在包括搜索在内的各种应用程序中，积极消费数字文档的研究范围为研究范围。传统上，文档中的搜索是作为文本匹配的问题施放的，忽略了结构化文档，表格等中常见的丰富布局和视觉提示。为此，我们提出了一个大多数未探索的问题：“我们可以搜索其他类似的snippets在目标文档页面中存在给定文档摘要的单个查询实例吗？”。我们建议单体将其作为单拍的摘要检测任务解决。单体融合了摘要和文档的视觉，文本和空间方式的上下文，以在目标文档中找到查询片段。我们进行了广泛的消融和实验，显示单体从一击对象检测（BHRL），模板匹配和文档理解（Layoutlmv3）中优于几个基线。由于目前的任务缺乏相关数据，因此我们对单体进行了编程生成的数据训练，该数据具有许多视觉上相似的查询片段和来自两个数据集的目标文档对 - Flamingo表单和PublayNet。我们还进行人类研究以验证生成的数据。

建模是什么使广告有说服力的原因，即引起消费者的所需响应，对于宣传，社会心理学和营销的研究至关重要。尽管其重要性，但计算机视觉中说服力的计算建模仍处于起步阶段，这主要是由于缺乏可以提供与ADS相关的说服力标签的基准数据集。由社会心理学和市场营销中的说服文学的激励，我们引入了广泛的说服策略词汇，并建立了用说服策略注释的第一个AD图像语料库。然后，我们通过多模式学习制定说服策略预测的任务，在该任务中，我们设计了一个多任务注意融合模型，该模型可以利用其他广告理解的任务来预测说服策略。此外，我们对30家财富500家公司的1600个广告活动进行了真实的案例研究，我们使用模型的预测来分析哪些策略与不同的人口统计学（年龄和性别）一起使用。该数据集还提供图像分割掩码，该蒙版在测试拆分上标记了相应的AD图像中的说服力策略。我们公开发布代码和数据集https://midas-research.github.io/persuasion-avertisements/。

大型基于变压器的预训练的语言模型在各种知识密集的任务上取得了令人印象深刻的表现，并可以在其参数中捕获事实知识。我们认为，考虑到不断增长的知识和资源需求，在模型参数中存储大量知识是亚最佳选择。我们认为，更有效的替代方法是向模型提供对上下文相关的结构化知识的明确访问，并训练它以使用该知识。我们提出了LM核 - 实现这一目标的一般框架 - 允许从外部知识源对语言模型培训的\ textit {解耦}，并允许后者更新而不会影响已经训练的模型。实验结果表明，LM核心获得外部知识，在知识探索任务上的最先进的知识增强语言模型中实现了重要而强大的优于性能。可以有效处理知识更新；并在两个下游任务上表现良好。我们还提出了一个彻底的错误分析，突出了LM核的成功和失败。

为了使模型在看不见的域（又称域的概括）下进行概括，学习是域 - 不可思议的特征表示并捕获构成对象类别的基础语义。朝着弱监督的视力语言模型的最新进展，从廉价监督的嘈杂文本注释中学习整体表示，通过捕获在不同域下概括的对象特征，表明了他们在语义理解上的能力。但是，当涉及多个源域时，数据集中每个图像的策划文本注释的成本可能会爆炸多次，具体取决于其数字。这使得该过程乏味和不可行，阻碍了我们直接使用这些监督视觉语言方法来实现对看不见的领域的最佳概括。从此激励的是，我们研究了如何以“内在”的方式利用现有预训练的多模式网络的多模式信息，以使系统在看不见的域下概括。为此，我们提出了用于域概括（Indigo）的固有多模式，这是一种简单而优雅的方式，用于利用这些预训练的多模式网络中存在的固有模态以及视觉模态以增强概括性在测试时间内看不见域。我们在几个领域的概括设置（封闭状态，OPENDG和有限的来源）上进行了实验，并在看不见的域上显示了最新的概括性能。此外，我们提供了彻底的分析，以发展对靛蓝的整体理解。

预训练的语言模型（PTLM）已显示出在自然语言任务上表现良好。许多先前的作品都以通过知识图（KGS）标记的关系链接的实体的形式利用结构性常识来协助PTLM。检索方法使用kg作为单独的静态模块，该模块限制了覆盖范围，因为kgs包含有限的知识。生成方法训练PTLMS kg三倍以提高获得知识的规模。但是，对符号KG实体的培训限制了其在涉及自然语言文本的任务中的适用性，在这些任务中，它们忽略了整体上下文。为了减轻这种情况，我们提出了一个以句子为条件的常识性上下文化器（COSE-CO）作为输入，以使其在生成与输入文本的整体上下文相关的任务中通常可用。为了训练Cose-Co，我们提出了一个新的数据集，其中包括句子和常识知识对。 COSE-CO推断出的知识是多种多样的，并且包含了基础KG中不存在的新实体。我们增强了在多选质量质量检查和开放式常识性推理任务中产生的知识，从而改善了CSQA，ARC，QASC和OBQA数据集的当前最佳方法。我们还展示了其在改善释义生成任务的基线模型方面的适用性。

