在本文中，我们提出了一个围绕一个名为事件分解重新编译网络（EDRNET）的新架构围绕着围绕的框架，以在监督和弱监管的设置中解决视听事件（AVE）定位问题。现实世界中的Aves展示了共同的解开模式（被称为事件进度检查点（EPC）），人类可以通过听觉和视觉感官的合作来察觉。与尝试识别整个事件序列的早期方法不同，使用堆叠的时间卷积来识别整个事件序列，EDRNET模型EPC和EPC间关系。基于EPC表示属于事件类别的秘密，我们介绍了基于国家机器的视频融合，这是一种使用不同的EPC模板序列混合源视频的新型增强技术。此外，我们设计了一个名为陆地海洋损失的新损失功能，以缩小连续前景和背景表示。最后，为了减轻在弱监管期间令人困惑的事件的问题，我们提出了一种称为袋子的预测稳定方法，以实例标签校正。 AVE DataSet上的实验表明，我们的集体框架通过相当大的余量优于最先进的。

基于变压器的模型的出现，机器翻译已经快速发展。这些模型没有内置的明确的语言结构，但是它们仍然可以通过参与相关令牌隐式学习结构化的关系。我们假设通过明确赋予变形金刚具有结构性偏见，可以使这种结构学习变得更加健壮，我们研究了两种在这种偏见中构建的方法。一种方法，即TP变换器，可以增强传统的变压器体系结构，包括代表结构的附加组件。第二种方法通过将数据分割为形态令牌化来灌输数据级别的结构。我们测试了这些方法从英语翻译成土耳其语和Inuktitut的形态丰富的语言，并考虑自动指标和人类评估。我们发现，这两种方法中每种方法都允许网络实现更好的性能，但是此改进取决于数据集的大小。总而言之，结构编码方法使变压器更具样本效率，从而使它们能够从少量数据中表现得更好。

语言模型既展示了定量的改进，又展示了新的定性功能，随着规模的增加。尽管它们具有潜在的变革性影响，但这些新能力的特征却很差。为了为未来的研究提供信息，为破坏性的新模型能力做准备，并改善社会有害的效果，至关重要的是，我们必须了解目前和近乎未来的能力和语言模型的局限性。为了应对这一挑战，我们介绍了超越模仿游戏基准（Big Bench）。 Big Bench目前由204个任务组成，由132家机构的442位作者贡献。任务主题是多样的，从语言学，儿童发展，数学，常识性推理，生物学，物理学，社会偏见，软件开发等等。 Big-Bench专注于被认为超出当前语言模型的功能的任务。我们评估了OpenAI的GPT型号，Google内部密集变压器体系结构和大型基础上的开关稀疏变压器的行为，跨越了数百万到数十亿个参数。此外，一个人类专家评估者团队执行了所有任务，以提供强大的基准。研究结果包括：模型性能和校准都随规模改善，但绝对的术语（以及与评估者的性能相比）；在模型类中的性能非常相似，尽管带有稀疏性。逐渐和预测的任务通常涉及大量知识或记忆成分，而在临界规模上表现出“突破性”行为的任务通常涉及多个步骤或组成部分或脆性指标；社交偏见通常会随着含糊不清的环境而随着规模而增加，但这可以通过提示来改善。

虽然工业互联网的东西已经增加了工业设备中永久安装的传感器数量，但由于在石化工业中非常大的植物中的传感器或稀疏密度，覆盖率将存在差距。现代应急响应操作开始使用具有能够将传感器机器人丢弃到精确位置的小型无人机系统（SUAS）。 SUA可以提供长期持续监控，即航空无人机无法提供。尽管这些资产的成本相对较低，但是选择哪个机器人传感系统部署在紧急响应期间复杂的植物环境中的工业过程中的哪一部分仍然具有挑战性。本文介绍了一种优化应急传感器部署作为实现机器人在灾区响应的初步步骤的框架。 AI技术（长期内存，1维卷积神经网络，逻辑回归和随机林）识别传感器最有价值的区域，而无需人类进入潜在的危险区域。在描述的情况下，优化的成本函数考虑了假阳性和假阴性错误的成本。减缓的决定包括实施维修或关闭工厂。信息（EVI）的预期值用于识别要部署的最有价值的类型和物理传感器的位置，以增加传感器网络的决策分析值。该方法应用于使用化学植物的田纳西州伊士曼流程数据集的案例研究，我们讨论了我们对植物紧急情况和弹性情景中传感器的操作，分配和决策的影响的影响。

