近年来，我们在视频动作识别方面取得了巨大进展。有几种基于卷积神经网络（CNN）的模型，采用了一些基于变压器的方法，可在现有基准数据集上提供最先进的性能。但是，对于这些模型，尚未研究大规模的鲁棒性，这对于现实世界应用而言是关键方面。在这项工作中，我们对这些现有模型进行大规模鲁棒性分析，以供视频识别。我们主要关注因现实世界扰动而不是对抗性扰动引起的分配变化的鲁棒性。我们提出了四个不同的基准数据集，即HMDB-51P，UCF-101P，Kinetics-400P和SSV2P，并研究了六种针对90种不同扰动的六种不同最先进的动作识别模型的鲁棒性。该研究揭示了一些有趣的发现，1）基于变压器的模型与基于CNN的模型相比，对于大多数扰动，基于变压器的模型始终更健壮，2）预训练有助于基于变压器的模型比基于CNN的模型更适合不同的扰动，而3）所有研究的模型对动力学数据集的时间扰动都具有鲁棒性，但在SSV2上却不是。这表明时间信息对于SSV2数据集的动作标签预​​测比动力学数据集更为重要。我们希望这项研究能够作为在强大的视频行动识别中进行未来研究的基准。有关该项目的更多详细信息，请访问https://rose-ar.github.io/。

Text classifiers have promising applications in high-stake tasks such as resume screening and content moderation. These classifiers must be fair and avoid discriminatory decisions by being invariant to perturbations of sensitive attributes such as gender or ethnicity. However, there is a gap between human intuition about these perturbations and the formal similarity specifications capturing them. While existing research has started to address this gap, current methods are based on hardcoded word replacements, resulting in specifications with limited expressivity or ones that fail to fully align with human intuition (e.g., in cases of asymmetric counterfactuals). This work proposes novel methods for bridging this gap by discovering expressive and intuitive individual fairness specifications. We show how to leverage unsupervised style transfer and GPT-3's zero-shot capabilities to automatically generate expressive candidate pairs of semantically similar sentences that differ along sensitive attributes. We then validate the generated pairs via an extensive crowdsourcing study, which confirms that a lot of these pairs align with human intuition about fairness in the context of toxicity classification. Finally, we show how limited amounts of human feedback can be leveraged to learn a similarity specification that can be used to train downstream fairness-aware models.

We study the sample complexity of reducing reinforcement learning to a sequence of empirical risk minimization problems over the policy space. Such reductions-based algorithms exhibit local convergence in the function space, as opposed to the parameter space for policy gradient algorithms, and thus are unaffected by the possibly non-linear or discontinuous parameterization of the policy class. We propose a variance-reduced variant of Conservative Policy Iteration that improves the sample complexity of producing a $\varepsilon$-functional local optimum from $O(\varepsilon^{-4})$ to $O(\varepsilon^{-3})$. Under state-coverage and policy-completeness assumptions, the algorithm enjoys $\varepsilon$-global optimality after sampling $O(\varepsilon^{-2})$ times, improving upon the previously established $O(\varepsilon^{-3})$ sample requirement.

A real-world application or setting involves interaction between different modalities (e.g., video, speech, text). In order to process the multimodal information automatically and use it for an end application, Multimodal Representation Learning (MRL) has emerged as an active area of research in recent times. MRL involves learning reliable and robust representations of information from heterogeneous sources and fusing them. However, in practice, the data acquired from different sources are typically noisy. In some extreme cases, a noise of large magnitude can completely alter the semantics of the data leading to inconsistencies in the parallel multimodal data. In this paper, we propose a novel method for multimodal representation learning in a noisy environment via the generalized product of experts technique. In the proposed method, we train a separate network for each modality to assess the credibility of information coming from that modality, and subsequently, the contribution from each modality is dynamically varied while estimating the joint distribution. We evaluate our method on two challenging benchmarks from two diverse domains: multimodal 3D hand-pose estimation and multimodal surgical video segmentation. We attain state-of-the-art performance on both benchmarks. Our extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations show the advantages of our method compared to previous approaches.

