Neural information retrieval (IR) systems have progressed rapidly in recent years, in large part due to the release of publicly available benchmarking tasks. Unfortunately, some dimensions of this progress are illusory: the majority of the popular IR benchmarks today focus exclusively on downstream task accuracy and thus conceal the costs incurred by systems that trade away efficiency for quality. Latency, hardware cost, and other efficiency considerations are paramount to the deployment of IR systems in user-facing settings. We propose that IR benchmarks structure their evaluation methodology to include not only metrics of accuracy, but also efficiency considerations such as a query latency and the corresponding cost budget for a reproducible hardware setting. For the popular IR benchmarks MS MARCO and XOR-TyDi, we show how the best choice of IR system varies according to how these efficiency considerations are chosen and weighed. We hope that future benchmarks will adopt these guidelines toward more holistic IR evaluation.

最近的机器阅读理解数据集包括提取和布尔值问题，但当前的方法并未为回答这两种问题类型提供综合支持。我们提出了一个多语言的机器阅读理解系统和前端演示，该演示通过提供“是/否答案”并突出支持证据，并通过突出段落中的答案来处理提取性问题，从而解决布尔值。在撰写本文时，我们的系统GAAMA 2.0在TYDI QA排行榜上排名第一。我们对比了我们方法的两种不同的实现。第一个包括几个独立的变压器堆栈，可以轻松部署每个组件。第二个是使用适配器来减少资源约束环境中GPU内存足迹的单一堆栈。

尽管对抽象中的英语句子进行了广泛的研究，但是通过自动度量标准与金图相比，它与金图类进行了比较，但是统一图表表示的全文解析缺乏定义明确的表示和评估。利用以前的工作中的超级信托级别注释，我们介绍了一种用于导出统一图形表示的简单算法，避免了从合并不合并和缺乏连贯性信息丢失的陷阱。接下来，我们描述了对Swatch度量标准的改进，使其易于进行比较文档级图形，并使用它重新评估最佳已发布的文档级AMR解析器。我们还提出了一种与COREREFER解决系统的顶部组合的管道方法，为未来的研究提供了强大的基线。

我们提出了一种基于转换的系统来转换摘要意义代表（AMR）进入SPARQL，了解知识库问题应答（KBQA）。这允许将抽象问题的一部分委派给强训练的语义解析器，同时使用少量配对数据学习转换。我们从最近的工作相关的AMR和SPARQL构造，而不是应用一套规则，我们教导BART模型选择性地使用这些关系。此外，在最近的语义解析作品之后，我们避免在BART的注意机制中进行了显式编码AMR，而是编码解析器状态。结果模型很简单，为其决策提供支持文本，并且优于LC-Quad（F1 53.4）中的基于AMR的KBQA中的最新进展，在QAL（F1 30.8）中匹配，同时利用相同的归纳偏差。

由于包括架构改进和转移学习的效果，AMR Parsing在过去三年中经历了不起起的表现增加。自学习技术也在推动性能方面发挥作用。然而，对于最近的高性能解析器，自学和银数据生成的效果似乎褪色。在本文中，我们表明，通过将基于Spatch的集合技术与集合蒸馏组合来克服这一减少的银数据的递减。在一个广泛的实验设置中，我们首次推出超过85次Spatch以上的单一模型英语解析器性能并返回大量收益。我们还为中国，德语，意大利语和西班牙语进行了跨语态amr解析的新型最先进的。最后，我们探讨了所提出的蒸馏技术对领域适应的影响，并表明它可以产生竞争对QALD-9的人类注释数据的增益，并为生物群体实现新的最先进。

包含布尔问题的现有数据集（如Booolq和Tydi QA）为用户提供对问题的是/否响应。然而，一个单词响应不足以可说明的系统。我们通过释放一组标记现有TYDI QA和Booolq数据集的证据的新辅助来促进解释性。我们表明，与依赖现有资源的模型相比，我们的注释可用于培训提取改进证据跨度的模型。我们通过用户学习确认我们的调查结果表明我们提取的证据涵盖了增强用户体验。我们还提供进一步了解回答布尔问题的挑战，例如包含冲突的是和无答案的段落，以及预测证据的不同程度。

Despite its importance for federated learning, continuous learning and many other applications, on-device training remains an open problem for EdgeAI. The problem stems from the large number of operations (e.g., floating point multiplications and additions) and memory consumption required during training by the back-propagation algorithm. Consequently, in this paper, we propose a new gradient filtering approach which enables on-device DNN model training. More precisely, our approach creates a special structure with fewer unique elements in the gradient map, thus significantly reducing the computational complexity and memory consumption of back propagation during training. Extensive experiments on image classification and semantic segmentation with multiple DNN models (e.g., MobileNet, DeepLabV3, UPerNet) and devices (e.g., Raspberry Pi and Jetson Nano) demonstrate the effectiveness and wide applicability of our approach. For example, compared to SOTA, we achieve up to 19$\times$ speedup and 77.1% memory savings on ImageNet classification with only 0.1% accuracy loss. Finally, our method is easy to implement and deploy; over 20$\times$ speedup and 90% energy savings have been observed compared to highly optimized baselines in MKLDNN and CUDNN on NVIDIA Jetson Nano. Consequently, our approach opens up a new direction of research with a huge potential for on-device training.

Machine learning models are typically evaluated by computing similarity with reference annotations and trained by maximizing similarity with such. Especially in the bio-medical domain, annotations are subjective and suffer from low inter- and intra-rater reliability. Since annotations only reflect the annotation entity's interpretation of the real world, this can lead to sub-optimal predictions even though the model achieves high similarity scores. Here, the theoretical concept of Peak Ground Truth (PGT) is introduced. PGT marks the point beyond which an increase in similarity with the reference annotation stops translating to better Real World Model Performance (RWMP). Additionally, a quantitative technique to approximate PGT by computing inter- and intra-rater reliability is proposed. Finally, three categories of PGT-aware strategies to evaluate and improve model performance are reviewed.

Mixtures of von Mises-Fisher distributions can be used to cluster data on the unit hypersphere. This is particularly adapted for high-dimensional directional data such as texts. We propose in this article to estimate a von Mises mixture using a l 1 penalized likelihood. This leads to sparse prototypes that improve clustering interpretability. We introduce an expectation-maximisation (EM) algorithm for this estimation and explore the trade-off between the sparsity term and the likelihood one with a path following algorithm. The model's behaviour is studied on simulated data and, we show the advantages of the approach on real data benchmark. We also introduce a new data set on financial reports and exhibit the benefits of our method for exploratory analysis.

Passive monitoring of acoustic or radio sources has important applications in modern convenience, public safety, and surveillance. A key task in passive monitoring is multiobject tracking (MOT). This paper presents a Bayesian method for multisensor MOT for challenging tracking problems where the object states are high-dimensional, and the measurements follow a nonlinear model. Our method is developed in the framework of factor graphs and the sum-product algorithm (SPA). The multimodal probability density functions (pdfs) provided by the SPA are effectively represented by a Gaussian mixture model (GMM). To perform the operations of the SPA in high-dimensional spaces, we make use of Particle flow (PFL). Here, particles are migrated towards regions of high likelihood based on the solution of a partial differential equation. This makes it possible to obtain good object detection and tracking performance even in challenging multisensor MOT scenarios with single sensor measurements that have a lower dimension than the object positions. We perform a numerical evaluation in a passive acoustic monitoring scenario where multiple sources are tracked in 3-D from 1-D time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurements provided by pairs of hydrophones. Our numerical results demonstrate favorable detection and estimation accuracy compared to state-of-the-art reference techniques.