In dense image segmentation tasks (e.g., semantic, panoptic), existing methods can hardly generalize well to unseen image domains, predefined classes, and image resolution & quality variations. Motivated by these observations, we construct a large-scale entity segmentation dataset to explore fine-grained entity segmentation, with a strong focus on open-world and high-quality dense segmentation. The dataset contains images spanning diverse image domains and resolutions, along with high-quality mask annotations for training and testing. Given the high-quality and -resolution nature of the dataset, we propose CropFormer for high-quality segmentation, which can improve mask prediction using high-res image crops that provide more fine-grained image details than the full image. CropFormer is the first query-based Transformer architecture that can effectively ensemble mask predictions from multiple image crops, by learning queries that can associate the same entities across the full image and its crop. With CropFormer, we achieve a significant AP gain of $1.9$ on the challenging fine-grained entity segmentation task. The dataset and code will be released at http://luqi.info/entityv2.github.io/.

Headline generation is a task of generating an appropriate headline for a given article, which can be further used for machine-aided writing or enhancing the click-through ratio. Current works only use the article itself in the generation, but have not taken the writing style of headlines into consideration. In this paper, we propose a novel Seq2Seq model called CLH3G (Contrastive Learning enhanced Historical Headlines based Headline Generation) which can use the historical headlines of the articles that the author wrote in the past to improve the headline generation of current articles. By taking historical headlines into account, we can integrate the stylistic features of the author into our model, and generate a headline not only appropriate for the article, but also consistent with the author's style. In order to efficiently learn the stylistic features of the author, we further introduce a contrastive learning based auxiliary task for the encoder of our model. Besides, we propose two methods to use the learned stylistic features to guide both the pointer and the decoder during the generation. Experimental results show that historical headlines of the same user can improve the headline generation significantly, and both the contrastive learning module and the two style features fusion methods can further boost the performance.

在本文中，我们提出了一种基于排名的水下图像质量评估（UIQA）方法，该方法缩写为Uranker。乌兰克（Uranker）建立在高效的注意力图像变压器上。在水下图像方面，我们特别设计（1）直方图嵌入了水下图像作为直方图表的颜色分布以参加全局降解，以及（2）与模型局部降解的动态跨尺度对应关系。最终预测取决于不同量表的类代币，该标记是全面考虑多尺度依赖性的。随着保证金排名损失，我们的乌员可以根据其视觉质量通过不同的水下图像增强（UIE）算法来准确对同一场景的水下图像的顺序进行排名。为此，我们还贡献了一个数据集，即Urankerset，其中包含不同的UIE算法和相应的感知排名增强的足够结果，以训练我们的uranker。除了Uranker的良好表现外，我们发现一个简单的U-Shape UIE网络与我们的预训练的Uranker相结合时可以获得有希望的性能。此外，我们还提出了一个标准化尾巴，可以显着提高UIE网络的性能。广泛的实验证明了我们方法的最新性能。讨论了我们方法的关键设计。我们将发布我们的数据集和代码。

开创性双编码器预训练工作（例如，剪辑并对齐）揭示了与对比学习对齐多模态表示的潜力。然而，这些作品需要大量的数据和计算资源（例如，十亿级Web数据和数百个GPU），这阻止了从再生产和进一步探索的资源有限的研究人员。为此，我们探讨了一堆简单但有效的启发式，并提供了全面的培训指导，使我们能够与有限的资源进行双编码器多模态表示对齐。我们为竞争结果提供可重复的强大基线，即Zerovl，只有1400万公共访问的学术数据集和8 v100 GPU。此外，我们收集100米Web数据进行预培训，而不是最先进的方法实现可比或优越的结果，进一步证明了我们对大规模数据的方法的有效性。我们希望这项工作将为多模态预培训的未来研究提供有用的数据点和经验。我们的代码和预先训练的型号将被释放，以促进研究界。

为了提高实例级别检测/分割性能，现有的自我监督和半监督方法从未标记的数据提取非常任务 - 无关或非常任务特定的训练信号。我们认为这两种方法在任务特异性频谱的两端是任务性能的次优。利用太少的任务特定的培训信号导致底下地区任务的地面真理标签导致磨损，而相反的原因会在地面真理标签上过度装修。为此，我们提出了一种新的类别无关的半监督预测（CASP）框架，在提取来自未标记数据的训练信号中实现更有利的任务特异性平衡。与半监督学习相比，CASP通过忽略伪标签中的类信息并具有仅使用任务 - 不相关的未标记数据的单独预先预订阶段来减少训练信号的任务特异性。另一方面，CASP通过利用盒子/面具级伪标签来保留适量的任务特异性。因此，我们的预磨模模型可以更好地避免在下游任务上的FineTuned时避免在地面真理标签上抵抗/过度拟合。使用3.6M未标记的数据，我们在对象检测上实现了4.7％的显着性能增益。我们的预制模型还展示了对其他检测和分割任务/框架的优异可转移性。

