在当今的现代数字世界中，我们有许多在线问答平台，例如Stack Exchange，Quora和GFG，它们是人们交流和互相帮助的媒介。在本文中，我们分析了堆栈溢出在帮助新手进行编程方面的有效性。该平台上的每个用户都会经历旅程。在最初的12个月中，我们认为它们是新手。在12个月后，他们属于以下类别之一：经验丰富，潜伏或好奇。每个问题都有分配给它的标签，我们观察到具有某些特定标签的问题的响应时间更快，表明该领域的活跃社区比其他领域的社区。该平台截至2013年开始稳定增长，之后它开始下降，但是最近在2020年大流行期间，我们可以在平台上看到恢复活力的活动。

Recently, there has been increasing interest in synthesizing data to improve downstream text-to-SQL tasks. In this paper, we first examined the existing synthesized datasets and discovered that state-of-the-art text-to-SQL algorithms did not further improve on popular benchmarks when trained with augmented synthetic data. We observed two shortcomings: illogical synthetic SQL queries from independent column sampling and arbitrary table joins. To address these issues, we propose a novel synthesis framework that incorporates key relationships from schema, imposes strong typing, and conducts schema-distance-weighted column sampling. We also adopt an intermediate representation (IR) for the SQL-to-text task to further improve the quality of the generated natural language questions. When existing powerful semantic parsers are pre-finetuned on our high-quality synthesized data, our experiments show that these models have significant accuracy boosts on popular benchmarks, including new state-of-the-art performance on Spider.

Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) (Koh et al. 2020) are interpretable neural networks that first predict labels for human-interpretable concepts relevant to the prediction task, and then predict the final label based on the concept label predictions.We extend CBMs to interactive prediction settings where the model can query a human collaborator for the label to some concepts. We develop an interaction policy that, at prediction time, chooses which concepts to request a label for so as to maximally improve the final prediction. We demonstrate thata simple policy combining concept prediction uncertainty and influence of the concept on the final prediction achieves strong performance and outperforms a static approach proposed in Koh et al. (2020) as well as active feature acquisition methods proposed in the literature. We show that the interactiveCBM can achieve accuracy gains of 5-10% with only 5 interactions over competitive baselines on the Caltech-UCSDBirds, CheXpert and OAI datasets.

Machine learning (ML) has recently facilitated many advances in solving problems related to many-body physical systems. Given the intrinsic quantum nature of these problems, it is natural to speculate that quantum-enhanced machine learning will enable us to unveil even greater details than we currently have. With this motivation, this paper examines a quantum machine learning approach based on shallow variational ansatz inspired by tensor networks for supervised learning tasks. In particular, we first look at the standard image classification tasks using the Fashion-MNIST dataset and study the effect of repeating tensor network layers on ansatz's expressibility and performance. Finally, we use this strategy to tackle the problem of quantum phase recognition for the transverse-field Ising and Heisenberg spin models in one and two dimensions, where we were able to reach $\geq 98\%$ test-set accuracies with both multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) and tree tensor network (TTN) inspired parametrized quantum circuits.

Power grids, across the world, play an important societal and economical role by providing uninterrupted, reliable and transient-free power to several industries, businesses and household consumers. With the advent of renewable power resources and EVs resulting into uncertain generation and highly dynamic load demands, it has become ever so important to ensure robust operation of power networks through suitable management of transient stability issues and localize the events of blackouts. In the light of ever increasing stress on the modern grid infrastructure and the grid operators, this paper presents a reinforcement learning (RL) framework, PowRL, to mitigate the effects of unexpected network events, as well as reliably maintain electricity everywhere on the network at all times. The PowRL leverages a novel heuristic for overload management, along with the RL-guided decision making on optimal topology selection to ensure that the grid is operated safely and reliably (with no overloads). PowRL is benchmarked on a variety of competition datasets hosted by the L2RPN (Learning to Run a Power Network). Even with its reduced action space, PowRL tops the leaderboard in the L2RPN NeurIPS 2020 challenge (Robustness track) at an aggregate level, while also being the top performing agent in the L2RPN WCCI 2020 challenge. Moreover, detailed analysis depicts state-of-the-art performances by the PowRL agent in some of the test scenarios.

