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.

我们的商品设备中的大量传感器为传感器融合的跟踪提供了丰富的基板。然而，当今的解决方案无法在实用的日常环境中提供多个代理商的强大和高跟踪精度，这是沉浸式和协作应用程序未来的核心。这可以归因于这些融合解决方案利用多样性的有限范围，从而阻止它们迎合准确性，鲁棒性（不同的环境条件）和可伸缩性（多个试剂）的多个维度。在这项工作中，我们通过将双层多样性的概念引入多代理跟踪中的传感器融合问题来朝着这一目标迈出重要的一步。我们证明，互补跟踪方式的融合，被动/亲戚（例如，视觉探测法）和主动/绝对跟踪（例如，基础架构辅助的RF定位）提供了一个关键的多样性第一层，可带来可伸缩性，而第二层的多样性则是多样性的。在于融合的方法论，我们将算法（鲁棒性）和数据驱动（用于准确性）方法汇集在一起​​。 Rovar是这种双层多样性方法的实施例，使用算法和数据驱动技术智能地参与跨模式信息，共同承担着准确跟踪野外多种代理的负担。广泛的评估揭示了Rovar在跟踪准确性（中位数），鲁棒性（在看不见的环境中），轻重量（在移动平台上实时运行，例如Jetson Nano/tx2），以启用实用的多功能多多数，以启用实用的多功能，以实用代理在日常环境中的沉浸式应用。

我们旨在通过引入全面的分布式深度学习（DDL）探索器来解决此问题，该研究人员可以确定DDL在公共云上运行时遭受的各种执行“失速”。我们已经通过扩展先前的工作来估算两种类型的通信失速 - 互连和网络摊位来实现剖面。我们使用Profiler培训流行的DNN模型来表征各种AWS GPU实例，并列出了用户做出明智决定的优势和缺点。我们观察到，较昂贵的GPU实例可能不是所有DNN型号的性能最多，并且AWS可能会在次优的硬件互连资源分配次优。具体而言，与单个实例的培训相比，机内互连可以引入高达90％的DNN培训时间和网络连接的实例的通信开销，而与网络连接的实例可能会遭受高达5倍的速度。此外，我们对DNN宏观特征的影响进行建模，例如层的数量和通信摊位上的梯度数量。最后，我们为用户提出了一个基于衡量的建议模型，以降低DDL的公共云货币成本。

最近，一些研究声称，使用特定于类的功能子集比使用单个功能子集代表分类问题的数据提供了一定优势。与传统的特征选择方法不同，特定于类的特征选择方法为每个类选择一个最佳特征子集。通常，特定于类的特征特征选择（CSF）方法使用数据集的全部分配，这会导致类别不平衡，决策聚合和高计算开销等问题。我们提出了一种嵌入基于模糊规则的分类器中的特定类特征选择方法，该方法不受与大多数现有类特异性方法相关的缺点。此外，我们可以通过在学习目标中添加合适的正规器来调整我们的方法来控制特定于类特征特征子集中的冗余水平。我们的方法导致涉及特定类别子集的特定类别规则。我们还提出了一个扩展程序，其中特定类的不同规则由不同的特征子集定义，以模拟类中不同的子结构。该方法的有效性已通过对三个合成数据集的实验进行了验证。

随着各种科学领域中数据的越来越多，生成模型在科学方法的每个步骤中都具有巨大的潜力来加速科学发现。他们最有价值的应用也许在于传统上提出假设最慢，最具挑战性的步骤。现在，正在从大量数据中学到强大的表示形式，以产生新的假设，这对从材料设计到药物发现的科学发现应用产生了重大影响。 GT4SD（https://github.com/gt4sd/gt4sd-core）是一个可扩展的开放源库，使科学家，开发人员和研究人员能够培训和使用科学发现中假设生成的最先进的生成模型。 GT4SD支持跨材料科学和药物发现的各种生成模型的用途，包括基于与目标蛋白，OMIC剖面，脚手架距离，结合能等性质的分子发现和设计。

