当前的个性化对话中的作品主要有助于代理人表现出一致的个性并推动更有用的回应。但是，我们发现大多数以前模型的生成的响应往往是以自我为中心的，对话中的用户几乎不关心。此外，我们认为类似人类的对话基本上是基于推断另一方角色的信息而构建的。由此激励，我们通过检测隐性用户角色提出了一种新颖的个性化对话生成器。因为很难为每个用户收集大量详细的角色，所以我们试图对用户的潜在角色及其从对话历史记录进行建模，而没有外部知识。使用条件变异推断对感知和推子变量进行了构想。两个潜在变量模拟了人们意识到彼此角色并在对话中产生相应表达的过程。最后，提出了后歧视的正规化以增强训练程序。实证研究表明，与最先进的方法相比，我们的方法更关心用户的角色，并在整个评估中实现了相当大的推动力。

Recently, extensive studies on photonic reinforcement learning to accelerate the process of calculation by exploiting the physical nature of light have been conducted. Previous studies utilized quantum interference of photons to achieve collective decision-making without choice conflicts when solving the competitive multi-armed bandit problem, a fundamental example of reinforcement learning. However, the bandit problem deals with a static environment where the agent's action does not influence the reward probabilities. This study aims to extend the conventional approach to a more general multi-agent reinforcement learning targeting the grid world problem. Unlike the conventional approach, the proposed scheme deals with a dynamic environment where the reward changes because of agents' actions. A successful photonic reinforcement learning scheme requires both a photonic system that contributes to the quality of learning and a suitable algorithm. This study proposes a novel learning algorithm, discontinuous bandit Q-learning, in view of a potential photonic implementation. Here, state-action pairs in the environment are regarded as slot machines in the context of the bandit problem and an updated amount of Q-value is regarded as the reward of the bandit problem. We perform numerical simulations to validate the effectiveness of the bandit algorithm. In addition, we propose a multi-agent architecture in which agents are indirectly connected through quantum interference of light and quantum principles ensure the conflict-free property of state-action pair selections among agents. We demonstrate that multi-agent reinforcement learning can be accelerated owing to conflict avoidance among multiple agents.

This study targets the mixed-integer black-box optimization (MI-BBO) problem where continuous and integer variables should be optimized simultaneously. The CMA-ES, our focus in this study, is a population-based stochastic search method that samples solution candidates from a multivariate Gaussian distribution (MGD), which shows excellent performance in continuous BBO. The parameters of MGD, mean and (co)variance, are updated based on the evaluation value of candidate solutions in the CMA-ES. If the CMA-ES is applied to the MI-BBO with straightforward discretization, however, the variance corresponding to the integer variables becomes much smaller than the granularity of the discretization before reaching the optimal solution, which leads to the stagnation of the optimization. In particular, when binary variables are included in the problem, this stagnation more likely occurs because the granularity of the discretization becomes wider, and the existing modification to the CMA-ES does not address this stagnation. To overcome these limitations, we propose a simple extension of the CMA-ES based on lower-bounding the marginal probabilities associated with the generation of integer variables in the MGD. The numerical experiments on the MI-BBO benchmark problems demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of the proposed method. Furthermore, in order to demonstrate the generality of the idea of the proposed method, in addition to the single-objective optimization case, we incorporate it into multi-objective CMA-ES and verify its performance on bi-objective mixed-integer benchmark problems.

The long-standing theory that a colour-naming system evolves under the dual pressure of efficient communication and perceptual mechanism is supported by more and more linguistic studies including the analysis of four decades' diachronic data from the Nafaanra language. This inspires us to explore whether artificial intelligence could evolve and discover a similar colour-naming system via optimising the communication efficiency represented by high-level recognition performance. Here, we propose a novel colour quantisation transformer, CQFormer, that quantises colour space while maintaining the accuracy of machine recognition on the quantised images. Given an RGB image, Annotation Branch maps it into an index map before generating the quantised image with a colour palette, meanwhile the Palette Branch utilises a key-point detection way to find proper colours in palette among whole colour space. By interacting with colour annotation, CQFormer is able to balance both the machine vision accuracy and colour perceptual structure such as distinct and stable colour distribution for discovered colour system. Very interestingly, we even observe the consistent evolution pattern between our artificial colour system and basic colour terms across human languages. Besides, our colour quantisation method also offers an efficient quantisation method that effectively compresses the image storage while maintaining a high performance in high-level recognition tasks such as classification and detection. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of our method with extremely low bit-rate colours. We will release the source code soon.

