Disentangled representation learning remains challenging as ground truth factors of variation do not naturally exist. To address this, we present Vocabulary Disentanglement Retrieval~(VDR), a simple yet effective retrieval-based disentanglement framework that leverages nature language as distant supervision. Our approach is built upon the widely-used bi-encoder architecture with disentanglement heads and is trained on data-text pairs that are readily available on the web or in existing datasets. This makes our approach task- and modality-agnostic with potential for a wide range of downstream applications. We conduct experiments on 16 datasets in both text-to-text and cross-modal scenarios and evaluate VDR in a zero-shot setting. With the incorporation of disentanglement heads and a minor increase in parameters, VDR achieves significant improvements over the base retriever it is built upon, with a 9% higher on NDCG@10 scores in zero-shot text-to-text retrieval and an average of 13% higher recall in cross-modal retrieval. In comparison to other baselines, VDR outperforms them in most tasks, while also improving explainability and efficiency.

Data uncertainty is commonly observed in the images for face recognition (FR). However, deep learning algorithms often make predictions with high confidence even for uncertain or irrelevant inputs. Intuitively, FR algorithms can benefit from both the estimation of uncertainty and the detection of out-of-distribution (OOD) samples. Taking a probabilistic view of the current classification model, the temperature scalar is exactly the scale of uncertainty noise implicitly added in the softmax function. Meanwhile, the uncertainty of images in a dataset should follow a prior distribution. Based on the observation, a unified framework for uncertainty modeling and FR, Random Temperature Scaling (RTS), is proposed to learn a reliable FR algorithm. The benefits of RTS are two-fold. (1) In the training phase, it can adjust the learning strength of clean and noisy samples for stability and accuracy. (2) In the test phase, it can provide a score of confidence to detect uncertain, low-quality and even OOD samples, without training on extra labels. Extensive experiments on FR benchmarks demonstrate that the magnitude of variance in RTS, which serves as an OOD detection metric, is closely related to the uncertainty of the input image. RTS can achieve top performance on both the FR and OOD detection tasks. Moreover, the model trained with RTS can perform robustly on datasets with noise. The proposed module is light-weight and only adds negligible computation cost to the model.

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) has been highly successful in transferring knowledge acquired from a label-rich source domain to a label-scarce target domain. Open-set domain adaptation (ODA) and universal domain adaptation (UNDA) have been proposed as solutions to the problem concerning the presence of additional novel categories in the target domain. Existing ODA and UNDA approaches treat all novel categories as one unified unknown class and attempt to detect this unknown class during the training process. We find that domain variance leads to more significant view-noise in unsupervised data augmentation, affecting the further applications of contrastive learning~(CL), as well as the current closed-set classifier and open-set classifier causing the model to be overconfident in novel class discovery. To address the above two issues, we propose Soft-contrastive All-in-one Network~(SAN) for ODA and UNDA tasks. SAN includes a novel data-augmentation-based CL loss, which is used to improve the representational capability, and a more human-intuitive classifier, which is used to improve the new class discovery capability. The soft contrastive learning~(SCL) loss is used to weaken the adverse effects of the data-augmentation label noise problem, which is amplified in domain transfer. The All-in-One~(AIO) classifier overcomes the overconfidence problem of the current mainstream closed-set classifier and open-set classifier in a more human-intuitive way. The visualization results and ablation experiments demonstrate the importance of the two proposed innovations. Moreover, extensive experimental results on ODA and UNDA show that SAN has advantages over the existing state-of-the-art methods.

流动学习〜（ML）旨在从高维数据中找到低维的嵌入。以前的作品专注于具有简单和理想场景的手工艺品或简单的数据集；但是，我们发现它们在带有不足数据的现实世界数据集上的性能很差。通常，ML方法主要是对数据结构进行建模，并随后处理低维嵌入，在前步骤中，不足采样数据的局部连通性较差，而后来步骤中不适当的优化目标将导致\ emph {结构失真}和\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ emph {不合适的嵌入}。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了深层局部流动性歧管嵌入（DLME），这是一种新型的ML框架，可通过减少失真来获得可靠的歧管嵌入。我们提出的DLME通过数据增强来构建语义歧管，并在其平滑框架的帮助下克服了\ emph {结构失真}问题。为了克服\ emph {不合适的嵌入}，我们为DLME设计了一个特定的损失，并在数学上表明它会根据我们提出的局部平坦度假设导致更合适的嵌入。在实验中，通过显示DLME对具有三种类型的数据集（玩具，生物学和图像）的下游分类，聚类和可视化任务的有效性，我们的实验结果表明，DLME胜过SOTA ML \＆Chortantive Learning（CL）方法（CL）方法。

已被证明在改善神经电机翻译（NMT）系统方面有效的深度编码器，但是当编码器层数超过18时，它达到了翻译质量的上限。更糟糕的是，更深的网络消耗了很多内存，使其无法实现有效地训练。在本文中，我们呈现了共生网络，其包括完整的网络作为共生主网络（M-Net）和另一个具有相同结构的共享子网，但层数较少为共生子网（S-Net）。我们在变压器深度（M-N）架构上采用共生网络，并在NMT中定义M-Net和S-Net之间的特定正则化损耗$ \ mathcal {l} _ {\ tau} $。我们对共生网络进行联合培训，并旨在提高M净性能。我们拟议的培训策略在CMT'14 en-> De，De-> EN和EN-> FR任务的经典培训下将变压器深（12-6）改善了0.61,0.49和0.69 BLEU。此外，我们的变压器深（12-6）甚至优于经典变压器深度（18-6）。

