许多实际问题可以作为两种几何模式之间的对齐方式提出。以前，大量研究集中于计算机视觉领域中2D或3D模式的对齐。最近，高维度的对齐问题在实践中发现了一些新的应用。但是，该研究在算法方面仍然相当有限。据我们所知，大多数现有的方法只是对2D和3D案例的简单扩展，并且经常遭受诸如高计算复杂性之类的问题。在本文中，我们提出了一个有效的框架来压缩高维几何模式。任何现有的比对方法都可以应用于压缩的几何模式，并且可以大大降低时间复杂性。我们的想法的灵感来自观察到高维数据通常具有较低的内在维度。我们的框架是一种“数据依赖性”方法，其复杂性取决于输入数据的内在维度。我们的实验结果表明，与原始模式的结果相比，在压缩模式上运行对齐算法可以达到相似的质量，但是运行时间（包括压缩的时间成本）大大降低。

随着视频数量的越来越多，对技术的需求很大，可以帮助人们迅速导航到他们感兴趣的视频片段。但是，当前的视频理解主要理解主要是视频内容摘要，而几乎没有努力，而对探索视频的结构。受文本轮廓生成的启发，我们介绍了一项新颖的视频理解任务，即视频大纲生成（VOG）。该任务定义为包含两个子任务：（1）首先根据内容结构对视频进行分割，然后（2）为每个段生成一个标题。要学习和评估VOG，我们注释了一个10K+数据集，称为Duvog。具体来说，我们使用OCR工具来识别视频的字幕。然后，要求注释者将字幕分为章节，并将每个章节分为标题。在视频中，突出显示的文本往往是标题，因为它更有可能引起人们的注意。因此，我们提出了一个视觉字幕功能增强的视频大纲生成模型（VSENET），该模型将文本字幕及其视觉字体大小和位置作为输入。我们将VOG任务视为一个序列标记问题，该问题提取了跨标题的位置，然后将其重写以形成最终大纲。此外，基于视频概述和文本概述之间的相似性，我们使用大量文章带有章节标题来预先我们的模型。 Duvog上的实验表明，我们的模型在很大程度上胜过其他基线方法，对于视频分割水平达到了77.1的F1得分，对于标题生成级别的Rouge-L_F0.5的85.0。

机器学习中出现的广泛优化问题可以通过梯度下降算法来解决，并且该领域的核心问题是如何有效地压缩大规模数据集，以降低计算复杂性。 {\ em coreset}是一种流行的数据压缩技术，以前已经过广泛研究过。然而，大多数现有的Coreset方法都是问题依赖性的，不能用作更广泛的应用程序的常规工具。关键障碍物是它们经常依赖于伪尺寸和可以非常高或难以获得的总敏感性。在本文中，基于梯度下降算法的“地方性”属性，我们提出了一个新的框架，被称为“顺序Coreset”'，其有效地避免了这些障碍。此外，我们的方法特别适用于稀疏优化，因此电气尺寸可以进一步减少，仅减少到尺寸的多对数上。在实践中，实验结果表明，与基线算法相比，我们的方法可以节省大量的运行时间。

时间序列的建模在各种应用中变得越来越重要。总体而言，数据通过遵循不同的模式而演变，这些模式通常是由不同的用户行为引起的。给定时间序列，我们定义了进化基因以捕获潜在用户行为，并描述行为如何导致时间序列的产生。特别是，我们提出了一个统一的框架，该框架通过学习分类器来识别片段的不同演化基因，并通过估计片段的分布来实现对抗发电机来实现进化基因。基于合成数据集和五个现实世界数据集的实验结果表明，我们的方法不仅可以实现良好的预测结果（例如，在F1方面 +10.56％），还可以提供结果的解释。

Recently, great progress has been made in single-image super-resolution (SISR) based on deep learning technology. However, the existing methods usually require a large computational cost. Meanwhile, the activation function will cause some features of the intermediate layer to be lost. Therefore, it is a challenge to make the model lightweight while reducing the impact of intermediate feature loss on the reconstruction quality. In this paper, we propose a Feature Interaction Weighted Hybrid Network (FIWHN) to alleviate the above problem. Specifically, FIWHN consists of a series of novel Wide-residual Distillation Interaction Blocks (WDIB) as the backbone, where every third WDIBs form a Feature shuffle Weighted Group (FSWG) by mutual information mixing and fusion. In addition, to mitigate the adverse effects of intermediate feature loss on the reconstruction results, we introduced a well-designed Wide Convolutional Residual Weighting (WCRW) and Wide Identical Residual Weighting (WIRW) units in WDIB, and effectively cross-fused features of different finenesses through a Wide-residual Distillation Connection (WRDC) framework and a Self-Calibrating Fusion (SCF) unit. Finally, to complement the global features lacking in the CNN model, we introduced the Transformer into our model and explored a new way of combining the CNN and Transformer. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments on low-level and high-level tasks show that our proposed FIWHN can achieve a good balance between performance and efficiency, and is more conducive to downstream tasks to solve problems in low-pixel scenarios.

