组合推荐人（CR）系统一次在结果页面中一次将项目列表馈送给用户，其中用户行为受到上下文信息和项目的影响。 CR被称为组合优化问题，目的是最大程度地提高整个列表的建议奖励。尽管它很重要，但由于在线环境中的效率，动态和个性化要求，建立实用的CR系统仍然是一个挑战。特别是，我们将问题分为两个子问题，即列表生成和列表评估。新颖和实用的模型体系结构是为这些子问题设计的，旨在共同优化有效性和效率。为了适应在线案例，给出了形成参与者批判性增强框架的自举算法，以探索在长期用户互动中更好的推荐模式。离线和在线实验结果证明了拟议的JDREC框架的功效。 JDREC已应用于在线JD建议中，将点击率提高了2.6％，平台的合成价值提高了5.03％。我们将发布本研究中使用的大规模数据集，以为研究界做出贡献。

深度神经网络的兴起为优化推荐系统提供了重要的驱动力。但是，推荐系统的成功在于精致的建筑制造，因此呼吁神经建筑搜索（NAS）进一步改善其建模。我们提出了NASREC，它是一种训练单个超级网的范式，并通过重量共享有效地产生丰富的模型/子构造。为了克服数据多模式和体系结构异质性挑战，NASREC建立了一个大型的超级网（即搜索空间），以搜索完整的体系结构，而SuperNet结合了多功能操作员的选择和密集的连接性选择，并使人类的密集连接性最小化。 Nasrec的规模和异质性在搜索中构成了挑战，例如训练效率低下，操作员不平衡和降级等级相关性。我们通过提出单操作员任何连接采样，操作员平衡互动模块和训练后微调来应对这些挑战。我们对三个点击率（CTR）预测基准测试的结果表明，NASREC可以胜过手动设计的模型和现有的NAS方法，从而实现最先进的性能。

语言模型既展示了定量的改进，又展示了新的定性功能，随着规模的增加。尽管它们具有潜在的变革性影响，但这些新能力的特征却很差。为了为未来的研究提供信息，为破坏性的新模型能力做准备，并改善社会有害的效果，至关重要的是，我们必须了解目前和近乎未来的能力和语言模型的局限性。为了应对这一挑战，我们介绍了超越模仿游戏基准（Big Bench）。 Big Bench目前由204个任务组成，由132家机构的442位作者贡献。任务主题是多样的，从语言学，儿童发展，数学，常识性推理，生物学，物理学，社会偏见，软件开发等等。 Big-Bench专注于被认为超出当前语言模型的功能的任务。我们评估了OpenAI的GPT型号，Google内部密集变压器体系结构和大型基础上的开关稀疏变压器的行为，跨越了数百万到数十亿个参数。此外，一个人类专家评估者团队执行了所有任务，以提供强大的基准。研究结果包括：模型性能和校准都随规模改善，但绝对的术语（以及与评估者的性能相比）；在模型类中的性能非常相似，尽管带有稀疏性。逐渐和预测的任务通常涉及大量知识或记忆成分，而在临界规模上表现出“突破性”行为的任务通常涉及多个步骤或组成部分或脆性指标；社交偏见通常会随着含糊不清的环境而随着规模而增加，但这可以通过提示来改善。

如今，在人员重新识别（Reid）任务的真实数据面临隐私问题，例如，禁止DataSet Dukemtmc-Reid。因此，收集Reid任务的真实数据变得更难。同时，标签的劳动力成本仍然很高，进一步阻碍了Reid研究的发展。因此，许多方法转向为REID算法生成合成图像作为替代方而不是真实图像。然而，合成和真实图像之间存在不可避免的领域差距。在以前的方法中，生成过程基于虚拟场景，并且无法根据不同的目标实际场景自动更改其合成训练数据。为了处理这个问题，我们提出了一种新颖的目标感知一代管道，以产生称为Tagerson的合成人物图像。具体地，它涉及参数化渲染方法，其中参数是可控的，并且可以根据目标场景调整。在Tagperson中，我们从目标场景中提取信息，并使用它们来控制我们的参数化渲染过程以生成目标感知的合成图像，这将使目标域中的实图像保持较小的间隙。在我们的实验中，我们的目标感知的合成图像可以实现比MSMT17上的广义合成图像更高的性能，即秩1精度的47.5％与40.9％。我们将发布此工具包\脚注{\ noindent代码可用于\ href {https://github.com/tagperson/tagperson-blender} {https：//github.com/tagperson/tagperson -brender}}为Reid社区以任何所需味道产生合成图像。

已经研究了几十年的上下文多武装匪，并适应了各种应用，如在线广告和个性化推荐。为了解决匪徒的开发探索权衡，有三种主要技术：epsilon - 贪婪，汤普森采样（TS）和上置信度（UCB）。在最近的文献中，线性上下窗匪徒采用了脊回归来估计奖励功能，并将其与TS或UCB策略结合起来的探索。但是，这行作品明确假设奖励基于ARM向量的线性函数，在现实世界数据集中可能不是真的。为了克服这一挑战，已经提出了一系列神经基的强盗算法，其中分配了神经网络以学习基础奖励功能，并且TS或UCB适于探索。在本文中，我们提出了一种具有新的探索策略的神经基匪徒方法。除了利用神经网络（开发网络）外学习奖励功能之外，与目前估计的奖励相比，EE-Net采用另一个神经网络（勘探网络）来自适应地学习潜在的增益。然后，构建决策者以将输出与剥削和探索网络组合起来。我们证明了EE-Net实现了$ \ mathcal {o}（\ sqrt {t \ log t}）$后悔，它比现有最先进的神经强盗算法更紧密（$ \ mathcal {o}（\基于UCB和TS的SQRT {T} \ log t）$。通过对四世界数据集的广泛实验，我们表明EE-Net优于现有的线性和神经匪徒的方法。

