Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting can dramatically improve the multi-step reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). CoT explicitly encourages the LLM to generate intermediate rationales for solving a problem, by providing a series of reasoning steps in the demonstrations. Despite its success, there is still little understanding of what makes CoT prompting effective and which aspects of the demonstrated reasoning steps contribute to its performance. In this paper, we show that CoT reasoning is possible even with invalid demonstrations - prompting with invalid reasoning steps can achieve over 80-90% of the performance obtained using CoT under various metrics, while still generating coherent lines of reasoning during inference. Further experiments show that other aspects of the rationales, such as being relevant to the query and correctly ordering the reasoning steps, are much more important for effective CoT reasoning. Overall, these findings both deepen our understanding of CoT prompting, and open up new questions regarding LLMs' capability to learn to reason in context.

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.

The success of AlphaZero (AZ) has demonstrated that neural-network-based Go AIs can surpass human performance by a large margin. Given that the state space of Go is extremely large and a human player can play the game from any legal state, we ask whether adversarial states exist for Go AIs that may lead them to play surprisingly wrong actions. In this paper, we first extend the concept of adversarial examples to the game of Go: we generate perturbed states that are ``semantically'' equivalent to the original state by adding meaningless moves to the game, and an adversarial state is a perturbed state leading to an undoubtedly inferior action that is obvious even for Go beginners. However, searching the adversarial state is challenging due to the large, discrete, and non-differentiable search space. To tackle this challenge, we develop the first adversarial attack on Go AIs that can efficiently search for adversarial states by strategically reducing the search space. This method can also be extended to other board games such as NoGo. Experimentally, we show that the actions taken by both Policy-Value neural network (PV-NN) and Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) can be misled by adding one or two meaningless stones; for example, on 58\% of the AlphaGo Zero self-play games, our method can make the widely used KataGo agent with 50 simulations of MCTS plays a losing action by adding two meaningless stones. We additionally evaluated the adversarial examples found by our algorithm with amateur human Go players and 90\% of examples indeed lead the Go agent to play an obviously inferior action. Our code is available at \url{https://PaperCode.cc/GoAttack}.

由于其高识别精度，包括移动设备的面部解锁，社区访问控制系统和城市监视，因此在许多领域都使用了面部识别技术。由于非常深的网络结构可以保证当前的高精度，因此通常需要将面部图像传输到具有高计算能力以进行推理的第三方服务器。但是，面部图像在视觉上揭示了用户的身份信息。在此过程中，不受信任的服务提供商和恶意用户都可以显着增加个人隐私漏洞的风险。当前的隐私识别方法通常伴随着许多副作用，例如推理时间的显着增加或明显的识别准确性下降。本文提出了使用频域中使用差异隐私的保护隐私面部识别方法。由于利用了差异隐私，它在理论上提供了隐私的保证。同时，准确性的丧失非常小。该方法首先将原始图像转换为频域，并删除称为DC的直接组件。然后，可以根据差异隐私框架内的后端面部识别网络的丢失来学习隐私预算分配方法。最后，它为频域特征添加了相应的噪声。根据广泛的实验，我们的方法在几个经典的面部识别测试集中表现出色。

本文介绍了Cerberus机器人系统系统，该系统赢得了DARPA Subterranean挑战最终活动。出席机器人自主权。由于其几何复杂性，降解的感知条件以及缺乏GPS支持，严峻的导航条件和拒绝通信，地下设置使自动操作变得特别要求。为了应对这一挑战，我们开发了Cerberus系统，该系统利用了腿部和飞行机器人的协同作用，再加上可靠的控制，尤其是为了克服危险的地形，多模式和多机器人感知，以在传感器退化，以及在传感器退化的条件下进行映射以及映射通过统一的探索路径计划和本地运动计划，反映机器人特定限制的弹性自主权。 Cerberus基于其探索各种地下环境及其高级指挥和控制的能力，表现出有效的探索，对感兴趣的对象的可靠检测以及准确的映射。在本文中，我们报告了DARPA地下挑战赛的初步奔跑和最终奖项的结果，并讨论了为社区带来利益的教训所面临的亮点和挑战。

过去几年的技术创新的巨大浪潮，标志着AI技术的进展，是深刻的重塑行业和社会。然而，在路上，一个关键的挑战等待着我们，即我们满足快速增长的情景的能力的能力受到收购培训数据的成本的严重限制。由于主流学习范式的局限性，这一困难的局面是基于主流学习范式的局限性：我们需要根据大量注释的数据以及通常从头来训练每个新场景的新模型。在解决这一基本问题时，我们超越并开发一个名为实习生的新学习范式。通过在多个阶段的来自多个来源的监控信号学习，培训的模型将产生强大的相互性。我们在26个众所周知的数据集中评估我们的模型，该数据集涵盖计算机视觉中的四类任务。在大多数情况下，我们的模型仅适用于目标域中的培训数据的10％，始终以完整的数据培训的对应物，通常由显着的边距。这是一个重要前景的重要一步，其中具有一般视觉能力的这种模型可以大大降低对数据的依赖，从而加速通过AI技术的采用。此外，围绕我们的新范式旋转，我们还介绍了一个新的数据系统，新的架构和新的基准，以及一起形成一般愿景生态系统，以开放和包容性的方式支持其未来的发展。

