Title
Differentiable Greedy Networks.
Abstract
Optimal selection of a subset of items from a given set is a hard problem that requires combinatorial optimization. In this paper, we propose a subset selection algorithm that is trainable with gradient-based methods yet achieves near-optimal performance via submodular optimization. We focus on the task of identifying a relevant set of sentences for claim verification in the context of the FEVER task. Conventional methods for this task look at sentences on their individual merit and thus do not optimize the informativeness of sentences as a set. We show that our proposed method which builds on the idea of unfolding a greedy algorithm into a computational graph allows both interpretability and gradient-based training. The proposed differentiable greedy network (DGN) outperforms discrete optimization algorithms as well as other baseline methods in terms of precision and recall.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
CoRR
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1810.12464
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Powers100.34
Rasool Fakoor293.79
Siamak Shakeri300.68
Abhinav Sethy436331.16
Amanjit Kainth500.34
Abdel-rahman Mohamed63772266.13
Ruhi Sarikaya769864.49