Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to identify the temporal boundary of a specific segment from an untrimmed video by a sentence query. All existing works first utilize a sparse sampling strategy to extract a fixed number of video frames and then conduct multi-modal interactions with query sentence for reasoning. However, we argue that these methods have overlooked two indispensable issues: 1) Boundary-bias: The annotated target segment generally refers to two specific frames as corresponding start and end timestamps. The video downsampling process may lose these two frames and take the adjacent irrelevant frames as new boundaries. 2) Reasoning-bias: Such incorrect new boundary frames also lead to the reasoning bias during frame-query interaction, reducing the generalization ability of model. To alleviate above limitations, in this paper, we propose a novel Siamese Sampling and Reasoning Network (SSRN) for TSG, which introduces a siamese sampling mechanism to generate additional contextual frames to enrich and refine the new boundaries. Specifically, a reasoning strategy is developed to learn the inter-relationship among these frames and generate soft labels on boundaries for more accurate frame-query reasoning. Such mechanism is also able to supplement the absent consecutive visual semantics to the sampled sparse frames for fine-grained activity understanding. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of SSRN on three challenging datasets.

为了解决数学单词问题，人类学生利用达到不同方程解决方案的各种推理逻辑。但是，自动求解器的主流序列到序列方法旨在解码通过人类注释监督的固定溶液方程。在本文中，我们通过利用一组控制代码来指导模型考虑某些推理逻辑并解码从人类参考转换的相应方程式表达式来指导模型来考虑某些推理逻辑并解码相应的方程式表达式来提出一个受控方程生成求解器。经验结果表明，我们的方法普遍提高了单人（MATH23K）和多项（draw1k，hmwp）基准的性能，在具有挑战性的多重未知数据集上，高达13.2％的准确性。

有效的深层神经网络（DNN）模型配备了紧凑的操作员（例如，深度卷积）在降低DNN的理论复杂性（例如，权重/操作总数）的同时，在保持体面的模型准确性的同时，显示出很大的潜力。但是，由于其通常采用的紧凑型操作员的低硬件利用率，现有的有效DNN仍然受到履行其提高现实硬件效率的承诺的限制。在这项工作中，我们为开发真实硬件有效的DNN开辟了新的压缩范式，从而提高了硬件效率，同时保持模型的准确性。有趣的是，我们观察到，尽管某些DNN层的激活功能有助于DNNS的训练优化和可实现的准确性，但在训练后可以正确删除它们，而不会损害模型的准确性。受到这一观察的启发，我们提出了一个称为DepthShrinker的框架，该框架通过缩小现有有效DNN的基本构建块来开发硬件友好的紧凑型网络，这些构件具有不规则的计算模式，并具有大量改进的硬件利用率，从而将硬件的计算模式缩小到密集的情况下。令人兴奋的是，我们的DepthShrinker框架提供了硬件友好的紧凑网络，既优于最先进的有效DNN和压缩技术方法元元素。我们的代码可在以下网址找到：https：//github.com/facebookresearch/depthshrinker。

图像回归任务，如骨矿物密度（BMD）估计和左心室喷射分数（LVEF）预测，在计算机辅助疾病评估中起重要作用。大多数深度回归方法用单一的回归损耗函数训练神经网络，如MSE或L1损耗。在本文中，我们提出了一种用于深度图像回归的第一个对比学习框架，即adacon，其包括通过新颖的自适应边缘对比损耗和回归预测分支的特征学习分支组成。我们的方法包含标签距离关系作为学习特征表示的一部分，这允许在下游回归任务中进行更好的性能。此外，它可以用作即插即用模块，以提高现有回归方法的性能。我们展示了adacon对来自X射线图像的骨矿物密度估计和来自超声心动图象的X射线图像和左心室喷射分数预测的骨矿物密度估计的有效性。 Adacon分别导致MAE在最先进的BMD估计和LVEF预测方法中相对提高3.3％和5.9％。

点云学习界见证了从CNN到变形金刚的模型转移，纯变压器架构在主要学习基准上实现了最高精度。然而，现有的点变压器是计算昂贵的，因为它们需要产生大的注意图，其相对于输入大小具有二次复杂度（空间和时间）。为了解决这种缺点，我们介绍补丁注意（PAT），以便自适应地学习计算注意力地图的更小的基础。通过对这些基础的加权求和，PAT仅捕获全局形状上下文，而且还可以实现输入大小的线性复杂性。此外，我们提出了一种轻量级的多尺度关注（MST）块来构建不同尺度特征的关注，提供具有多尺度特征的模型。我们配备了PAT和MST，我们构建了我们的神经结构，称为PatchFormer，将两个模块集成到Point云学习的联合框架中。广泛的实验表明，我们的网络对一般点云学习任务的可比准确性具有9.2倍的速度高于先前的点变压器。

广域网络（WAN）是当今社会的关键基础设施。在过去的几年中，WANS的网络流量和网络应用程序大大增加，对现有网络技术（例如，低延迟和高吞吐量）施加了新的要求。因此，互联网服务提供商（ISP）承受着确保客户服务质量和履行服务水平协议的压力。网络运营商利用交通工程（TE）技术有效地管理网络资源。但是，WAN的流量在时间期间可能会发生巨大变化，并且由于外部因素（例如，链接故障），连通性可能会受到影响。因此，TE解决方案必须能够实时适应动态方案。在本文中，我们提出了基于两阶段优化过程的有效实时TE解决方案。在第一个中，Enero利用深入的强化学习（DRL）通过生成长期的TE策略来优化路由配置。为了在动态网络方案（例如，在链接失败发生时）进行有效的操作，我们将图形神经网络集成到DRL代理中。在第二阶段，Enero使用本地搜索算法来改善DRL的解决方案，而无需将计算开销添加到优化过程中。实验结果表明，Enero能够在4.5秒内平均在现实世界中的动态网络拓扑以100个边缘进行操作。

