Emotions are an integral part of human cognition and they guide not only our understanding of the world but also our actions within it. As such, whether we soothe or flame an emotion is not inconsequential. Recent work in conversational AI has focused on responding empathetically to users, validating and soothing their emotions without a real basis. This AI-aided emotional regulation can have negative consequences for users and society, tending towards a one-noted happiness defined as only the absence of "negative" emotions. We argue that we must carefully consider whether and how to respond to users' emotions.

This paper describes the 5th edition of the Predicting Video Memorability Task as part of MediaEval2022. This year we have reorganised and simplified the task in order to lubricate a greater depth of inquiry. Similar to last year, two datasets are provided in order to facilitate generalisation, however, this year we have replaced the TRECVid2019 Video-to-Text dataset with the VideoMem dataset in order to remedy underlying data quality issues, and to prioritise short-term memorability prediction by elevating the Memento10k dataset as the primary dataset. Additionally, a fully fledged electroencephalography (EEG)-based prediction sub-task is introduced. In this paper, we outline the core facets of the task and its constituent sub-tasks; describing the datasets, evaluation metrics, and requirements for participant submissions.

The Predicting Media Memorability task in the MediaEval evaluation campaign has been running annually since 2018 and several different tasks and data sets have been used in this time. This has allowed us to compare the performance of many memorability prediction techniques on the same data and in a reproducible way and to refine and improve on those techniques. The resources created to compute media memorability are now being used by researchers well beyond the actual evaluation campaign. In this paper we present a summary of the task, including the collective lessons we have learned for the research community.

We analyze the problem of detecting tree rings in microscopy images of shrub cross sections. This can be regarded as a special case of the instance segmentation task with several particularities such as the concentric circular ring shape of the objects and high precision requirements due to which existing methods don't perform sufficiently well. We propose a new iterative method which we term Iterative Next Boundary Detection (INBD). It intuitively models the natural growth direction, starting from the center of the shrub cross section and detecting the next ring boundary in each iteration step. In our experiments, INBD shows superior performance to generic instance segmentation methods and is the only one with a built-in notion of chronological order. Our dataset and source code are available at http://github.com/alexander-g/INBD.

We present AI-SDC, an integrated suite of open source Python tools to facilitate Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) of Machine Learning (ML) models trained on confidential data prior to public release. AI-SDC combines (i) a SafeModel package that extends commonly used ML models to provide ante-hoc SDC by assessing the vulnerability of disclosure posed by the training regime; and (ii) an Attacks package that provides post-hoc SDC by rigorously assessing the empirical disclosure risk of a model through a variety of simulated attacks after training. The AI-SDC code and documentation are available under an MIT license at https://github.com/AI-SDC/AI-SDC.

The advances in language-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies applied to build educational applications can present AI for social-good opportunities with a broader positive impact. Across many disciplines, enhancing the quality of mathematics education is crucial in building critical thinking and problem-solving skills at younger ages. Conversational AI systems have started maturing to a point where they could play a significant role in helping students learn fundamental math concepts. This work presents a task-oriented Spoken Dialogue System (SDS) built to support play-based learning of basic math concepts for early childhood education. The system has been evaluated via real-world deployments at school while the students are practicing early math concepts with multimodal interactions. We discuss our efforts to improve the SDS pipeline built for math learning, for which we explore utilizing MathBERT representations for potential enhancement to the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) module. We perform an end-to-end evaluation using real-world deployment outputs from the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Intent Recognition, and Dialogue Manager (DM) components to understand how error propagation affects the overall performance in real-world scenarios.

水印是保护创作者对数字图像，视频和音频的权利的常用策略。最近，水印方法已扩展到深度学习模型 - 原则上，当对手试图复制该模型时，应保留水印。但是，实际上，智能对手通常可以去除水印。几篇论文提出了水印方法，这些方法声称对不同类型的拆除攻击具有耐药性，但是在面对新的或更好的对手时，这些新技术通常会失败。在本文中，我们提出了一种可认证的水印方法。使用Chiang等人提出的随机平滑技术，我们表明我们的水印是不明显的，除非模型参数的更改超过一定的L2阈值。除了获得认证外，与以前的水印方法相比，我们的水印在经验上也更强。我们的实验可以在https://github.com/arpitbansal297/certified_watermarks上复制。

实际经济体可以被视为一种顺序不完美信息游戏，具有许多异质，互动的各种代理类型的战略代理，例如消费者，公司和政府。动态一般均衡模型是在此类系统中建模经济活动，交互和结果的普通经济工具。然而，当所有代理商是战略和互动时，现有的分析和计算方法努力寻找明确的均衡，而联合学习是不稳定的并且具有挑战性。在其他人中，一个重要的原因是，一个经济代理人的行动可能会改变另一名代理人的奖励职能，例如，当公司更改价格或政府更改税收时，消费者的消费者的消费收入变化。我们表明，多代理深度加强学习（RL）可以发现稳定的解决方案，即通过使用结构的学习课程和高效的GPU，在经济模拟中，在经济仿真中，在经济模拟中，可以发现普遍存器类型的稳定解决方案。仿真和培训。概念上，我们的方法更加灵活，不需要不切实际的假设，例如市场清算，通常用于分析途径。我们的GPU实施使得能够在合理的时间范围内具有大量代理的经济体，例如，在一天内完成培训。我们展示了我们在实际商业周期模型中的方法，这是一个代表性的DGE模型系列，100名工人消费者，10家公司和政府税收和重新分配。我们通过近似最佳响应分析验证了学习的Meta-Game epsilon-Nash均衡，表明RL政策与经济直觉保持一致，我们的方法是建设性的，例如，通过明确地学习Meta-Game epsilon-Nash ePhilia的频谱打开RBC型号。

调整Bjerkevik和Lesnick给出的Multiparameter持久模块给出的定义，我们介绍了合并树的交织距离的$ \ ell ^ p $ intertepe扩展。我们表明我们的距离是一个指标，它是上限于相关条形码之间的$ p $ -wasserstein距离。对于[1，\ infty] $中的每个$ p \，我们证明，对于蜂窝浮度过滤，该距离是稳定的，并且它是满足该稳定性的通用（即最大）距离。在$ p = \ infty $案例中，这为合并树上的交织距离提供了一种新颖的普遍性证明。

本文介绍了预测媒体难忘性的Mediaeval 2021，这是今年第4版的任务，因为短期和长期视频难忘性的预测仍然是一个具有挑战性的任务。在2021年，使用两个视频数据集：第一，TRECVID 2019视频到文本数据集的子集;其次，Memento10K数据集是为了提供探索交叉数据集泛化的机会。另外，介绍了基于脑电图（EEG）的预测导频子任务。在本文中，我们概述了任务的主要方面，并描述了参与者提交的数据集，评估指标和要求。