前列腺癌是美国男性癌症死亡的第二大原因。前列腺MRI的诊断通常依赖于准确的前列腺区域分割。但是，最新的自动分割方法通常无法产生前列腺区域的含有良好的体积分割，因为某些切片的前列腺MRI（例如碱基和顶点片）比其他切片更难分割。可以通过考虑相邻切片之间的跨片段关系来克服这一困难，但是当前的方法不能完全学习和利用这种关系。在本文中，我们提出了一种新型的跨板夹心注意机制，我们在变压器模块中使用该机制，以系统地学习不同尺度的跨斜纹关系。该模块可以在任何基于Skip Connections的现有基于学习的细分框架中使用。实验表明，我们的跨板块注意力能够捕获前列腺区域分割中的跨板片信息，并提高当前最新方法的性能。我们的方法提高了外围区域的分割精度，从而使所有前列腺切片（Apex，Mid-Gland和Base）的分割结果保持一致。

The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

创建可以自然与人类互动的代理是人工智能（AI）研究中的共同目标。但是，评估这些互动是具有挑战性的：收集在线人类代理相互作用缓慢而昂贵，但更快的代理指标通常与交互式评估相关。在本文中，我们评估了这些现有评估指标的优点，并提出了一种新颖的评估方法，称为标准化测试套件（STS）。 STS使用从真实人类交互数据中挖掘出的行为方案。代理商请参阅重播方案上下文，接收指令，然后将控制权控制以脱机完成交互。记录这些代理的延续并将其发送给人类注释者以将其标记为成功或失败，并且根据其成功的连续性比例对代理进行排名。最终的ST是自然主义相互作用的快速，控制，可解释的和代表的。总的来说，STS巩固了我们许多标准评估指标中所需的许多值，从而使我们能够加速研究进展，以生产可以自然与人类互动的代理。可以在https://youtu.be/yr1tnggorgq上找到视频。

来自科幻小说的普通愿景是机器人将有一天居住在我们的物理空间中，感知世界，才能协助我们的物理劳动力，并通过自然语言与我们沟通。在这里，我们研究如何使用虚拟环境的简化设计如何与人类自然交互的人工代理。我们表明，与自我监督学习的模拟世界中的人类交互的模仿学习足以产生我们称之为MIA的多模式互动剂，这成功与非对抗人类互动75％的时间。我们进一步确定了提高性能的架构和算法技术，例如分层动作选择。完全，我们的结果表明，模仿多模态，实时人类行为可以提供具有丰富的行为的富含性的令人生意的和令人惊讶的有效手段，然后可以为特定目的进行微调，从而铺设基础用于培训互动机器人或数字助理的能力。可以在https://youtu.be/zfgrif7my找到MIA的行为的视频

风险的准确器官（OAR）分割对于减少治疗后并发症的放射治疗至关重要。达人指南推荐头部和颈部（H＆N）区域的一套超过40桨的桨，然而，由于这项任务的可预测的禁止劳动力成本，大多数机构通过划定较小的桨子和忽视的少数，选择了大量简化的协议与其他桨相关的剂量分布。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种使用深度学习的新颖，自动化和高效的分层OAR分段（SOARS）系统，精确地描绘了一套全面的42 H＆N OAR。 SOARS将42桨分层进入锚，中级和小型和硬质子类别，通过神经结构搜索（NAS）原则，专门为每个类别提供神经网络架构。我们在内在机构中使用176名培训患者建立了SOAR模型，并在六个不同的机构中独立评估了1327名外部患者。对于每个机构评估，它始终如一地表现出其他最先进的方法至少3-5％的骰子得分（在其他度量的相对误差减少36％）。更重要的是，广泛的多用户研究明显证明，98％的SOARE预测只需要非常轻微或没有直接临床验收的修订（节省90％的辐射脑神经工作负载），并且它们的分割和剂量准确度在于或小于帧 - 用户的变化。这些调查结果证实了H＆N癌症放射疗法工作流OAR描绘过程的强烈临床适用性，提高了效率，全面性和质量。

By transferring knowledge from large, diverse, task-agnostic datasets, modern machine learning models can solve specific downstream tasks either zero-shot or with small task-specific datasets to a high level of performance. While this capability has been demonstrated in other fields such as computer vision, natural language processing or speech recognition, it remains to be shown in robotics, where the generalization capabilities of the models are particularly critical due to the difficulty of collecting real-world robotic data. We argue that one of the keys to the success of such general robotic models lies with open-ended task-agnostic training, combined with high-capacity architectures that can absorb all of the diverse, robotic data. In this paper, we present a model class, dubbed Robotics Transformer, that exhibits promising scalable model properties. We verify our conclusions in a study of different model classes and their ability to generalize as a function of the data size, model size, and data diversity based on a large-scale data collection on real robots performing real-world tasks. The project's website and videos can be found at robotics-transformer.github.io