There has been a recent explosion of impressive generative models that can produce high quality images (or videos) conditioned on text descriptions. However, all such approaches rely on conditional sentences that contain unambiguous descriptions of scenes and main actors in them. Therefore employing such models for more complex task of story visualization, where naturally references and co-references exist, and one requires to reason about when to maintain consistency of actors and backgrounds across frames/scenes, and when not to, based on story progression, remains a challenge. In this work, we address the aforementioned challenges and propose a novel autoregressive diffusion-based framework with a visual memory module that implicitly captures the actor and background context across the generated frames. Sentence-conditioned soft attention over the memories enables effective reference resolution and learns to maintain scene and actor consistency when needed. To validate the effectiveness of our approach, we extend the MUGEN dataset and introduce additional characters, backgrounds and referencing in multi-sentence storylines. Our experiments for story generation on the MUGEN, the PororoSV and the FlintstonesSV dataset show that our method not only outperforms prior state-of-the-art in generating frames with high visual quality, which are consistent with the story, but also models appropriate correspondences between the characters and the background.

Observational studies have recently received significant attention from the machine learning community due to the increasingly available non-experimental observational data and the limitations of the experimental studies, such as considerable cost, impracticality, small and less representative sample sizes, etc. In observational studies, de-confounding is a fundamental problem of individualised treatment effects (ITE) estimation. This paper proposes disentangled representations with adversarial training to selectively balance the confounders in the binary treatment setting for the ITE estimation. The adversarial training of treatment policy selectively encourages treatment-agnostic balanced representations for the confounders and helps to estimate the ITE in the observational studies via counterfactual inference. Empirical results on synthetic and real-world datasets, with varying degrees of confounding, prove that our proposed approach improves the state-of-the-art methods in achieving lower error in the ITE estimation.

因果和归因研究对于地球科学发现至关重要，对于为气候，生态和水政策提供信息至关重要。但是，当前的方法需要与科学和利益相关者挑战的复杂性以及数据可用性以及数据驱动方法的充分性相结合。除非通过物理学进行仔细的通知，否则它们会冒着将相关性与因果关系相关或因估计不准确而淹没的风险。鉴于自然实验，对照试验，干预措施和反事实检查通常是不切实际的，因此已经开发了信息理论方法，并在地球科学中不断完善。在这里，我们表明，基于转移熵的因果图最近在具有备受瞩目的发现的地球科学中变得流行，即使增强具有统计学意义，也可能是虚假的。我们开发了一种基于子样本的合奏方法，用于鲁棒性因果分析。模拟数据以及气候和生态水文中的观察表明，这种方法的鲁棒性和一致性。

可靠的异常检测对于深度学习模型的现实应用至关重要。深层生成模型产生的可能性虽然进行了广泛的研究，但仍被认为是对异常检测的不切实际的。一方面，深层生成模型的可能性很容易被低级输入统计数据偏差。其次，许多用于纠正这些偏见的解决方案在计算上是昂贵的，或者对复杂的天然数据集的推广不佳。在这里，我们使用最先进的深度自回归模型探索离群值检测：PixelCNN ++。我们表明，PixelCNN ++的偏见主要来自基于局部依赖性的预测。我们提出了两个我们称为“震动”和“搅拌”的徒转化家族，它们可以改善低水平的偏见并隔离长期依赖性对PixelCNN ++可能性的贡献。这些转换在计算上是便宜的，并且在评估时很容易应用。我们使用五个灰度和六个自然图像数据集对我们的方法进行了广泛的评估，并表明它们达到或超过了最新的离群检测性能。总而言之，轻巧的补救措施足以在具有深层生成模型的图像上实现强大的离群检测。

使用深度学习对胸部射线照相的自动分析具有巨大的潜力，可以增强患者疾病的临床诊断。但是，深度学习模型通常需要大量的带注释的数据来实现高性能 - 通常是医疗领域适应的障碍。在本文中，我们构建了一个利用放射学报告来通过有限的标记数据（少于1000个示例）来改善医学图像分类性能，以提高医学图像分类性能。具体而言，我们检查了捕获图像预告片，以学习以更少的例子进行训练的高质量医学图像表示。在对卷积编码器和变压器解码器进行联合预测之后，我们将学习的编码器转移到各种分类任务中。平均9多种病理学，我们发现我们的模型在标记培训数据受到限制时，比参见和内域监督的预处理的分类性能更高。