在过去几十年中，功能选择吸引了很多关注，因为它可以降低数据维度，同时保持功能的原始物理含义，这比功能提取可以更好地解释性。但是，大多数现有的功能选择方法，尤其是基于深度学习的方法，通常集中在仅具有很高分数的功能上，但忽略了那些在训练过程中得分较低的人以及重要的候选功能的顺序。这可能是有风险的，因为不幸的是，在培训过程中可能会忽略一些重要和相关的功能，从而导致次优的解决方案或误导性选择。在我们的工作中，我们通过利用较少重要性分数的功能来处理功能选择，并根据新颖的互补功能掩码提出功能选择框架。我们的方法是通用的，可以轻松地集成到现有的基于深度学习的特征选择方法中，以提高其性能。实验是在基准数据集上进行的，并表明所提出的方法可以选择比艺术状态更具代表性和信息性的特征。

肾脏结构细分是计算机辅助诊断基于手术的肾癌的至关重要但具有挑战性的任务。尽管许多深度学习模型在许多医学图像分割任务中取得了显着的成功，但由于肾脏肿瘤的尺寸可变，肾脏肿瘤及其周围环境之间的歧义范围可变，因此对计算机层析造影血管造影（CTA）图像的肾脏结构的准确分割仍然具有挑战性。 。在本文中，我们在CTA扫描中提出了一个边界感知网络（BA-NET），以分段肾脏，肾脏肿瘤，动脉和静脉。该模型包含共享编码器，边界解码器和分割解码器。两个解码器都采用了多尺度的深度监督策略，这可以减轻肿瘤大小可变的问题。边界解码器在每个量表上产生的边界概率图被用作提高分割特征图的注意。我们在肾脏解析（KIPA）挑战数据集上评估了BA-NET，并通过使用4倍的交叉验证来实现CTA扫描的肾脏结构细分的平均骰子得分为89.65 $ \％$。结果证明了BA-NET的有效性。

在后硅验证中，调整是为了找到调整旋钮的值，这可能是过程参数和/或已知操作条件的函数。从这个意义上讲，更有效的调整需要根据测试的设备（DUT）来确定最关键的调整旋钮和过程参数。这通常是由经验丰富的专家手动进行的。但是，随着越来越复杂的芯片，对大量原始变量的手动检查变得更具挑战性。在这项工作中，我们利用神经网络有效地选择最相关的变量，并呈现相应的深学习辅助管道进行有效的调整。

智能测试需要大规模的高维数据有效分析。传统上，该分析通常由人类专家进行，但在大数据时代不可扩展。为了应对这一挑战，最近将可变选择引入了智能测试。但是，在实践中，我们遇到的方案在变量选择后必须保持某些变量（例如，测试设备的某些特定处理条件）。我们称此条件变量选择为嵌入式或深度学习的变量选择方法尚未得到很好的研究。在本文中，我们讨论了一个新颖的条件变量选择框架，该框架可以选择一组预选变量，可以选择最重要的候选变量。

Interview has been regarded as one of the most crucial step for recruitment. To fully prepare for the interview with the recruiters, job seekers usually practice with mock interviews between each other. However, such a mock interview with peers is generally far away from the real interview experience: the mock interviewers are not guaranteed to be professional and are not likely to behave like a real interviewer. Due to the rapid growth of online recruitment in recent years, recruiters tend to have online interviews, which makes it possible to collect real interview data from real interviewers. In this paper, we propose a novel application named EZInterviewer, which aims to learn from the online interview data and provides mock interview services to the job seekers. The task is challenging in two ways: (1) the interview data are now available but still of low-resource; (2) to generate meaningful and relevant interview dialogs requires thorough understanding of both resumes and job descriptions. To address the low-resource challenge, EZInterviewer is trained on a very small set of interview dialogs. The key idea is to reduce the number of parameters that rely on interview dialogs by disentangling the knowledge selector and dialog generator so that most parameters can be trained with ungrounded dialogs as well as the resume data that are not low-resource. Evaluation results on a real-world job interview dialog dataset indicate that we achieve promising results to generate mock interviews. With the help of EZInterviewer, we hope to make mock interview practice become easier for job seekers.

