Machine learning methods have seen increased application to geospatial environmental problems, such as precipitation nowcasting, haze forecasting, and crop yield prediction. However, many of the machine learning methods applied to mosquito population and disease forecasting do not inherently take into account the underlying spatial structure of the given data. In our work, we apply a spatially aware graph neural network model consisting of GraphSAGE layers to forecast the presence of West Nile virus in Illinois, to aid mosquito surveillance and abatement efforts within the state. More generally, we show that graph neural networks applied to irregularly sampled geospatial data can exceed the performance of a range of baseline methods including logistic regression, XGBoost, and fully-connected neural networks.

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to widespread adoption, most LLMs are developed by resource-rich organizations and are frequently kept from the public. As a step towards democratizing this powerful technology, we present BLOOM, a 176B-parameter open-access language model designed and built thanks to a collaboration of hundreds of researchers. BLOOM is a decoder-only Transformer language model that was trained on the ROOTS corpus, a dataset comprising hundreds of sources in 46 natural and 13 programming languages (59 in total). We find that BLOOM achieves competitive performance on a wide variety of benchmarks, with stronger results after undergoing multitask prompted finetuning. To facilitate future research and applications using LLMs, we publicly release our models and code under the Responsible AI License.

我们对解决几个自然学习问题的一通流算法所需的记忆量给出了下限。在$ \ {0,1 \}^d $中的示例的环境中，可以使用$ \ kappa $ bits对最佳分类器进行编码，我们表明，使用近距离数量的示例学习的算法，$ \ tilde o（\ kappa）$，必须使用$ \ tilde \ omega（d \ kappa）$空间。我们的空间界限与问题自然参数化的环境空间的维度相匹配，即使在示例和最终分类器的大小上是二次的。例如，在$ d $ -sparse线性分类器的设置中，$ \ kappa = \ theta（d \ log d）$，我们的空间下限是$ \ tilde \ omega（d^^^ 2）$。我们的边界与流长$ n $优雅地降级，通常具有$ \ tilde \ omega \ left（d \ kappa \ cdot \ frac \ frac {\ kappa} {n} {n} \ right）$。 $ \ omega（d \ kappa）$的形式的界限以学习奇偶校验和有限字段定义的其他问题而闻名。在狭窄的样本量范围内适用的边界也以线性回归而闻名。对于最近学习应用程序中常见的类型的问题，我们的第一个范围是适用于各种输入尺寸的问题。

在最新的应用中，我们需要在自适应流中进行差异隐私，我们研究了在这种情况下矩阵机制的最佳实例化问题。我们证明了矩阵因素化对自适应流的适用性的基本理论结果，并提供了用于计算最佳因素化的无参数固定点算法。我们就机器学习中自然出现的混凝土矩阵实例化了该框架，并通过用户级别的差异私密性来培训用户级别的差异私有模型，从而在联邦学习中产生了显着的问题。

Systemic Lupus红斑（SLE）是一种罕见的自身免疫疾病，其特征是令人无法预测的耀斑和缓解的速度，具有不同的表现形式。狼疮性肾炎，SLE用于器官损伤和死亡率的主要疾病表现之一，是卢布斯分类标准的关键组成部分。因此，准确地鉴定电子健康记录（EHRS）中的狼疮性肾炎将使大型队列观察研究和临床试验有益于患者人口的表征对于招聘，研究设计和分析至关重要。可以通过程序代码和结构化数据来认可狼疮肾炎，例如实验室测试。然而，记录狼疮肾炎的其他关键信息，例如来自肾脏活检和先前的医学史叙事的组织学报告，需要复杂的文本处理，以从病理报告和临床笔记中挖掘信息。在这项研究中，我们开发了使用EHR数据识别鉴定狼疮肾炎的血管肾炎，而不使用自然语言处理（NLP）。我们开发了四种算法：仅使用结构化数据（基线算法）和使用不同NLP模型的三种算法的规则的算法。这三种NLP模型基于正则化逻辑回归，并使用不同的特征集，包括积极提及概念独特标识符（Cue），耐备的外观数量，以及三个部件的混合物。基线算法和最佳执行的NLP算法在Vanderbilt University Center（VUMC）的数据集上验证了外部验证。我们最佳地执行来自结构化数据，正则表达式概念和映射的特征的NLP模型，与基线狼疮性肾炎算法相比，在NMEDW（0.41 VS 0.79）和VUMC（0.62 VS 0.96）数据集中有所改善。

