Air pollution is a crucial issue affecting human health and livelihoods, as well as one of the barriers to economic and social growth. Forecasting air quality has become an increasingly important endeavor with significant social impacts, especially in emerging countries like China. In this paper, we present a novel Transformer architecture termed AirFormer to collectively predict nationwide air quality in China, with an unprecedented fine spatial granularity covering thousands of locations. AirFormer decouples the learning process into two stages -- 1) a bottom-up deterministic stage that contains two new types of self-attention mechanisms to efficiently learn spatio-temporal representations; 2) a top-down stochastic stage with latent variables to capture the intrinsic uncertainty of air quality data. We evaluate AirFormer with 4-year data from 1,085 stations in the Chinese Mainland. Compared to the state-of-the-art model, AirFormer reduces prediction errors by 5%~8% on 72-hour future predictions. Our source code is available at https://github.com/yoshall/airformer.

近年来，随着新颖的策略和应用，神经网络一直在迅速扩展。然而，尽管不可避免地会针对关键应用程序来解决这些挑战，例如神经网络技术诸如神经网络技术中仍未解决诸如神经网络技术的挑战。已经尝试通过用符号表示来表示和嵌入域知识来克服神经网络计算中的挑战。因此，出现了神经符号学习（Nesyl）概念，其中结合了符号表示的各个方面，并将常识带入神经网络（Nesyl）。在可解释性，推理和解释性至关重要的领域中，例如视频和图像字幕，提问和推理，健康信息学和基因组学，Nesyl表现出了有希望的结果。这篇综述介绍了一项有关最先进的Nesyl方法的全面调查，其原理，机器和深度学习算法的进步，诸如Opthalmology之类的应用以及最重要的是该新兴领域的未来观点。

视频文本检索一直是多模式研究中的至关重要和基本任务。大型多模式对比预训练的发展，视频文本检索的开发已大大促进，这主要侧重于粗粒或细粒对比。然而，在先前的研究中很少探索过跨粒度的对比，这是粗粒表示和细粒度表示之间的对比。与细粒度或粗粒的对比相比，交叉粒度对比度计算了粗粒粒度特征与每个细粒特征之间的相关性，并且能够过滤出不必要的细颗粒特征，这些特征由粗粒度的特征引导相似性计算，从而提高了检索的准确性。为此，本文提出了一种新型的多透明对比模型，即X-CLIP，用于视频文本检索。但是，另一个挑战在于相似性聚集问题，该问题旨在将细粒度和跨粒度相似性矩阵与实例级别的相似性汇总。为了应对这一挑战，我们提出了对相似性矩阵（AOSM）模块的关注，以使模型重点放在基本帧和单词之间的对比度上，从而降低了不必要的帧和单词对检索结果的影响。 X-CLIP具有多透明的对比度和提议的AOSM模块，在五个广泛使用的视频文本检索数据集上取得了出色的性能，包括MSR-VTT（49.3 R@1），MSVD（50.4 R@1），LSMDC（26.11）（26.1 r@1），didemo（47.8 r@1）和ActivityNet（46.2 r@1）。它的表现优于先前的最先前， +6.3％， +6.6％， +11.1％， +6.7％， +3.8％的相对改善对这些基准测试，这表明了多透明的对比度和AOSM的优势。

3D可线模型（3DMMS）是面部形状和外观的生成模型。然而，传统3DMMS的形状参数满足多变量高斯分布，而嵌入式嵌入满足过边距分布，并且这种冲突使得面部重建模型同时保持忠诚度和形状一致性的挑战。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一种用于单眼脸部重建的新型3DMM的球体面部模型（SFM），这可以保持既有忠诚度和身份一致性。我们的SFM的核心是可以用于重建3D面形状的基矩阵，并且通过采用在第一和第二阶段中使用3D和2D训练数据的两级训练方法来学习基本矩阵。为了解决分发不匹配，我们设计一种新的损失，使形状参数具有超球的潜在空间。广泛的实验表明，SFM具有高表示能力和形状参数空间的聚类性能。此外，它产生富翼面形状，并且形状在单眼性重建中的挑战条件下是一致的。

许多最近的作品通过基于参数模型聚集了相同的身份的形状参数并将不同人的形状参数聚集在一起（例如，3D可变模型（3DMMS））来重建独特的3D面形状。然而，尽管使用这些形状参数的面部识别任务中的高精度，但是从那些参数重建的面部形状的视觉辨别是不令人满意的。以下研究尚未回答以下研究问题：做差异的形状参数保证所代表的3D面形状的视觉歧视吗？本文分析了形状参数与重建形状几何之间的关系，提出了一种新颖的形状相同感知正则化（SIR）损耗的形状参数，旨在增加形状参数和形状几何域中的辨别性。此外，为了应对包含地标和身份注释的缺乏培训数据，我们提出了一种网络结构和相关的培训策略，以利用包含身份或地标标签的混合数据。我们将我们的方法与现有方法进行比较重建误差，视觉区分性和形状参数的面部识别准确性。实验结果表明，我们的方法优于最先进的方法。

