Graded type systems, such as the one underlying the Granule programming language, allow various different properties of a program's behaviour to be tracked via annotating types with additional information, which we call grades. One example of such a property, often used as a case study in prior work on graded types, is information flow control, in which types are graded by a lattice of security levels allowing noninterference properties to be automatically verified and enforced. These typically focus on one particular aspect of security, however, known as confidentiality; public outputs are prohibited from depending on private inputs. Integrity, a property specifying that trusted outputs must not depend on untrusted inputs, has not been examined in this context. This short paper aims to remedy this omission. It is well-known that confidentiality and integrity are in some sense dual properties, but simply reversing the ordering of the security lattice turns out to be unsatisfactory for the purpose of combining both kinds of property in a single system, at least in our setting. We analogize the situation to recent work on embedding both linear and uniqueness types in a graded framework, and use this framing to demonstrate that we can enforce both integrity and confidentiality alongside one another. The main idea is to add an additional flavour of modality annotated for integrity, such that the existing graded comonad for tracking confidentiality now also acts as a relative monad over the new modality, with rules allowing information to flow from trusted to public to private.
This paper focuses on causal representation learning (CRL) under a general nonparametric causal latent model and a general transformation model that maps the latent data to the observational data. It establishes \textbf{identifiability} and \textbf{achievability} results using two hard \textbf{uncoupled} interventions per node in the latent causal graph. Notably, one does not know which pair of intervention environments have the same node intervened (hence, uncoupled environments). For identifiability, the paper establishes that perfect recovery of the latent causal model and variables is guaranteed under uncoupled interventions. For achievability, an algorithm is designed that uses observational and interventional data and recovers the latent causal model and variables with provable guarantees for the algorithm. This algorithm leverages score variations across different environments to estimate the inverse of the transformer and, subsequently, the latent variables. The analysis, additionally, recovers the existing identifiability result for two hard \textbf{coupled} interventions, that is when metadata about the pair of environments that have the same node intervened is known. It is noteworthy that the existing results on non-parametric identifiability require assumptions on interventions and additional faithfulness assumptions. This paper shows that when observational data is available, additional faithfulness assumptions are unnecessary.
Current approaches in paraphrase generation and detection heavily rely on a single general similarity score, ignoring the intricate linguistic properties of language. This paper introduces two new tasks to address this shortcoming by considering paraphrase types - specific linguistic perturbations at particular text positions. We name these tasks Paraphrase Type Generation and Paraphrase Type Detection. Our results suggest that while current techniques perform well in a binary classification scenario, i.e., paraphrased or not, the inclusion of fine-grained paraphrase types poses a significant challenge. While most approaches are good at generating and detecting general semantic similar content, they fail to understand the intrinsic linguistic variables they manipulate. Models trained in generating and identifying paraphrase types also show improvements in tasks without them. In addition, scaling these models further improves their ability to understand paraphrase types. We believe paraphrase types can unlock a new paradigm for developing paraphrase models and solving tasks in the future.
The growing need for instant spoken language transcription and translation is driven by increased global communication and cross-lingual interactions. This has made offering translations in multiple languages essential for user applications. Traditional approaches to automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation (ST) have often relied on separate systems, leading to inefficiencies in computational resources, and increased synchronization complexity in real time. In this paper, we propose a streaming Transformer-Transducer (T-T) model able to jointly produce many-to-one and one-to-many transcription and translation using a single decoder. We introduce a novel method for joint token-level serialized output training based on timestamp information to effectively produce ASR and ST outputs in the streaming setting. Experiments on {it,es,de}->en prove the effectiveness of our approach, enabling the generation of one-to-many joint outputs with a single decoder for the first time.
We introduce a novel data generation method for contradiction detection, which leverages the generative power of large language models as well as linguistic rules. Our vision is to provide a condensed corpus of prototypical contradictions, allowing for in-depth linguistic analysis as well as efficient language model fine-tuning. To this end, we instruct the generative models to create contradicting statements with respect to descriptions of specific contradiction types. In addition, the model is also instructed to come up with completely new contradiction typologies. As an auxiliary approach, we use linguistic rules to construct simple contradictions such as those arising from negation, antonymy and numeric mismatch. We find that our methods yield promising results in terms of coherence and variety of the data. Further studies, as well as manual refinement are necessary to make use of this data in a machine learning setup.
Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have simplified text generation tasks, yet their inherent privacy risks are increasingly garnering attention. While differential privacy techniques have been successfully applied to text classification tasks, the resultant semantic bias makes them unsuitable for text generation. Homomorphic encryption inference methods have also been introduced. However, the significant computational and communication costs limit their viability. Furthermore, closed-source, black-box models such as GPT-4 withhold their architecture, thwarting certain privacy-enhancing strategies such as splitting inference into local and remote and then adding noise when communicating. To overcome these challenges, we introduce PrivInfer, the first practical privacy-preserving inference framework for black-box LLMs in text generation. PrivInfer employs differential privacy methods to generate perturbed prompts for remote LLMs inference and extracts the meaningful response from the remote perturbed results. We also introduce RANTEXT, a differential privacy mechanism within the perturbation module of PrivInfer specifically for LLMs that leverages random adjacency in text perturbations. Experimental results indicate that PrivInfer is comparable to GPT-4 in terms of text generation quality while protecting privacy, and RANTEXT provides enhanced privacy protection against three types of differential privacy attacks, including our newly introduced GPT inference attack, compared to baseline methods.
Large language models (LLMs) are a promising avenue for machine translation (MT). However, current LLM-based MT systems are brittle: their effectiveness highly depends on the choice of few-shot examples and they often require extra post-processing due to overgeneration. Alternatives such as finetuning on translation instructions are computationally expensive and may weaken in-context learning capabilities, due to overspecialization. In this paper, we provide a closer look at this problem. We start by showing that adapter-based finetuning with LoRA matches the performance of traditional finetuning while reducing the number of training parameters by a factor of 50. This method also outperforms few-shot prompting and eliminates the need for post-processing or in-context examples. However, we show that finetuning generally degrades few-shot performance, hindering adaptation capabilities. Finally, to obtain the best of both worlds, we propose a simple approach that incorporates few-shot examples during finetuning. Experiments on 10 language pairs show that our proposed approach recovers the original few-shot capabilities while keeping the added benefits of finetuning.
In typed functional languages, one can typically only manipulate data in a type-safe manner if it first has been deserialised into an in-memory tree represented as a graph of nodes-as-structs and subterms-as-pointers. We demonstrate how we can use QTT as implemented in \idris{} to define a small universe of serialised datatypes, and provide generic programs allowing users to process values stored contiguously in buffers. Our approach allows implementors to prove the full functional correctness by construction of the IO functions processing the data stored in the buffer.
We introduce two new stochastic conjugate frameworks for a class of nonconvex and possibly also nonsmooth optimization problems. These frameworks are built upon Stochastic Recursive Gradient Algorithm (SARAH) and we thus refer to them as Acc-Prox-CG-SARAH and Acc-Prox-CG-SARAH-RS, respectively. They are efficiently accelerated, easy to implement, tune free and can be smoothly extended and modified. We devise a deterministic restart scheme for stochastic optimization and apply it in our second stochastic conjugate framework, which serves the key difference between the two approaches. In addition, we apply the ProbAbilistic Gradient Estimator (PAGE) and further develop a practical variant, denoted as Acc-Prox-CG-SARAH-ST, in order to reduce potential computational overhead. We provide comprehensive and rigorous convergence analysis for all three approaches and establish linear convergence rates for unconstrained minimization problem with nonconvex and nonsmooth objective functions. Experiments have demonstrated that Acc-Prox-CG-SARAH and Acc-Prox-CG-SARAH-RS both outperform state-of-art methods consistently and Acc-Prox-CG-SARAH-ST can as well achieve comparable convergence speed. In terms of theory and experiments, we verify the strong computational efficiency of the deterministic restart scheme in stochastic optimization methods.
Intent classification and slot filling are two essential tasks for natural language understanding. They often suffer from small-scale human-labeled training data, resulting in poor generalization capability, especially for rare words. Recently a new language representation model, BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), facilitates pre-training deep bidirectional representations on large-scale unlabeled corpora, and has created state-of-the-art models for a wide variety of natural language processing tasks after simple fine-tuning. However, there has not been much effort on exploring BERT for natural language understanding. In this work, we propose a joint intent classification and slot filling model based on BERT. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed model achieves significant improvement on intent classification accuracy, slot filling F1, and sentence-level semantic frame accuracy on several public benchmark datasets, compared to the attention-based recurrent neural network models and slot-gated models.
Dynamic programming (DP) solves a variety of structured combinatorial problems by iteratively breaking them down into smaller subproblems. In spite of their versatility, DP algorithms are usually non-differentiable, which hampers their use as a layer in neural networks trained by backpropagation. To address this issue, we propose to smooth the max operator in the dynamic programming recursion, using a strongly convex regularizer. This allows to relax both the optimal value and solution of the original combinatorial problem, and turns a broad class of DP algorithms into differentiable operators. Theoretically, we provide a new probabilistic perspective on backpropagating through these DP operators, and relate them to inference in graphical models. We derive two particular instantiations of our framework, a smoothed Viterbi algorithm for sequence prediction and a smoothed DTW algorithm for time-series alignment. We showcase these instantiations on two structured prediction tasks and on structured and sparse attention for neural machine translation.