与卷积神经网络相比，最近开发的纯变压器架构已经实现了对点云学习基准的有希望的准确性。然而，现有点云变压器是计算昂贵的，因为它们在构建不规则数据时浪费了大量时间。要解决此缺点，我们呈现稀疏窗口注意（SWA）模块，以收集非空体素的粗粒颗粒特征，不仅绕过昂贵的不规则数据结构和无效的空体素计算，还可以获得线性计算复杂性到体素分辨率。同时，要收集关于全球形状的细粒度特征，我们介绍了相对的注意（RA）模块，更强大的自我关注变体，用于对象的刚性变换。我们配备了SWA和RA，我们构建了我们的神经结构，称为PVT，将两个模块集成到Point云学习的联合框架中。与以前的变压器和关注的模型相比，我们的方法平均达到了分类基准和10x推理加速的最高精度为94.0％。广泛的实验还有效地验证了PVT在部分和语义分割基准上的有效性（分别为86.6％和69.2％Miou）。

In this paper we explore the task of modeling (semi) structured object sequences; in particular we focus our attention on the problem of developing a structure-aware input representation for such sequences. In such sequences, we assume that each structured object is represented by a set of key-value pairs which encode the attributes of the structured object. Given a universe of keys, a sequence of structured objects can then be viewed as an evolution of the values for each key, over time. We encode and construct a sequential representation using the values for a particular key (Temporal Value Modeling - TVM) and then self-attend over the set of key-conditioned value sequences to a create a representation of the structured object sequence (Key Aggregation - KA). We pre-train and fine-tune the two components independently and present an innovative training schedule that interleaves the training of both modules with shared attention heads. We find that this iterative two part-training results in better performance than a unified network with hierarchical encoding as well as over, other methods that use a {\em record-view} representation of the sequence \cite{de2021transformers4rec} or a simple {\em flattened} representation of the sequence. We conduct experiments using real-world data to demonstrate the advantage of interleaving TVM-KA on multiple tasks and detailed ablation studies motivating our modeling choices. We find that our approach performs better than flattening sequence objects and also allows us to operate on significantly larger sequences than existing methods.

Face Anti-spoofing (FAS) is essential to secure face recognition systems from various physical attacks. However, recent research generally focuses on short-distance applications (i.e., phone unlocking) while lacking consideration of long-distance scenes (i.e., surveillance security checks). In order to promote relevant research and fill this gap in the community, we collect a large-scale Surveillance High-Fidelity Mask (SuHiFiMask) dataset captured under 40 surveillance scenes, which has 101 subjects from different age groups with 232 3D attacks (high-fidelity masks), 200 2D attacks (posters, portraits, and screens), and 2 adversarial attacks. In this scene, low image resolution and noise interference are new challenges faced in surveillance FAS. Together with the SuHiFiMask dataset, we propose a Contrastive Quality-Invariance Learning (CQIL) network to alleviate the performance degradation caused by image quality from three aspects: (1) An Image Quality Variable module (IQV) is introduced to recover image information associated with discrimination by combining the super-resolution network. (2) Using generated sample pairs to simulate quality variance distributions to help contrastive learning strategies obtain robust feature representation under quality variation. (3) A Separate Quality Network (SQN) is designed to learn discriminative features independent of image quality. Finally, a large number of experiments verify the quality of the SuHiFiMask dataset and the superiority of the proposed CQIL.

Panoptic Part Segmentation (PPS) unifies panoptic segmentation and part segmentation into one task. Previous works utilize separated approaches to handle thing, stuff, and part predictions without shared computation and task association. We aim to unify these tasks at the architectural level, designing the first end-to-end unified framework named Panoptic-PartFormer. Moreover, we find the previous metric PartPQ biases to PQ. To handle both issues, we make the following contributions: Firstly, we design a meta-architecture that decouples part feature and things/stuff feature, respectively. We model things, stuff, and parts as object queries and directly learn to optimize all three forms of prediction as a unified mask prediction and classification problem. We term our model as Panoptic-PartFormer. Secondly, we propose a new metric Part-Whole Quality (PWQ) to better measure such task from both pixel-region and part-whole perspectives. It can also decouple the error for part segmentation and panoptic segmentation. Thirdly, inspired by Mask2Former, based on our meta-architecture, we propose Panoptic-PartFormer++ and design a new part-whole cross attention scheme to further boost part segmentation qualities. We design a new part-whole interaction method using masked cross attention. Finally, the extensive ablation studies and analysis demonstrate the effectiveness of both Panoptic-PartFormer and Panoptic-PartFormer++. Compared with previous Panoptic-PartFormer, our Panoptic-PartFormer++ achieves 2% PartPQ and 3% PWQ improvements on the Cityscapes PPS dataset and 5% PartPQ on the Pascal Context PPS dataset. On both datasets, Panoptic-PartFormer++ achieves new state-of-the-art results with a significant cost drop of 70% on GFlops and 50% on parameters. Our models can serve as a strong baseline and aid future research in PPS. Code will be available.