The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

Recently, the success of pre-training in text domain has been fully extended to vision, audio, and cross-modal scenarios. The proposed pre-training models of different modalities are showing a rising trend of homogeneity in their model structures, which brings the opportunity to implement different pre-training models within a uniform framework. In this paper, we present TencentPretrain, a toolkit supporting pre-training models of different modalities. The core feature of TencentPretrain is the modular design. The toolkit uniformly divides pre-training models into 5 components: embedding, encoder, target embedding, decoder, and target. As almost all of common modules are provided in each component, users can choose the desired modules from different components to build a complete pre-training model. The modular design enables users to efficiently reproduce existing pre-training models or build brand-new one. We test the toolkit on text, vision, and audio benchmarks and show that it can match the performance of the original implementations.

Recent works on Lottery Ticket Hypothesis have shown that pre-trained language models (PLMs) contain smaller matching subnetworks(winning tickets) which are capable of reaching accuracy comparable to the original models. However, these tickets are proved to be notrobust to adversarial examples, and even worse than their PLM counterparts. To address this problem, we propose a novel method based on learning binary weight masks to identify robust tickets hidden in the original PLMs. Since the loss is not differentiable for the binary mask, we assign the hard concrete distribution to the masks and encourage their sparsity using a smoothing approximation of L0 regularization.Furthermore, we design an adversarial loss objective to guide the search for robust tickets and ensure that the tickets perform well bothin accuracy and robustness. Experimental results show the significant improvement of the proposed method over previous work on adversarial robustness evaluation.

背景：基于其可变的历史视觉记录，对青少年的球形等效物进行定量预测。方法：从2019年10月到2022年3月，我们检查了来自中国成都成都6-20岁的37,586名青少年的双眼未校正视力，轴向长度，角膜曲率和轴向75,172眼。 80 \％样品由训练集和剩余的20 \％组成测试集。时间感知的长期短期记忆被用来定量预测青少年在两年半内的球形当量。结果：球形当量的测试集的平均绝对预测误差为0.273-0.257，如果我们考虑不同的历史记录和不同的预测持续时间，则从0.189-0.160到0.596-0.473。结论：时间感知时间长的短期记忆被应用于不规则采样时间序列中的时间特征，这更符合实际数据的特征，因此具有更高的适用性，并有助于较早地识别近视的进展。总体误差0.273远小于临床上可接受预测的标准，例如0.75。

相位识别在计算机辅助干预中的手术工作流程分析中起着至关重要的作用。最初建议在自然语言处理中进行顺序数据建模的变压器已成功应用于手术期识别。现有基于变压器的作品主要集中于建模注意力依赖性，而无需引入自动回归。在这项工作中，首先提出了一种自动回归手术变压器（称为ARST），用于腹腔镜视频的在线手术阶段识别，通过条件概率分布隐含地模拟了相之间的相关性。为了减少推理偏差并提高阶段的一致性，我们进一步制定了基于自动回归的一致性约束推理策略。我们对众所周知的公共数据集Cholec80进行全面验证。实验结果表明，我们的方法在定量和定性上都优于最新方法，并达到每秒66帧（FPS）的推理率。

语言模型既展示了定量的改进，又展示了新的定性功能，随着规模的增加。尽管它们具有潜在的变革性影响，但这些新能力的特征却很差。为了为未来的研究提供信息，为破坏性的新模型能力做准备，并改善社会有害的效果，至关重要的是，我们必须了解目前和近乎未来的能力和语言模型的局限性。为了应对这一挑战，我们介绍了超越模仿游戏基准（Big Bench）。 Big Bench目前由204个任务组成，由132家机构的442位作者贡献。任务主题是多样的，从语言学，儿童发展，数学，常识性推理，生物学，物理学，社会偏见，软件开发等等。 Big-Bench专注于被认为超出当前语言模型的功能的任务。我们评估了OpenAI的GPT型号，Google内部密集变压器体系结构和大型基础上的开关稀疏变压器的行为，跨越了数百万到数十亿个参数。此外，一个人类专家评估者团队执行了所有任务，以提供强大的基准。研究结果包括：模型性能和校准都随规模改善，但绝对的术语（以及与评估者的性能相比）；在模型类中的性能非常相似，尽管带有稀疏性。逐渐和预测的任务通常涉及大量知识或记忆成分，而在临界规模上表现出“突破性”行为的任务通常涉及多个步骤或组成部分或脆性指标；社交偏见通常会随着含糊不清的环境而随着规模而增加，但这可以通过提示来改善。