尽管概念化已经在语义和知识表示中进行了广泛研究，但找到最准确的概念短语来表征在快速增长的社交媒体上表征文本片段的主要思想仍然具有挑战性。这部分归因于以下事实：大多数知识库都包含世界的一般术语，例如树木和汽车，它们没有定义的力量或对社交媒体应用程序用户不够有趣。另一个原因是，自然语言的复杂性允许使用时态，否定和语法改变语言的逻辑或重点，从而传达了完全不同的含义。在本文中，我们提出了标签，这是一个高质量的概念匹配的数据集，该数据集由10,000个标记的精细概念和网络风格的自然语言句子组成，并从开放域社交媒体中挖出。我们考虑的概念代表了在线用户的趋势兴趣。与标签相关的是这些细粒度概念和实体的概念图，以提供结构上下文信息。我们在标签上评估了广泛的流行神经文本匹配模型以及预先训练的语言模型，并指出他们以最合适的概念标记社交媒体内容的不足。我们进一步提出了一种新颖的图形匹配方法，该方法通过更好地利用概念图中的结构上下文和句子中语义单元之间的逻辑相互作用在句子中通过句法依赖性解析来展示出色的抽象和概括性能。我们开源标签数据集和提出进一步研究的建议方法。

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains challenging due to the diversity of distortion and image content variation, which complicate the distortion patterns crossing different scales and aggravate the difficulty of the regression problem for BIQA. However, existing BIQA methods often fail to consider multi-scale distortion patterns and image content, and little research has been done on learning strategies to make the regression model produce better performance. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective Progressive Multi-Task Image Quality Assessment (PMT-IQA) model, which contains a multi-scale feature extraction module (MS) and a progressive multi-task learning module (PMT), to help the model learn complex distortion patterns and better optimize the regression issue to align with the law of human learning process from easy to hard. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed PMT-IQA model, we conduct experiments on four widely used public datasets, and the experimental results indicate that the performance of PMT-IQA is superior to the comparison approaches, and both MS and PMT modules improve the model's performance.

It has been observed in practice that applying pruning-at-initialization methods to neural networks and training the sparsified networks can not only retain the testing performance of the original dense models, but also sometimes even slightly boost the generalization performance. Theoretical understanding for such experimental observations are yet to be developed. This work makes the first attempt to study how different pruning fractions affect the model's gradient descent dynamics and generalization. Specifically, this work considers a classification task for overparameterized two-layer neural networks, where the network is randomly pruned according to different rates at the initialization. It is shown that as long as the pruning fraction is below a certain threshold, gradient descent can drive the training loss toward zero and the network exhibits good generalization performance. More surprisingly, the generalization bound gets better as the pruning fraction gets larger. To complement this positive result, this work further shows a negative result: there exists a large pruning fraction such that while gradient descent is still able to drive the training loss toward zero (by memorizing noise), the generalization performance is no better than random guessing. This further suggests that pruning can change the feature learning process, which leads to the performance drop of the pruned neural network. Up to our knowledge, this is the \textbf{first} generalization result for pruned neural networks, suggesting that pruning can improve the neural network's generalization.

Recent investigations on rotation invariance for 3D point clouds have been devoted to devising rotation-invariant feature descriptors or learning canonical spaces where objects are semantically aligned. Examinations of learning frameworks for invariance have seldom been looked into. In this work, we review rotation invariance in terms of point cloud registration and propose an effective framework for rotation invariance learning via three sequential stages, namely rotation-invariant shape encoding, aligned feature integration, and deep feature registration. We first encode shape descriptors constructed with respect to reference frames defined over different scales, e.g., local patches and global topology, to generate rotation-invariant latent shape codes. Within the integration stage, we propose Aligned Integration Transformer to produce a discriminative feature representation by integrating point-wise self- and cross-relations established within the shape codes. Meanwhile, we adopt rigid transformations between reference frames to align the shape codes for feature consistency across different scales. Finally, the deep integrated feature is registered to both rotation-invariant shape codes to maximize feature similarities, such that rotation invariance of the integrated feature is preserved and shared semantic information is implicitly extracted from shape codes. Experimental results on 3D shape classification, part segmentation, and retrieval tasks prove the feasibility of our work. Our project page is released at: https://rotation3d.github.io/.

Time-series anomaly detection is an important task and has been widely applied in the industry. Since manual data annotation is expensive and inefficient, most applications adopt unsupervised anomaly detection methods, but the results are usually sub-optimal and unsatisfactory to end customers. Weak supervision is a promising paradigm for obtaining considerable labels in a low-cost way, which enables the customers to label data by writing heuristic rules rather than annotating each instance individually. However, in the time-series domain, it is hard for people to write reasonable labeling functions as the time-series data is numerically continuous and difficult to be understood. In this paper, we propose a Label-Efficient Interactive Time-Series Anomaly Detection (LEIAD) system, which enables a user to improve the results of unsupervised anomaly detection by performing only a small amount of interactions with the system. To achieve this goal, the system integrates weak supervision and active learning collaboratively while generating labeling functions automatically using only a few labeled data. All of these techniques are complementary and can promote each other in a reinforced manner. We conduct experiments on three time-series anomaly detection datasets, demonstrating that the proposed system is superior to existing solutions in both weak supervision and active learning areas. Also, the system has been tested in a real scenario in industry to show its practicality.