This paper addresses the problem of reliably and efficiently solving broad classes of long-horizon stochastic path planning problems. Starting with a vanilla RL formulation with a stochastic dynamics simulator and an occupancy matrix of the environment, our approach computes useful options with policies as well as high-level paths that compose the discovered options. Our main contributions are (1) data-driven methods for creating abstract states that serve as endpoints for helpful options, (2) methods for computing option policies using auto-generated option guides in the form of dense pseudo-reward functions, and (3) an overarching algorithm for composing the computed options. We show that this approach yields strong guarantees of executability and solvability: under fairly general conditions, the computed option guides lead to composable option policies and consequently ensure downward refinability. Empirical evaluation on a range of robots, environments, and tasks shows that this approach effectively transfers knowledge across related tasks and that it outperforms existing approaches by a significant margin.

深尾学习旨在培训有用的深层网络，以实用现实世界中的不平衡分布，其中大多数尾巴类别的标签都与一些样本相关联。有大量的工作来训练判别模型，以进行长尾分布的视觉识别。相比之下，我们旨在训练有条件的生成对抗网络，这是一类长尾分布的图像生成模型。我们发现，类似于识别图像产生的最新方法类似，也遭受了尾部类别的性能降解。性能降解主要是由于尾部类别的类别模式塌陷，我们观察到与调节参数矩阵的光谱爆炸相关。我们提出了一种新型的组光谱正规剂（GSR），以防止光谱爆炸减轻模式崩溃，从而导致尾巴类别的形象产生多样化和合理的图像产生。我们发现GSR有效地与现有的增强和正则化技术结合在一起，从而导致长尾数据上的最新图像生成性能。广泛的实验证明了我们的常规器在不同程度不平衡的长尾数据集上的功效。

我们提出了Blenderbot 3，这是一个175B参数对话模型，能够通过访问Internet和长期内存进行开放域对话，并接受了大量用户定义的任务的培训。我们同时发布了模型权重和代码，还将模型部署在公共网页上，以与有机用户进行交互。该技术报告描述了该模型的构建方式（建筑，模型和培训计划）以及其部署的细节，包括安全机制。人类评估表明，它优于现有的开放域对话代理，包括其前身（Roller等，2021； Komeili等，2022）。最后，我们使用部署收集的数据详细介绍了持续学习的计划，该数据也将公开发布。因此，该研究计划的目标是使社区能够研究通过互动学习的不断改进的负责任的代理商。

关于自适应梯度方法等自适应梯度方法等训练动力的知之甚少。在本文中，我们阐明了这些算法在全批处理和足够大的批处理设置中的行为。具体而言，我们从经验上证明，在全批训练中，预处理的Hessian的最大特征值通常在某个数值下平衡 - 梯度下降算法的稳定性阈值。对于带有步长$ \ eta $和$ \ beta_1 = 0.9 $的Adam，此稳定性阈值为$ 38/\ eta $。在Minibatch培训期间发生了类似的影响，尤其是随着批处理大小的增长。然而，即使自适应方法在``稳定性的自适应边缘''（AEOS）上训练，但它们在该制度中的行为与EOS的非自适应方法的行为有很大不同。 EOS处的非自适应算法被阻止进入损失景观的高曲率区域，而AEOS的自适应梯度方法可以继续前进到高外观区域，同时适应预先调节器以补偿。我们的发现可以成为社区对深度学习中适应性梯度方法的未来理解的基础。

混音是在语音事件中混合两种或多种语言的一种现象，并且在多语言社会中很普遍。鉴于代码混合的低资源性质，代码混合文本的机器生成是数据增强的普遍方法。但是，评估该机器生成的代码混合文本的质量是一个开放问题。在与INLG2022相处的共享任务的Hinglisheval提交时，我们尝试通过预测代码混合质量的评分来构建影响合成生成的代码混合文本质量的模型因素。

大型语言模型经常经过数十万个计算天的训练，已经显示出零和少数学习的显着功能。鉴于它们的计算成本，如果没有大量资本，这些模型很难复制。对于通过API可用的少数产品，没有访问完整的模型权重，因此很难学习。我们提供开放训练的预训练变压器（OPT），这是一套仅解码器预训练的变压器，范围从12500万到175b参数，我们旨在与感兴趣的研究人员完全和负责任地分享。我们表明，OPT-175B与GPT-3相当，而仅需要1/7碳足迹才能开发。我们还释放了日志，详细介绍了我们面临的基础架构挑战，以及用于尝试所有发布模型的代码。