In the last years many accurate decision support systems have been constructed as black boxes, that is as systems that hide their internal logic to the user. This lack of explanation constitutes both a practical and an ethical issue. The literature reports many approaches aimed at overcoming this crucial weakness sometimes at the cost of scarifying accuracy for interpretability. The applications in which black box decision systems can be used are various, and each approach is typically developed to provide a solution for a specific problem and, as a consequence, delineating explicitly or implicitly its own definition of interpretability and explanation. The aim of this paper is to provide a classification of the main problems addressed in the literature with respect to the notion of explanation and the type of black box system. Given a problem definition, a black box type, and a desired explanation this survey should help the researcher to find the proposals more useful for his own work. The proposed classification of approaches to open black box models should also be useful for putting the many research open questions in perspective.

Remote sensing imagery provides comprehensive views of the Earth, where different sensors collect complementary data at different spatial scales. Large, pretrained models are commonly finetuned with imagery that is heavily augmented to mimic different conditions and scales, with the resulting models used for various tasks with imagery from a range of spatial scales. Such models overlook scale-specific information in the data. In this paper, we present Scale-MAE, a pretraining method that explicitly learns relationships between data at different, known scales throughout the pretraining process. Scale-MAE pretrains a network by masking an input image at a known input scale, where the area of the Earth covered by the image determines the scale of the ViT positional encoding, not the image resolution. Scale-MAE encodes the masked image with a standard ViT backbone, and then decodes the masked image through a bandpass filter to reconstruct low/high frequency images at lower/higher scales. We find that tasking the network with reconstructing both low/high frequency images leads to robust multiscale representations for remote sensing imagery. Scale-MAE achieves an average of a $5.0\%$ non-parametric kNN classification improvement across eight remote sensing datasets compared to current state-of-the-art and obtains a $0.9$ mIoU to $3.8$ mIoU improvement on the SpaceNet building segmentation transfer task for a range of evaluation scales.

Functionality and dialogue experience are two important factors of task-oriented dialogue systems. Conventional approaches with closed schema (e.g., conversational semantic parsing) often fail as both the functionality and dialogue experience are strongly constrained by the underlying schema. We introduce a new paradigm for task-oriented dialogue - Dialog2API - to greatly expand the functionality and provide seamless dialogue experience. The conversational model interacts with the environment by generating and executing programs triggering a set of pre-defined APIs. The model also manages the dialogue policy and interact with the user through generating appropriate natural language responses. By allowing generating free-form programs, Dialog2API supports composite goals by combining different APIs, whereas unrestricted program revision provides natural and robust dialogue experience. To facilitate Dialog2API, the core model is provided with API documents, an execution environment and optionally some example dialogues annotated with programs. We propose an approach tailored for the Dialog2API, where the dialogue states are represented by a stack of programs, with most recently mentioned program on the top of the stack. Dialog2API can work with many application scenarios such as software automation and customer service. In this paper, we construct a dataset for AWS S3 APIs and present evaluation results of in-context learning baselines.

The widespread use of information and communication technology (ICT) over the course of the last decades has been a primary catalyst behind the digitalization of power systems. Meanwhile, as the utilization rate of the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to rise along with recent advancements in ICT, the need for secure and computationally efficient monitoring of critical infrastructures like the electrical grid and the agents that participate in it is growing. A cyber-physical system, such as the electrical grid, may experience anomalies for a number of different reasons. These may include physical defects, mistakes in measurement and communication, cyberattacks, and other similar occurrences. The goal of this study is to emphasize what the most common incidents are with power systems and to give an overview and classification of the most common ways to find problems, starting with the consumer/prosumer end working up to the primary power producers. In addition, this article aimed to discuss the methods and techniques, such as artificial intelligence (AI) that are used to identify anomalies in the power systems and markets.

Counterfactual Explanations are becoming a de-facto standard in post-hoc interpretable machine learning. For a given classifier and an instance classified in an undesired class, its counterfactual explanation corresponds to small perturbations of that instance that allows changing the classification outcome. This work aims to leverage Counterfactual Explanations to detect the important decision boundaries of a pre-trained black-box model. This information is used to build a supervised discretization of the features in the dataset with a tunable granularity. Using the discretized dataset, a smaller, therefore more interpretable Decision Tree can be trained, which, in addition, enhances the stability and robustness of the baseline Decision Tree. Numerical results on real-world datasets show the effectiveness of the approach in terms of accuracy and sparsity compared to the baseline Decision Tree.