Telework "avatar work," in which people with disabilities can engage in physical work such as customer service, is being implemented in society. In order to enable avatar work in a variety of occupations, we propose a mobile sales system using a mobile frozen drink machine and an avatar robot "OriHime", focusing on mobile customer service like peddling. The effect of the peddling by the system on the customers are examined based on the results of video annotation.

Measuring the semantic similarity between two sentences is still an important task. The word mover's distance (WMD) computes the similarity via the optimal alignment between the sets of word embeddings. However, WMD does not utilize word order, making it difficult to distinguish sentences with large overlaps of similar words, even if they are semantically very different. Here, we attempt to improve WMD by incorporating the sentence structure represented by BERT's self-attention matrix (SAM). The proposed method is based on the Fused Gromov-Wasserstein distance, which simultaneously considers the similarity of the word embedding and the SAM for calculating the optimal transport between two sentences. Experiments on paraphrase identification and semantic textual similarity show that the proposed method improves WMD and its variants. Our code is available at https://github.com/ymgw55/WSMD.

Removing reverb from reverberant music is a necessary technique to clean up audio for downstream music manipulations. Reverberation of music contains two categories, natural reverb, and artificial reverb. Artificial reverb has a wider diversity than natural reverb due to its various parameter setups and reverberation types. However, recent supervised dereverberation methods may fail because they rely on sufficiently diverse and numerous pairs of reverberant observations and retrieved data for training in order to be generalizable to unseen observations during inference. To resolve these problems, we propose an unsupervised method that can remove a general kind of artificial reverb for music without requiring pairs of data for training. The proposed method is based on diffusion models, where it initializes the unknown reverberation operator with a conventional signal processing technique and simultaneously refines the estimate with the help of diffusion models. We show through objective and perceptual evaluations that our method outperforms the current leading vocal dereverberation benchmarks.

我们提出了一种基于多任务对抗训练的多扬声器神经文本到语音（TTS）模型的新型培训算法。传统的基于基于的训练算法的常规生成对抗网络（GAN）通过减少自然语音和合成语音之间的统计差异来显着提高合成语音的质量。但是，该算法不能保证训练有素的TTS模型的概括性能在综合培训数据中未包括的看不见的说话者的声音中。我们的算法替代训练两个深神经网络：多任务歧视器和多扬声器神经TTS模型（即GAN的生成器）。对歧视者的训练不仅是为了区分自然语音和合成语音，而且还存在验证输入语音的说话者的存在或不存在（即，通过插值可见的说话者的嵌入向量而新生成）。同时，对发电机进行了训练，以最大程度地减少语音重建损失的加权总和和欺骗歧视者的对抗性损失，即使目标扬声器看不见，也可以实现高质量的多演讲者TT。实验评估表明，我们的算法比传统的甘斯多克算法更好地提高了合成语音的质量。

超级解决全球气候模拟的粗略产出，称为缩减，对于需要长期气候变化预测的系统做出政治和社会决策至关重要。但是，现有的快速超分辨率技术尚未保留气候数据的空间相关性，这在我们以空间扩展（例如运输基础设施的开发）处理系统时尤其重要。本文中，我们展示了基于对抗性的网络的机器学习，使我们能够在降尺度中正确重建区域间空间相关性，并高达五十，同时保持像素统计的一致性。与测量的温度和降水分布的气象数据的直接比较表明，整合气候上重要的物理信息对于准确的缩减至关重要，这促使我们称我们的方法称为$ \ pi $ srgan（物理学知情的超级分辨率生成生成的对手网络）。本方法对气候变化影响的区域间一致评估具有潜在的应用。

本文提出了一种用于拆分计算的神经体系结构搜索（NAS）方法。拆分计算是一种新兴的机器学习推理技术，可解决在物联网系统中部署深度学习的隐私和延迟挑战。在拆分计算中，神经网络模型通过网络使用Edge服务器和IoT设备进行了分离和合作处理。因此，神经网络模型的体系结构显着影响通信有效载荷大小，模型准确性和计算负载。在本文中，我们解决了优化神经网络体系结构以进行拆分计算的挑战。为此，我们提出了NASC，该NASC共同探讨了最佳模型架构和一个拆分点，以达到延迟需求（即，计算和通信的总延迟较小，都比某个阈值较小）。 NASC采用单发NAS，不需要重复模型培训进行计算高效的体系结构搜索。我们使用硬件（HW） - 基准数据的NAS基础的绩效评估表明，拟议的NASC可以改善``通信潜伏期和模型准确性''的权衡，即，将延迟降低了约40-60％，从基线降低了约40-60％有轻微的精度降解。