近期量子系统嘈杂。串扰噪声已被确定为超导噪声中间尺度量子（NISQ）设备的主要噪声来源之一。串扰源于附近Qubits上的两Q量门门的并发执行，例如\ texttt {cx}。与单独运行相比，它可能会大大提高门的错误率。可以通过调度或硬件调整来减轻串扰。然而，先前的研究在汇编的后期很晚，通常是在完成硬件映射之后的。它可能会错过优化算法逻辑，路由和串扰的巨大机会。在本文中，我们通过在早期编译阶段同时考虑所有这些因素来推动信封。我们提出了一个称为CQC的串扰感知量子程序汇编框架，该框架可以增强串扰缓解，同时实现令人满意的电路深度。此外，我们确定了从中间表示向电路转换的机会，例如，以特定的特定串扰缓解措施，例如，\ texttt {cx}梯子构造在变异的量子eigensolvers（VQE）中。通过模拟和Real IBM-Q设备进行评估表明，我们的框架可以显着将错误率降低6 $ \ times $，而与最先进的门调度相比，仅$ \ sim $ 60 \％\％的电路深度方法。特别是对于VQE，我们使用IBMQ Guadalupe证明了49 \％的回路深度减少，而对H4分子的先前ART进行了9.6 \％的保真度改善。我们的CQC框架将在GitHub上发布。

Large language models can perform new tasks in a zero-shot fashion, given natural language prompts that specify the desired behavior. Such prompts are typically hand engineered, but can also be learned with gradient-based methods from labeled data. However, it is underexplored what factors make the prompts effective, especially when the prompts are natural language. In this paper, we investigate common attributes shared by effective prompts. We first propose a human readable prompt tuning method (F LUENT P ROMPT) based on Langevin dynamics that incorporates a fluency constraint to find a diverse distribution of effective and fluent prompts. Our analysis reveals that effective prompts are topically related to the task domain and calibrate the prior probability of label words. Based on these findings, we also propose a method for generating prompts using only unlabeled data, outperforming strong baselines by an average of 7.0% accuracy across three tasks.

As Artificial and Robotic Systems are increasingly deployed and relied upon for real-world applications, it is important that they exhibit the ability to continually learn and adapt in dynamically-changing environments, becoming Lifelong Learning Machines. Continual/lifelong learning (LL) involves minimizing catastrophic forgetting of old tasks while maximizing a model's capability to learn new tasks. This paper addresses the challenging lifelong reinforcement learning (L2RL) setting. Pushing the state-of-the-art forward in L2RL and making L2RL useful for practical applications requires more than developing individual L2RL algorithms; it requires making progress at the systems-level, especially research into the non-trivial problem of how to integrate multiple L2RL algorithms into a common framework. In this paper, we introduce the Lifelong Reinforcement Learning Components Framework (L2RLCF), which standardizes L2RL systems and assimilates different continual learning components (each addressing different aspects of the lifelong learning problem) into a unified system. As an instantiation of L2RLCF, we develop a standard API allowing easy integration of novel lifelong learning components. We describe a case study that demonstrates how multiple independently-developed LL components can be integrated into a single realized system. We also introduce an evaluation environment in order to measure the effect of combining various system components. Our evaluation environment employs different LL scenarios (sequences of tasks) consisting of Starcraft-2 minigames and allows for the fair, comprehensive, and quantitative comparison of different combinations of components within a challenging common evaluation environment.

Acquiring a better understanding of drought impacts becomes increasingly vital under a warming climate. Traditional drought indices describe mainly biophysical variables and not impacts on social, economic, and environmental systems. We utilized natural language processing and bidirectional encoder representation from Transformers (BERT) based transfer learning to fine-tune the model on the data from the news-based Drought Impact Report (DIR) and then apply it to recognize seven types of drought impacts based on the filtered Twitter data from the United States. Our model achieved a satisfying macro-F1 score of 0.89 on the DIR test set. The model was then applied to California tweets and validated with keyword-based labels. The macro-F1 score was 0.58. However, due to the limitation of keywords, we also spot-checked tweets with controversial labels. 83.5% of BERT labels were correct compared to the keyword labels. Overall, the fine-tuned BERT-based recognizer provided proper predictions and valuable information on drought impacts. The interpretation and analysis of the model were consistent with experiential domain expertise.