最近，非自动增加（NAT）模型并行地预测输出，与自回归（AT）模型相比，实现了产生速度的大量改进。在对原始数据上表现更差的同时，大多数NAT模型都被培训为在教师模型生成的蒸馏数据上的学生模型，称为序列级知识蒸馏。提高模型性能的有效培训策略是自蒸馏混合（SDM）培训，预先训练原始数据模型，通过预先训练的模型本身产生蒸馏数据，最后重新列举模型原始数据和蒸馏数据的组合。在这项工作中，我们的目标是查看NAT模型的SDM，但发现直接采用SDM到NAT模型在翻译质量方面没有改进。通过仔细分析，我们观察失效与教师模型与NAT学生模型的建模和确认偏差相关。基于这些发现，我们提出了一种增强的策略，通过向经典SDM添加两个阶段来提高名为SDMRT的策略：一个是在自蒸馏数据上进行预重磅，另一个是对滤波后的教师蒸馏数据进行微调。我们的结果在多个NAT模型上以0.6至1.2 bleu表示基础。作为另一个奖励，对于迭代细化NAT模型，我们的方法可以在半迭代号内倾斜基线，这意味着2x加速度。

Face Anti-spoofing (FAS) is essential to secure face recognition systems from various physical attacks. However, recent research generally focuses on short-distance applications (i.e., phone unlocking) while lacking consideration of long-distance scenes (i.e., surveillance security checks). In order to promote relevant research and fill this gap in the community, we collect a large-scale Surveillance High-Fidelity Mask (SuHiFiMask) dataset captured under 40 surveillance scenes, which has 101 subjects from different age groups with 232 3D attacks (high-fidelity masks), 200 2D attacks (posters, portraits, and screens), and 2 adversarial attacks. In this scene, low image resolution and noise interference are new challenges faced in surveillance FAS. Together with the SuHiFiMask dataset, we propose a Contrastive Quality-Invariance Learning (CQIL) network to alleviate the performance degradation caused by image quality from three aspects: (1) An Image Quality Variable module (IQV) is introduced to recover image information associated with discrimination by combining the super-resolution network. (2) Using generated sample pairs to simulate quality variance distributions to help contrastive learning strategies obtain robust feature representation under quality variation. (3) A Separate Quality Network (SQN) is designed to learn discriminative features independent of image quality. Finally, a large number of experiments verify the quality of the SuHiFiMask dataset and the superiority of the proposed CQIL.

Embedding words in vector space is a fundamental first step in state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP). Typical NLP solutions employ pre-defined vector representations to improve generalization by co-locating similar words in vector space. For instance, Word2Vec is a self-supervised predictive model that captures the context of words using a neural network. Similarly, GLoVe is a popular unsupervised model incorporating corpus-wide word co-occurrence statistics. Such word embedding has significantly boosted important NLP tasks, including sentiment analysis, document classification, and machine translation. However, the embeddings are dense floating-point vectors, making them expensive to compute and difficult to interpret. In this paper, we instead propose to represent the semantics of words with a few defining words that are related using propositional logic. To produce such logical embeddings, we introduce a Tsetlin Machine-based autoencoder that learns logical clauses self-supervised. The clauses consist of contextual words like "black," "cup," and "hot" to define other words like "coffee," thus being human-understandable. We evaluate our embedding approach on several intrinsic and extrinsic benchmarks, outperforming GLoVe on six classification tasks. Furthermore, we investigate the interpretability of our embedding using the logical representations acquired during training. We also visualize word clusters in vector space, demonstrating how our logical embedding co-locate similar words.

The surrogate loss of variational autoencoders (VAEs) poses various challenges to their training, inducing the imbalance between task fitting and representation inference. To avert this, the existing strategies for VAEs focus on adjusting the tradeoff by introducing hyperparameters, deriving a tighter bound under some mild assumptions, or decomposing the loss components per certain neural settings. VAEs still suffer from uncertain tradeoff learning.We propose a novel evolutionary variational autoencoder (eVAE) building on the variational information bottleneck (VIB) theory and integrative evolutionary neural learning. eVAE integrates a variational genetic algorithm into VAE with variational evolutionary operators including variational mutation, crossover, and evolution. Its inner-outer-joint training mechanism synergistically and dynamically generates and updates the uncertain tradeoff learning in the evidence lower bound (ELBO) without additional constraints. Apart from learning a lossy compression and representation of data under the VIB assumption, eVAE presents an evolutionary paradigm to tune critical factors of VAEs and deep neural networks and addresses the premature convergence and random search problem by integrating evolutionary optimization into deep learning. Experiments show that eVAE addresses the KL-vanishing problem for text generation with low reconstruction loss, generates all disentangled factors with sharp images, and improves the image generation quality,respectively. eVAE achieves better reconstruction loss, disentanglement, and generation-inference balance than its competitors.

Existing federated classification algorithms typically assume the local annotations at every client cover the same set of classes. In this paper, we aim to lift such an assumption and focus on a more general yet practical non-IID setting where every client can work on non-identical and even disjoint sets of classes (i.e., client-exclusive classes), and the clients have a common goal which is to build a global classification model to identify the union of these classes. Such heterogeneity in client class sets poses a new challenge: how to ensure different clients are operating in the same latent space so as to avoid the drift after aggregation? We observe that the classes can be described in natural languages (i.e., class names) and these names are typically safe to share with all parties. Thus, we formulate the classification problem as a matching process between data representations and class representations and break the classification model into a data encoder and a label encoder. We leverage the natural-language class names as the common ground to anchor the class representations in the label encoder. In each iteration, the label encoder updates the class representations and regulates the data representations through matching. We further use the updated class representations at each round to annotate data samples for locally-unaware classes according to similarity and distill knowledge to local models. Extensive experiments on four real-world datasets show that the proposed method can outperform various classical and state-of-the-art federated learning methods designed for learning with non-IID data.