Energy consumption in buildings, both residential and commercial, accounts for approximately 40% of all energy usage in the U.S., and similar numbers are being reported from countries around the world. This significant amount of energy is used to maintain a comfortable, secure, and productive environment for the occupants. So, it is crucial that the energy consumption in buildings must be optimized, all the while maintaining satisfactory levels of occupant comfort, health, and safety. Recently, Machine Learning has been proven to be an invaluable tool in deriving important insights from data and optimizing various systems. In this work, we review the ways in which machine learning has been leveraged to make buildings smart and energy-efficient. For the convenience of readers, we provide a brief introduction of several machine learning paradigms and the components and functioning of each smart building system we cover. Finally, we discuss challenges faced while implementing machine learning algorithms in smart buildings and provide future avenues for research at the intersection of smart buildings and machine learning.

Finetuning language models on a collection of datasets phrased as instructions has been shown to improve model performance and generalization to unseen tasks. In this paper we explore instruction finetuning with a particular focus on (1) scaling the number of tasks, (2) scaling the model size, and (3) finetuning on chain-of-thought data. We find that instruction finetuning with the above aspects dramatically improves performance on a variety of model classes (PaLM, T5, U-PaLM), prompting setups (zero-shot, few-shot, CoT), and evaluation benchmarks (MMLU, BBH, TyDiQA, MGSM, open-ended generation). For instance, Flan-PaLM 540B instruction-finetuned on 1.8K tasks outperforms PALM 540B by a large margin (+9.4% on average). Flan-PaLM 540B achieves state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks, such as 75.2% on five-shot MMLU. We also publicly release Flan-T5 checkpoints, which achieve strong few-shot performance even compared to much larger models, such as PaLM 62B. Overall, instruction finetuning is a general method for improving the performance and usability of pretrained language models.

Multi-view graph clustering (MGC) methods are increasingly being studied due to the explosion of multi-view data with graph structural information. The critical point of MGC is to better utilize the view-specific and view-common information in features and graphs of multiple views. However, existing works have an inherent limitation that they are unable to concurrently utilize the consensus graph information across multiple graphs and the view-specific feature information. To address this issue, we propose Variational Graph Generator for Multi-View Graph Clustering (VGMGC). Specifically, a novel variational graph generator is proposed to extract common information among multiple graphs. This generator infers a reliable variational consensus graph based on a priori assumption over multiple graphs. Then a simple yet effective graph encoder in conjunction with the multi-view clustering objective is presented to learn the desired graph embeddings for clustering, which embeds the inferred view-common graph and view-specific graphs together with features. Finally, theoretical results illustrate the rationality of VGMGC by analyzing the uncertainty of the inferred consensus graph with information bottleneck principle. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of our VGMGC over SOTAs.

恢复面部和文档图像的检测是一项重要的法医任务。经过深入的学习，面部抗散热器（FAS）和重新接收的文件检测的表现得到了显着改善。但是，对于法医提示较弱的样品，表演尚不令人满意。可以量化法医提示的数量，以允许可靠的法医结果。在这项工作中，我们提出了一个放大性评估网络，以量化质疑样品的允许性。在实际重新接收检测过程之前，将拒绝低固定性样品，以提高重新接收检测系统的效率。我们首先提取与图像质量评估和法医任务相关的判定性特征。通过利用图像质量和法医功能的法医应用的域知识，我们定义了特定于任务的规定类别和特征空间中的初始化位置。根据提取的功能和定义的中心，我们使用跨凝结损失训练提出的法医评估网络（FANET），并使用基于动量的更新方法更新中心。我们将受过训练的粉丝与实际重新接收检测方案相结合，并在抗spofing和重新接收的文档检测任务中。实验结果表明，对于基于CNN的FAS方案而言，狂热者通过拒绝最低30％放大性得分的样本，将EERS从Rose to IDIAP方案下的ERS降低到19.23％。在被拒绝的样品中，FAS方案的性能很差，EER高达56.48％。在FAS中的最新方法和重新接收的文档检测任务中，已经观察到了拒绝低差异性样品的类似性能。据我们所知，这是评估重新捕获文档图像并提高系统效率的第一份工作。