我们介绍了DeepNash，这是一种能够学习从头开始播放不完美的信息游戏策略的自主代理，直到人类的专家级别。 Stratego是人工智能（AI）尚未掌握的少数标志性棋盘游戏之一。这个受欢迎的游戏具有$ 10^{535} $节点的巨大游戏树，即，$ 10^{175} $倍的$倍于GO。它具有在不完美的信息下需要决策的其他复杂性，类似于德克萨斯州Hold'em扑克，该扑克的游戏树较小（以$ 10^{164} $节点为单位）。 Stratego中的决策是在许多离散的动作上做出的，而动作与结果之间没有明显的联系。情节很长，在球员获胜之前经常有数百次动作，而Stratego中的情况则不能像扑克中那样轻松地分解成管理大小的子问题。由于这些原因，Stratego几十年来一直是AI领域的巨大挑战，现有的AI方法几乎没有达到业余比赛水平。 Deepnash使用游戏理论，无模型的深钢筋学习方法，而无需搜索，该方法学会通过自我播放来掌握Stratego。 DeepNash的关键组成部分的正则化NASH Dynamics（R-NAD）算法通过直接修改基础多项式学习动力学来收敛到近似NASH平衡，而不是围绕它“循环”。 Deepnash在Stratego中击败了现有的最先进的AI方法，并在Gravon Games平台上获得了年度（2022年）和历史前3名，并与人类专家竞争。

A prominent approach to solving combinatorial optimization problems on parallel hardware is Ising machines, i.e., hardware implementations of networks of interacting binary spin variables. Most Ising machines leverage second-order interactions although important classes of optimization problems, such as satisfiability problems, map more seamlessly to Ising networks with higher-order interactions. Here, we demonstrate that higher-order Ising machines can solve satisfiability problems more resource-efficiently in terms of the number of spin variables and their connections when compared to traditional second-order Ising machines. Further, our results show on a benchmark dataset of Boolean \textit{k}-satisfiability problems that higher-order Ising machines implemented with coupled oscillators rapidly find solutions that are better than second-order Ising machines, thus, improving the current state-of-the-art for Ising machines.

DeepMind的游戏理论与多代理团队研究多学科学习的几个方面，从计算近似值到游戏理论中的基本概念，再到在富裕的空间环境中模拟社会困境，并在困难的团队协调任务中培训3-D类人动物。我们小组的一个签名目的是使用DeepMind在DeepMind中提供的资源和专业知识，以深入强化学习来探索复杂环境中的多代理系统，并使用这些基准来提高我们的理解。在这里，我们总结了我们团队的最新工作，并提出了一种分类法，我们认为这重点介绍了多代理研究中许多重要的开放挑战。

在本文中，我们提出了量子数据中心（QDC），结合量子随机存储器（QRAM）和量子网络的体系结构。我们给出QDC的精确定义，并讨论其可能的实现和扩展。我们讨论了QDC在量子计算，量子通信和量子传感中的应用，主要关注$ t $ -GATE资源的QDC，用于多方私有量子通信的QDC和QDC，用于通过数据压缩进行分布式感测。我们表明，QDC将作为数据中心的未来版本提供高效，私人和快速的服务。

随机对照试验（RCT）被认为是估计干预措施影响的黄金标准。最近的工作通过对年龄和种族等表的变量进行调节估计来研究RCT的效应异质性。但是，这种变量通常只在实验时间附近观察到，并且可能无法捕获效果变异的历史或地理原因。当实验单元与特定位置相关联时，卫星图像可以提供此类历史和地理信息，但是没有任何方法将其包含在描述效果异质性。在本文中，我们开发了一种方法，该方法使用深层概率建模框架估算，图像簇在治疗效果上具有相同的分布。我们将提出的方法与模拟中的替代方法进行比较，并在估计乌干达的反贫困干预措施的影响方面进行了比较。引入了因果正规化惩罚，以确保聚类模型在恢复平均治疗效果（ATE）方面的可靠性。最后，我们讨论了这些方法对其他领域的可行性，局限性以及适用性，例如医学和气候科学，其中图像信息很普遍。我们为在开源软件包中公开使用的所有建模策略制作代码。

