State space models (SSMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art sequence modeling performance in some modalities, but underperform attention in language modeling. Moreover, despite scaling nearly linearly in sequence length instead of quadratically, SSMs are still slower than Transformers due to poor hardware utilization. In this paper, we make progress on understanding the expressivity gap between SSMs and attention in language modeling, and on reducing the hardware barrier between SSMs and attention. First, we use synthetic language modeling tasks to understand the gap between SSMs and attention. We find that existing SSMs struggle with two capabilities: recalling earlier tokens in the sequence and comparing tokens across the sequence. To understand the impact on language modeling, we propose a new SSM layer, H3, that is explicitly designed for these abilities. H3 matches attention on the synthetic languages and comes within 0.4 PPL of Transformers on OpenWebText. Furthermore, a hybrid 125M-parameter H3-attention model that retains two attention layers surprisingly outperforms Transformers on OpenWebText by 1.0 PPL. Next, to improve the efficiency of training SSMs on modern hardware, we propose FlashConv. FlashConv uses a fused block FFT algorithm to improve efficiency on sequences up to 8K, and introduces a novel state passing algorithm that exploits the recurrent properties of SSMs to scale to longer sequences. FlashConv yields 2$\times$ speedup on the long-range arena benchmark and allows hybrid language models to generate text 1.6$\times$ faster than Transformers. Using FlashConv, we scale hybrid H3-attention language models up to 1.3B parameters on the Pile and find promising initial results, achieving lower perplexity than Transformers and outperforming Transformers in zero- and few-shot learning on a majority of tasks in the SuperGLUE benchmark.

kronecker回归是一个高度结构的最小二乘问题$ \ min _ {\ mathbf {x}}} \ lvert \ mathbf {k} \ mathbf {x} - \ mathbf {b} \ rvert_ \ rvert_ {2}^2 $矩阵$ \ mathbf {k} = \ mathbf {a}^{（1）} \ otimes \ cdots \ cdots \ otimes \ mathbf {a}^{（n）} $是因子矩阵的Kronecker产品。这种回归问题是在广泛使用的最小二乘（ALS）算法的每个步骤中都出现的，用于计算张量的塔克分解。我们介绍了第一个用于求解Kronecker回归的子次数算法，以避免在运行时间中避免指数项$ o（\ varepsilon^{ - n}）$的$（1+ \ varepsilon）$。我们的技术结合了利用分数抽样和迭代方法。通过扩展我们对一个块是Kronecker产品的块设计矩阵的方法，我们还实现了（1）Kronecker Ridge回归的亚次级时间算法，并且（2）更新ALS中Tucker分解的因子矩阵，这不是一个不是一个纯Kronecker回归问题，从而改善了Tucker ALS的所有步骤的运行时间。我们证明了该Kronecker回归算法在合成数据和现实世界图像张量上的速度和准确性。

由于GPU高度平行的架构，GPU受到训练深度学习模型的青睐。结果，大多数有关培训优化的研究都集中在GPU上。但是，在决定如何选择适当的培训硬件时，经常在成本和效率之间进行权衡。特别是，如果对CPU的培训更有效，则CPU服务器可能会有益，因为它们会产生更少的硬件更新成本并更好地利用现有基础架构。本文为使用CPU的培训深度学习模型做出了一些贡献。首先，它提出了一种优化Intel CPU的深度学习模型培训的方法和一个名为ProfileDNN的工具包，我们开发了它来改善性能分析。其次，我们描述了一种通用培训优化方法，该方法指导我们的工作流程，并探讨了几个案例研究，我们确定了绩效问题，然后优化了Pytorch的Intel扩展，从而导致了Retinanet-Resnext50模型的总体2X训练性能提高。第三，我们展示了如何利用ProfileDNN的可视化功能，这使我们能够查明瓶颈并创建一个自定义焦点损失内核，该内核比正式参考Pytorch实现更快。

场景理解是一个活跃的研究区域。商业深度传感器（如Kinect）在过去几年中启用了几个RGB-D数据集的发布，它在3D场景理解中产生了新的方法。最近，在Apple的iPad和iPhone中推出LIDAR传感器，可以在他们通常使用的设备上访问高质量的RGB-D数据。这在对计算机视觉社区以及应用程序开发人员来说，这是一个全新的时代。现场理解的基本研究与机器学习的进步一起可以影响人们的日常经历。然而，将这些现场改变为现实世界经验的理解方法需要额外的创新和发展。在本文中，我们介绍了Arkitscenes。它不仅是具有现在广泛可用深度传感器的第一个RGB-D数据集，而且是我们最好的知识，它也是了解数据发布的最大的室内场景。除了来自移动设备的原始和处理的数据之外，Arkitscenes还包括使用固定激光扫描仪捕获的高分辨率深度图，以及手动标记为家具的大型分类的3D定向边界盒。我们进一步分析了两个下游任务数据的有用性：3D对象检测和色彩引导深度上采样。我们展示了我们的数据集可以帮助推动现有最先进的方法的边界，并引入了更好代表真实情景的新挑战。

