In this paper, we propose DimonGen, which aims to generate diverse sentences describing concept relationships in various everyday scenarios. To support this, we create a benchmark dataset for this task by adapting the existing CommonGen dataset and propose a two-stage model called MoREE (Mixture of Retrieval-Enhanced Experts) to generate the target sentences. MoREE consists of a mixture of retriever models that retrieve diverse context sentences related to the given concepts, and a mixture of generator models that generate diverse sentences based on the retrieved contexts. We conduct experiments on the DimonGen task and show that MoREE outperforms strong baselines in terms of both the quality and diversity of the generated sentences. Our results demonstrate that MoREE is able to generate diverse sentences that reflect different relationships between concepts, leading to a comprehensive understanding of concept relationships.

Reasoning is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence that plays a crucial role in activities such as problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking. In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have made significant progress in natural language processing, and there is observation that these models may exhibit reasoning abilities when they are sufficiently large. However, it is not yet clear to what extent LLMs are capable of reasoning. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge on reasoning in LLMs, including techniques for improving and eliciting reasoning in these models, methods and benchmarks for evaluating reasoning abilities, findings and implications of previous research in this field, and suggestions on future directions. Our aim is to provide a detailed and up-to-date review of this topic and stimulate meaningful discussion and future work.

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.

Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for people suffering from end-stage renal disease. Successful kidney transplants still fail over time, known as graft failure; however, the time to graft failure, or graft survival time, can vary significantly between different recipients. A significant biological factor affecting graft survival times is the compatibility between the human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) of the donor and recipient. We propose to model HLA compatibility using a network, where the nodes denote different HLAs of the donor and recipient, and edge weights denote compatibilities of the HLAs, which can be positive or negative. The network is indirectly observed, as the edge weights are estimated from transplant outcomes rather than directly observed. We propose a latent space model for such indirectly-observed weighted and signed networks. We demonstrate that our latent space model can not only result in more accurate estimates of HLA compatibilities, but can also be incorporated into survival analysis models to improve accuracy for the downstream task of predicting graft survival times.

Finetuning language models on a collection of datasets phrased as instructions has been shown to improve model performance and generalization to unseen tasks. In this paper we explore instruction finetuning with a particular focus on (1) scaling the number of tasks, (2) scaling the model size, and (3) finetuning on chain-of-thought data. We find that instruction finetuning with the above aspects dramatically improves performance on a variety of model classes (PaLM, T5, U-PaLM), prompting setups (zero-shot, few-shot, CoT), and evaluation benchmarks (MMLU, BBH, TyDiQA, MGSM, open-ended generation). For instance, Flan-PaLM 540B instruction-finetuned on 1.8K tasks outperforms PALM 540B by a large margin (+9.4% on average). Flan-PaLM 540B achieves state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks, such as 75.2% on five-shot MMLU. We also publicly release Flan-T5 checkpoints, which achieve strong few-shot performance even compared to much larger models, such as PaLM 62B. Overall, instruction finetuning is a general method for improving the performance and usability of pretrained language models.

最近，为了提高无监督的图像检索性能，通过设计语义相似性矩阵提出了许多无监督的哈希方法，该方法基于预先训练的CNN模型提取的图像功能之间的相似性。但是，这些方法中的大多数倾向于忽略图像中包含的高级抽象语义概念。直观地，概念在计算图像之间的相似性中起着重要作用。在实际情况下，每个图像都与某些概念相关联，如果两个图像共享更相同的概念，则两个图像之间的相似性将更大。受到上述直觉的启发，在这项工作中，我们提出了一种带有语义概念挖掘的新颖无监督的散列散布，称为UHSCM，该挖掘利用VLP模型来构建高质量的相似性矩阵。具体而言，首先收集一组随机选择的概念。然后，通过使用及时的工程进行视觉预审进（VLP）模型，该模型在视觉表示学习中表现出强大的力量，根据训练图像将一组概念降低。接下来，提出的方法UHSCM应用了VLP模型，并再次提示挖掘每个图像的概念分布，并基于挖掘的概念分布构建高质量的语义相似性矩阵。最后，以语义相似性矩阵作为指导信息，提出了一种新颖的散列损失，并提出了基于对比度损失的正则化项，以优化哈希网络。在三个基准数据集上进行的大量实验表明，所提出的方法在图像检索任务中优于最新基准。