In many risk-aware and multi-objective reinforcement learning settings, the utility of the user is derived from a single execution of a policy. In these settings, making decisions based on the average future returns is not suitable. For example, in a medical setting a patient may only have one opportunity to treat their illness. Making decisions using just the expected future returns -- known in reinforcement learning as the value -- cannot account for the potential range of adverse or positive outcomes a decision may have. Therefore, we should use the distribution over expected future returns differently to represent the critical information that the agent requires at decision time by taking both the future and accrued returns into consideration. In this paper, we propose two novel Monte Carlo tree search algorithms. Firstly, we present a Monte Carlo tree search algorithm that can compute policies for nonlinear utility functions (NLU-MCTS) by optimising the utility of the different possible returns attainable from individual policy executions, resulting in good policies for both risk-aware and multi-objective settings. Secondly, we propose a distributional Monte Carlo tree search algorithm (DMCTS) which extends NLU-MCTS. DMCTS computes an approximate posterior distribution over the utility of the returns, and utilises Thompson sampling during planning to compute policies in risk-aware and multi-objective settings. Both algorithms outperform the state-of-the-art in multi-objective reinforcement learning for the expected utility of the returns.

A Differentiable Neural Computer (DNC) is a neural network with an external memory which allows for iterative content modification via read, write and delete operations. We show that information theoretic properties of the memory contents play an important role in the performance of such architectures. We introduce a novel concept of memory demon to DNC architectures which modifies the memory contents implicitly via additive input encoding. The goal of the memory demon is to maximize the expected sum of mutual information of the consecutive external memory contents.

Under climate change, the increasing frequency, intensity, and spatial extent of drought events lead to higher socio-economic costs. However, the relationships between the hydro-meteorological indicators and drought impacts are not identified well yet because of the complexity and data scarcity. In this paper, we proposed a framework based on the extreme gradient model (XGBoost) for Texas to predict multi-category drought impacts and connected a typical drought indicator, Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), to the text-based impacts from the Drought Impact Reporter (DIR). The preliminary results of this study showed an outstanding performance of the well-trained models to assess drought impacts on agriculture, fire, society & public health, plants & wildlife, as well as relief, response & restrictions in Texas. It also provided a possibility to appraise drought impacts using hydro-meteorological indicators with the proposed framework in the United States, which could help drought risk management by giving additional information and improving the updating frequency of drought impacts. Our interpretation results using the Shapley additive explanation (SHAP) interpretability technique revealed that the rules guiding the predictions of XGBoost comply with domain expertise knowledge around the role that SPI indicators play around drought impacts.

套件是指准备和分组必要的零件和工具（或“套件”）以在制造环境中组装。自动化此过程可简化人工工人的组装任务，并提高效率。现有的自动化套件系统遵守脚本指示和预定义的启发式方法。但是，鉴于零件和逻辑延迟的可用性差异，现有系统的僵化性可以限制装配线的整体效率。在本文中，我们提出了一个双重优化框架，以使机器人能够执行基于任务分割的零件选择，套件布置和交付计划，以及时提供定制的套件 - 即在需要时正确。我们通过人类主题研究（n = 18）评估了提出的方法，涉及基于研究的数据构建平板家具桌和购物流仿真。我们的结果表明，与使用由任务图本身定义的刚性任务分割边界定义的基线方法相比，与基线方法相比，与基线方法相比，即将到来的套件系统更有效，对上游商店流量延迟有弹性，并且比较更好地优选。单个套件，包括组装单个单元所需的所有零件。

基于分数的分歧已被广泛用于机器学习和统计应用。尽管他们的经验成功，但在将它们用于多模式分布时仍观察到了失明问题。在这项工作中，我们讨论了失明问题，并提出了一个新的分歧家庭，可以减轻失明问题。在密度估计的背景下，我们说明了我们提出的差异，与传统方法相比，报告的性能提高了。

拟议的控制方法使用基于自适应的馈电控制器来为CDPR建立一个被动输入输出映射，该映射与线性不变的严格阳性真实反馈控制器一起使用，以确保稳健的闭环输入输出稳定性和渐进式姿势轨迹通过消极定理跟踪。所提出的控制器的新颖性是其配方用于一系列有效载荷态度参数化，包括任何无约束的态度参数化，四元组或方向余弦矩阵（DCM）。通过用刚性和柔性电缆的CDPR进行数值模拟，证明了所提出的控制器的性能和鲁棒性。结果证明了仔细定义CDPR的姿势误差的重要性，CDPR的姿势误差是在使用Quaternion和dcm时以乘法方式执行的，并且在使用不受约束的态度参数时（例如Euler-andle-angle序列）时以特定的添加剂方式执行。