Neural Machine Translation with Dynamic Graph Convolutional Decoder

Existing wisdom demonstrates the significance of syntactic knowledge for the improvement of neural machine translation models. However, most previous works merely focus on leveraging the source syntax in the well-known encoder-decoder framework. In sharp contrast, this paper proposes an end-to-end translation architecture from the (graph \& sequence) structural inputs to the (graph \& sequence) outputs, where the target translation and its corresponding syntactic graph are jointly modeled and generated. We propose a customized Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Decoder (Dyn-STGCD), which is designed for consuming source feature representations and their syntactic graph, and auto-regressively generating the target syntactic graph and tokens simultaneously. We conduct extensive experiments on five widely acknowledged translation benchmarks, verifying that our proposal achieves consistent improvements over baselines and other syntax-aware variants.

HHF: Hashing-guided Hinge Function for Deep Hashing Retrieval

Deep hashing has shown promising performance in large-scale image retrieval. However, latent codes extracted by \textbf{D}eep \textbf{N}eural \textbf{N}etwork (DNN) will inevitably lose semantic information during the binarization process, which damages the retrieval efficiency and make it challenging. Although many existing approaches perform regularization to alleviate quantization errors, we figure out an incompatible conflict between the metric and quantization losses. The metric loss penalizes the inter-class distances to push different classes unconstrained far away. Worse still, it tends to map the latent code deviate from ideal binarization point and generate severe ambiguity in the binarization process. Based on the minimum distance of the binary linear code, \textbf{H}ashing-guided \textbf{H}inge \textbf{F}unction (HHF) is proposed to avoid such conflict. In detail, we carefully design a specific inflection point, which relies on the hash bit length and category numbers to balance metric learning and quantization learning. Such a modification prevents the network from falling into local metric optimal minima in deep hashing. Extensive experiments in CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, ImageNet, and MS-COCO show that HHF consistently outperforms existing techniques, and is robust and flexible to transplant into other methods.

Acoustic anomaly detection via latent regularized gaussian mixture generative adversarial networks

Acoustic anomaly detection aims at distinguishing abnormal acoustic signals from the normal ones. It suffers from the class imbalance issue and the lacking in the abnormal instances. In addition, collecting all kinds of abnormal or unknown samples for training purpose is impractical and timeconsuming. In this paper, a novel Gaussian Mixture Generative Adversarial Network (GMGAN) is proposed under semi-supervised learning framework, in which the underlying structure of training data is not only captured in spectrogram reconstruction space, but also can be further restricted in the space of latent representation in a discriminant manner. Experiments show that our model has clear superiority over previous methods, and achieves the state-of-the-art results on DCASE dataset.