Given a natural language that describes the user's demands, the NL2Code task aims to generate code that addresses the demands. This is a critical but challenging task that mirrors the capabilities of AI-powered programming. The NL2Code task is inherently versatile, diverse and complex. For example, a demand can be described in different languages, in different formats, and at different levels of granularity. This inspired us to do this survey for NL2Code. In this survey, we focus on how does neural network (NN) solves NL2Code. We first propose a comprehensive framework, which is able to cover all studies in this field. Then, we in-depth parse the existing studies into this framework. We create an online website to record the parsing results, which tracks existing and recent NL2Code progress. In addition, we summarize the current challenges of NL2Code as well as its future directions. We hope that this survey can foster the evolution of this field.

Stack Overflow是最受欢迎的编程社区之一，开发人员可以为他们遇到的问题寻求帮助。然而，如果没有经验的开发人员无法清楚地描述他们的问题，那么他们很难吸引足够的关注并获得预期的答案。我们提出了M $ _3 $ NSCT5，这是一种自动从给定代码片段生成多个帖子标题的新颖方法。开发人员可以使用生成的标题查找密切相关的帖子并完成其问题描述。 M $ _3 $ NSCT5使用Codet5骨干，这是一种具有出色语言理解和发电能力的预训练的变压器模型。为了减轻歧义问题，即在不同背景下可以将相同的代码片段与不同的标题保持一致，我们提出了最大的边缘多元核抽样策略，以一次产生多个高质量和不同的标题候选者，以便开发人员选择。我们构建了一个大规模数据集，其中包含890,000个问题帖子，其中涵盖了八种编程语言，以验证M $ _3 $ NSCT5的有效性。 BLEU和胭脂指标的自动评估结果表明，M $ _3 $ NSCT5的优势比六个最先进的基线模型。此外，具有值得信赖结果的人类评估也证明了我们对现实世界应用方法的巨大潜力。

给定编程问题，预训练的语言模型（例如Codex）证明了通过采样生成多个不同代码解决方案的能力。但是，从这些样本中选择正确或最佳解决方案仍然是一个挑战。尽管验证代码解决方案正确性的一种简单方法是通过执行测试用例，但生产高质量的测试用例非常昂贵。在本文中，我们探讨了使用预训练的语言模型自动生成测试用例，称我们的方法Codet：使用生成测试的代码生成。 CODET使用生成的测试用例执行代码解决方案，然后根据与生成的测试用例和其他生成的解决方案的双重执行协议选择最佳解决方案。我们在五个具有HumaneVal和MBPP基准的不同预训练模型上评估Codet。广泛的实验结果表明，Codet可以实现对以前方法的显着，一致且令人惊讶的改进。例如，CODET将HOMANEVAL的通行证提高到65.8％，在Code-Davinci-002模型上的绝对增长率为18.8％，并且比以前的最新结果相比，绝对20+％提高。

上下文：堆栈溢出对于寻求编程问题答案的软件开发人员非常有帮助。先前的研究表明，越来越多的问题质量低，因此从潜在的答案者那里获得了更少的关注。 Gao等。提出了一个基于LSTM的模型（即BilstM-CC），以自动从代码片段中生成问题标题，以提高问题质量。但是，只有在问题主体中使用代码段无法为标题生成提供足够的信息，而LSTMS无法捕获令牌之间的远程依赖性。目的：本文提出了基于深度学习的新型模型CCBERT，旨在通过充分利用整个问题主体的双模式信息来增强问题标题生成的性能。方法：CCBERT遵循编码器范式范式，并使用Codebert将问题主体编码为隐藏的表示形式，堆叠的变压器解码器以生成预测的代币，以及附加的复制注意层来完善输出分布。编码器和解码器都执行多头自我注意操作，以更好地捕获远程依赖性。本文构建了一个数据集，该数据集包含大约200,000个高质量问题，该数据从Stack Overflow正式发布的数据中滤除，以验证CCBERT模型的有效性。结果：CCBERT优于数据集上的所有基线模型。对仅代码和低资源数据集进行的实验表明，CCBERT的优势性能较小。人类评估还显示了CCBERT关于可读性和相关标准的出色表现。

Masked image modeling (MIM) performs strongly in pre-training large vision Transformers (ViTs). However, small models that are critical for real-world applications cannot or only marginally benefit from this pre-training approach. In this paper, we explore distillation techniques to transfer the success of large MIM-based pre-trained models to smaller ones. We systematically study different options in the distillation framework, including distilling targets, losses, input, network regularization, sequential distillation, etc, revealing that: 1) Distilling token relations is more effective than CLS token- and feature-based distillation; 2) An intermediate layer of the teacher network as target perform better than that using the last layer when the depth of the student mismatches that of the teacher; 3) Weak regularization is preferred; etc. With these findings, we achieve significant fine-tuning accuracy improvements over the scratch MIM pre-training on ImageNet-1K classification, using all the ViT-Tiny, ViT-Small, and ViT-base models, with +4.2%/+2.4%/+1.4% gains, respectively. Our TinyMIM model of base size achieves 52.2 mIoU in AE20K semantic segmentation, which is +4.1 higher than the MAE baseline. Our TinyMIM model of tiny size achieves 79.6% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1K image classification, which sets a new record for small vision models of the same size and computation budget. This strong performance suggests an alternative way for developing small vision Transformer models, that is, by exploring better training methods rather than introducing inductive biases into architectures as in most previous works. Code is available at https://github.com/OliverRensu/TinyMIM.

