We present Polite Teacher, a simple yet effective method for the task of semi-supervised instance segmentation. The proposed architecture relies on the Teacher-Student mutual learning framework. To filter out noisy pseudo-labels, we use confidence thresholding for bounding boxes and mask scoring for masks. The approach has been tested with CenterMask, a single-stage anchor-free detector. Tested on the COCO 2017 val dataset, our architecture significantly (approx. +8 pp. in mask AP) outperforms the baseline at different supervision regimes. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first works tackling the problem of semi-supervised instance segmentation and the first one devoted to an anchor-free detector.

贝叶斯神经网络（BNN）中最流行的估计方法之一是平均场变异推理（MFVI）。在这项工作中，我们表明具有RELU激活功能的神经网络会诱导后代，这些后者很难与MFVI拟合。我们为这种现象提供了理论上的理由，经过经验研究，并报告了一系列实验的结果，以研究激活函数对BNNS校准的影响。我们发现，使用泄漏的Relu激活会导致更高的高斯重量后代，并且比基于RELU的对应物的预期校准误差（ECE）较低。

估计数据分布的局部内在维度的大多数现有方法不能很好地扩展到高维数据。他们中的许多人依靠非参数最近的邻居方法，该方法受到维度的诅咒。我们试图通过提出一种新的问题来解决这一挑战：使用近似可能性（LIDL）的局部固有维度估计。我们的方法依赖于任意密度估计方法作为其子例程，因此通过利用最新的参数神经方法的进展来避免维度挑战，以进行可能性估计。我们仔细研究了所提出方法的经验特性，将其与我们的理论预测进行了比较，并表明LIDL在此问题的标准基准上产生竞争结果，并将其扩展到数千个维度。更重要的是，我们预计通过密度估计文献的持续进展，这种方法可以进一步改善。

我们展示了N-CPS - 最近最新的初级伪伪监督（CPS）方法的概括为半监督语义细分的任务。在N-CPS中，通过单热编码扰动和一致性正则化，有n个同时培训的子网。我们还表明，应用于子网输出的合奏技术可以显着提高性能。据我们所知，N-CP与CutMix占FPS，并为Pascal VOC的新型为Pascal VOC与（1/16,1 / 8,1/4和1/2监督制度）和城市景观（1/16监督）。

Audio DeepFakes are artificially generated utterances created using deep learning methods with the main aim to fool the listeners, most of such audio is highly convincing. Their quality is sufficient to pose a serious threat in terms of security and privacy, such as the reliability of news or defamation. To prevent the threats, multiple neural networks-based methods to detect generated speech have been proposed. In this work, we cover the topic of adversarial attacks, which decrease the performance of detectors by adding superficial (difficult to spot by a human) changes to input data. Our contribution contains evaluating the robustness of 3 detection architectures against adversarial attacks in two scenarios (white-box and using transferability mechanism) and enhancing it later by the use of adversarial training performed by our novel adaptive training method.

This short report reviews the current state of the research and methodology on theoretical and practical aspects of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). It was prepared to gather state-of-the-art knowledge needed to construct complex, hypercomplex and fuzzy neural networks. The report reflects the individual interests of the authors and, by now means, cannot be treated as a comprehensive review of the ANN discipline. Considering the fast development of this field, it is currently impossible to do a detailed review of a considerable number of pages. The report is an outcome of the Project 'The Strategic Research Partnership for the mathematical aspects of complex, hypercomplex and fuzzy neural networks' meeting at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, organized in September 2022.

This paper presents the Crowd Score, a novel method to assess the funniness of jokes using large language models (LLMs) as AI judges. Our method relies on inducing different personalities into the LLM and aggregating the votes of the AI judges into a single score to rate jokes. We validate the votes using an auditing technique that checks if the explanation for a particular vote is reasonable using the LLM. We tested our methodology on 52 jokes in a crowd of four AI voters with different humour types: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive and self-defeating. Our results show that few-shot prompting leads to better results than zero-shot for the voting question. Personality induction showed that aggressive and self-defeating voters are significantly more inclined to find more jokes funny of a set of aggressive/self-defeating jokes than the affiliative and self-enhancing voters. The Crowd Score follows the same trend as human judges by assigning higher scores to jokes that are also considered funnier by human judges. We believe that our methodology could be applied to other creative domains such as story, poetry, slogans, etc. It could both help the adoption of a flexible and accurate standard approach to compare different work in the CC community under a common metric and by minimizing human participation in assessing creative artefacts, it could accelerate the prototyping of creative artefacts and reduce the cost of hiring human participants to rate creative artefacts.

Recently proposed systems for open-domain question answering (OpenQA) require large amounts of training data to achieve state-of-the-art performance. However, data annotation is known to be time-consuming and therefore expensive to acquire. As a result, the appropriate datasets are available only for a handful of languages (mainly English and Chinese). In this work, we introduce and publicly release PolQA, the first Polish dataset for OpenQA. It consists of 7,000 questions, 87,525 manually labeled evidence passages, and a corpus of over 7,097,322 candidate passages. Each question is classified according to its formulation, type, as well as entity type of the answer. This resource allows us to evaluate the impact of different annotation choices on the performance of the QA system and propose an efficient annotation strategy that increases the passage retrieval performance by 10.55 p.p. while reducing the annotation cost by 82%.

We apply the Hierarchical Autoregressive Neural (HAN) network sampling algorithm to the two-dimensional $Q$-state Potts model and perform simulations around the phase transition at $Q=12$. We quantify the performance of the approach in the vicinity of the first-order phase transition and compare it with that of the Wolff cluster algorithm. We find a significant improvement as far as the statistical uncertainty is concerned at a similar numerical effort. In order to efficiently train large neural networks we introduce the technique of pre-training. It allows to train some neural networks using smaller system sizes and then employing them as starting configurations for larger system sizes. This is possible due to the recursive construction of our hierarchical approach. Our results serve as a demonstration of the performance of the hierarchical approach for systems exhibiting bimodal distributions. Additionally, we provide estimates of the free energy and entropy in the vicinity of the phase transition with statistical uncertainties of the order of $10^{-7}$ for the former and $10^{-3}$ for the latter based on a statistics of $10^6$ configurations.

We introduce submodel co-training, a regularization method related to co-training, self-distillation and stochastic depth. Given a neural network to be trained, for each sample we implicitly instantiate two altered networks, ``submodels'', with stochastic depth: we activate only a subset of the layers. Each network serves as a soft teacher to the other, by providing a loss that complements the regular loss provided by the one-hot label. Our approach, dubbed cosub, uses a single set of weights, and does not involve a pre-trained external model or temporal averaging. Experimentally, we show that submodel co-training is effective to train backbones for recognition tasks such as image classification and semantic segmentation. Our approach is compatible with multiple architectures, including RegNet, ViT, PiT, XCiT, Swin and ConvNext. Our training strategy improves their results in comparable settings. For instance, a ViT-B pretrained with cosub on ImageNet-21k obtains 87.4% top-1 acc. @448 on ImageNet-val.