SustaiNLP: Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing

Angela Fan, Goran Glavaš, Shafiq Joty, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Vered Shwartz, Alex Wang and Thomas Wolf

Live Session 1: Nov 20, Live Session 1: Nov 20 (08:00-10:00 UTC)
Live Session 2: Nov 20, Live Session 2: Nov 20 (14:00-20:00 UTC)
Live Session 3: Nov 20, Live Session 3: Nov 20 (23:00-02:00 UTC)
Promoting computationally efficient NLP and justified model complexity. Encouraging conceptual NLP novelty, discouraging "more compute".

Time (PDT) Event Hosts
Nov 20, (08:00-09:00 UTC)

QA session1:
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• Large Product Key Memory for Pre-trained Language Models
• Exploring the Boundaries of Low-Resource BERT Distillation
• Keyphrase Generation with GANs in Low-Resources Scenarios
• Domain Adversarial Fine-Tuning as an Effective Regularizer

Shafiq Joty
Nov 20, (09:00-10:00 UTC)

QA session2:
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• Don’t Read Too Much Into It: Adaptive Computation for Open-Domain Question Answering
• A comparison between CNNs and WFAs for Sequence Classification
• Counterfactual Augmentation for Training Next Response Selection
• Pruning Redundant Mappings in Transformer Models via Spectral-Normalized Identity Prior

Shafiq Joty
Nov 20, (14:00-15:00 UTC)

Invited Talk
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Mona Diab: Non-parameterized sentence encoders: an efficient alternative

Goran Glavaš
Nov 20, (15:00-16:00 UTC)

QA session3-A:
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• Knowing Right from Wrong: Should We Use More Complex Models for Automatic Short-Answer Scoring in Bahasa Indonesia?
• Learning Informative Representations of Biomedical Relations with Latent Variable Models
• End to End Binarized Neural Networks for Text Classification
• Predictive Model Selection for Transfer Learning in Sequence Labeling Tasks

Thomas Wolf
Nov 20, (15:00-16:00 UTC)

QA session3-B:
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• PBoS: Probabilistic Bag-of-Subwords for Generalizing Word Embedding
• Unsupervised Few-Bits Semantic Hashing with Implicit Topics Modeling
• Fixed Encoder Self-Attention Patterns in Transformer-Based Machine Translation

Marzieh Fadaee
Nov 20, (16:00-17:00 UTC)

Invited speakers QA
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• Heng Ji: Efficient Language Acquisition through Multimedia Curriculum Learning
• Graham Neubig: More is Less? Non-parametric Language Models and Efficiency
• Alexander Rush: Advances in Sequence Knowledge Distillation
• Armand Joulin: Making Pre-trained Models More Sustainable

Goran Glavaš
Nov 20, (17:00-18:00 UTC)

Panel Discussion
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Panelists: Kyunghyun Cho, Yejin Choi, Mona Diab, Yoav Goldberg, Iryna Gurevych, Heng Ji, Graham Neubig, Alexander Rush, Armand Joulin, Luke Zettlemoyer

Vered Shwartz & Angela Fan
Nov 20, (18:00-19:00 UTC)

QA session4:
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• Early Exiting BERT for Efficient Document Ranking
• Quasi-Multitask Learning: an Efficient Surrogate for Obtaining Model Ensembles
• Identifying Spurious Correlations for Robust Text Classification
• Improving QA Generalization by Concurrent Modeling of Multiple Biases

Nafise Sadat Moosavi
Nov 20, (19:00-20:00 UTC)

QA session5:
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• Load What You Need: Smaller Versions of Mutlilingual BERT
• Towards Accurate and Reliable Energy Measurement of NLP Models
• Do We Need to Create Big Datasets to Learn a Task?

Nafise Sadat Moosavi
Nov 20, (23:00-00:00 UTC)

QA Session6-A:
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• Rank and run-time aware compression of NLP Applications
• Incremental Neural Coreference Resolution in Constant Memory
• Efficient Estimation of Influence of a Training Instance
• Efficient Inference For Neural Machine Translation

Alex Wang
Nov 20, (23:00-00:00 UTC)

QA Session6-B:
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• Guiding Attention for Self-Supervised Learning with Transformers
• Semi-supervised Formality Style Transfer using LanguageModel Discriminator and Mutual Information Maximization
• SupMMD: A Sentence Importance Model for Extractive Summarization using Maximum Mean Discrepancy
• Probabilstic Case-based Reasoning for Open-World Knowledge Graph Completion

Ameet Deshpande
Nov 21, (00:00-01:00 UTC)

QA Session7:
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• P-SIF: Document Embeddings using Partition Averaging
• Sparse Optimization for Unsupervised Extractive Summarization of Long Documents with the Frank-Wolfe Algorithm
• Analysis of Resource-efficient Predictive Models for Natural Language Processing
• A Little Bit Is Worse Than None: Ranking with Limited Training Data

Vered Shwartz
Nov 21, (01:00-02:00 UTC)

QA Session8:
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• Doped Structured Matrices for Extreme Compression of LSTM Models
• A Two-stage Model for Slot Filling in Low-resource Settings: Domain-agnostic Non-slot Reduction and Pretrained Contextual Embeddings
• SqueezeBERT: What can computer vision teach NLP about efficient neural networks?
• FastFormers: Highly Efficient Transformer Models for Natural Language Understanding
• OptSLA: an Optimization-Based Approach for Sequential Label Aggregation

Alex Wang

Pre-recorded Plenary Talks


Invited Talk

Mona Diab


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Heng Ji


Invited Talk

Graham Neubig


Invited Talk

Alexander Rush


Invited Talk

Armand Joulin