In this paper, we study the use of deep Transformer translation model for the CCMT 2022 Chinese-Thai low-resource machine translation task. We first explore the experiment settings (including the number of BPE merge operations, dropout probability, embedding size, etc.) for the low-resource scenario with the 6-layer Transformer. Considering that increasing the number of layers also increases the regularization on new model parameters (dropout modules are also introduced when using more layers), we adopt the highest performance setting but increase the depth of the Transformer to 24 layers to obtain improved translation quality. Our work obtains the SOTA performance in the Chinese-to-Thai translation in the constrained evaluation.

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (c-MARL) is widely applied in safety-critical scenarios, thus the analysis of robustness for c-MARL models is profoundly important. However, robustness certification for c-MARLs has not yet been explored in the community. In this paper, we propose a novel certification method, which is the first work to leverage a scalable approach for c-MARLs to determine actions with guaranteed certified bounds. c-MARL certification poses two key challenges compared with single-agent systems: (i) the accumulated uncertainty as the number of agents increases; (ii) the potential lack of impact when changing the action of a single agent into a global team reward. These challenges prevent us from directly using existing algorithms. Hence, we employ the false discovery rate (FDR) controlling procedure considering the importance of each agent to certify per-state robustness and propose a tree-search-based algorithm to find a lower bound of the global reward under the minimal certified perturbation. As our method is general, it can also be applied in single-agent environments. We empirically show that our certification bounds are much tighter than state-of-the-art RL certification solutions. We also run experiments on two popular c-MARL algorithms: QMIX and VDN, in two different environments, with two and four agents. The experimental results show that our method produces meaningful guaranteed robustness for all models and environments. Our tool CertifyCMARL is available at https://github.com/TrustAI/CertifyCMA

Supervised approaches generally rely on majority-based labels. However, it is hard to achieve high agreement among annotators in subjective tasks such as hate speech detection. Existing neural network models principally regard labels as categorical variables, while ignoring the semantic information in diverse label texts. In this paper, we propose AnnoBERT, a first-of-its-kind architecture integrating annotator characteristics and label text with a transformer-based model to detect hate speech, with unique representations based on each annotator's characteristics via Collaborative Topic Regression (CTR) and integrate label text to enrich textual representations. During training, the model associates annotators with their label choices given a piece of text; during evaluation, when label information is not available, the model predicts the aggregated label given by the participating annotators by utilising the learnt association. The proposed approach displayed an advantage in detecting hate speech, especially in the minority class and edge cases with annotator disagreement. Improvement in the overall performance is the largest when the dataset is more label-imbalanced, suggesting its practical value in identifying real-world hate speech, as the volume of hate speech in-the-wild is extremely small on social media, when compared with normal (non-hate) speech. Through ablation studies, we show the relative contributions of annotator embeddings and label text to the model performance, and tested a range of alternative annotator embeddings and label text combinations.

Conversational text-to-SQL is designed to translate multi-turn natural language questions into their corresponding SQL queries. Most state-of-the-art conversational text- to-SQL methods are incompatible with generative pre-trained language models (PLMs), such as T5. In this paper, we present a two-stage unified MultI-task Generation frAmework (MIGA) that leverages PLMs' ability to tackle conversational text-to-SQL. In the pre-training stage, MIGA first decomposes the main task into several related sub-tasks and then unifies them into the same sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) paradigm with task-specific natural language prompts to boost the main task from multi-task training. Later in the fine-tuning stage, we propose four SQL perturbations to alleviate the error propagation problem. MIGA tends to achieve state-of-the-art performance on two benchmarks (SparC and CoSQL). We also provide extensive analyses and discussions to shed light on some new perspectives for conversational text-to-SQL.

We propose JFP, a Joint Future Prediction model that can learn to generate accurate and consistent multi-agent future trajectories. For this task, many different methods have been proposed to capture social interactions in the encoding part of the model, however, considerably less focus has been placed on representing interactions in the decoder and output stages. As a result, the predicted trajectories are not necessarily consistent with each other, and often result in unrealistic trajectory overlaps. In contrast, we propose an end-to-end trainable model that learns directly the interaction between pairs of agents in a structured, graphical model formulation in order to generate consistent future trajectories. It sets new state-of-the-art results on Waymo Open Motion Dataset (WOMD) for the interactive setting. We also investigate a more complex multi-agent setting for both WOMD and a larger internal dataset, where our approach improves significantly on the trajectory overlap metrics while obtaining on-par or better performance on single-agent trajectory metrics.