Zero-Shot Learning has been a highlighted research topic in both vision and language areas. Recently, most existing methods adopt structured knowledge information to model explicit correlations among categories and use deep graph convolutional network to propagate information between different categories. However, it is difficult to add new categories to existing structured knowledge graph, and deep graph convolutional network suffers from over-smoothing problem. In this paper, we provide a new semantic enhanced knowledge graph that contains both expert knowledge and categories semantic correlation. Our semantic enhanced knowledge graph can further enhance the correlations among categories and make it easy to absorb new categories. To propagate information on the knowledge graph, we propose a novel Residual Graph Convolutional Network (ResGCN), which can effectively alleviate the problem of over-smoothing. Experiments conducted on the widely used large-scale ImageNet-21K dataset and AWA2 dataset show the effectiveness of our method, and establish a new state-of-the-art on zero-shot learning. Moreover, our results on the large-scale ImageNet-21K with various feature extraction networks show that our method has better generalization and robustness.

Embedding tables are usually huge in click-through rate (CTR) prediction models. To train and deploy the CTR models efficiently and economically, it is necessary to compress their embedding tables at the training stage. To this end, we formulate a novel quantization training paradigm to compress the embeddings from the training stage, termed low-precision training (LPT). Also, we provide theoretical analysis on its convergence. The results show that stochastic weight quantization has a faster convergence rate and a smaller convergence error than deterministic weight quantization in LPT. Further, to reduce the accuracy degradation, we propose adaptive low-precision training (ALPT) that learns the step size (i.e., the quantization resolution) through gradient descent. Experiments on two real-world datasets confirm our analysis and show that ALPT can significantly improve the prediction accuracy, especially at extremely low bit widths. For the first time in CTR models, we successfully train 8-bit embeddings without sacrificing prediction accuracy. The code of ALPT is publicly available.

Despite the fast advances in high-sigma yield analysis with the help of machine learning techniques in the past decade, one of the main challenges, the curse of dimensionality, which is inevitable when dealing with modern large-scale circuits, remains unsolved. To resolve this challenge, we propose an absolute shrinkage deep kernel learning, ASDK, which automatically identifies the dominant process variation parameters in a nonlinear-correlated deep kernel and acts as a surrogate model to emulate the expensive SPICE simulation. To further improve the yield estimation efficiency, we propose a novel maximization of approximated entropy reduction for an efficient model update, which is also enhanced with parallel batch sampling for parallel computing, making it ready for practical deployment. Experiments on SRAM column circuits demonstrate the superiority of ASDK over the state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches in terms of accuracy and efficiency with up to 10.3x speedup over SOTA methods.

Batteries plays an essential role in modern energy ecosystem and are widely used in daily applications such as cell phones and electric vehicles. For many applications, the health status of batteries plays a critical role in the performance of the system by indicating efficient maintenance and on-time replacement. Directly modeling an individual battery using a computational models based on physical rules can be of low-efficiency, in terms of the difficulties in build such a model and the computational effort of tuning and running it especially on the edge. With the rapid development of sensor technology (to provide more insights into the system) and machine learning (to build capable yet fast model), it is now possible to directly build a data-riven model of the battery health status using the data collected from historical battery data (being possibly local and remote) to predict local battery health status in the future accurately. Nevertheless, most data-driven methods are trained based on the local battery data and lack the ability to extract common properties, such as generations and degradation, in the life span of other remote batteries. In this paper, we utilize a Gaussian process dynamical model (GPDM) to build a data-driven model of battery health status and propose a knowledge transfer method to extract common properties in the life span of all batteries to accurately predict the battery health status with and without features extracted from the local battery. For modern benchmark problems, the proposed method outperform the state-of-the-art methods with significant margins in terms of accuracy and is able to accuracy predict the regeneration process.

Experience management is an emerging business area where organizations focus on understanding the feedback of customers and employees in order to improve their end-to-end experiences. This results in a unique set of machine learning problems to help understand how people feel, discover issues they care about, and find which actions need to be taken on data that are different in content and distribution from traditional NLP domains. In this paper, we present a case study of building text analysis applications that perform multiple classification tasks efficiently in 12 languages in the nascent business area of experience management. In order to scale up modern ML methods on experience data, we leverage cross lingual and multi-task modeling techniques to consolidate our models into a single deployment to avoid overhead. We also make use of model compression and model distillation to reduce overall inference latency and hardware cost to the level acceptable for business needs while maintaining model prediction quality. Our findings show that multi-task modeling improves task performance for a subset of experience management tasks in both XLM-R and mBert architectures. Among the compressed architectures we explored, we found that MiniLM achieved the best compression/performance tradeoff. Our case study demonstrates a speedup of up to 15.61x with 2.60% average task degradation (or 3.29x speedup with 1.71% degradation) and estimated savings of 44% over using the original full-size model. These results demonstrate a successful scaling up of text classification for the challenging new area of ML for experience management.

