用于卫星图像分析的计算机视觉算法的创新可以使我们能够在行星层面探索全球挑战，例如城市化和土地利用变化。但是，当试图复制将这些分析推向新领域的模型时，尤其是在发展中国家的模型时，域转移问题是一个普遍的情况。如果模型是通过一个位置的图像和标签训练的，则通常不会很好地概括到图像和数据分布不同的新位置。在这项工作中，我们考虑了我们有一个大型卫星图像场景的设置，我们希望在该场景上解决一个应用问题 - 构建足迹细分。在这里，我们不一定需要担心创建一个概括过我们场景边界的模型，而是可以训练本地模型。我们表明，使用非常高分辨率（0.5m/px）卫星图像解决建筑细分问题需要的标签很少。我们只有527个稀疏多边形注释（相当于1500 x 1500名被标记的像素）训练的最佳型号，召回了0.87的持有足迹，R2的r2为0.93视窗。我们将模型应用于约旦安曼（Amman）的高分辨率图像中，在一项有关城市变化检测的案例研究中。

With the rise of task-specific pre-training objectives, abstractive summarization models like PEGASUS offer appealing zero-shot performance on downstream summarization tasks. However, the performance of such unsupervised models still lags significantly behind their supervised counterparts. Similarly to the supervised setup, we notice a very high variance in quality among summary candidates from these models whereas only one candidate is kept as the summary output. In this paper, we propose to re-rank summary candidates in an unsupervised manner, aiming to close the performance gap between unsupervised and supervised models. Our approach improves the pre-trained unsupervised PEGASUS by 4.37% to 7.27% relative mean ROUGE across four widely-adopted summarization benchmarks, and achieves relative gains of 7.51% (up to 23.73%) averaged over 30 transfer setups.

Task allocation is an important problem for robot swarms to solve, allowing agents to use reduce task completion time by performing tasks in a distributed fashion. Existing task allocation algorithms often assume prior knowledge of task location and demand or fail to consider the effects of the geometric distribution of tasks on the completion time and communication cost of the algorithms. In this paper, we examine an environment where agents must explore and discover tasks with positive demand and successfully assign themselves to complete all such tasks. We propose two new task allocation algorithms for initially unknown environments -- one based on N-site selection and the other on virtual pheromones. We analyze each algorithm separately and also evaluate the effectiveness of the two algorithms in dense vs. sparse task distributions. Compared to the Levy walk, which has been theorized to be optimal for foraging, our virtual pheromone inspired algorithm is much faster in sparse to medium task densities but is communication and agent intensive. Our site selection inspired algorithm also outperforms Levy walk in sparse task densities and is a less resource-intensive option than our virtual pheromone algorithm for this case. Because the performance of both algorithms relative to random walk is dependent on task density, our results shed light on how task density is important in choosing a task allocation algorithm in initially unknown environments.

Human perception, memory and decision-making are impacted by tens of cognitive biases and heuristics that influence our actions and decisions. Despite the pervasiveness of such biases, they are generally not leveraged by today's Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that model human behavior and interact with humans. In this theoretical paper, we claim that the future of human-machine collaboration will entail the development of AI systems that model, understand and possibly replicate human cognitive biases. We propose the need for a research agenda on the interplay between human cognitive biases and Artificial Intelligence. We categorize existing cognitive biases from the perspective of AI systems, identify three broad areas of interest and outline research directions for the design of AI systems that have a better understanding of our own biases.

Federated learning (FL) has been proposed as a privacy-preserving approach in distributed machine learning. A federated learning architecture consists of a central server and a number of clients that have access to private, potentially sensitive data. Clients are able to keep their data in their local machines and only share their locally trained model's parameters with a central server that manages the collaborative learning process. FL has delivered promising results in real-life scenarios, such as healthcare, energy, and finance. However, when the number of participating clients is large, the overhead of managing the clients slows down the learning. Thus, client selection has been introduced as a strategy to limit the number of communicating parties at every step of the process. Since the early na\"{i}ve random selection of clients, several client selection methods have been proposed in the literature. Unfortunately, given that this is an emergent field, there is a lack of a taxonomy of client selection methods, making it hard to compare approaches. In this paper, we propose a taxonomy of client selection in Federated Learning that enables us to shed light on current progress in the field and identify potential areas of future research in this promising area of machine learning.