最近的研究表明，诸如RNN和Transformers之类的深度学习模型为长期预测时间序列带来了显着的性能增长，因为它们有效地利用了历史信息。但是，我们发现，如何在神经网络中保存历史信息，同时避免过度适应历史上的噪音，这仍然有很大的改进空间。解决此问题可以更好地利用深度学习模型的功能。为此，我们设计了一个\ textbf {f}要求\ textbf {i} mpraved \ textbf {l} egendre \ textbf {m} emory模型，或{\ bf film}：它应用了legendre promotions topimate legendre provientions近似历史信息，近似历史信息，使用傅立叶投影来消除噪声，并添加低级近似值以加快计算。我们的实证研究表明，所提出的膜显着提高了由（\ textbf {20.3 \％}，\ textbf {22.6 \％}）的多变量和单变量长期预测中最新模型的准确性。我们还证明，这项工作中开发的表示模块可以用作一般插件，以提高其他深度学习模块的长期预测性能。代码可从https://github.com/tianzhou2011/film/获得。

Context-aware decision support in the operating room can foster surgical safety and efficiency by leveraging real-time feedback from surgical workflow analysis. Most existing works recognize surgical activities at a coarse-grained level, such as phases, steps or events, leaving out fine-grained interaction details about the surgical activity; yet those are needed for more helpful AI assistance in the operating room. Recognizing surgical actions as triplets of <instrument, verb, target> combination delivers comprehensive details about the activities taking place in surgical videos. This paper presents CholecTriplet2021: an endoscopic vision challenge organized at MICCAI 2021 for the recognition of surgical action triplets in laparoscopic videos. The challenge granted private access to the large-scale CholecT50 dataset, which is annotated with action triplet information. In this paper, we present the challenge setup and assessment of the state-of-the-art deep learning methods proposed by the participants during the challenge. A total of 4 baseline methods from the challenge organizers and 19 new deep learning algorithms by competing teams are presented to recognize surgical action triplets directly from surgical videos, achieving mean average precision (mAP) ranging from 4.2% to 38.1%. This study also analyzes the significance of the results obtained by the presented approaches, performs a thorough methodological comparison between them, in-depth result analysis, and proposes a novel ensemble method for enhanced recognition. Our analysis shows that surgical workflow analysis is not yet solved, and also highlights interesting directions for future research on fine-grained surgical activity recognition which is of utmost importance for the development of AI in surgery.

如今，在人员重新识别（Reid）任务的真实数据面临隐私问题，例如，禁止DataSet Dukemtmc-Reid。因此，收集Reid任务的真实数据变得更难。同时，标签的劳动力成本仍然很高，进一步阻碍了Reid研究的发展。因此，许多方法转向为REID算法生成合成图像作为替代方而不是真实图像。然而，合成和真实图像之间存在不可避免的领域差距。在以前的方法中，生成过程基于虚拟场景，并且无法根据不同的目标实际场景自动更改其合成训练数据。为了处理这个问题，我们提出了一种新颖的目标感知一代管道，以产生称为Tagerson的合成人物图像。具体地，它涉及参数化渲染方法，其中参数是可控的，并且可以根据目标场景调整。在Tagperson中，我们从目标场景中提取信息，并使用它们来控制我们的参数化渲染过程以生成目标感知的合成图像，这将使目标域中的实图像保持较小的间隙。在我们的实验中，我们的目标感知的合成图像可以实现比MSMT17上的广义合成图像更高的性能，即秩1精度的47.5％与40.9％。我们将发布此工具包\脚注{\ noindent代码可用于\ href {https://github.com/tagperson/tagperson-blender} {https：//github.com/tagperson/tagperson -brender}}为Reid社区以任何所需味道产生合成图像。

As one of the most important psychic stress reactions, micro-expressions (MEs), are spontaneous and transient facial expressions that can reveal the genuine emotions of human beings. Thus, recognizing MEs (MER) automatically is becoming increasingly crucial in the field of affective computing, and provides essential technical support in lie detection, psychological analysis and other areas. However, the lack of abundant ME data seriously restricts the development of cutting-edge data-driven MER models. Despite the recent efforts of several spontaneous ME datasets to alleviate this problem, it is still a tiny amount of work. To solve the problem of ME data hunger, we construct a dynamic spontaneous ME dataset with the largest current ME data scale, called DFME (Dynamic Facial Micro-expressions), which includes 7,526 well-labeled ME videos induced by 671 participants and annotated by more than 20 annotators throughout three years. Afterwards, we adopt four classical spatiotemporal feature learning models on DFME to perform MER experiments to objectively verify the validity of DFME dataset. In addition, we explore different solutions to the class imbalance and key-frame sequence sampling problems in dynamic MER respectively on DFME, so as to provide a valuable reference for future research. The comprehensive experimental results show that our DFME dataset can facilitate the research of automatic MER, and provide a new benchmark for MER. DFME will be published via https://mea-lab-421.github.io.