我们提出了一个开放域的社交聊天机器人Chirpy Cardinal。为了既有信息又有信息，我们的机器人以一种真实的，情感上的方式与用户聊天。通过将受控的神经产生与脚手架，手写的对话整合在一起，我们让用户和机器人都轮流推动对话，从而产生引人入胜且流利的体验。Chirpy Cardinal部署在Alexa奖Socialbot Grand Challenge的第四次迭代中，每天处理数千次对话，在9个机器人中排名第二，平均用户评级为3.58/5。

在全球范围内消除语言障碍的目标的驱动下，机器翻译已巩固自己是当今人工智能研究的关键重点。但是，这样的努力围绕着一小部分语言结合在一起，留下了绝大多数低资源的语言。在确保安全，高质量的结果的同时，在牢记道德考虑的同时，打破200个语言障碍需要什么？没有留下的语言，我们首先通过与母语人士的探索性访谈来解决对低资源语言翻译支持的必要性来应对这一挑战。然后，我们创建了旨在缩小低资源和高资源语言之间的性能差距的数据集和模型。更具体地说，我们开发了一种有条件的计算模型，基于专家的稀疏混合物，该模型经过针对针对低资源语言量身定制的新颖有效的数据挖掘技术培训的。我们提出了多次建筑和培训改进，以抵消数千个任务的培训。至关重要的是，我们使用人类翻译的基准，Flores-200评估了40,000多种不同的翻译方向的性能，并将人类评估与新型毒性基准相结合，涵盖Flores-200的所有语言，以评估翻译安全性。我们的模型相对于先前的最新技术，实现了44％BLEU的改善，为实现通用翻译系统奠定了重要的基础。最后，我们开源此工作中描述的所有贡献，可在https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/nllb上访问。

最近延伸预留下芬特的神经模型的神经模型继续实现新的最新导致对话状态跟踪（DST）基准的联合目标准确性（JGA）。但是，我们调查了他们的稳健性，因为它们在JGA中显示了急剧下降，以便与现实扰动的话语或对话框流动的对话。通过清单（Ribeiro等，2020），我们设计了一个名为CheckDST的度量集合，促进DST模型的比较，通过测试具有增强测试集的众所周知的弱点来促进革命性的全面尺寸。我们使用CheckDST评估最近的DST模型，并认为模型应该更全面地评估，而不是在JGA上追求最先进的JGA，因为更高的JGA不保证更好的整体稳健性。我们发现基于跨度的分类模型是有弹性的，不合适的命名实体，但对语言品种不强大，而那些基于自回归语言模型的人概括为语言变化，但往往会记住命名实体并往往是幻觉。由于它们各自的弱点，两种方法都不适合现实世界部署。我们认为CheckDst是未来研究的一个有用指南，用于开发面向任务的对话模型，体现了各种方法的优势。

果蝇的嗅觉电路中的数学形式化是作为地区敏感散列（Flyhash）和绽放过滤器（FBF）的果蝇，并为各种机器学习任务（如相似度搜索，异常值检测）“重新编程”和文本嵌入。我们提出了一种新颖的对该散列的重新编程和盛开的过滤器，以模拟规范最近邻分类器（NNC）在具有挑战性的联邦学习（FL）设置，其中培训和测试数据跨各方传播，并且没有数据可以留下各自的各方。具体而言，我们利用Flyhash和FBF来创建Flynn分类器，以及理论上建立Flynn匹配NNC的条件。我们展示了Flynn如何在FL设置中培训，具有低通信开销，以产生FlynNFL，以及如何差异私密。经验上，我们证明（i）Flynn与70个OpenML数据集匹配NNC精度，（ii）Flynnfl训练具有低通信开销的高度可扩展，提供高达$ 16 $派对的$ 8 \倍。

Datacenter operators ensure fair and regular server maintenance by using automated processes to schedule maintenance jobs to complete within a strict time budget. Automating this scheduling problem is challenging because maintenance job duration varies based on both job type and hardware. While it is tempting to use prior machine learning techniques for predicting job duration, we find that the structure of the maintenance job scheduling problem creates a unique challenge. In particular, we show that prior machine learning methods that produce the lowest error predictions do not produce the best scheduling outcomes due to asymmetric costs. Specifically, underpredicting maintenance job duration has results in more servers being taken offline and longer server downtime than overpredicting maintenance job duration. The system cost of underprediction is much larger than that of overprediction. We present Acela, a machine learning system for predicting maintenance job duration, which uses quantile regression to bias duration predictions toward overprediction. We integrate Acela into a maintenance job scheduler and evaluate it on datasets from large-scale, production datacenters. Compared to machine learning based predictors from prior work, Acela reduces the number of servers that are taken offline by 1.87-4.28X, and reduces the server offline time by 1.40-2.80X.

