我们提出了一个基于强化的学习框架，用于自动发现在脂肪机器人群的任何初始配置中可用的模式。特别是，我们对脂肪机器人群中无碰撞收集和相互可见性的问题进行了建模，并发现使用我们的框架来解决它们的模式。我们表明，通过根据某些约束（例如相互可见性和安全接口）来塑造奖励信号，机器人可以发现无碰撞的轨迹，导致形成良好的聚集和可见性模式。

t-SNE remains one of the most popular embedding techniques for visualizing high-dimensional data. Most standard packages of t-SNE, such as scikit-learn, use the Barnes-Hut t-SNE (BH t-SNE) algorithm for large datasets. However, existing CPU implementations of this algorithm are inefficient. In this work, we accelerate the BH t-SNE on CPUs via cache optimizations, SIMD, parallelizing sequential steps, and improving parallelization of multithreaded steps. Our implementation (Acc-t-SNE) is up to 261x and 4x faster than scikit-learn and the state-of-the-art BH t-SNE implementation from daal4py, respectively, on a 32-core Intel(R) Icelake cloud instance.

Targeted syntactic evaluations of language models ask whether models show stable preferences for syntactically acceptable content over minimal-pair unacceptable inputs. Most targeted syntactic evaluation datasets ask models to make these judgements with just a single context-free sentence as input. This does not match language models' training regime, in which input sentences are always highly contextualized by the surrounding corpus. This mismatch raises an important question: how robust are models' syntactic judgements in different contexts? In this paper, we investigate the stability of language models' performance on targeted syntactic evaluations as we vary properties of the input context: the length of the context, the types of syntactic phenomena it contains, and whether or not there are violations of grammaticality. We find that model judgements are generally robust when placed in randomly sampled linguistic contexts. However, they are substantially unstable for contexts containing syntactic structures matching those in the critical test content. Among all tested models (GPT-2 and five variants of OPT), we significantly improve models' judgements by providing contexts with matching syntactic structures, and conversely significantly worsen them using unacceptable contexts with matching but violated syntactic structures. This effect is amplified by the length of the context, except for unrelated inputs. We show that these changes in model performance are not explainable by simple features matching the context and the test inputs, such as lexical overlap and dependency overlap. This sensitivity to highly specific syntactic features of the context can only be explained by the models' implicit in-context learning abilities.

We introduce LaViLa, a new approach to learning video-language representations by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs). We repurpose pre-trained LLMs to be conditioned on visual input, and finetune them to create automatic video narrators. Our auto-generated narrations offer a number of advantages, including dense coverage of long videos, better temporal synchronization of the visual information and text, and much higher diversity of text. The video-text embedding learned contrastively with these additional auto-generated narrations outperforms the previous state-of-the-art on multiple first-person and third-person video tasks, both in zero-shot and finetuned setups. Most notably, LaViLa obtains an absolute gain of 10.1% on EGTEA classification and 5.9% Epic-Kitchens-100 multi-instance retrieval benchmarks. Furthermore, LaViLa trained with only half the narrations from the Ego4D dataset outperforms baseline models trained on the full set, and shows positive scaling behavior on increasing pre-training data and model size.

Machine learning (ML) is revolutionizing protein structural analysis, including an important subproblem of predicting protein residue contact maps, i.e., which amino-acid residues are in close spatial proximity given the amino-acid sequence of a protein. Despite recent progresses in ML-based protein contact prediction, predicting contacts with a wide range of distances (commonly classified into short-, medium- and long-range contacts) remains a challenge. Here, we propose a multiscale graph neural network (GNN) based approach taking a cue from multiscale physics simulations, in which a standard pipeline involving a recurrent neural network (RNN) is augmented with three GNNs to refine predictive capability for short-, medium- and long-range residue contacts, respectively. Test results on the ProteinNet dataset show improved accuracy for contacts of all ranges using the proposed multiscale RNN+GNN approach over the conventional approach, including the most challenging case of long-range contact prediction.

