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Learning to Compose Neural Networks for Question Answering (arxiv.org)
3 points by tdhz77 on May 2, 2016 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: The model reads each question and snaps together reusable neural-network pieces into a custom program to answer it, learning both the pieces and the assembly rules from question-answer pairs alone. It beat the previous best systems on both image and knowledge-base question answering.

Abstract

We describe a question answering model that applies to both images and structured knowledge bases. The model uses natural language strings to automatically assemble neural networks from a collection of composable modules. Parameters for these modules are learned jointly with network-assembly parameters via reinforcement learning, with only (world, question, answer) triples as supervision. Our approach, which we term a dynamic neural model network, achieves state-of-the-art results on benchmark datasets in both visual and structured domains.

Jacob Andreas, Marcus Rohrbach, Trevor Darrell, Dan Klein
arXiv:1601.01705 · cs.CL, cs.CV, cs.NE · submitted Jan 7, 2016 · updated Jun 7, 2016
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