智能手机已经使用基于生物识别的验证系统，以在高度敏感的应用中提供安全性。视听生物识别技术因其可用性而受欢迎，并且由于其多式化性质，欺骗性将具有挑战性。在这项工作中，我们介绍了一个在五个不同最近智能手机中捕获的视听智能手机数据集。考虑到不同的现实情景，这个新数据集包含在三个不同的会话中捕获的103个科目。在该数据集中获取三种不同的语言，以包括扬声器识别系统的语言依赖性问题。这些数据集的这些独特的特征将为实施新的艺术技术的单向或视听扬声器识别系统提供途径。我们还报告了DataSet上的基准标记的生物识别系统的性能。生物识别算法的鲁棒性朝向具有广泛实验的重播和合成信号等信号噪声，设备，语言和呈现攻击等多种依赖性。获得的结果提出了许多关于智能手机中最先进的生物识别方法的泛化特性的担忧。

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.

We consider infinite horizon Markov decision processes (MDPs) with fast-slow structure, meaning that certain parts of the state space move "fast" (and in a sense, are more influential) while other parts transition more "slowly." Such structure is common in real-world problems where sequential decisions need to be made at high frequencies, yet information that varies at a slower timescale also influences the optimal policy. Examples include: (1) service allocation for a multi-class queue with (slowly varying) stochastic costs, (2) a restless multi-armed bandit with an environmental state, and (3) energy demand response, where both day-ahead and real-time prices play a role in the firm's revenue. Models that fully capture these problems often result in MDPs with large state spaces and large effective time horizons (due to frequent decisions), rendering them computationally intractable. We propose an approximate dynamic programming algorithmic framework based on the idea of "freezing" the slow states, solving a set of simpler finite-horizon MDPs (the lower-level MDPs), and applying value iteration (VI) to an auxiliary MDP that transitions on a slower timescale (the upper-level MDP). We also extend the technique to a function approximation setting, where a feature-based linear architecture is used. On the theoretical side, we analyze the regret incurred by each variant of our frozen-state approach. Finally, we give empirical evidence that the frozen-state approach generates effective policies using just a fraction of the computational cost, while illustrating that simply omitting slow states from the decision modeling is often not a viable heuristic.

While the capabilities of autonomous systems have been steadily improving in recent years, these systems still struggle to rapidly explore previously unknown environments without the aid of GPS-assisted navigation. The DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge aimed to fast track the development of autonomous exploration systems by evaluating their performance in real-world underground search-and-rescue scenarios. Subterranean environments present a plethora of challenges for robotic systems, such as limited communications, complex topology, visually-degraded sensing, and harsh terrain. The presented solution enables long-term autonomy with minimal human supervision by combining a powerful and independent single-agent autonomy stack, with higher level mission management operating over a flexible mesh network. The autonomy suite deployed on quadruped and wheeled robots was fully independent, freeing the human supervision to loosely supervise the mission and make high-impact strategic decisions. We also discuss lessons learned from fielding our system at the SubT Final Event, relating to vehicle versatility, system adaptability, and re-configurable communications.

The rise in data has led to the need for dimension reduction techniques, especially in the area of non-scalar variables, including time series, natural language processing, and computer vision. In this paper, we specifically investigate dimension reduction for time series through functional data analysis. Current methods for dimension reduction in functional data are functional principal component analysis and functional autoencoders, which are limited to linear mappings or scalar representations for the time series, which is inefficient. In real data applications, the nature of the data is much more complex. We propose a non-linear function-on-function approach, which consists of a functional encoder and a functional decoder, that uses continuous hidden layers consisting of continuous neurons to learn the structure inherent in functional data, which addresses the aforementioned concerns in the existing approaches. Our approach gives a low dimension latent representation by reducing the number of functional features as well as the timepoints at which the functions are observed. The effectiveness of the proposed model is demonstrated through multiple simulations and real data examples.