时间事件表示是人类学习的重要方面。它们允许通过各种感官输入简要地编码我们所拥有的经验。此外，据信它们是按层次安排的，可以有效地表示复杂的长途体验。此外，这些表示以一种自制的方式获得。类似地，在这里，我们提出了一个模型，该模型从长远的视觉演示数据和相关的文本描述中学习时间表示，而无需明确的时间监督。我们的方法产生的表示形式的层次结构与最新的无监督基线相比，与地面真实的人类通知事件（+15.3）更紧密地保持一致。我们的结果可与复杂的视觉域中的大量监督基线相提并论，例如棋子开口，YouCook2和TutorialVQA数据集。最后，我们进行消融研究，说明了我们方法的鲁棒性。我们在补充材料中释放代码和演示可视化。

Modeling lies at the core of both the financial and the insurance industry for a wide variety of tasks. The rise and development of machine learning and deep learning models have created many opportunities to improve our modeling toolbox. Breakthroughs in these fields often come with the requirement of large amounts of data. Such large datasets are often not publicly available in finance and insurance, mainly due to privacy and ethics concerns. This lack of data is currently one of the main hurdles in developing better models. One possible option to alleviating this issue is generative modeling. Generative models are capable of simulating fake but realistic-looking data, also referred to as synthetic data, that can be shared more freely. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is such a model that increases our capacity to fit very high-dimensional distributions of data. While research on GANs is an active topic in fields like computer vision, they have found limited adoption within the human sciences, like economics and insurance. Reason for this is that in these fields, most questions are inherently about identification of causal effects, while to this day neural networks, which are at the center of the GAN framework, focus mostly on high-dimensional correlations. In this paper we study the causal preservation capabilities of GANs and whether the produced synthetic data can reliably be used to answer causal questions. This is done by performing causal analyses on the synthetic data, produced by a GAN, with increasingly more lenient assumptions. We consider the cross-sectional case, the time series case and the case with a complete structural model. It is shown that in the simple cross-sectional scenario where correlation equals causation the GAN preserves causality, but that challenges arise for more advanced analyses.

In addition to being a widely recognised novelist, Milan Kundera has also authored three pieces for theatre: The Owners of the Keys (Majitel\'e kl\'i\v{c}\r{u}, 1961), The Blunder (Pt\'akovina, 1967), and Jacques and his Master (Jakub a jeho p\'an, 1971). In recent years, however, the hypothesis has been raised that Kundera is the true author of a fourth play: Juro J\'ano\v{s}\'ik, first performed in a 1974 production under the name of Karel Steigerwald, who was Kundera's student at the time. In this study, we make use of supervised machine learning to settle the question of authorship attribution in the case of Juro J\'ano\v{s}\'ik, with results strongly supporting the hypothesis of Kundera's authorship.

Anomaly analytics is a popular and vital task in various research contexts, which has been studied for several decades. At the same time, deep learning has shown its capacity in solving many graph-based tasks like, node classification, link prediction, and graph classification. Recently, many studies are extending graph learning models for solving anomaly analytics problems, resulting in beneficial advances in graph-based anomaly analytics techniques. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive overview of graph learning methods for anomaly analytics tasks. We classify them into four categories based on their model architectures, namely graph convolutional network (GCN), graph attention network (GAT), graph autoencoder (GAE), and other graph learning models. The differences between these methods are also compared in a systematic manner. Furthermore, we outline several graph-based anomaly analytics applications across various domains in the real world. Finally, we discuss five potential future research directions in this rapidly growing field.

We present a robust methodology for evaluating biases in natural language generation(NLG) systems. Previous works use fixed hand-crafted prefix templates with mentions of various demographic groups to prompt models to generate continuations for bias analysis. These fixed prefix templates could themselves be specific in terms of styles or linguistic structures, which may lead to unreliable fairness conclusions that are not representative of the general trends from tone varying prompts. To study this problem, we paraphrase the prompts with different syntactic structures and use these to evaluate demographic bias in NLG systems. Our results suggest similar overall bias trends but some syntactic structures lead to contradictory conclusions compared to past works. We show that our methodology is more robust and that some syntactic structures prompt more toxic content while others could prompt less biased generation. This suggests the importance of not relying on a fixed syntactic structure and using tone-invariant prompts. Introducing syntactically-diverse prompts can achieve more robust NLG (bias) evaluation.