In this paper, we propose a robust 3D detector, named Cross Modal Transformer (CMT), for end-to-end 3D multi-modal detection. Without explicit view transformation, CMT takes the image and point clouds tokens as inputs and directly outputs accurate 3D bounding boxes. The spatial alignment of multi-modal tokens is performed implicitly, by encoding the 3D points into multi-modal features. The core design of CMT is quite simple while its performance is impressive. CMT obtains 73.0% NDS on nuScenes benchmark. Moreover, CMT has a strong robustness even if the LiDAR is missing. Code will be released at https://github.com/junjie18/CMT.

Dataset distillation has emerged as a prominent technique to improve data efficiency when training machine learning models. It encapsulates the knowledge from a large dataset into a smaller synthetic dataset. A model trained on this smaller distilled dataset can attain comparable performance to a model trained on the original training dataset. However, the existing dataset distillation techniques mainly aim at achieving the best trade-off between resource usage efficiency and model utility. The security risks stemming from them have not been explored. This study performs the first backdoor attack against the models trained on the data distilled by dataset distillation models in the image domain. Concretely, we inject triggers into the synthetic data during the distillation procedure rather than during the model training stage, where all previous attacks are performed. We propose two types of backdoor attacks, namely NAIVEATTACK and DOORPING. NAIVEATTACK simply adds triggers to the raw data at the initial distillation phase, while DOORPING iteratively updates the triggers during the entire distillation procedure. We conduct extensive evaluations on multiple datasets, architectures, and dataset distillation techniques. Empirical evaluation shows that NAIVEATTACK achieves decent attack success rate (ASR) scores in some cases, while DOORPING reaches higher ASR scores (close to 1.0) in all cases. Furthermore, we conduct a comprehensive ablation study to analyze the factors that may affect the attack performance. Finally, we evaluate multiple defense mechanisms against our backdoor attacks and show that our attacks can practically circumvent these defense mechanisms.

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains challenging due to the diversity of distortion and image content variation, which complicate the distortion patterns crossing different scales and aggravate the difficulty of the regression problem for BIQA. However, existing BIQA methods often fail to consider multi-scale distortion patterns and image content, and little research has been done on learning strategies to make the regression model produce better performance. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective Progressive Multi-Task Image Quality Assessment (PMT-IQA) model, which contains a multi-scale feature extraction module (MS) and a progressive multi-task learning module (PMT), to help the model learn complex distortion patterns and better optimize the regression issue to align with the law of human learning process from easy to hard. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed PMT-IQA model, we conduct experiments on four widely used public datasets, and the experimental results indicate that the performance of PMT-IQA is superior to the comparison approaches, and both MS and PMT modules improve the model's performance.

Automatic music generation with artificial intelligence typically requires a large amount of data which is hard to obtain for many less common genres and musical instruments. To tackle this issue, we present ongoing work and preliminary findings on the possibility for deep models to transfer knowledge from language to music, by finetuning large language models pre-trained on a massive text corpus on only hundreds of MIDI files of drum performances. We show that by doing so, one of the largest, state-of-the-art models (GPT3) is capable of generating reasonable drum grooves, while models that are not pre-trained (Transformer) shows no such ability beyond naive repetition. Evaluating generated music is a challenging task, more so is evaluating drum grooves with little precedence in literature. Hence, we propose a tailored structural evaluation method and analyze drum grooves produced by GPT3 compared to those played by human professionals, exposing the strengths and weaknesses of such generation by language-to-music transfer. Our findings suggest that language-to-music transfer learning with large language models is viable and promising.

Few Shot Instance Segmentation (FSIS) requires models to detect and segment novel classes with limited several support examples. In this work, we explore a simple yet unified solution for FSIS as well as its incremental variants, and introduce a new framework named Reference Twice (RefT) to fully explore the relationship between support/query features based on a Transformer-like framework. Our key insights are two folds: Firstly, with the aid of support masks, we can generate dynamic class centers more appropriately to re-weight query features. Secondly, we find that support object queries have already encoded key factors after base training. In this way, the query features can be enhanced twice from two aspects, i.e., feature-level and instance-level. In particular, we firstly design a mask-based dynamic weighting module to enhance support features and then propose to link object queries for better calibration via cross-attention. After the above steps, the novel classes can be improved significantly over our strong baseline. Additionally, our new framework can be easily extended to incremental FSIS with minor modification. When benchmarking results on the COCO dataset for FSIS, gFSIS, and iFSIS settings, our method achieves a competitive performance compared to existing approaches across different shots, e.g., we boost nAP by noticeable +8.2/+9.4 over the current state-of-the-art FSIS method for 10/30-shot. We further demonstrate the superiority of our approach on Few Shot Object Detection. Code and model will be available.