虽然我们注意临床自然语言处理（NLP）的最新进展，但我们可以注意到临床和翻译研究界的一些抵抗，因为透明度，可解释性和可用性有限，采用NLP模型。在这项研究中，我们提出了一种开放的自然语言处理开发框架。我们通过实施NLP算法为国家Covid队列协作（N3C）进行了评估。基于Covid-19相关临床笔记的信息提取的利益，我们的工作包括1）使用Covid-19标志和症状作为用例的开放数据注释过程，2）一个社区驱动的规则集合平台，3）合成文本数据生成工作流程，用于生成信息提取任务的文本而不涉及人为受试者。 Corpora来自来自三个不同机构的文本（Mayo Clinic，肯塔基州大学，明尼苏达大学）。用单个机构（Mayo）规则集进行了金标准注释。这导致了0.876,0.706和0.694的F-Scors分别用于Mayo，Minnesota和肯塔基测试数据集。作为N3C NLP子群体的联盟努力的研究表明，创建联邦NLP算法开发和基准测试平台的可行性，以增强多机构临床NLP研究和采用。虽然我们在这项工作中使用Covid-19作为用例，但我们的框架足以适用于临床NLP的其他兴趣领域。

本文回顾了关于压缩视频质量增强质量的第一个NTIRE挑战，重点是拟议的方法和结果。在此挑战中，采用了新的大型不同视频（LDV）数据集。挑战有三个曲目。Track 1和2的目标是增强HEVC在固定QP上压缩的视频，而Track 3旨在增强X265压缩的视频，以固定的位速率压缩。此外，轨道1和3的质量提高了提高保真度（PSNR）的目标，以及提高感知质量的2个目标。这三个曲目完全吸引了482个注册。在测试阶段，分别提交了12个团队，8支球队和11支球队，分别提交了轨道1、2和3的最终结果。拟议的方法和解决方案衡量视频质量增强的最先进。挑战的首页：https：//github.com/renyang-home/ntire21_venh

View-dependent effects such as reflections pose a substantial challenge for image-based and neural rendering algorithms. Above all, curved reflectors are particularly hard, as they lead to highly non-linear reflection flows as the camera moves. We introduce a new point-based representation to compute Neural Point Catacaustics allowing novel-view synthesis of scenes with curved reflectors, from a set of casually-captured input photos. At the core of our method is a neural warp field that models catacaustic trajectories of reflections, so complex specular effects can be rendered using efficient point splatting in conjunction with a neural renderer. One of our key contributions is the explicit representation of reflections with a reflection point cloud which is displaced by the neural warp field, and a primary point cloud which is optimized to represent the rest of the scene. After a short manual annotation step, our approach allows interactive high-quality renderings of novel views with accurate reflection flow. Additionally, the explicit representation of reflection flow supports several forms of scene manipulation in captured scenes, such as reflection editing, cloning of specular objects, reflection tracking across views, and comfortable stereo viewing. We provide the source code and other supplemental material on https://repo-sam.inria.fr/ fungraph/neural_catacaustics/

Despite significant progress in object categorization, in recent years, a number of important challenges remain; mainly, the ability to learn from limited labeled data and to recognize object classes within large, potentially open, set of labels. Zero-shot learning is one way of addressing these challenges, but it has only been shown to work with limited sized class vocabularies and typically requires separation between supervised and unsupervised classes, allowing former to inform the latter but not vice versa. We propose the notion of vocabulary-informed learning to alleviate the above mentioned challenges and address problems of supervised, zero-shot, generalized zero-shot and open set recognition using a unified framework. Specifically, we propose a weighted maximum margin framework for semantic manifold-based recognition that incorporates distance constraints from (both supervised and unsupervised) vocabulary atoms. Distance constraints ensure that labeled samples are projected closer to their correct prototypes, in the embedding space, than to others. We illustrate that resulting model shows improvements in supervised, zero-shot, generalized zero-shot, and large open set recognition, with up to 310K class vocabulary on Animal with Attributes and ImageNet datasets.

Edge computing is changing the face of many industries and services. Common edge computing models offload computing which is prone to security risks and privacy violation. However, advances in deep learning enabled Internet of Things (IoTs) to take decisions and run cognitive tasks locally. This research introduces a decentralized-control edge model where most computation and decisions are moved to the IoT level. The model aims at decreasing communication to the edge which in return enhances efficiency and decreases latency. The model also avoids data transfer which raises security and privacy risks. To examine the model, we developed SAFEMYRIDES, a scene-aware ridesharing monitoring system where smart phones are detecting violations at the runtime. Current real-time monitoring systems are costly and require continuous network connectivity. The system uses optimized deep learning that run locally on IoTs to detect violations in ridesharing and record violation incidences. The system would enhance safety and security in ridesharing without violating privacy.

Cognitive Computing (COC) aims to build highly cognitive machines with low computational resources that respond in real-time. However, scholarly literature shows varying research areas and various interpretations of COC. This calls for a cohesive architecture that delineates the nature of COC. We argue that if Herbert Simon considered the design science is the science of artificial, cognitive systems are the products of cognitive science or 'the newest science of the artificial'. Therefore, building a conceptual basis for COC is an essential step into prospective cognitive computing-based systems. This paper proposes an architecture of COC through analyzing the literature on COC using a myriad of statistical analysis methods. Then, we compare the statistical analysis results with previous qualitative analysis results to confirm our findings. The study also comprehensively surveys the recent research on COC to identify the state of the art and connect the advances in varied research disciplines in COC. The study found that there are three underlaying computing paradigms, Von-Neuman, Neuromorphic Engineering and Quantum Computing, that comprehensively complement the structure of cognitive computation. The research discuss possible applications and open research directions under the COC umbrella.