisionoflabor:letattentionandmodelinglayerssolelyfocusontheirowntasks• Weexperimentallyshowthatthisleadstoabetterresultthanintermixingattentionandmodeling

OutputLayer

Modeling Layer

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Phrase Embed Layer

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Context Query


WordEmbedding

GLOVE Char-CNN


CharacterEmbedding

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Training

• Minimizesthenegativelogprobabilitiesofthetruestartindexandthetrueendindex

𝑦*+ Trueendindexofexamplei

𝑦*, Truestartindexofexamplei

𝐩+ Probabilitydistributionofstopindex

𝐩, Probabilitydistributionofstartindex

Previouswork

• Usingneuralattentionasacontroller(Xiong etal.,2016)• UsingneuralattentionwithinRNN(Wang&Jiang,2016)• Mostoftheseattentionsareuni-directional

• BiDAF (ourmodel)• usesneuralattentionasalayer,• Isseparatedfrommodelingpart(RNN),• Isbidirectional

VGG-16

Modeling Layer

Output Layer


Phrase Embed Layer

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LSTM

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Context Query


WordEmbedding

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CharacterEmbedding

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BiDAF (ours)

ImageClassifierandBiDAF

StanfordQuestionAnsweringDataset(SQuAD)(Rajpurkar etal.,2016)

• MostpopulararticlesfromWikipedia• QuestionsandanswersfromTurkers• 90ktrain,10kdev,?test(hidden)• Answermustlieinthecontext• Twometrics:ExactMatch(EM)andF1

SQuAD Results(http://stanford-qa.com)asofDec2

(ICLR2017)

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NoCharEmbedding NoWordEmbedding NoC2QAttention NoQ2CAttention DynamicAttention FullModel

EM F1

Ablationsondevdata

InteractiveDemo

http://allenai.github.io/bi-att-flow/demo

AttentionVisualizations

There%are%13 natural%reserves%in%Warsaw%–among%others%,%Bielany Forest%,%KabatyWoods%,%Czerniaków Lake%.%About%15%kilometres (%9%miles%)%from%Warsaw%,%the%Vistula%river%'s%environment%changes%strikingly%and%features%a%perfectly%preserved%ecosystem%,%with%a%habitat%of%animals%that%includes%the%otter%,%beaver%and%hundreds%of%bird%species%.%There%are%also%several%lakes%in%Warsaw%– mainly%the%oxbow%lakes%,%like%Czerniaków Lake%,%the%lakes%in%the%Łazienkior%Wilanów Parks%,%Kamionek Lake%.%There%are%lot%of%small%lakes%in%the%parks%,%but%only%a%few%are%permanent%– the%majority%are%emptied%before%winter%to%clean%them%of%plants%and%sediments%.

Howmany

naturalreserves

arethere

inWarsaw

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[]hundreds, few, among, 15, several, only, 13, 9natural, ofreservesare, are, are, are, are, includes[][]Warsaw, Warsaw, Warsawinter species

Where

did

Super

Bowl

50

take

place

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Super%Bowl%50%was%an%American%football%game%to%determine%the%champion%of%the%National%Football%League%(%NFL%)%for%the%2015%season%.%The%American%Football%Conference%(%AFC%)%champion% Denver%Broncos%defeated%the%National%Football%Conference%(%NFC%)%champion%Carolina%Panthers%24–10%to%earn%their%third%Super%Bowl%title%.%The%game%was%played%on%February%7%,%2016%,%at%Levi%'s%Stadium%in%the%San%Francisco%Bay%Area%at%Santa%Clara%,%California .%As%this%was%the%50th%Super%Bowl%,%the%league%emphasized%the%"%golden%anniversary%"%with%various%goldZthemed%initiatives%,%as%well%as%temporarily%suspending%the%tradition%of%naming%each%Super%Bowl%game%with%Roman%numerals%(%under%which%the%game%would%have%been%known%as%"%Super%Bowl%L%"%)%,%so%that%the%logo%could%prominently%feature%the%Arabic%numerals%50%.

at, the, at, Stadium, Levi, in, Santa, Ana

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Super, Super, Super, Super, Super

Bowl, Bowl, Bowl, Bowl, Bowl

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initiatives

EmbeddingVisualizationatWordvsPhraseLayers

January

September

August

July

May

may

effect and may result in

the state may not aid

of these may be more

Opening in May 1852 at

debut on May 5 ,

from 28 January to 25

but by September had been

Howdoesitcomparewithfeature-basedmodels?

CNN/DailyMail ClozeTest(Hermannetal.,2015)

• ClozeTest(PredictingMissingwords)• ArticlesfromCNN/DailyMail• Human-writtensummaries• Missingwordsarealwaysentities• CNN– 300karticle-querypairs• DailyMail – 1Marticle-querypairs

CNN/DailyMail ClozeTestResults

TransferLearning(ACL2017)

SomelimitationsofSQuAD

Reasoningcapability


bAbIQA&Dialog

ReasoningQuestionAnswering

DialogSystem

U:CanyoubookatableinRomeinItalianCuisine

S:Howmanypeopleinyourparty?

