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.

对任何人类语言的文本的语法分析通常涉及许多基本的处理任务，例如令牌化，形态标记和依赖性解析。最先进的系统可以在具有大数据集的语言上实现这些任务的高精度，但是对于几乎没有带注释的数据的他的他加禄语等语言的结果很差。为了解决他加禄语语言的此问题，我们研究了在没有带注释的他加禄语数据的情况下使用辅助数据源来创建特定于任务模型的使用。我们还探索了单词嵌入和数据扩展的使用，以提高性能，而只有少量带注释的他加禄语数据可用。我们表明，与最先进的监督基线相比，这些零射击和几乎没有射击的方法在对域内和域外的塔加尔teact文本进行了语法分析方面进行了实质性改进。

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to widespread adoption, most LLMs are developed by resource-rich organizations and are frequently kept from the public. As a step towards democratizing this powerful technology, we present BLOOM, a 176B-parameter open-access language model designed and built thanks to a collaboration of hundreds of researchers. BLOOM is a decoder-only Transformer language model that was trained on the ROOTS corpus, a dataset comprising hundreds of sources in 46 natural and 13 programming languages (59 in total). We find that BLOOM achieves competitive performance on a wide variety of benchmarks, with stronger results after undergoing multitask prompted finetuning. To facilitate future research and applications using LLMs, we publicly release our models and code under the Responsible AI License.

使用机器学习算法从未标记的文本中提取知识可能很复杂。文档分类和信息检索是两个应用程序，可以从无监督的学习（例如文本聚类和主题建模）中受益，包括探索性数据分析。但是，无监督的学习范式提出了可重复性问题。初始化可能会导致可变性，具体取决于机器学习算法。此外，关于群集几何形状，扭曲可能会产生误导。在原因中，异常值和异常的存在可能是决定因素。尽管初始化和异常问题与文本群集和主题建模相关，但作者并未找到对它们的深入分析。这项调查提供了这些亚地区的系统文献综述（2011-2022），并提出了共同的术语，因为类似的程序具有不同的术语。作者描述了研究机会，趋势和开放问题。附录总结了与审查的作品直接或间接相关的文本矢量化，分解和聚类算法的理论背景。

我们提出了一种基于深度多实例学习的简单高效的图像分类架构，并将其应用于牙科射线照片中龋齿检测的具有挑战性的任务。从技术上讲，我们的方法有两种方式贡献：首先，尽管使用弱图像级标签培训，它尽管培训了本地补丁分类概率的热线图。其次，它可以从分段标签学习，从而指导培训。与现有方法相比，人类用户可以忠实地解释预测并与模型进行交互以决定参加哪些区域。实验是在$ \ SIM $ 38K Bitewings（$ \ SIM $ 316K牙齿）的大型临床数据集上进行的，在那里我们与各种基线相比实现了竞争性能。当由外部龋齿分割模型引导时，观察到分类和定位性能的显着改善。

对理解通过语言模型（LMS）的隐藏表示捕获的信息有很多兴趣。通常，解释方法I）不保证模型实际使用编码信息，并且II）不发现负责考虑现象的小型神经元。灵感来自因果调解分析，我们提出了一种在神经LM内发现的方法，该方法在负责特定语言现象的小神经元的小神经元中发现，即引起相应令牌排放概率的变化的子集。我们使用可怜的放松来近似搜索组合空间。 $ L_0 $正常化术语可确保搜索收敛到离散和稀疏解决方案。我们应用我们在LSTMS中分析主题 - 动词号协议和性别偏见检测的方法。我们观察到它是快速的，而不是替代方面的解决方案（加强）。我们的实验证实，这些现象中的每一个都是通过不发挥任何其他可辨别作用的小神经元的小型介导的。

