accelerated training of conditional random fields with stochastic gradient methods

... we show in Section 5, it is often better to try to optimize the correct objective function. Accelerated Training of Conditional Random Fields with Stochastic Gradient Methods S.V. N. Vishwanathan ... settling around 83%. Accelerated Training of CRFs with Stochastic Gradient Methods 3. Stochastic Gradient Methods In this section we describe stochastic gradient de- scent and discuss how its convergence ... University of British Columbia, Canada Abstract We apply Stochastic Meta-Descent (SMD), a stochastic gradient optimization method with gain vector adaptation, to the train- ing of Conditional Random Fields...

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... x k ) +  y∈Y k exp(λ·F (y, x k )) Z λ (x k ) ·F (y, x k )  . (3) The gradient of ML is Eq. 3 without the gradient term of the prior, −∇ log p(λ). The details of actual optimization procedures for linear chain ... of the different feature set, as de- scribed in Sec. 5.2. However, MCE-F showed the better performance of 85.29 compared with (Mc- Callum and Li, 2003) of 84.04, which used the MAP training of ... generalized framework of CRF training. 3.3 Optimization Procedure With linear chain CRFs, we can calculate the ob- jective function, Eq. 9 combined with Eq. 10, and the gradient, Eq. 12, by using the variant of the...

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... variable z. This type of training has been applied by Quattoni et al. (2007) for hidden-state conditional random fields, and can be equally applied to semi-supervised conditional random fields. Note, ... quite sensitive to the selection of auxiliary information, and making good selections requires significant in- sight. 2 3 Conditional Random Fields Linear-chain conditional random fields (CRFs) are a discriminative ... Semi-Supervised Learning of Conditional Random Fields Gideon S. Mann Google Inc. 76 Ninth Avenue New York, NY 10011 Andrew McCallum Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts 140...

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... Linguistics Discriminative Word Alignment with Conditional Random Fields Phil Blunsom and Trevor Cohn Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science University of Melbourne {pcbl,tacohn}@csse.unimelb.edu.au Abstract In ... and thus the sparsity of the index label set is not an issue. 3.1 Features One of the main advantages of using a conditional model is the ability to explore a diverse range of features engineered ... as de ↔ of, which lie well off the diagonal, are avoided. The differing utility of the alignment word pair feature between the two tasks is probably a result of the different proportions of word-...

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... label of the preceding entity, the model can be solved without approximation. 4 Reduction of Training/ Inference Cost The straightforward implementation of this mod- eling in semi-CRFs often results ... distribution of entities in the training set of the shared task in 2004 JNLPBA. Formally, the computational cost of training semi- CRFs is O(KLN), where L is the upper bound length of entities, ... thus compared the result of the recog- nizers with and without filtering using only 2000 sentences as the training data. Table 5 shows the result of the total system with different filtering thresholds....

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... Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, pages 710–718, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2008. c 2008 Association for Computational Linguistics Using Conditional Random Fields to Extract Contexts and Answers of Questions ... gaocong@cs.aau.dk cyl@microsoft.com zxy-dcs@tsinghua.edu.cn Abstract Online forum discussions often contain vast amounts of questions that are the focuses of discussions. Extracting contexts and answers together with ... S8 is an answer of question 1, but they cannot be linked with any common word. Instead, S8 shares word pet with S1, which is a context of question 1, and thus S8 could be linked with ques- tion...

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... sparse, but has the benefit of CRF training, which as we will see gives gains in performance. 3.5 Conditional Random Fields The CRF methods that we use assume a fixed definition of the n-gram features ... are of- ten used for this task, whose parameters are optimized to maximize the likelihood of a large amount of training text. Recognition performance is a direct measure of the effectiveness of ... selection. The number of distinct n-grams in our training data is close to 45 million, and we show that CRF training con- verges very slowly even when trained with a subset (of size 12 million) of these features....

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... max ¯y p(¯y|¯x; w) for each training example ¯x. The software we use as an implementation of conditional random fields is named CRF++ (Kudo, 2007). This implementation offers fast training since it uses ... ver- sion of T E X used a different, simpler method. Liang’s method was used also in troff and groff, which were the main original competitors of T E X, and is part of many contemporary software products, ... Sha and Fernando Pereira. 2003. Shallow pars- ing with conditional random fields. Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics...

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... on a string of text, without the addition of acoustic data, we have shown that adding aspects of rhythm and timing aids in the identification of accent targets. We used the number of words in an ... (Section 7). 2 Conditional Random Fields CRFs can be considered as a generalization of lo- gistic regression to label sequences. They define a conditional probability distribution of a label se- quence ... features of Conditional Random Fields. In Proc. of Un- certainty in Articifical Intelligence. T. Minka. 2001. Algorithms for maximum- likelihood logistic regression. Technical report, CMU, Department of...

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... N. Schraudolph, M. Schmidt and K. Mur- phy. (2006). Accelerated training of conditional random fields with stochastic meta-descent. Proceedings of the 23th International Conference on Machine Learning. D. ... number of states = number of training iterations. Then the time required to classify a test sequence is , independent of training method, since the Viterbi decoder needs to access each path. For training, ... of Grandvalet and Ben- gio (2004) to structured predictors. The result- ing objective combines the likelihood of the CRF on labeled training data with its conditional en- tropy on unlabeled training...

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... Semi- markov conditional random fields for information extraction. In Proceedings of NIPS. Fei Sha and Fernando Pereira. 2003. Shallow parsing with conditional random fields. In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL. Erik ... parsing. We convert the task of full parsing into a series of chunking tasks and apply a conditional random field (CRF) model to each level of chunking. The probability of an en- tire parse tree ... states and edges combined with surface observations. The weights of the features are determined in such a way that they maximize the conditional log- likelihood of the training data: L λ = N  i=1 log...

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... 2002. Efficient training of conditional random fields. Master’s thesis, University of Edinburgh. 17 3.3 Choice of code The accuracy of ECOC methods are highly depen- dent on the quality of the code. ... small number of training examples and small label sets. For much larger tasks, with hundreds of labels and millions of examples, current training methods prove intractable. Although training can ... Osborne Division of Informatics University of Edinburgh United Kingdom miles@inf.ed.ac.uk Abstract Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) have been applied with considerable success to a number of natural...

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... variety of types of expert, combination of expert CRFs with an unregularised standard CRF under a LOP with optimised weights can outperform the unregularised standard CRF and rival the performance of ... have considered training the weights of a LOP-CRF using pre-trained, static ex- perts. In future we intend to investigate cooperative training of LOP-CRF weights and the parameters of each expert ... CoNLL-2003. 25 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the ACL, pages 18–25, Ann Arbor, June 2005. c 2005 Association for Computational Linguistics Logarithmic Opinion Pools for Conditional Random Fields Andrew...

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... prosodic features ) is associated with a state . The model is trained to maximize the conditional log-likelihood of a given training set. Similar to the Maxent model, the conditional likelihood is closely related ... its training objective function (joint versus conditional likelihood) and its handling of dependent word fea- tures. Traditional HMM training does not maxi- mize the posterior probabilities of ... in Section 5. 452 Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the ACL, pages 451–458, Ann Arbor, June 2005. c 2005 Association for Computational Linguistics Using Conditional Random Fields For Sentence...

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