诸如纠缠和连贯性的量子属性是各种量子信息处理任务中的不可或缺的资源。然而，仍然缺乏有效和可扩展的方法来检测这些有用的特征，特别是对于高维和多分钟量子系统。在这项工作中，我们利用样品的凸性，没有所需的量子特征，并设计无监督的机器学习方法，以检测异常等特征的存在。特别是，在纠缠检测的背景下，我们提出了一种由伪暹罗网络和生成的对抗网组成的复合性神经网络，然后仅使用可分离状态培训，以构建非线性证人来纠缠的纠缠。通过数值示例显示，从两种时序到十个QUB比特系统，我们的网络能够实现高于97.5％的高检测精度.ORORE，它能够揭示富有的缠结结构，例如子系统中的部分纠缠。我们的结果是随时适用于检测其他量子资源，如Bell Nonelocity和Steravency，因此我们的工作可以提供强大的工具，以提取隐藏在多分钟量子数据中的量子特征。

Nine language-vision AI models trained on web scrapes with the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) objective are evaluated for evidence of a bias studied by psychologists: the sexual objectification of girls and women, which occurs when a person's human characteristics are disregarded and the person is treated as a body or a collection of body parts. A first experiment uses standardized images of women from the Sexual OBjectification and EMotion Database, and finds that, commensurate with prior research in psychology, human characteristics are disassociated from images of objectified women: the model's recognition of emotional state is mediated by whether the subject is fully or partially clothed. Embedding association tests (EATs) return significant effect sizes for both anger (d >.8) and sadness (d >.5). A second experiment measures the effect in a representative application: an automatic image captioner (Antarctic Captions) includes words denoting emotion less than 50% as often for images of partially clothed women than for images of fully clothed women. A third experiment finds that images of female professionals (scientists, doctors, executives) are likely to be associated with sexual descriptions relative to images of male professionals. A fourth experiment shows that a prompt of "a [age] year old girl" generates sexualized images (as determined by an NSFW classifier) up to 73% of the time for VQGAN-CLIP (age 17), and up to 40% of the time for Stable Diffusion (ages 14 and 18); the corresponding rate for boys never surpasses 9%. The evidence indicates that language-vision AI models trained on automatically collected web scrapes learn biases of sexual objectification, which propagate to downstream applications.

Recently, a large number of tuning strategies have been proposed to adapt pre-trained language models to downstream tasks. In this paper, we perform an extensive empirical evaluation of various tuning strategies for multilingual learning, particularly in the context of text summarization. Specifically, we explore the relative advantages of three families of multilingual tuning strategies (a total of five models) and empirically evaluate them for summarization over 45 languages. Experimentally, we not only established a new state-of-the-art on the XL-Sum dataset but also derive a series of observations that hopefully can provide hints for future research on the design of multilingual tuning strategies.

Modern embedding-based metrics for evaluation of generated text generally fall into one of two paradigms: discriminative metrics that are trained to directly predict which outputs are of higher quality according to supervised human annotations, and generative metrics that are trained to evaluate text based on the probabilities of a generative model. Both have their advantages; discriminative metrics are able to directly optimize for the problem of distinguishing between good and bad outputs, while generative metrics can be trained using abundant raw text. In this paper, we present a framework that combines the best of both worlds, using both supervised and unsupervised signals from whatever data we have available. We operationalize this idea by training T5Score, a metric that uses these training signals with mT5 as the backbone. We perform an extensive empirical comparison with other existing metrics on 5 datasets, 19 languages and 280 systems, demonstrating the utility of our method. Experimental results show that: T5Score achieves the best performance on all datasets against existing top-scoring metrics at the segment level. We release our code and models at https://github.com/qinyiwei/T5Score.

Conditional variational models, using either continuous or discrete latent variables, are powerful for open-domain dialogue response generation. However, previous works show that continuous latent variables tend to reduce the coherence of generated responses. In this paper, we also found that discrete latent variables have difficulty capturing more diverse expressions. To tackle these problems, we combine the merits of both continuous and discrete latent variables and propose a Hybrid Latent Variable (HLV) method. Specifically, HLV constrains the global semantics of responses through discrete latent variables and enriches responses with continuous latent variables. Thus, we diversify the generated responses while maintaining relevance and coherence. In addition, we propose Conditional Hybrid Variational Transformer (CHVT) to construct and to utilize HLV with transformers for dialogue generation. Through fine-grained symbolic-level semantic information and additive Gaussian mixing, we construct the distribution of continuous variables, prompting the generation of diverse expressions. Meanwhile, to maintain the relevance and coherence, the discrete latent variable is optimized by self-separation training. Experimental results on two dialogue generation datasets (DailyDialog and Opensubtitles) show that CHVT is superior to traditional transformer-based variational mechanism w.r.t. diversity, relevance and coherence metrics. Moreover, we also demonstrate the benefit of applying HLV to fine-tuning two pre-trained dialogue models (PLATO and BART-base).