Advances in computer vision and machine learning techniques have led to significant development in 2D and 3D human pose estimation from RGB cameras, LiDAR, and radars. However, human pose estimation from images is adversely affected by occlusion and lighting, which are common in many scenarios of interest. Radar and LiDAR technologies, on the other hand, need specialized hardware that is expensive and power-intensive. Furthermore, placing these sensors in non-public areas raises significant privacy concerns. To address these limitations, recent research has explored the use of WiFi antennas (1D sensors) for body segmentation and key-point body detection. This paper further expands on the use of the WiFi signal in combination with deep learning architectures, commonly used in computer vision, to estimate dense human pose correspondence. We developed a deep neural network that maps the phase and amplitude of WiFi signals to UV coordinates within 24 human regions. The results of the study reveal that our model can estimate the dense pose of multiple subjects, with comparable performance to image-based approaches, by utilizing WiFi signals as the only input. This paves the way for low-cost, broadly accessible, and privacy-preserving algorithms for human sensing.

Due to the environmental impacts caused by the construction industry, repurposing existing buildings and making them more energy-efficient has become a high-priority issue. However, a legitimate concern of land developers is associated with the buildings' state of conservation. For that reason, infrared thermography has been used as a powerful tool to characterize these buildings' state of conservation by detecting pathologies, such as cracks and humidity. Thermal cameras detect the radiation emitted by any material and translate it into temperature-color-coded images. Abnormal temperature changes may indicate the presence of pathologies, however, reading thermal images might not be quite simple. This research project aims to combine infrared thermography and machine learning (ML) to help stakeholders determine the viability of reusing existing buildings by identifying their pathologies and defects more efficiently and accurately. In this particular phase of this research project, we've used an image classification machine learning model of Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) to differentiate three levels of cracks in one particular building. The model's accuracy was compared between the MSX and thermal images acquired from two distinct thermal cameras and fused images (formed through multisource information) to test the influence of the input data and network on the detection results.

The advances in Artificial Intelligence are creating new opportunities to improve lives of people around the world, from business to healthcare, from lifestyle to education. For example, some systems profile the users using their demographic and behavioral characteristics to make certain domain-specific predictions. Often, such predictions impact the life of the user directly or indirectly (e.g., loan disbursement, determining insurance coverage, shortlisting applications, etc.). As a result, the concerns over such AI-enabled systems are also increasing. To address these concerns, such systems are mandated to be responsible i.e., transparent, fair, and explainable to developers and end-users. In this paper, we present ComplAI, a unique framework to enable, observe, analyze and quantify explainability, robustness, performance, fairness, and model behavior in drift scenarios, and to provide a single Trust Factor that evaluates different supervised Machine Learning models not just from their ability to make correct predictions but from overall responsibility perspective. The framework helps users to (a) connect their models and enable explanations, (b) assess and visualize different aspects of the model, such as robustness, drift susceptibility, and fairness, and (c) compare different models (from different model families or obtained through different hyperparameter settings) from an overall perspective thereby facilitating actionable recourse for improvement of the models. It is model agnostic and works with different supervised machine learning scenarios (i.e., Binary Classification, Multi-class Classification, and Regression) and frameworks. It can be seamlessly integrated with any ML life-cycle framework. Thus, this already deployed framework aims to unify critical aspects of Responsible AI systems for regulating the development process of such real systems.

Model calibration, which is concerned with how frequently the model predicts correctly, not only plays a vital part in statistical model design, but also has substantial practical applications, such as optimal decision-making in the real world. However, it has been discovered that modern deep neural networks are generally poorly calibrated due to the overestimation (or underestimation) of predictive confidence, which is closely related to overfitting. In this paper, we propose Annealing Double-Head, a simple-to-implement but highly effective architecture for calibrating the DNN during training. To be precise, we construct an additional calibration head-a shallow neural network that typically has one latent layer-on top of the last latent layer in the normal model to map the logits to the aligned confidence. Furthermore, a simple Annealing technique that dynamically scales the logits by calibration head in training procedure is developed to improve its performance. Under both the in-distribution and distributional shift circumstances, we exhaustively evaluate our Annealing Double-Head architecture on multiple pairs of contemporary DNN architectures and vision and speech datasets. We demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art model calibration performance without post-processing while simultaneously providing comparable predictive accuracy in comparison to other recently proposed calibration methods on a range of learning tasks.