已知神经模型被过度参数化，最近的工作表明，稀疏的文本到语音（TTS）模型可以超过密集的模型。尽管已经为其他域提出了大量稀疏方法，但这种方法很少在TTS中应用。在这项工作中，我们试图回答以下问题：所选稀疏技术在性能和模型复杂性上的特征是什么？我们比较了Tacotron2基线和应用五种技术的结果。然后，我们通过自然性，清晰度和韵律来评估表现，同时报告模型规模和训练时间。与先前的研究相辅相成，我们发现在训练之前或期间进行修剪可以实现与训练后的修剪相似的性能，并且可以更快地进行培训，同时除去整个神经元降低了性能远不止于删除参数。据我们所知，这是比较文本到语音综合中稀疏范式的第一部作品。

我们建议并探讨可以将语言模型作为社会科学研究中特定人类亚人群的有效代理进行研究的可能性。人工智能工具的实践和研究应用有时受到有问题的偏见（例如种族主义或性别歧视）的限制，这些偏见通常被视为模型的统一特性。我们表明，一个这样的工具中的“算法偏见”（GPT-3语言模型）既是细粒度又是人口统计相关的，这意味着适当的条件会导致其准确地仿真来自各种人类的响应分布亚组。我们将此属性称为“算法忠诚度”，并在GPT-3中探索其范围。我们通过将模型调节在美国进行的多项大型调查中的数千个社会人口统计背景故事中调节，从而创建“硅样本”。然后，我们比较硅和人类样品，以证明GPT-3中包含的信息远远超出了表面相似性。它是细微的，多方面的，并反映了特征人类态度的思想，态度和社会文化背景之间的复杂相互作用。我们建议，具有足够算法的忠诚度的语言模型构成了一种新颖而有力的工具，可以促进各种学科的人类和社会的理解。

会话问题生成（CQG）是机器通过对话等人类（例如交互式阅读理解）的重要任务。与传统的单转交问题（SQG）相比，CQG更具挑战性的意义，即生成的问题不仅需要有意义，而且要与发生的对话历史保持一致。虽然先前的研究主要集中于如何建模对话的流量和对齐，但迄今为止，尚无对模型必需部分和历史的部分进行全面的研究。我们认为，缩短上下文和历史是至关重要的，因为它可以帮助该模型对对话的一致性进行更多优化。为此，我们提出了一个两阶段CQG框架COHS-CQG，该框架采用COHS模块来缩短输入的上下文和历史记录。特别是，COHS选择连续的句子，并根据其相关性得分通过顶级P策略转弯。我们的模型在答案感和答案环境中都可以在COQA上实现最先进的表演。

多语言转移技术通常改善低资源机器翻译（MT）。这些技术中的许多是不考虑数据特征的情况下应用的。我们在海地对英语翻译的背景下显示，转移效率与知识共享语言之间的培训数据和关系数量相关。我们的实验表明，对于超出真实数据阈值的某些语言，反向翻译的增强方法是适得其反的，而从足够相关的语言中的跨语言转移则是优选的。我们通过贡献了基于规则的法国人行曲拼字和句法引擎以及一种新颖的语音嵌入方法来补充这一发现。当与多语言技术一起使用时，拼字法转换使对常规方法的统计学显着改善。在非常低的牙买加MT中，用传输语言进行矫正相似的代码转换可产生6.63的BLEU点优势。

数字化和自动化方面的快速进步导致医疗保健的加速增长，从而产生了新型模型，这些模型正在创造新的渠道，以降低成本。 Metaverse是一项在数字空间中的新兴技术，在医疗保健方面具有巨大的潜力，为患者和医生带来了现实的经验。荟萃分析是多种促成技术的汇合，例如人工智能，虚拟现实，增强现实，医疗设备，机器人技术，量子计算等。通过哪些方向可以探索提供优质医疗保健治疗和服务的新方向。这些技术的合并确保了身临其境，亲密和个性化的患者护理。它还提供自适应智能解决方案，以消除医疗保健提供者和接收器之间的障碍。本文对医疗保健的荟萃分析提供了全面的综述，强调了最新技术的状态，即采用医疗保健元元的能力技术，潜在的应用程序和相关项目。还确定了用于医疗保健应用的元元改编的问题，并强调了合理的解决方案作为未来研究方向的一部分。