U:Forfourpeopleplease.

S:Whatpricerangeareyoulookingfor?

DialogtaskvsQA

• DialogsystemcanbeconsideredasQAsystem:• Lastuser’sutteranceisthequery• Allpreviousconversationsarecontexttothequery• Thesystem’snextresponseistheanswertothequery

• Posesafewuniquechallenges• Dialogsystemrequirestrackingstates• Dialogsystemneedstolookatmultiplesentencesintheconversation• Buildingend-to-enddialogsystemismorechallenging

Ourapproach:Query-Reduction

<START>Sandragottheapplethere.Sandradroppedtheapple.Danieltooktheapplethere.Sandrawenttothehallway.Danieljourneyedtothegarden.

Q:Whereistheapple?

Reducedquery:

Whereistheapple?WhereisSandra?WhereisSandra?WhereisDaniel?WhereisDaniel?WhereisDaniel?à garden

A:garden

Query-ReductionNetworks• Reducethequeryintoaneasier-to-answerqueryoverthesequenceofstate-changingtriggers(sentences),invectorspace

Sandragottheapplethere.

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Where isSandra?

Sandradroppedtheapple

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Danieltooktheapplethere.

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Where isDaniel?

Sandrawenttothehallway.

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Danieljourneyedtothegarden.

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Where isDaniel?

Whereistheapple?

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garden

Where isSandra?

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QRNCell

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𝐱𝑡 𝐪𝑡

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𝐳𝑡 𝐡𝑡

sentence query

reducedquery(hiddenstate)

updategatecandidatereducedquery

updatefunc reductionfunc

CharacteristicsofQRN

• Updategatecanbeconsideredaslocalattention• QRNchoosestoconsider/ignoreeachcandidatereducedquery• Thedecisionismadelocally(asopposedtoglobalsoftmax attention)

• SubclassofRecurrentNeuralNetwork(RNN)• Twoinputs,hiddenstate,gatingmechanism• Abletohandlesequentialdependency(attentioncannot)

• Simplerrecurrentupdateenablesparallelization overtime• Candidatehiddenstate(reducedquery)iscomputedfrominputsonly• Hiddenstatecanbeexplicitlycomputedasafunctionofinputs

Parallelizationcomputedfrominputsonly,socanbetriviallyparallelized

Canbeexplicitlyexpressedasthegeometricsumofpreviouscandidatehiddenstates

Parallelization

CharacteristicsofQRN

• Updategatecanbeconsideredaslocalattention• SubclassofRecurrentNeuralNetwork(RNN)• Simplerrecurrentupdateenablesparallelization overtime

QRNsitsbetweenneuralattentionmechanismandrecurrentneuralnetworks,takingtheadvantageofbothparadigms.

bAbI QADataset

• 20 differenttasks• 1kstory-questionpairsforeachtask(10kalsoavailable)• Syntheticallygenerated• Manyquestionsrequirelookingatmultiplesentences• Forend-to-endsystemsupervisedbyanswersonly

What’sdifferentfromSQuAD?

• Synthetic• Morethanlexical/syntacticunderstanding• Differentkindsofinferences• induction,deduction,counting,pathfinding,etc.

• Reasoningovermultiplesentences• InterestingtestbedtowardsdevelopingcomplexQAsystem(anddialogsystem)

bAbI QAResults(1k)(ICLR2017)

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DialogDatasets

• bAbI DialogDataset• Synthetic• 5differenttasks• 1kdialogsforeachtask

• DSTC2*Dataset• Realdataset• EvaluationmetricisdifferentfromoriginalDSTC2:responsegenerationinsteadof“state-tracking”• Eachdialogis800+utterances• 2407possibleresponses

bAbI DialogResults(OOV)

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bAbI QAVisualization

𝑧/ = Localattention(updategate)atlayerl

DSTC2(Dialog)Visualization

𝑧/ = Localattention(updategate)atlayerl

Reasoningcapability


Isthispossible?

Reasoningcapability


Orthis?

So… Whatshouldwedo?

• Disclaimer:completelysubjective!

• Logic(reasoning)isdiscrete• Modelinglogicwithdifferentiablemodelishard• Relaxation:eitherhardtooptimizeorconvergetobadoptimum(lowgeneralizationerror)• Estimation:Low-biasorlow-variancemethodsareproposed(Williams,1992;Jangetal.,2017),butimprovementsarenotsubstantial.• Bigdata:howmuchdoweneed?Exponentiallymany?• Perhapsnewparadigmisneeded…

“Ifyougotabilliondollarstospendonahugeresearchproject,whatwouldyouliketodo?”

“I'dusethebilliondollarstobuildaNASA-sizeprogramfocusingonnaturallanguageprocessing(NLP),inallofitsglory(semantics,pragmatics,etc).”

MichaelJordanProfessorofComputerScienceUCBerkeley

TowardsArtificialGeneralIntelligence…

Naturallanguageisthebesttooltodescribeandcommunicate“thoughts”

Askingandansweringquestionsisaneffectivewaytodevelopdeeper“thoughts”

Thankyou!

• [email protected]• http://seominjoon.github.io

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