In this paper, we carry out numerical analysis to prove convergence of a novel sample-wise back-propagation method for training a class of stochastic neural networks (SNNs). The structure of the SNN is formulated as discretization of a stochastic differential equation (SDE). A stochastic optimal control framework is introduced to model the training procedure, and a sample-wise approximation scheme for the adjoint backward SDE is applied to improve the efficiency of the stochastic optimal control solver, which is equivalent to the back-propagation for training the SNN. The convergence analysis is derived with and without convexity assumption for optimization of the SNN parameters. Especially, our analysis indicates that the number of SNN training steps should be proportional to the square of the number of layers in the convex optimization case. Numerical experiments are carried out to validate the analysis results, and the performance of the sample-wise back-propagation method for training SNNs is examined by benchmark machine learning examples.

Prompt tuning recently becomes a hot-spot in the applications of large pretrained language models on specific downstream tasks. Regarding the Language Model as a Service (LMaaS), black-box tuning using derivative-free optimization (DFO) provides a novel approach to expand the practical scenarios of pretrained models and enrich the researches of few-shot learning. In this report, we present our solution in this competition that is based on the LMaaS scenario. Our solution consists of several modifications to BBTv2, including multiple label words, selection of P0, rolling update strategy, multi-task loss from MLP classifier, and finally using the ensemble method to further improve generalization ability. We also shared some strategies that we tried but didn't use in the final submission for further discussion. In the end we raised a question about the SNLI dataset and the impact on the results, as well as our concerns about the competition.

The security of artificial intelligence (AI) is an important research area towards safe, reliable, and trustworthy AI systems. To accelerate the research on AI security, the Artificial Intelligence Security Competition (AISC) was organized by the Zhongguancun Laboratory, China Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University, and RealAI as part of the Zhongguancun International Frontier Technology Innovation Competition (https://www.zgc-aisc.com/en). The competition consists of three tracks, including Deepfake Security Competition, Autonomous Driving Security Competition, and Face Recognition Security Competition. This report will introduce the competition rules of these three tracks and the solutions of top-ranking teams in each track.

Complex dialogue mappings (CDM), including one-to-many and many-to-one mappings, tend to make dialogue models generate incoherent or dull responses, and modeling these mappings remains a huge challenge for neural dialogue systems. To alleviate these problems, methods like introducing external information, reconstructing the optimization function, and manipulating data samples are proposed, while they primarily focus on avoiding training with CDM, inevitably weakening the model's ability of understanding CDM in human conversations and limiting further improvements in model performance. This paper proposes a Sentence Semantic \textbf{Seg}mentation guided \textbf{C}onditional \textbf{V}ariational \textbf{A}uto-\textbf{E}ncoder (SegCVAE) method which can model and take advantages of the CDM data. Specifically, to tackle the incoherent problem caused by one-to-many, SegCVAE uses response-related prominent semantics to constrained the latent variable. To mitigate the non-diverse problem brought by many-to-one, SegCVAE segments multiple prominent semantics to enrich the latent variables. Three novel components, Internal Separation, External Guidance, and Semantic Norms, are proposed to achieve SegCVAE. On dialogue generation tasks, both the automatic and human evaluation results show that SegCVAE achieves new state-of-the-art performance.

Responding with multi-modal content has been recognized as an essential capability for an intelligent conversational agent. In this paper, we introduce the MMDialog dataset to better facilitate multi-modal conversation. MMDialog is composed of a curated set of 1.08 million real-world dialogues with 1.53 million unique images across 4,184 topics. MMDialog has two main and unique advantages. First, it is the largest multi-modal conversation dataset by the number of dialogues by 8x. Second, it contains massive topics to generalize the open-domain. To build engaging dialogue system with this dataset, we propose and normalize two response producing tasks based on retrieval and generative scenarios. In addition, we build two baselines for above tasks with state-of-the-art techniques and report their experimental performance. We also propose a novel evaluation metric MM-Relevance to measure the multi-modal responses. Our dataset and scripts are available in https://github.com/victorsungo/MMDialog.

