自动机器人群的主要任务之一是共同决定最佳可用选项。实现需要在现实世界环境中可能不会总是可用的代理商之间的高质量沟通。在本文中，我们介绍了沟通受限的集体决策问题，其中环境的某些领域限制了代理人通过降低成功率或阻止沟通渠道进行沟通的能力。我们提出了一种分散的算法，用于绘制机器人群的环境特征，并在不知道通信环境的情况下改善沟通有限环境中的集体决策。我们的结果表明，让集体意识到通信环境可以在存在沟通限制的情况下提高收敛速度，而不会牺牲准确性的速度至少3倍。

As an autonomous system performs a task, it should maintain a calibrated estimate of the probability that it will achieve the user's goal. If that probability falls below some desired level, it should alert the user so that appropriate interventions can be made. This paper considers settings where the user's goal is specified as a target interval for a real-valued performance summary, such as the cumulative reward, measured at a fixed horizon $H$. At each time $t \in \{0, \ldots, H-1\}$, our method produces a calibrated estimate of the probability that the final cumulative reward will fall within a user-specified target interval $[y^-,y^+].$ Using this estimate, the autonomous system can raise an alarm if the probability drops below a specified threshold. We compute the probability estimates by inverting conformal prediction. Our starting point is the Conformalized Quantile Regression (CQR) method of Romano et al., which applies split-conformal prediction to the results of quantile regression. CQR is not invertible, but by using the conditional cumulative distribution function (CDF) as the non-conformity measure, we show how to obtain an invertible modification that we call \textbf{P}robability-space \textbf{C}onformalized \textbf{Q}uantile \textbf{R}egression (PCQR). Like CQR, PCQR produces well-calibrated conditional prediction intervals with finite-sample marginal guarantees. By inverting PCQR, we obtain marginal guarantees for the probability that the cumulative reward of an autonomous system will fall within an arbitrary user-specified target intervals. Experiments on two domains confirm that these probabilities are well-calibrated.

The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is an essential tool for researchers that allows them to explore the astronomy and astrophysics scientific literature, but it has yet to exploit recent advances in natural language processing. At ADASS 2021, we introduced astroBERT, a machine learning language model tailored to the text used in astronomy papers in ADS. In this work we: - announce the first public release of the astroBERT language model; - show how astroBERT improves over existing public language models on astrophysics specific tasks; - and detail how ADS plans to harness the unique structure of scientific papers, the citation graph and citation context, to further improve astroBERT.

Reducing the quantity of annotations required for supervised training is vital when labels are scarce and costly. This reduction is especially important for semantic segmentation tasks involving 3D datasets that are often significantly smaller and more challenging to annotate than their image-based counterparts. Self-supervised pre-training on large unlabelled datasets is one way to reduce the amount of manual annotations needed. Previous work has focused on pre-training with point cloud data exclusively; this approach often requires two or more registered views. In the present work, we combine image and point cloud modalities, by first learning self-supervised image features and then using these features to train a 3D model. By incorporating image data, which is often included in many 3D datasets, our pre-training method only requires a single scan of a scene. We demonstrate that our pre-training approach, despite using single scans, achieves comparable performance to other multi-scan, point cloud-only methods.

Human behavior emerges from planning over elaborate decompositions of tasks into goals, subgoals, and low-level actions. How are these decompositions created and used? Here, we propose and evaluate a normative framework for task decomposition based on the simple idea that people decompose tasks to reduce the overall cost of planning while maintaining task performance. Analyzing 11,117 distinct graph-structured planning tasks, we find that our framework justifies several existing heuristics for task decomposition and makes predictions that can be distinguished from two alternative normative accounts. We report a behavioral study of task decomposition ($N=806$) that uses 30 randomly sampled graphs, a larger and more diverse set than that of any previous behavioral study on this topic. We find that human responses are more consistent with our framework for task decomposition than alternative normative accounts and are most consistent with a heuristic -- betweenness centrality -- that is justified by our approach. Taken together, our results provide new theoretical insight into the computational principles underlying the intelligent structuring of goal-directed behavior.

Transformer-based models, capable of learning better global dependencies, have recently demonstrated exceptional representation learning capabilities in computer vision and medical image analysis. Transformer reformats the image into separate patches and realize global communication via the self-attention mechanism. However, positional information between patches is hard to preserve in such 1D sequences, and loss of it can lead to sub-optimal performance when dealing with large amounts of heterogeneous tissues of various sizes in 3D medical image segmentation. Additionally, current methods are not robust and efficient for heavy-duty medical segmentation tasks such as predicting a large number of tissue classes or modeling globally inter-connected tissues structures. Inspired by the nested hierarchical structures in vision transformer, we proposed a novel 3D medical image segmentation method (UNesT), employing a simplified and faster-converging transformer encoder design that achieves local communication among spatially adjacent patch sequences by aggregating them hierarchically. We extensively validate our method on multiple challenging datasets, consisting anatomies of 133 structures in brain, 14 organs in abdomen, 4 hierarchical components in kidney, and inter-connected kidney tumors). We show that UNesT consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance and evaluate its generalizability and data efficiency. Particularly, the model achieves whole brain segmentation task complete ROI with 133 tissue classes in single network, outperforms prior state-of-the-art method SLANT27 ensembled with 27 network tiles, our model performance increases the mean DSC score of the publicly available Colin and CANDI dataset from 0.7264 to 0.7444 and from 0.6968 to 0.7025, respectively.

