Robots have been brought to work close to humans in many scenarios. For coexistence and collaboration, robots should be safe and pleasant for humans to interact with. To this end, the robots could be both physically soft with multimodal sensing/perception, so that the robots could have better awareness of the surrounding environment, as well as to respond properly to humans' action/intention. This paper introduces a novel soft robotic link, named ProTac, that possesses multiple sensing modes: tactile and proximity sensing, based on computer vision and a functional material. These modalities come from a layered structure of a soft transparent silicon skin, a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) film, and reflective markers. Here, the PDLC film can switch actively between the opaque and the transparent state, from which the tactile sensing and proximity sensing can be obtained by using cameras solely built inside the ProTac link. In this paper, inference algorithms for tactile proximity perception are introduced. Evaluation results of two sensing modalities demonstrated that, with a simple activation strategy, ProTac link could effectively perceive useful information from both approaching and in-contact obstacles. The proposed sensing device is expected to bring in ultimate solutions for design of robots with softness, whole-body and multimodal sensing, and safety control strategies.

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.

客户的评论在在线购物中起着至关重要的作用。人们经常参考以前客户的评论或评论，以决定是否购买新产品。赶上这种行为，有些人会为骗子的客户创建不真实的评论，以了解产品的假质量。这些评论称为垃圾邮件评论，它使消费者在在线购物平台上混淆，并对在线购物行为产生负面影响。我们提出了称为Vispamreviews的数据集，该数据集具有严格的注释程序，用于检测电子商务平台上的垃圾邮件评论。我们的数据集由两个任务组成：用于检测评论是否为垃圾邮件的二进制分类任务以及用于识别垃圾邮件类型的多类分类任务。Phobert在这两个任务上均以宏平均F1分别获得了最高的结果，分别为88.93％和72.17％。

问题回答（QA）是信息检索和信息提取领域内的一项自然理解任务，由于基于机器阅读理解的模型的强劲发展，近年来，近年来，近年来的计算语言学和人工智能研究社区引起了很多关注。基于读者的质量检查系统是一种高级搜索引擎，可以使用机器阅读理解（MRC）技术在开放域或特定领域特定文本中找到正确的查询或问题的答案。 MRC和QA系统中的数据资源和机器学习方法的大多数进步尤其是在两种资源丰富的语言中显着开发的，例如英语和中文。像越南人这样的低资源语言见证了关于质量检查系统的稀缺研究。本文介绍了XLMRQA，这是第一个在基于Wikipedia的文本知识源（使用UIT-Viquad语料库）上使用基于变压器的读取器的越南质量检查系统，使用深​​层神经网络模型优于DRQA和BERTSERINI，优于两个可靠的QA系统分别为24.46％和6.28％。从三个系统获得的结果中，我们分析了问题类型对质量检查系统性能的影响。

随机森林已被广泛用于其提供的所谓重要措施，在输入变量的相关性来预测某一输出全局（每个数据集）级洞察能力。在另一方面，根据沙普利值方法已被引入特征相关的基于树的模型分析细化到本地（每个实例）的水平。在这种情况下，我们首先证明杂质（MDI）变量重要性得分的全球平均减少对应的Shapley值在某些条件下。然后，我们推导出变量相关的本地MDI重要的措施，这与全球MDI衡量一个非常自然的连接，并且可以与局部特征相关的一个新概念。我们进一步联系当地MDI重要性有关与沙普利值和从文献中有关措施的光进行讨论。这些措施是通过实验在几个分类和回归问题的说明。

我们考虑如何在从流环境中学习贝叶斯模型时有效地使用先验知识，其中数据无限依次出现。这个问题在数据爆炸时代非常重要，富有培训的模型，本体，维基百科等珍贵外部知识的富裕来源非常重要。我们表明一些现有的方法可以忘记任何知识。然后，我们提出了一种新颖的框架，使能够将不同形式的先验知识纳入基础贝叶斯模型的数据流。我们的框架载有一些现有的时序/动态数据的流行模型。广泛的实验表明，我们的框架优于具有大边距的现有方法。特别是，我们的框架可以帮助贝叶斯模型在极短的文本上概括，而其他方法过度装备。我们的框架的实施是在https://github.com/bachtranxuan/tps.git上获得的。

We propose a distributionally robust return-risk model for Markov decision processes (MDPs) under risk and reward ambiguity. The proposed model optimizes the weighted average of mean and percentile performances, and it covers the distributionally robust MDPs and the distributionally robust chance-constrained MDPs (both under reward ambiguity) as special cases. By considering that the unknown reward distribution lies in a Wasserstein ambiguity set, we derive the tractable reformulation for our model. In particular, we show that that the return-risk model can also account for risk from uncertain transition kernel when one only seeks deterministic policies, and that a distributionally robust MDP under the percentile criterion can be reformulated as its nominal counterpart at an adjusted risk level. A scalable first-order algorithm is designed to solve large-scale problems, and we demonstrate the advantages of our proposed model and algorithm through numerical experiments.

Modern deep neural networks have achieved superhuman performance in tasks from image classification to game play. Surprisingly, these various complex systems with massive amounts of parameters exhibit the same remarkable structural properties in their last-layer features and classifiers across canonical datasets. This phenomenon is known as "Neural Collapse," and it was discovered empirically by Papyan et al. \cite{Papyan20}. Recent papers have theoretically shown the global solutions to the training network problem under a simplified "unconstrained feature model" exhibiting this phenomenon. We take a step further and prove the Neural Collapse occurrence for deep linear network for the popular mean squared error (MSE) and cross entropy (CE) loss. Furthermore, we extend our research to imbalanced data for MSE loss and present the first geometric analysis for Neural Collapse under this setting.

Machine Reading Comprehension has become one of the most advanced and popular research topics in the fields of Natural Language Processing in recent years. The classification of answerability questions is a relatively significant sub-task in machine reading comprehension; however, there haven't been many studies. Retro-Reader is one of the studies that has solved this problem effectively. However, the encoders of most traditional machine reading comprehension models in general and Retro-Reader, in particular, have not been able to exploit the contextual semantic information of the context completely. Inspired by SemBERT, we use semantic role labels from the SRL task to add semantics to pre-trained language models such as mBERT, XLM-R, PhoBERT. This experiment was conducted to compare the influence of semantics on the classification of answerability for the Vietnamese machine reading comprehension. Additionally, we hope this experiment will enhance the encoder for the Retro-Reader model's Sketchy Reading Module. The improved Retro-Reader model's encoder with semantics was first applied to the Vietnamese Machine Reading Comprehension task and obtained positive results.

Robust Markov decision processes (RMDPs) are promising models that provide reliable policies under ambiguities in model parameters. As opposed to nominal Markov decision processes (MDPs), however, the state-of-the-art solution methods for RMDPs are limited to value-based methods, such as value iteration and policy iteration. This paper proposes Double-Loop Robust Policy Gradient (DRPG), the first generic policy gradient method for RMDPs with a global convergence guarantee in tabular problems. Unlike value-based methods, DRPG does not rely on dynamic programming techniques. In particular, the inner-loop robust policy evaluation problem is solved via projected gradient descent. Finally, our experimental results demonstrate the performance of our algorithm and verify our theoretical guarantees.