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Teaching computers to read. Assoc. prof @MITEECS / @MIT_CSAIL / @NLP_MIT (he/him). https://t.co/5kCnXHjtlY https://t.co/2A3qF5vdJw

Jul 31, 2017, 8 tweets

Next: Tim Vieira on learning to prune #acl2017nlp

we're going to learn to prune a coarse-to-fine DP by optimizing a linear combination of accuracy & runtime

in constituency parsing, runtime is a function of the number of chart cells we explore

& not all chart cells are equal

more interestingly, badness of each pruning decision is not independent---lots of complicated interactions

we'll explore local perturbations to pruning decisions to learn which ones are actually worth it---this is LOLS

(now I know why @haldaume3 is excited)

@haldaume3 but naively too slow---need to be clever. DP and various other tricks get us gradient in O(n^3) rather than O(n^5)

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