在运行时检测新颖类的问题称为开放式检测，对于各种现实世界应用，例如医疗应用，自动驾驶等。在深度学习的背景下进行开放式检测涉及解决两个问题：（i）：（i）必须将输入图像映射到潜在表示中，该图像包含足够的信息来检测异常值，并且（ii）必须学习一个可以从潜在表示中提取此信息以识别异常情况的异常评分函数。深度异常检测方法的研究缓慢进展。原因之一可能是大多数论文同时引入了新的表示学习技术和新的异常评分方法。这项工作的目的是通过提供分别衡量表示学习和异常评分的有效性的方法来改善这种方法。这项工作做出了两项方法论贡献。首先是引入甲骨文异常检测的概念，以量化学习潜在表示中可用的信息。第二个是引入Oracle表示学习，该学习产生的表示形式可以保证足以准确的异常检测。这两种技术可帮助研究人员将学习表示的质量与异常评分机制的性能分开，以便他们可以调试和改善系统。这些方法还为通过更好的异常评分机制改善了多少开放类别检测提供了上限。两个牙齿的组合给出了任何开放类别检测方法可以实现的性能的上限。这项工作介绍了这两种Oracle技术，并通过将它们应用于几种领先的开放类别检测方法来演示其实用性。

我们从一组稀疏的光谱时间序列中构建了一个物理参数化的概率自动编码器（PAE），以学习IA型超新星（SNE IA）的内在多样性。 PAE是一个两阶段的生成模型，由自动编码器（AE）组成，该模型在使用归一化流（NF）训练后概率地解释。我们证明，PAE学习了一个低维的潜在空间，该空间可捕获人口内存在的非线性特征范围，并且可以直接从数据直接从数据中准确地对整个波长和观察时间进行精确模拟SNE IA的光谱演化。通过引入相关性惩罚项和多阶段训练设置以及我们的物理参数化网络，我们表明可以在训练期间分离内在和外在的可变性模式，从而消除了需要进行额外标准化的其他模型。然后，我们在SNE IA的许多下游任务中使用PAE进行越来越精确的宇宙学分析，包括自动检测SN Outliers，与数据分布一致的样本的产生以及在存在噪音和不完整数据的情况下解决逆问题限制宇宙距离测量。我们发现，与以前的研究相一致的最佳固有模型参数数量似乎是三个，并表明我们可以用$ 0.091 \ pm 0.010 $ mag标准化SNE IA的测试样本，该样本对应于$ 0.074 \ pm。 0.010 $ mag如果删除了特殊的速度贡献。训练有素的模型和代码在\ href {https://github.com/georgestein/supaernova} {github.com/georgestein/supaernova}上发布

人工智能的最新趋势是将验证的模型用于语言和视觉任务，这些模型已经实现了非凡的表现，但也令人困惑。因此，以各种方式探索这些模型的能力对该领域至关重要。在本文中，我们探讨了模型的可靠性，在其中我们将可靠的模型定义为一个不仅可以实现强大的预测性能，而且在许多涉及不确定性（例如选择性预测，开放式设置识别）的决策任务上，在许多决策任务上表现出色，而且表现良好。强大的概括（例如，准确性和适当的评分规则，例如在分布数据集中和分发数据集上的对数可能性）和适应性（例如，主动学习，几乎没有射击不确定性）。我们设计了40个数据集的10种任务类型，以评估视觉和语言域上可靠性的不同方面。为了提高可靠性，我们分别开发了VIT-PLEX和T5-PLEX，分别针对视觉和语言方式扩展了大型模型。 PLEX极大地改善了跨可靠性任务的最先进，并简化了传统协议，因为它可以改善开箱即用的性能，并且不需要设计分数或为每个任务调整模型。我们演示了高达1B参数的模型尺寸的缩放效果，并预处理数据集大小最多4B示例。我们还展示了PLEX在具有挑战性的任务上的功能，包括零射门的开放式识别，主动学习和对话语言理解中的不确定性。

病理学家拥有丰富的词汇，他们可以描述细胞形态的所有细微差别。在他们的世界中，图像和单词都有自然的配对。最近的进步表明，现在可以对机器学习模型进行培训，以学习高质量的图像功能并将其表示为离散信息。这使得自然语言（也是离散的语言）可以与成像旁边共同建模，从而描述了成像内容。在这里，我们介绍了将离散建模技术应用于非黑色素瘤皮肤癌的问题结构域，特别是eme骨内癌（IEC）的组织学图像。通过实施IEC图像的高分辨率（256x256）图像的VQ-GAN模型，我们训练了序列到序列变压器，以使用病理学家术语来生成自然语言描述。结合使用连续生成方法获得的交互式概念矢量的概念，我们展示了一个额外的解释性角度。结果是为高度表达的机器学习系统而努力的一种有希望的方法，不仅可以用作预测/分类工具，而且还意味着要进一步了解我们对疾病的科学理解。