因果关系的观察性研究需要调整混杂因素。在这些因素定义明确的单独随机变量的表格环境中，人们可以很好地理解混杂的效果。但是，在公共政策，生态学和医学中，决策通常是在非尾部环境中做出的，这些设置由图像中检测到的模式或对象（例如，地图，卫星或层析成像图像）所告知。使用此类图像进行因果推理会带来机会，因为图像中的对象可能与感兴趣的治疗和结果有关。在这些情况下，我们依靠图像来调整混淆，但观察到的数据并未直接标记重要对象的存在。在现实世界中的激励中，我们正式化了这一挑战，如何处理，以及哪些条件足以识别和估计因果关系。我们使用仿真实验分析有限样本的性能，并使用采用机器学习模型来估计图像混淆的倾向调整算法估算效果。我们的实验还检查了对图像模式机制错误指定的敏感性。最后，我们使用我们的方法来估计卫星图像中政策干预对非洲社区贫困的影响。

数据增强是自然语言处理（NLP）模型的鲁棒性评估的重要组成部分，以及增强他们培训的数据的多样性。在本文中，我们呈现NL-Cogmenter，这是一种新的参与式Python的自然语言增强框架，它支持创建两个转换（对数据的修改）和过滤器（根据特定功能的数据拆分）。我们描述了框架和初始的117个变换和23个过滤器，用于各种自然语言任务。我们通过使用其几个转换来分析流行自然语言模型的鲁棒性来证明NL-Upmenter的功效。基础架构，Datacards和稳健性分析结果在NL-Augmenter存储库上公开可用（\ url {https://github.com/gem-benchmark/nl-augmenter}）。

While the capabilities of autonomous systems have been steadily improving in recent years, these systems still struggle to rapidly explore previously unknown environments without the aid of GPS-assisted navigation. The DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge aimed to fast track the development of autonomous exploration systems by evaluating their performance in real-world underground search-and-rescue scenarios. Subterranean environments present a plethora of challenges for robotic systems, such as limited communications, complex topology, visually-degraded sensing, and harsh terrain. The presented solution enables long-term autonomy with minimal human supervision by combining a powerful and independent single-agent autonomy stack, with higher level mission management operating over a flexible mesh network. The autonomy suite deployed on quadruped and wheeled robots was fully independent, freeing the human supervision to loosely supervise the mission and make high-impact strategic decisions. We also discuss lessons learned from fielding our system at the SubT Final Event, relating to vehicle versatility, system adaptability, and re-configurable communications.

We present Muse, a text-to-image Transformer model that achieves state-of-the-art image generation performance while being significantly more efficient than diffusion or autoregressive models. Muse is trained on a masked modeling task in discrete token space: given the text embedding extracted from a pre-trained large language model (LLM), Muse is trained to predict randomly masked image tokens. Compared to pixel-space diffusion models, such as Imagen and DALL-E 2, Muse is significantly more efficient due to the use of discrete tokens and requiring fewer sampling iterations; compared to autoregressive models, such as Parti, Muse is more efficient due to the use of parallel decoding. The use of a pre-trained LLM enables fine-grained language understanding, translating to high-fidelity image generation and the understanding of visual concepts such as objects, their spatial relationships, pose, cardinality etc. Our 900M parameter model achieves a new SOTA on CC3M, with an FID score of 6.06. The Muse 3B parameter model achieves an FID of 7.88 on zero-shot COCO evaluation, along with a CLIP score of 0.32. Muse also directly enables a number of image editing applications without the need to fine-tune or invert the model: inpainting, outpainting, and mask-free editing. More results are available at https://muse-model.github.io

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) captures cross-sectional data and is used for the screening, monitoring, and treatment planning of retinal diseases. Technological developments to increase the speed of acquisition often results in systems with a narrower spectral bandwidth, and hence a lower axial resolution. Traditionally, image-processing-based techniques have been utilized to reconstruct subsampled OCT data and more recently, deep-learning-based methods have been explored. In this study, we simulate reduced axial scan (A-scan) resolution by Gaussian windowing in the spectral domain and investigate the use of a learning-based approach for image feature reconstruction. In anticipation of the reduced resolution that accompanies wide-field OCT systems, we build upon super-resolution techniques to explore methods to better aid clinicians in their decision-making to improve patient outcomes, by reconstructing lost features using a pixel-to-pixel approach with an altered super-resolution generative adversarial network (SRGAN) architecture.