Training Graph Neural Networks, on graphs containing billions of vertices and edges, at scale using minibatch sampling poses a key challenge: strong-scaling graphs and training examples results in lower compute and higher communication volume and potential performance loss. DistGNN-MB employs a novel Historical Embedding Cache combined with compute-communication overlap to address this challenge. On a 32-node (64-socket) cluster of $3^{rd}$ generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors with 36 cores per socket, DistGNN-MB trains 3-layer GraphSAGE and GAT models on OGBN-Papers100M to convergence with epoch times of 2 seconds and 4.9 seconds, respectively, on 32 compute nodes. At this scale, DistGNN-MB trains GraphSAGE 5.2x faster than the widely-used DistDGL. DistGNN-MB trains GraphSAGE and GAT 10x and 17.2x faster, respectively, as compute nodes scale from 2 to 32.

Damage to the inferior frontal gyrus (Broca's area) can cause agrammatic aphasia wherein patients, although able to comprehend, lack the ability to form complete sentences. This inability leads to communication gaps which cause difficulties in their daily lives. The usage of assistive devices can help in mitigating these issues and enable the patients to communicate effectively. However, due to lack of large scale studies of linguistic deficits in aphasia, research on such assistive technology is relatively limited. In this work, we present two contributions that aim to re-initiate research and development in this field. Firstly, we propose a model that uses linguistic features from small scale studies on aphasia patients and generates large scale datasets of synthetic aphasic utterances from grammatically correct datasets. We show that the mean length of utterance, the noun/verb ratio, and the simple/complex sentence ratio of our synthetic datasets correspond to the reported features of aphasic speech. Further, we demonstrate how the synthetic datasets may be utilized to develop assistive devices for aphasia patients. The pre-trained T5 transformer is fine-tuned using the generated dataset to suggest 5 corrected sentences given an aphasic utterance as input. We evaluate the efficacy of the T5 model using the BLEU and cosine semantic similarity scores. Affirming results with BLEU score of 0.827/1.00 and semantic similarity of 0.904/1.00 were obtained. These results provide a strong foundation for the concept that a synthetic dataset based on small scale studies on aphasia can be used to develop effective assistive technology.

In this paper, we introduce a novel concept of user-entity differential privacy (UeDP) to provide formal privacy protection simultaneously to both sensitive entities in textual data and data owners in learning natural language models (NLMs). To preserve UeDP, we developed a novel algorithm, called UeDP-Alg, optimizing the trade-off between privacy loss and model utility with a tight sensitivity bound derived from seamlessly combining user and sensitive entity sampling processes. An extensive theoretical analysis and evaluation show that our UeDP-Alg outperforms baseline approaches in model utility under the same privacy budget consumption on several NLM tasks, using benchmark datasets.

人们依靠新闻来了解世界各地正在发生的事情并告知他们的日常生活。在当今的世界中，当假新闻的扩散猖ramp时，拥有大规模且高质量的真实新闻文章来源，其中包含出版类别的信息对于学习真实新闻的自然语言语法和语义是有价值的。作为这项工作的一部分，我们提供了一个新闻类别数据集，其中包含从HuffPost获得的2012年至2018年的200K新闻头条，以及有用的元数据以实现各种NLP任务。在本文中，我们还从数据集中产生了一些新颖的见解，并描述了数据集的各种现有和潜在应用。

道路建设项目维护运输基础设施。这些项目的范围从短期（例如，重新铺面或固定坑洼）到长期（例如，添加肩膀或建造桥梁）。传统上，确定下一个建设项目是什么以及安排什么何时进行安排，这是通过人类使用特殊设备的检查来完成的。这种方法是昂贵且难以扩展的。另一种选择是使用计算方法来整合和分析多种过去和现在的时空数据以预测未来道路构建的位置和时间。本文报告了这种方法，该方法使用基于深神经网络的模型来预测未来的结构。我们的模型在由构造，天气，地图和道路网络数据组成的异质数据集上应用卷积和经常性组件。我们还报告了如何通过构建一个名为“美国建设”的大型数据集来解决我们如何解决足够的公开数据，其中包括620万个道路构造案例，并通过各种时空属性和路线网络功能增强，收集了。在2016年至2021年之间的连续美国（美国）中。使用对美国几个主要城市进行广泛的实验，我们显示了工作在准确预测未来建筑时的适用性 - 平均F1得分为0.85，准确性为82.2％ - 这是52.2％ - 胜过基线。此外，我们展示了我们的培训管道如何解决数据的空间稀疏性。