We present a neural technique for learning to select a local sub-region around a point which can be used for mesh parameterization. The motivation for our framework is driven by interactive workflows used for decaling, texturing, or painting on surfaces. Our key idea is to incorporate segmentation probabilities as weights of a classical parameterization method, implemented as a novel differentiable parameterization layer within a neural network framework. We train a segmentation network to select 3D regions that are parameterized into 2D and penalized by the resulting distortion, giving rise to segmentations which are distortion-aware. Following training, a user can use our system to interactively select a point on the mesh and obtain a large, meaningful region around the selection which induces a low-distortion parameterization. Our code and project page are currently available.

本文介绍了一种数据驱动的形状完成方法，该方法着重于完成3D形状缺失区域的几何细节。我们观察到，现有的生成方法缺乏训练数据和表示能力，可以通过复杂的几何形状和拓扑合成合理的，细粒度的细节。我们的关键见解是从部分输入复制和变形补丁以完成缺失区域。这使我们能够保留本地几何特征的风格，即使它与培训数据有很大不同。我们的全自动方法分为两个阶段。首先，我们学会从输入形状检索候选补丁。其次，我们选择并变形了一些检索到的候选者，以无缝将它们融合到完整的形状中。该方法结合了两种最常见的完成方法的优点：基于相似性的单稳定性完成，以及通过学习形状空间来完成。我们通过从部分输入中检索贴片来利用重复模式，并通过使用神经网络来指导检索和变形步骤来学习全球结构先验。实验结果表明，我们的方法在多个数据集和形状类别上的表现非常优于基线。代码和数据可在https://github.com/gitbosun/patchrd上找到。

本文介绍了学习3D表面类似地图集的表示的新技术，即从2D域到表面的同质形态转换。与先前的工作相比，我们提出了两项​​主要贡献。首先，我们没有通过优化作为高斯人的混合物来了解具有任意拓扑的连续2D域，而不是将固定的2D域（例如一组平方斑）映射到表面上。其次，我们在两个方向上学习一致的映射：图表，从3D表面到2D域，以及参数化，它们的倒数。我们证明，这可以提高学到的表面表示的质量，并在相关形状集合中的一致性。因此，它导致了应用程序的改进，例如对应估计，纹理传输和一致的UV映射。作为额外的技术贡献，我们概述了，尽管合并正常的一致性具有明显的好处，但它会导致优化问题，并且可以使用简单的排斥正则化来缓解这些问题。我们证明我们的贡献比现有基线提供了更好的表面表示。

我们提出了一种从一系列时间演化点云序列中对时间一致的表面序列的无监督重建的方法。它在帧之间产生了密集和语义有意义的对应关系。我们将重建的表面代表由神经网络计算的Atlases，这使我们能够在帧之间建立对应关系。使这些对应关系的关键是语义上有意义的是为了保证在相应点计算的度量张量和尽可能相似。我们设计了一种优化策略，使我们的方法能够强大地对噪声和全局动作，而无需先验的对应关系或预先对准步骤。结果，我们的方法在几个具有挑战性的数据集中占据了最先进的。该代码可在https://github.com/bednarikjan/temporally_coherent_surface_reconstruction附近获得。

Attribute-controlled text rewriting, also known as text style-transfer, has a crucial role in regulating attributes and biases of textual training data and a machine generated text. In this work we present SimpleStyle, a minimalist yet effective approach for style-transfer composed of two simple ingredients: controlled denoising and output filtering. Despite the simplicity of our approach, which can be succinctly described with a few lines of code, it is competitive with previous state-of-the-art methods both in automatic and in human evaluation. To demonstrate the adaptability and practical value of our system beyond academic data, we apply SimpleStyle to transfer a wide range of text attributes appearing in real-world textual data from social networks. Additionally, we introduce a novel "soft noising" technique that further improves the performance of our system. We also show that teaching a student model to generate the output of SimpleStyle can result in a system that performs style transfer of equivalent quality with only a single greedy-decoded sample. Finally, we suggest our method as a remedy for the fundamental incompatible baseline issue that holds progress in the field. We offer our protocol as a simple yet strong baseline for works that wish to make incremental advancements in the field of attribute controlled text rewriting.