Arbitrary style transfer (AST) transfers arbitrary artistic styles onto content images. Despite the recent rapid progress, existing AST methods are either incapable or too slow to run at ultra-resolutions (e.g., 4K) with limited resources, which heavily hinders their further applications. In this paper, we tackle this dilemma by learning a straightforward and lightweight model, dubbed MicroAST. The key insight is to completely abandon the use of cumbersome pre-trained Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (e.g., VGG) at inference. Instead, we design two micro encoders (content and style encoders) and one micro decoder for style transfer. The content encoder aims at extracting the main structure of the content image. The style encoder, coupled with a modulator, encodes the style image into learnable dual-modulation signals that modulate both intermediate features and convolutional filters of the decoder, thus injecting more sophisticated and flexible style signals to guide the stylizations. In addition, to boost the ability of the style encoder to extract more distinct and representative style signals, we also introduce a new style signal contrastive loss in our model. Compared to the state of the art, our MicroAST not only produces visually superior results but also is 5-73 times smaller and 6-18 times faster, for the first time enabling super-fast (about 0.5 seconds) AST at 4K ultra-resolutions. Code is available at https://github.com/EndyWon/MicroAST.

尽管条件变异自动编码器（CVAE）模型比传统的SEQ2SEQ模型可以产生更多的多样化响应，但响应通常与输入词的相关性低或与问题不合逻辑。进行因果分析以研究背后的原因，并提供了一种寻找调解人并减轻对话中混杂偏见的方法。具体而言，我们建议预测调解人，以保留相关信息，并自动将调解人纳入生成过程中。此外，动态主题图指导条件变异自动编码器（TGG-CVAE）模型用于补充语义空间并减少响应中的混杂偏置。广泛的实验表明，所提出的模型能够产生相关和信息性的响应，并且在自动指标和人类评估方面优于最先进的响应。

动机，情感和行动是人类活动中相关的基本因素。尽管长期以来一直认为动机和情感是探索人们如何在人类活动中采取行动的核心，但几乎没有研究支持分析人类精神状态与行动之间的关系。我们介绍了第一项研究，该研究研究了基于语言的人类活动中建模动机，情感和行动的生存能力，即逗号（人类活动的认知框架）。在逗号的指导下，我们定义了三个自然语言处理任务（情感理解，动机理解和有条件的动作生成），并通过自动从故事常识中提取样本来建立一个具有挑战性的数据集冰雹。 NLP应用程序的实验结果证明了建模关系的有效性。此外，与现有方法相比，受逗号启发的模型可以更好地揭示动机，情感和行动之间的基本关系。

现有的二进制神经网络（BNN）主要在具有二进制功能的局部卷积上运作。但是，这种简单的位操作缺乏建模上下文依赖性的能力，这对于学习视觉模型中的歧视性深度表示至关重要。在这项工作中，我们通过介绍二进制神经模块的新设计来解决这个问题，这使BNN能够学习有效的上下文依赖性。首先，我们建议二进制多层感知器（MLP）块作为二进制卷积块的替代方案，以直接建模上下文依赖性。短距离和远程特征依赖性均由二进制MLP建模，其中前者提供局部电感偏置，后者在二元卷积中有限的接受场有限。其次，为了提高具有上下文依赖性的二进制模型的鲁棒性，我们计算上下文动态嵌入，以确定一般二进制卷积块中的二进化阈值。用我们的二进制MLP块和改进的二进制卷积，我们用明确的上下文依赖性建模构建了BNN，称为BCDNET。在标准Imagenet-1K分类基准上，BCDNET可实现72.3％的TOP-1准确性，并且优于领先的二进制方法的差距很大。尤其是，提出的BCDNET超过了最新的ReactNet-A，具有相似操作的2.9％TOP-1准确性。我们的代码可从https://github.com/sense-gvt/bcdn获得

最近的研究表明，通用风格转移的成功取得了巨大的成功，将任意视觉样式转移到内容图像中。但是，现有的方法遭受了审美的非现实主义问题，该问题引入了不和谐的模式和明显的人工制品，从而使结果很容易从真实的绘画中发现。为了解决这一限制，我们提出了一种新颖的美学增强风格转移方法，可以在美学上为任意风格产生更现实和令人愉悦的结果。具体而言，我们的方法引入了一种审美歧视者，以从大量的艺术家创造的绘画中学习通用的人类自愿美学特征。然后，合并了美学特征，以通过新颖的美学感知样式（AESSA）模块来增强样式转移过程。这样的AESSA模块使我们的Aesust能够根据样式图像的全局美学通道分布和内容图像的局部语义空间分布有效而灵活地集成样式模式。此外，我们还开发了一种新的两阶段转移培训策略，并通过两种审美正规化来更有效地训练我们的模型，从而进一步改善风格化的性能。广泛的实验和用户研究表明，我们的方法比艺术的状态综合了美学上更加和谐和现实的结果，从而大大缩小了真正的艺术家创造的绘画的差异。我们的代码可在https://github.com/endywon/aesust上找到。