General nonlinear sieve learnings are classes of nonlinear sieves that can approximate nonlinear functions of high dimensional variables much more flexibly than various linear sieves (or series). This paper considers general nonlinear sieve quasi-likelihood ratio (GN-QLR) based inference on expectation functionals of time series data, where the functionals of interest are based on some nonparametric function that satisfy conditional moment restrictions and are learned using multilayer neural networks. While the asymptotic normality of the estimated functionals depends on some unknown Riesz representer of the functional space, we show that the optimally weighted GN-QLR statistic is asymptotically Chi-square distributed, regardless whether the expectation functional is regular (root-$n$ estimable) or not. This holds when the data are weakly dependent beta-mixing condition. We apply our method to the off-policy evaluation in reinforcement learning, by formulating the Bellman equation into the conditional moment restriction framework, so that we can make inference about the state-specific value functional using the proposed GN-QLR method with time series data. In addition, estimating the averaged partial means and averaged partial derivatives of nonparametric instrumental variables and quantile IV models are also presented as leading examples. Finally, a Monte Carlo study shows the finite sample performance of the procedure

This paper presents a safety-critical locomotion control framework for quadrupedal robots. Our goal is to enable quadrupedal robots to safely navigate in cluttered environments. To tackle this, we introduce exponential Discrete Control Barrier Functions (exponential DCBFs) with duality-based obstacle avoidance constraints into a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) with Whole-Body Control (WBC) framework for quadrupedal locomotion control. This enables us to use polytopes to describe the shapes of the robot and obstacles for collision avoidance while doing locomotion control of quadrupedal robots. Compared to most prior work, especially using CBFs, that utilize spherical and conservative approximation for obstacle avoidance, this work demonstrates a quadrupedal robot autonomously and safely navigating through very tight spaces in the real world. (Our open-source code is available at github.com/HybridRobotics/quadruped_nmpc_dcbf_duality, and the video is available at youtu.be/p1gSQjwXm1Q.)

Video semantic segmentation (VSS) is beneficial for dealing with dynamic scenes due to the continuous property of the real-world environment. On the one hand, some methods alleviate the predicted inconsistent problem between continuous frames. On the other hand, other methods employ the previous frame as the prior information to assist in segmenting the current frame. Although the previous methods achieve superior performances on the independent and identically distributed (i.i.d) data, they can not generalize well on other unseen domains. Thus, we explore a new task, the video generalizable semantic segmentation (VGSS) task that considers both continuous frames and domain generalization. In this paper, we propose a class-wise non-salient region generalized (CNSG) framework for the VGSS task. Concretely, we first define the class-wise non-salient feature, which describes features of the class-wise non-salient region that carry more generalizable information. Then, we propose a class-wise non-salient feature reasoning strategy to select and enhance the most generalized channels adaptively. Finally, we propose an inter-frame non-salient centroid alignment loss to alleviate the predicted inconsistent problem in the VGSS task. We also extend our video-based framework to the image-based generalizable semantic segmentation (IGSS) task. Experiments demonstrate that our CNSG framework yields significant improvement in the VGSS and IGSS tasks.

To facilitate research on text generation, this paper presents a comprehensive and unified library, TextBox 2.0, focusing on the use of pre-trained language models (PLMs). To be comprehensive, our library covers $13$ common text generation tasks and their corresponding $83$ datasets and further incorporates $45$ PLMs covering general, translation, Chinese, dialogue, controllable, distilled, prompting, and lightweight PLMs. We also implement $4$ efficient training strategies and provide $4$ generation objectives for pre-training new PLMs from scratch. To be unified, we design the interfaces to support the entire research pipeline (from data loading to training and evaluation), ensuring that each step can be fulfilled in a unified way. Despite the rich functionality, it is easy to use our library, either through the friendly Python API or command line. To validate the effectiveness of our library, we conduct extensive experiments and exemplify four types of research scenarios. The project is released at the link: https://github.com/RUCAIBox/TextBox.

In this paper, we improve the kernel alignment regret bound for online kernel learning in the regime of the Hinge loss function. Previous algorithm achieves a regret of $O((\mathcal{A}_TT\ln{T})^{\frac{1}{4}})$ at a computational complexity (space and per-round time) of $O(\sqrt{\mathcal{A}_TT\ln{T}})$, where $\mathcal{A}_T$ is called \textit{kernel alignment}. We propose an algorithm whose regret bound and computational complexity are better than previous results. Our results depend on the decay rate of eigenvalues of the kernel matrix. If the eigenvalues of the kernel matrix decay exponentially, then our algorithm enjoys a regret of $O(\sqrt{\mathcal{A}_T})$ at a computational complexity of $O(\ln^2{T})$. Otherwise, our algorithm enjoys a regret of $O((\mathcal{A}_TT)^{\frac{1}{4}})$ at a computational complexity of $O(\sqrt{\mathcal{A}_TT})$. We extend our algorithm to batch learning and obtain a $O(\frac{1}{T}\sqrt{\mathbb{E}[\mathcal{A}_T]})$ excess risk bound which improves the previous $O(1/\sqrt{T})$ bound.