Pretraining has been shown to scale well with compute, data size and data diversity. Multitask learning trains on a mixture of supervised datasets and produces improved performance compared to self-supervised pretraining. Until now, massively multitask learning required simultaneous access to all datasets in the mixture and heavy compute resources that are only available to well-resourced teams. In this paper, we propose ColD Fusion, a method that provides the benefits of multitask learning but leverages distributed computation and requires limited communication and no sharing of data. Consequentially, ColD Fusion can create a synergistic loop, where finetuned models can be recycled to continually improve the pretrained model they are based on. We show that ColD Fusion yields comparable benefits to multitask pretraining by producing a model that (a) attains strong performance on all of the datasets it was multitask trained on and (b) is a better starting point for finetuning on unseen datasets. We find ColD Fusion outperforms RoBERTa and even previous multitask models. Specifically, when training and testing on 35 diverse datasets, ColD Fusion-based model outperforms RoBERTa by 2.45 points in average without any changes to the architecture.

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used for modeling complex interactions between entities represented as vertices of a graph. Despite recent efforts to theoretically analyze the expressive power of GNNs, a formal characterization of their ability to model interactions is lacking. The current paper aims to address this gap. Formalizing strength of interactions through an established measure known as separation rank, we quantify the ability of certain GNNs to model interaction between a given subset of vertices and its complement, i.e. between sides of a given partition of input vertices. Our results reveal that the ability to model interaction is primarily determined by the partition's walk index -- a graph-theoretical characteristic that we define by the number of walks originating from the boundary of the partition. Experiments with common GNN architectures corroborate this finding. As a practical application of our theory, we design an edge sparsification algorithm named Walk Index Sparsification (WIS), which preserves the ability of a GNN to model interactions when input edges are removed. WIS is simple, computationally efficient, and markedly outperforms alternative methods in terms of induced prediction accuracy. More broadly, it showcases the potential of improving GNNs by theoretically analyzing the interactions they can model.

We present nBIIG, a neural Business Intelligence (BI) Insights Generation system. Given a table, our system applies various analyses to create corresponding RDF representations, and then uses a neural model to generate fluent textual insights out of these representations. The generated insights can be used by an analyst, via a human-in-the-loop paradigm, to enhance the task of creating compelling table reports. The underlying generative neural model is trained over large and carefully distilled data, curated from multiple BI domains. Thus, the system can generate faithful and fluent insights over open-domain tables, making it practical and useful.

Previous studies observed that finetuned models may be better base models than the vanilla pretrained model. Such a model, finetuned on some source dataset, may provide a better starting point for a new finetuning process on a desired target dataset. Here, we perform a systematic analysis of this intertraining scheme, over a wide range of English classification tasks. Surprisingly, our analysis suggests that the potential intertraining gain can be analyzed independently for the target dataset under consideration, and for a base model being considered as a starting point. This is in contrast to current perception that the alignment between the target dataset and the source dataset used to generate the base model is a major factor in determining intertraining success. We analyze different aspects that contribute to each. Furthermore, we leverage our analysis to propose a practical and efficient approach to determine if and how to select a base model in real-world settings. Last, we release an updating ranking of best models in the HuggingFace hub per architecture https://ibm.github.io/model-recycling/.

从有限的资源中获得最大收益可以进步自然语言处理（NLP）研究和实践，同时保守资源。这些资源可能是数据，时间，存储或能源。NLP的最新工作从缩放率产生了有趣的结果。但是，仅使用比例来改善结果意味着资源消耗也会扩展。这种关系激发了对有效方法的研究，这些方法需要更少的资源才能获得相似的结果。这项调查涉及NLP效率的方法和发现，旨在指导该领域的新研究人员并激发新方法的发展。