IOT应用中的总是关于Tinyml的感知任务需要非常高的能量效率。模拟计算内存（CIM）使用非易失性存储器（NVM）承诺高效率，并提供自包含的片上模型存储。然而，模拟CIM推出了新的实际考虑因素，包括电导漂移，读/写噪声，固定的模数转换器增益等。必须解决这些附加约束，以实现可以通过可接受的模拟CIM部署的模型精度损失。这项工作描述了$ \ textit {analognets} $：tinyml模型用于关键字点（kws）和视觉唤醒词（VWW）的流行始终是on。模型架构专门为模拟CIM设计，我们详细介绍了一种全面的培训方法，以在推理时间内保持面对模拟非理想的精度和低精度数据转换器。我们还描述了AON-CIM，可编程，最小面积的相变存储器（PCM）模拟CIM加速器，具有新颖的层串行方法，以消除与完全流水线设计相关的复杂互连的成本。我们在校准的模拟器以及真正的硬件中评估了对校准模拟器的矛盾，并发现精度下降限制为KWS / VWW的PCM漂移（8位）24小时后的0.8 $ \％$ / 1.2 $ \％$。在14nm AON-CIM加速器上运行的analognets使用8位激活，分别使用8位激活，并增加到57.39 / 25.69个顶部/ w，以4美元$ 4 $ 57.39 / 25.69。

Contextualized representation models such as ELMo (Peters et al., 2018a) and BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) have recently achieved state-of-the-art results on a diverse array of downstream NLP tasks. Building on recent token-level probing work, we introduce a novel edge probing task design and construct a broad suite of sub-sentence tasks derived from the traditional structured NLP pipeline. We probe word-level contextual representations from four recent models and investigate how they encode sentence structure across a range of syntactic, semantic, local, and long-range phenomena. We find that existing models trained on language modeling and translation produce strong representations for syntactic phenomena, but only offer comparably small improvements on semantic tasks over a non-contextual baseline.

We propose a technique for producing 'visual explanations' for decisions from a large class of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based models, making them more transparent and explainable.Our approach -Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM), uses the gradients of any target concept (say 'dog' in a classification network or a sequence of words in captioning network) flowing into the final convolutional layer to produce a coarse localization map highlighting the important regions in the image for predicting the concept.Unlike previous approaches, Grad-CAM is applicable to a wide variety of CNN model-families: (1) CNNs with fullyconnected layers (e.g. VGG), (2) CNNs used for structured outputs (e.g. captioning), (3) CNNs used in tasks with multimodal inputs (e.g. visual question answering) or reinforcement learning, all without architectural changes or re-training. We combine Grad-CAM with existing fine-grained visualizations to create a high-resolution class-discriminative vi-

The recent increase in public and academic interest in preserving biodiversity has led to the growth of the field of conservation technology. This field involves designing and constructing tools that utilize technology to aid in the conservation of wildlife. In this article, we will use case studies to demonstrate the importance of designing conservation tools with human-wildlife interaction in mind and provide a framework for creating successful tools. These case studies include a range of complexities, from simple cat collars to machine learning and game theory methodologies. Our goal is to introduce and inform current and future researchers in the field of conservation technology and provide references for educating the next generation of conservation technologists. Conservation technology not only has the potential to benefit biodiversity but also has broader impacts on fields such as sustainability and environmental protection. By using innovative technologies to address conservation challenges, we can find more effective and efficient solutions to protect and preserve our planet's resources.

A Digital Twin (DT) is a simulation of a physical system that provides information to make decisions that add economic, social or commercial value. The behaviour of a physical system changes over time, a DT must therefore be continually updated with data from the physical systems to reflect its changing behaviour. For resource-constrained systems, updating a DT is non-trivial because of challenges such as on-board learning and the off-board data transfer. This paper presents a framework for updating data-driven DTs of resource-constrained systems geared towards system health monitoring. The proposed solution consists of: (1) an on-board system running a light-weight DT allowing the prioritisation and parsimonious transfer of data generated by the physical system; and (2) off-board robust updating of the DT and detection of anomalous behaviours. Two case studies are considered using a production gas turbine engine system to demonstrate the digital representation accuracy for real-world, time-varying physical systems.