基于稀疏的代表的分类（SRC）通过将识别问题作为简单的线性回归问题铸造了很多关注。然而，SRC方法仍然仅限于每类别的足够标记的样本，不充分使用未标记的样本，以及表示的不稳定性。为了解决这些问题，提出了一种未标记的数据驱动的逆投影伪全空间表示的基于空间表示的分类模型，具有低级稀疏约束。所提出的模型旨在挖掘所有可用数据的隐藏语义信息和内在结构信息，这适用于少量标记的样本和标记样本与正面识别中的未标记样本问题之间的比例不平衡。引入了混合的高斯Seidel和Jacobian Admm算法来解决模型。分析了模型的收敛性，表示能力和稳定性。在三个公共数据集上的实验表明，所提出的LR-S-PFSRC模型达到稳定的结果，特别是对于样品的比例不平衡。

Video Super-Resolution (VSR) aims to restore high-resolution (HR) videos from low-resolution (LR) videos. Existing VSR techniques usually recover HR frames by extracting pertinent textures from nearby frames with known degradation processes. Despite significant progress, grand challenges are remained to effectively extract and transmit high-quality textures from high-degraded low-quality sequences, such as blur, additive noises, and compression artifacts. In this work, a novel Frequency-Transformer (FTVSR) is proposed for handling low-quality videos that carry out self-attention in a combined space-time-frequency domain. First, video frames are split into patches and each patch is transformed into spectral maps in which each channel represents a frequency band. It permits a fine-grained self-attention on each frequency band, so that real visual texture can be distinguished from artifacts. Second, a novel dual frequency attention (DFA) mechanism is proposed to capture the global frequency relations and local frequency relations, which can handle different complicated degradation processes in real-world scenarios. Third, we explore different self-attention schemes for video processing in the frequency domain and discover that a ``divided attention'' which conducts a joint space-frequency attention before applying temporal-frequency attention, leads to the best video enhancement quality. Extensive experiments on three widely-used VSR datasets show that FTVSR outperforms state-of-the-art methods on different low-quality videos with clear visual margins. Code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/researchmm/FTVSR.

Nowadays, fake news easily propagates through online social networks and becomes a grand threat to individuals and society. Assessing the authenticity of news is challenging due to its elaborately fabricated contents, making it difficult to obtain large-scale annotations for fake news data. Due to such data scarcity issues, detecting fake news tends to fail and overfit in the supervised setting. Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been adopted to leverage the richer relational information among both labeled and unlabeled instances. Despite their promising results, they are inherently focused on pairwise relations between news, which can limit the expressive power for capturing fake news that spreads in a group-level. For example, detecting fake news can be more effective when we better understand relations between news pieces shared among susceptible users. To address those issues, we propose to leverage a hypergraph to represent group-wise interaction among news, while focusing on important news relations with its dual-level attention mechanism. Experiments based on two benchmark datasets show that our approach yields remarkable performance and maintains the high performance even with a small subset of labeled news data.

Vision Transformers have shown great promise recently for many vision tasks due to the insightful architecture design and attention mechanism. By revisiting the self-attention responses in Transformers, we empirically observe two interesting issues. First, Vision Transformers present a queryirrelevant behavior at deep layers, where the attention maps exhibit nearly consistent contexts in global scope, regardless of the query patch position (also head-irrelevant). Second, the attention maps are intrinsically sparse, few tokens dominate the attention weights; introducing the knowledge from ConvNets would largely smooth the attention and enhance the performance. Motivated by above observations, we generalize self-attention formulation to abstract a queryirrelevant global context directly and further integrate the global context into convolutions. The resulting model, a Fully Convolutional Vision Transformer (i.e., FCViT), purely consists of convolutional layers and firmly inherits the merits of both attention mechanism and convolutions, including dynamic property, weight sharing, and short- and long-range feature modeling, etc. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of FCViT. With less than 14M parameters, our FCViT-S12 outperforms related work ResT-Lite by 3.7% top1 accuracy on ImageNet-1K. When scaling FCViT to larger models, we still perform better than previous state-of-the-art ConvNeXt with even fewer parameters. FCViT-based models also demonstrate promising transferability to downstream tasks, like object detection, instance segmentation, and semantic segmentation. Codes and models are made available at: https://github.com/ma-xu/FCViT.