Designing experiments often requires balancing between learning about the true treatment effects and earning from allocating more samples to the superior treatment. While optimal algorithms for the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem (MABP) provide allocation policies that optimally balance learning and earning, they tend to be computationally expensive. The Gittins Index (GI) is a solution to the MABP that can simultaneously attain optimality and computationally efficiency goals, and it has been recently used in experiments with Bernoulli and Gaussian rewards. For the first time, we present a modification of the GI rule that can be used in experiments with exponentially-distributed rewards. We report its performance in simulated 2- armed and 3-armed experiments. Compared to traditional non-adaptive designs, our novel GI modified design shows operating characteristics comparable in learning (e.g. statistical power) but substantially better in earning (e.g. direct benefits). This illustrates the potential that designs using a GI approach to allocate participants have to improve participant benefits, increase efficiencies, and reduce experimental costs in adaptive multi-armed experiments with exponential rewards.

Transformer has achieved impressive successes for various computer vision tasks. However, most of existing studies require to pretrain the Transformer backbone on a large-scale labeled dataset (e.g., ImageNet) for achieving satisfactory performance, which is usually unavailable for medical images. Additionally, due to the gap between medical and natural images, the improvement generated by the ImageNet pretrained weights significantly degrades while transferring the weights to medical image processing tasks. In this paper, we propose Bootstrap Own Latent of Transformer (BOLT), a self-supervised learning approach specifically for medical image classification with the Transformer backbone. Our BOLT consists of two networks, namely online and target branches, for self-supervised representation learning. Concretely, the online network is trained to predict the target network representation of the same patch embedding tokens with a different perturbation. To maximally excavate the impact of Transformer from limited medical data, we propose an auxiliary difficulty ranking task. The Transformer is enforced to identify which branch (i.e., online/target) is processing the more difficult perturbed tokens. Overall, the Transformer endeavours itself to distill the transformation-invariant features from the perturbed tokens to simultaneously achieve difficulty measurement and maintain the consistency of self-supervised representations. The proposed BOLT is evaluated on three medical image processing tasks, i.e., skin lesion classification, knee fatigue fracture grading and diabetic retinopathy grading. The experimental results validate the superiority of our BOLT for medical image classification, compared to ImageNet pretrained weights and state-of-the-art self-supervised learning approaches.

Text clustering and topic extraction are two important tasks in text mining. Usually, these two tasks are performed separately. For topic extraction to facilitate clustering, we can first project texts into a topic space and then perform a clustering algorithm to obtain clusters. To promote topic extraction by clustering, we can first obtain clusters with a clustering algorithm and then extract cluster-specific topics. However, this naive strategy ignores the fact that text clustering and topic extraction are strongly correlated and follow a chicken-and-egg relationship. Performing them separately fails to make them mutually benefit each other to achieve the best overall performance. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised text clustering and topic extraction framework (ClusTop) which integrates text clustering and topic extraction into a unified framework and can achieve high-quality clustering result and extract topics from each cluster simultaneously. Our framework includes four components: enhanced language model training, dimensionality reduction, clustering and topic extraction, where the enhanced language model can be viewed as a bridge between clustering and topic extraction. On one hand, it provides text embeddings with a strong cluster structure which facilitates effective text clustering; on the other hand, it pays high attention on the topic related words for topic extraction because of its self-attention architecture. Moreover, the training of enhanced language model is unsupervised. Experiments on two datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework and provide benchmarks for different model combinations in this framework.

This paper illustrates the technologies of user next intent prediction with a concept knowledge graph. The system has been deployed on the Web at Alipay, serving more than 100 million daily active users. Specifically, we propose AlipayKG to explicitly characterize user intent, which is an offline concept knowledge graph in the Life-Service domain modeling the historical behaviors of users, the rich content interacted by users and the relations between them. We further introduce a Transformer-based model which integrates expert rules from the knowledge graph to infer the online user's next intent. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system can effectively enhance the performance of the downstream tasks while retaining explainability.

Capturing feature information effectively is of great importance in vision tasks. With the development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), concepts like residual connection and multiple scales promote continual performance gains on diverse deep learning vision tasks. However, the existing methods do not organically combined advantages of these valid ideas. In this paper, we propose a novel CNN architecture called GoogLe2Net, it consists of residual feature-reutilization inceptions (ResFRI) or split residual feature-reutilization inceptions (Split-ResFRI) which create transverse passages between adjacent groups of convolutional layers to enable features flow to latter processing branches and possess residual connections to better process information. Our GoogLe2Net is able to reutilize information captured by foregoing groups of convolutional layers and express multi-scale features at a fine-grained level, which improves performances in image classification. And the inception we proposed could be embedded into inception-like networks directly without any migration costs. Moreover, in experiments based on popular vision datasets, such as CIFAR10 (97.94%), CIFAR100 (85.91%) and Tiny Imagenet (70.54%), we obtain better results on image classification task compared with other modern models.