Learning problems form an important category of computational tasks that generalizes many of the computations researchers apply to large real-life data sets. We ask: what concept classes can be learned privately, namely, by an algorithm whose output does not depend too heavily on any one input or specific training example? More precisely, we investigate learning algorithms that satisfy differential privacy, a notion that provides strong confidentiality guarantees in contexts where aggregate information is released about a database containing sensitive information about individuals.Our goal is a broad understanding of the resources required for private learning in terms of samples, computation time, and interaction. We demonstrate that, ignoring computational constraints, it is possible to privately agnostically learn any concept class using a sample size approximately logarithmic in the cardinality of the concept class. Therefore, almost anything learnable is learnable privately: specifically, if a concept class is learnable by a (non-private) algorithm with polynomial sample complexity and output size, then it can be learned privately using a polynomial number of samples. We also present a computationally efficient private PAC learner for the class of parity functions. This result dispels the similarity between learning with noise and private learning (both must be robust to small changes in inputs), since parity is thought to be very hard to learn given random classification noise.Local (or randomized response) algorithms are a practical class of private algorithms that have received extensive investigation. We provide a precise characterization of local private learning algorithms. We show that a concept class is learnable by a local algorithm if and only if it is learnable in the statistical query (SQ) model. Therefore, for local private learning algorithms, the similarity to learning with noise is stronger: local learning is equivalent to SQ learning, and SQ algorithms include most known noise-tolerant learning algorithms. Finally, we present a separation between the power of interactive and noninteractive local learning algorithms. Because of the equivalence to SQ learning, this result also separates adaptive and nonadaptive SQ learning.

High content imaging assays can capture rich phenotypic response data for large sets of compound treatments, aiding in the characterization and discovery of novel drugs. However, extracting representative features from high content images that can capture subtle nuances in phenotypes remains challenging. The lack of high-quality labels makes it difficult to achieve satisfactory results with supervised deep learning. Self-Supervised learning methods, which learn from automatically generated labels has shown great success on natural images, offer an attractive alternative also to microscopy images. However, we find that self-supervised learning techniques underperform on high content imaging assays. One challenge is the undesirable domain shifts present in the data known as batch effects, which may be caused by biological noise or uncontrolled experimental conditions. To this end, we introduce Cross-Domain Consistency Learning (CDCL), a novel approach that is able to learn in the presence of batch effects. CDCL enforces the learning of biological similarities while disregarding undesirable batch-specific signals, which leads to more useful and versatile representations. These features are organised according to their morphological changes and are more useful for downstream tasks - such as distinguishing treatments and mode of action.

Large "instruction-tuned" language models (finetuned to respond to instructions) have demonstrated a remarkable ability to generalize zero-shot to new tasks. Nevertheless, they depend heavily on human-written instruction data that is limited in quantity, diversity, and creativity, therefore hindering the generality of the tuned model. We introduce Self-Instruct, a framework for improving the instruction-following capabilities of pretrained language models by bootstrapping off its own generations. Our pipeline generates instruction, input, and output samples from a language model, then prunes them before using them to finetune the original model. Applying our method to vanilla GPT3, we demonstrate a 33% absolute improvement over the original model on Super-NaturalInstructions, on par with the performance of InstructGPT_001, which is trained with private user data and human annotations. For further evaluation, we curate a set of expert-written instructions for novel tasks, and show through human evaluation that tuning GPT3 with Self-Instruct outperforms using existing public instruction datasets by a large margin, leaving only a 5% absolute gap behind InstructGPT_001. Self-Instruct provides an almost annotation-free method for aligning pre-trained language models with instructions, and we release our large synthetic dataset to facilitate future studies on instruction tuning.

Recent times have witnessed an increasing number of applications of deep neural networks towards solving tasks that require superior cognitive abilities, e.g., playing Go, generating art, question answering (such as ChatGPT), etc. Such a dramatic progress raises the question: how generalizable are neural networks in solving problems that demand broad skills? To answer this question, we propose SMART: a Simple Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning Task and the associated SMART-101 dataset, for evaluating the abstraction, deduction, and generalization abilities of neural networks in solving visuo-linguistic puzzles designed specifically for children in the 6-8 age group. Our dataset consists of 101 unique puzzles; each puzzle comprises a picture and a question, and their solution needs a mix of several elementary skills, including arithmetic, algebra, and spatial reasoning, among others. To scale our dataset towards training deep neural networks, we programmatically generate entirely new instances for each puzzle while retaining their solution algorithm. To benchmark the performance on the SMART-101 dataset, we propose a vision and language meta-learning model using varied state-of-the-art backbone neural networks. Our experiments reveal that while powerful deep models offer reasonable performances on puzzles that they are trained on, they are not better than random accuracy when analyzed for generalization. We also evaluate the recent ChatGPT large language model on a subset of our dataset and find that while ChatGPT produces convincing reasoning abilities, the answers are often incorrect.

We introduce INSTRUCTOR, a new method for computing text embeddings given task instructions: every text input is embedded together with instructions explaining the use case (e.g., task and domain descriptions). Unlike encoders from prior work that are more specialized, INSTRUCTOR is a single embedder that can generate text embeddings tailored to different downstream tasks and domains, without any further training. We first annotate instructions for 330 diverse tasks and train INSTRUCTOR on this multitask mixture with a contrastive loss. We evaluate INSTRUCTOR on 70 embedding evaluation tasks (66 of which are unseen during training), ranging from classification and information retrieval to semantic textual similarity and text generation evaluation. INSTRUCTOR, while having an order of magnitude fewer parameters than the previous best model, achieves state-of-the-art performance, with an average improvement of 3.4% compared to the previous best results on the 70 diverse datasets. Our analysis suggests that INSTRUCTOR is robust to changes in instructions, and that instruction finetuning mitigates the challenge of training a single model on diverse datasets.