对于工业规模的广告系统，对广告点击率（CTR）的预测是一个核心问题。广告点击构成了一类重要的用户参与，通常用作广告对用户有用的主要信号。此外，在每次点击收费的广告系统中，单击费用期望值直接输入价值估计。因此，对于大多数互联网广告公司而言，CTR模型开发是一项重大投资。此类问题的工程需要许多适合在线学习的机器学习（ML）技术，这些技术远远超出了传统的准确性改进，尤其是有关效率，可重复性，校准，信用归因。我们介绍了Google搜索广告CTR模型中部署的实用技术的案例研究。本文提供了一项行业案例研究，该研究强调了当前的ML研究的重要领域，并说明了如何评估有影响力的新ML方法并在大型工业环境中有用。

开发了基于深度学习的虚拟染色是为了将图像与无标签的组织截面形成鲜明对比，以数字方式与组织学染色相匹配，组织学染色是耗时，劳动密集型且与组织破坏性的。标准的虚拟染色需要在无标签组织的整个幻灯片成像过程中使用高的自动对焦精度，这会消耗总成像时间的很大一部分，并可能导致组织光损伤。在这里，我们介绍了一个快速的虚拟染色框架，该框架可以染色未标记的组织的散焦自动荧光图像，从而达到与无焦标签图像的虚拟染色相同的性能，还可以通过降低显微镜的自动焦点来节省大量的成像时间。该框架结合了一个虚拟自动化的神经网络，以数字重新聚焦了散落的图像，然后使用连续的网络将重新聚焦的图像转换为几乎染色的图像。这些级联网络构成了协作推理方案：虚拟染色模型通过培训期间的样式损失使虚拟自动化网络正常。为了证明该框架的功效，我们使用人肺组织训练并盲目地测试了这些网络。使用较低的焦点精度的4倍焦点，我们成功地将专注于重点的自动荧光图像转换为高质量的虚拟H＆E图像，与使用精心注重的自动荧光输入图像的标准虚拟染色框架相匹配。在不牺牲染色质量的情况下，该框架减少了无标签的全滑动图像（WSI）虚拟染色所需的总图像获取时间〜32％，同时降低了约89％的自动对焦时间，并且具有〜89％消除病理学中费力且昂贵的组织化学染色过程的潜力。

Exposure to ideas in domains outside a scientist's own may benefit her in reformulating existing research problems in novel ways and discovering new application domains for existing solution ideas. While improved performance in scholarly search engines can help scientists efficiently identify relevant advances in domains they may already be familiar with, it may fall short of helping them explore diverse ideas \textit{outside} such domains. In this paper we explore the design of systems aimed at augmenting the end-user ability in cross-domain exploration with flexible query specification. To this end, we develop an exploratory search system in which end-users can select a portion of text core to their interest from a paper abstract and retrieve papers that have a high similarity to the user-selected core aspect but differ in terms of domains. Furthermore, end-users can `zoom in' to specific domain clusters to retrieve more papers from them and understand nuanced differences within the clusters. Our case studies with scientists uncover opportunities and design implications for systems aimed at facilitating cross-domain exploration and inspiration.

网络和时间点过程是建模各个领域中复杂动态关系数据的基本构件。我们建议使用节点的潜在空间表示形式，提出了潜在空间鹰队（LSH）模型，这是一种连续时间的关系网络的新型生成模型。我们使用共同令人兴奋的霍克斯工艺在节点之间建模关系事件，其基线强度取决于潜在空间中的节点与发件人和接收器特定效果之间的距离。我们证明，我们提出的LSH模型可以复制在包括互惠和传递性在内的真实时间网络中观察到的许多功能，同时还可以实现卓越的预测准确性并提供比现有模型更明显的拟合。