Ning Shi

Revisit Systematic Generalization via Meaningful Learning

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Humans can systematically generalize to novel compositions of existing concepts. Recent studies argue that neural networks appear inherently ineffective in such cognitive capacity, leading to a pessimistic view and a lack of attention to optimistic …

Paraphrase Identification via Textual Inference

2024

Paraphrase identification (PI) and natural language inference (NLI) are two important tasks in natural language processing.Despite their distinct objectives, an underlying connection exists, which has been notably under-explored in empirical investigations.We formalize the relationship between …

MIO: A Foundation Model on Multimodal Tokens

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

In this paper, we introduce MIO, a novel foundation model built on multimodal tokens, capable of understanding and generating speech, text, images, and videos in an end-to-end, autoregressive manner. While the emergence of large language …