AI Autonomy: Self‐initiated Open‐world Continual Learning and Adaptation

B Liu, S Mazumder, E Robertson, S Grigsby - AI Magazine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As more and more AI agents are used in practice, it is time to think about how to make these
agents fully autonomous so that they can (1) learn by themselves continually in a self …

Semantic novelty detection and characterization in factual text involving named entities

N Ma, S Mazumder, A Politowicz, B Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Much of the existing work on text novelty detection has been studied at the topic level, ie,
identifying whether the topic of a document or a sentence is novel or not. Little work has …

Open-World Continual Learning: A Framework

S Mazumder, B Liu - Lifelong and Continual Learning Dialogue Systems, 2024 - Springer
As more and more AI agents are used in practice, we need to think about how to make these
agents fully autonomous so that they can (1) learn by themselves continually in a self …

A Unified Evaluation Framework for Novelty Detection and Accommodation in NLP with an Instantiation in Authorship Attribution

N Varshney, H Gupta, E Robertson, B Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
State-of-the-art natural language processing models have been shown to achieve
remarkable performance in'closed-world'settings where all the labels in the evaluation set …

Novelty Accommodating Multi-agent Planning in High Fidelity Simulated Open World

J Chao, W Piotrowski, M Manzanares… - … on Autonomous Agents …, 2023 - Springer
Autonomous agents acting in real-world environments often need to reason with unknown
novelties interfering with their plan execution. Novelty is an unexpected phenomenon that …

[PDF][PDF] Detecting and Characterizing Semantic Novelties in Factual Text Involving Named Entities.

N Ma, S Mazumder, A Politowicz, B Liu… - Proceedings of The …, 2022 - par.nsf.gov
Much of the existing work on text novelty detection has been studied at the topic level, ie,
identifying whether the topic of a document or a sentence is novel or not. Little work has …

[PDF][PDF] Exploring multimodality, perplexity and explainability for memorability prediction

A Reboud, I Harrando, J Laaksonen… - Multimedia Benchmark …, 2021 - research.aalto.fi
This paper describes several approaches proposed by the MeMAD Team for the MediaEval
2021 “Predicting Media Memorability” task. Our best approach is based on early fusion of …

Contextual and Semantic Novelty in Text

N Ma, B Liu, E Robertson - A Unifying Framework for Formal Theories of …, 2023 - Springer
Novelty, anomaly, or out-of-distribution (OOD) detection has been an active research area
for decades, since the 1960s [,], due to its widespread applications in various domains [,] …

Representation, information extraction, and summarization for automatic multimedia understanding

I Harrando - 2022 - theses.hal.science
Whether on TV or on the internet, video content production is seeing an unprecedented rise.
Not only is video the dominant medium for entertainment purposes, but it is also reckoned to …

QALinkPlus: Text Enrichment with QA data.

Y Sun, Y Tang, AKH Tung - IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 2023 - sites.computer.org
Text enrichment, the task of augmenting textual content by incorporating supplementary
information to bridge knowledge gaps and enhance reader engagement, is a critical aspect …