Predicting the presence of major depressive disorder (MDD) using behavioural and cognitive signals is a highly non-trivial task. The heterogeneous clinical profile of MDD means that any given speech, facial expression and/or observed cognitive pattern may be associated with a unique combination of depressive symptoms. Conventional discriminative machine learning models potentially lack the complexity to robustly model this heterogeneity. Bayesian networks, however, may instead be well-suited to such a scenario. These networks are probabilistic graphical models that efficiently describe the joint probability distribution over a set of random variables by explicitly capturing their conditional dependencies. This framework provides further advantages over standard discriminative modelling by offering the possibility to incorporate expert opinion in the graphical structure of the models, generating explainable model predictions, informing about the uncertainty of predictions, and naturally handling missing data. In this study, we apply a Bayesian framework to capture the relationships between depression, depression symptoms, and features derived from speech, facial expression and cognitive game data collected at thymia.

许多微体系式优化为深度神经网络解锁了巨大的处理能力，从而促进了AI革命。随着这种优化的精疲力尽，现代AI的增长现在是通过培训系统的性能，尤其是其数据流动的。我们没有专注于单个加速器，而是研究了全系统规模的大规模培训的数据移动特征。基于我们的工作量分析，我们设计了HammingMesh，这是一种新颖的网络拓扑，以低成本提供高的带宽，并具有很高的工作计划灵活性。具体而言，HammingMesh可以支持具有两个并行性的两个维度的深度学习培训工作的完整带宽和隔离。此外，它还为通用流量的高全球带宽提供支持。因此，HammingMesh将为未来的大规模深度学习系统供电，并具有极端的带宽要求。

从机器学习模型中删除指定的培训数据子集的影响可能需要解决隐私，公平和数据质量等问题。删除子集后剩余数据从头开始对模型进行重新审查是有效但通常是不可行的，因为其计算费用。因此，在过去的几年中，已经看到了几种有效拆除的新方法，形成了“机器学习”领域，但是，到目前为止，出版的文献的许多方面都是不同的，缺乏共识。在本文中，我们总结并比较了七个最先进的机器学习算法，合并对现场中使用的核心概念的定义，调和不同的方法来评估算法，并讨论与在实践中应用机器相关的问题。

预示着在不同时间尺度上作用的软件化，可编程网络控制和使用作用的全包装控制器的使用，作为下一代蜂窝网络发展的关键驱动力。这些技术已经培养了新设计的智能数据驱动的解决方案，用于管理大量各种蜂窝功能，基本上不可能在传统上闭合的蜂窝体系结构中实施。尽管行业对人工智能（AI）和机器学习（ML）解决方案具有明显的兴趣，该解决方案是对无线电访问网络（RAN）的闭环控制，并且该领域的几项研究工作远非主流，但仍然是一个复杂的操作，而且经常被忽略。在本文中，我们讨论了如何为开放式RAN的智能闭环控制设计AI/ML解决方案，从而根据具有高性能记录的示例解决方案提供指南和见解。然后，我们展示如何通过OpenRan Gym在O-RAN近实时RAN智能控制器（RIC）上实例化这些解决方案，Openran Gym是第一个用于数据驱动的O-RAN实验的公共可用工具箱。我们展示了一个由OpenRan Gym开发的XAPP的用例，并在蜂窝网络上进行了测试，其中有7个基站和42位用户部署在Colosseum Wireless网络模拟器上。我们的演示表明，位于Openran的XAPP开发环境的高度灵活性，该环境与部署方案和交通需求无关。

这项工作开发了基于神经网络的预处理，以加速晶格量子场理论中的Wilson-DIRAC正常方程。该方法是针对临界点附近的两种晶格Schwinger模型实现的。在该系统中，发现神经网络预处理可以加速与未经本科系统的溶液或基于偶数或不完整的Cholesky分解的常规方法相比，偶联梯度求解器的收敛性，如降低的降低数量收敛所需的迭代和/或复杂操作。还表明，在具有较小晶格量的合奏上训练的预处理可用于为具有较大晶格量的合奏构建预处理，并且性能最小。这种体积转移技术摊销了训练成本，并为将这种预调节器扩展到具有较大晶格体积和四个维度的晶格场理论计算。