Image super-resolution is a common task on mobile and IoT devices, where one often needs to upscale and enhance low-resolution images and video frames. While numerous solutions have been proposed for this problem in the past, they are usually not compatible with low-power mobile NPUs having many computational and memory constraints. In this Mobile AI challenge, we address this problem and propose the participants to design an efficient quantized image super-resolution solution that can demonstrate a real-time performance on mobile NPUs. The participants were provided with the DIV2K dataset and trained INT8 models to do a high-quality 3X image upscaling. The runtime of all models was evaluated on the Synaptics VS680 Smart Home board with a dedicated edge NPU capable of accelerating quantized neural networks. All proposed solutions are fully compatible with the above NPU, demonstrating an up to 60 FPS rate when reconstructing Full HD resolution images. A detailed description of all models developed in the challenge is provided in this paper.

Virtual reality (VR) over wireless is expected to be one of the killer applications in next-generation communication networks. Nevertheless, the huge data volume along with stringent requirements on latency and reliability under limited bandwidth resources makes untethered wireless VR delivery increasingly challenging. Such bottlenecks, therefore, motivate this work to seek the potential of using semantic communication, a new paradigm that promises to significantly ease the resource pressure, for efficient VR delivery. To this end, we propose a novel framework, namely WIreless SEmantic deliveRy for VR (WiserVR), for delivering consecutive 360{\deg} video frames to VR users. Specifically, deep learning-based multiple modules are well-devised for the transceiver in WiserVR to realize high-performance feature extraction and semantic recovery. Among them, we dedicatedly develop a concept of semantic location graph and leverage the joint-semantic-channel-coding method with knowledge sharing to not only substantially reduce communication latency, but also to guarantee adequate transmission reliability and resilience under various channel states. Moreover, implementation of WiserVR is presented, followed by corresponding initial simulations for performance evaluation compared with benchmarks. Finally, we discuss several open issues and offer feasible solutions to unlock the full potential of WiserVR.

持续学习（CL）依次学习像人类这样的新任务，其目标是实现更好的稳定性（S，记住过去的任务）和可塑性（P，适应新任务）。由于过去的培训数据不可用，因此探索培训示例中S和P的影响差异很有价值，这可能会改善对更好的SP的学习模式。受影响函数的启发（如果），我们首先研究了示例通过添加扰动来示例体重和计算影响推导的影响。为了避免在神经网络中Hessian逆的存储和计算负担，我们提出了一种简单而有效的METASP算法，以模拟IF计算中的两个关键步骤，并获得S-和P-Aware示例的影响。此外，我们建议通过解决双目标优化问题来融合两种示例影响，并获得对SP Pareto最优性的融合影响。融合影响可用于控制模型的更新并优化排练的存储。经验结果表明，我们的算法在任务和类别基准CL数据集上都显着优于最先进的方法。

在本文中，我们将解决方案介绍给Muse-Humor的多模式情感挑战（MUSE）2022的邮件，库穆尔人子挑战的目标是发现幽默并从德国足球馆的视听录音中计算出AUC新闻发布会。它是针对教练表现出的幽默的注释。对于此子挑战，我们首先使用变压器模块和BilstM模块构建一个判别模型，然后提出一种混合融合策略，以使用每种模式的预测结果来提高模型的性能。我们的实验证明了我们提出的模型和混合融合策略对多模式融合的有效性，并且我们在测试集中提出的模型的AUC为0.8972。

多模式变压器的最新努力通过合并视觉和文本信息改善了视觉上丰富的文档理解（VRDU）任务。但是，现有的方法主要集中于诸如单词和文档图像贴片之类的细粒元素，这使得他们很难从粗粒元素中学习，包括短语和显着视觉区域（如突出的图像区域）等自然词汇单元。在本文中，我们对包含高密度信息和一致语义的粗粒元素更为重要，这对于文档理解很有价值。首先，提出了文档图来模拟多层次多模式元素之间的复杂关系，其中通过基于群集的方法检测到显着的视觉区域。然后，提出了一种称为mmlayout的多模式变压器，以将粗粒的信息纳入基于图形的现有预训练的细颗粒的多峰变压器中。在mmlayout中，粗粒信息是从细粒度聚集的，然后在进一步处理后，将其融合到细粒度中以进行最终预测。此外，引入常识增强以利用天然词汇单元的语义信息。关于四个任务的实验结果，包括信息提取和文档问答，表明我们的方法可以根据细粒元素改善多模式变压器的性能，并使用更少的参数实现更好的性能。定性分析表明，我们的方法可以在粗粒元素中捕获一致的语义。