We study the expressibility and learnability of convex optimization solution functions and their multi-layer architectural extension. The main results are: \emph{(1)} the class of solution functions of linear programming (LP) and quadratic programming (QP) is a universal approximant for the $C^k$ smooth model class or some restricted Sobolev space, and we characterize the rate-distortion, \emph{(2)} the approximation power is investigated through a viewpoint of regression error, where information about the target function is provided in terms of data observations, \emph{(3)} compositionality in the form of a deep architecture with optimization as a layer is shown to reconstruct some basic functions used in numerical analysis without error, which implies that \emph{(4)} a substantial reduction in rate-distortion can be achieved with a universal network architecture, and \emph{(5)} we discuss the statistical bounds of empirical covering numbers for LP/QP, as well as a generic optimization problem (possibly nonconvex) by exploiting tame geometry. Our results provide the \emph{first rigorous analysis of the approximation and learning-theoretic properties of solution functions} with implications for algorithmic design and performance guarantees.

Recommender systems are ubiquitous in most of our interactions in the current digital world. Whether shopping for clothes, scrolling YouTube for exciting videos, or searching for restaurants in a new city, the recommender systems at the back-end power these services. Most large-scale recommender systems are huge models trained on extensive datasets and are black-boxes to both their developers and end-users. Prior research has shown that providing recommendations along with their reason enhances trust, scrutability, and persuasiveness of the recommender systems. Recent literature in explainability has been inundated with works proposing several algorithms to this end. Most of these works provide item-style explanations, i.e., `We recommend item A because you bought item B.' We propose a novel approach, RecXplainer, to generate more fine-grained explanations based on the user's preference over the attributes of the recommended items. We perform experiments using real-world datasets and demonstrate the efficacy of RecXplainer in capturing users' preferences and using them to explain recommendations. We also propose ten new evaluation metrics and compare RecXplainer to six baseline methods.

Recovery of true color from underwater images is an ill-posed problem. This is because the wide-band attenuation coefficients for the RGB color channels depend on object range, reflectance, etc. which are difficult to model. Also, there is backscattering due to suspended particles in water. Thus, most existing deep-learning based color restoration methods, which are trained on synthetic underwater datasets, do not perform well on real underwater data. This can be attributed to the fact that synthetic data cannot accurately represent real conditions. To address this issue, we use an image to image translation network to bridge the gap between the synthetic and real domains by translating images from synthetic underwater domain to real underwater domain. Using this multimodal domain adaptation technique, we create a dataset that can capture a diverse array of underwater conditions. We then train a simple but effective CNN based network on our domain adapted dataset to perform color restoration. Code and pre-trained models can be accessed at https://github.com/nehamjain10/TRUDGCR

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are bio-plausible models that hold great potential for realizing energy-efficient implementations of sequential tasks on resource-constrained edge devices. However, commercial edge platforms based on standard GPUs are not optimized to deploy SNNs, resulting in high energy and latency. While analog In-Memory Computing (IMC) platforms can serve as energy-efficient inference engines, they are accursed by the immense energy, latency, and area requirements of high-precision ADCs (HP-ADC), overshadowing the benefits of in-memory computations. We propose a hardware/software co-design methodology to deploy SNNs into an ADC-Less IMC architecture using sense-amplifiers as 1-bit ADCs replacing conventional HP-ADCs and alleviating the above issues. Our proposed framework incurs minimal accuracy degradation by performing hardware-aware training and is able to scale beyond simple image classification tasks to more complex sequential regression tasks. Experiments on complex tasks of optical flow estimation and gesture recognition show that progressively increasing the hardware awareness during SNN training allows the model to adapt and learn the errors due to the non-idealities associated with ADC-Less IMC. Also, the proposed ADC-Less IMC offers significant energy and latency improvements, $2-7\times$ and $8.9-24.6\times$, respectively, depending on the SNN model and the workload, compared to HP-ADC IMC.

分散的学习算法可以通过在不同设备和位置生成的大型分布式数据集对深度学习模型进行培训，而无需中央服务器。在实际情况下，分布式数据集可以在整个代理之间具有显着不同的数据分布。当前的最新分散算法主要假设数据分布是独立且分布相同的（IID）。本文的重点是用最小的计算和内存开销来改善非IID数据分布的分散学习。我们提出了邻居梯度聚类（NGC），这是一种新型的分散学习算法，使用自我和交叉梯度信息修改每个代理的局部梯度。特别是，所提出的方法用自级的加权平均值，模型变化的跨梯度（接收到的邻居模型参数相对于本地数据集的衍生物）和数据变化，将模型的局部梯度取代了模型变化的均值平均值交叉梯度（相对于其邻居数据集的本地模型的衍生物）。此外，我们提出了compngc，这是NGC的压缩版本，通过压缩交叉梯度将通信开销降低了$ 32 \ times $。我们证明了所提出的技术在各种模型体系结构和图形拓扑上采样的非IID数据分布上提出的技术的经验收敛性和效率。我们的实验表明，NGC和COMPNGC的表现优于现有的最先进的（SOTA）去中心化学习算法，而不是非IID数据的$ 1-5 \％$，其计算和内存需求明显降低。此外，我们还表明，所提出的NGC方法的表现优于$ 5-40 \％$，而没有其他交流。