与常规知识蒸馏（KD）不同，自我KD允许网络在没有额外网络的任何指导的情况下向自身学习知识。本文提议从图像混合物（Mixskd）执行自我KD，将这两种技术集成到统一的框架中。 Mixskd相互蒸馏以图形和概率分布在随机的原始图像和它们的混合图像之间以有意义的方式。因此，它通过对混合图像进行监督信号进行建模来指导网络学习跨图像知识。此外，我们通过汇总多阶段功能图来构建一个自学老师网络，以提供软标签以监督骨干分类器，从而进一步提高自我增强的功效。图像分类和转移学习到对象检测和语义分割的实验表明，混合物KD优于其他最先进的自我KD和数据增强方法。该代码可在https://github.com/winycg/self-kd-lib上找到。

无教师的在线知识蒸馏（KD）旨在培训多个学生模型的合奏，并彼此提炼知识。尽管现有的在线KD方法实现了理想的性能，但它们通常专注于阶级概率作为核心知识类型，而忽略了宝贵的特征代表性信息。我们为在线KD提供了一个相互的对比学习（MCL）框架。 MCL的核心思想是以在线方式进行对比分布的相互交互和对比度分布的转移。我们的MCL可以汇总跨网络嵌入信息，并最大化两个网络之间的相互信息的下限。这使每个网络能够从他人那里学习额外的对比知识，从而提供更好的特征表示形式，从而提高视觉识别任务的性能。除最后一层外，我们还将MCL扩展到辅助特征细化模块辅助的几个中间层。这进一步增强了在线KD的表示能力。关于图像分类和转移学习到视觉识别任务的实验表明，MCL可以针对最新的在线KD方法带来一致的性能提高。优势表明，MCL可以指导网络生成更好的特征表示。我们的代码可在https://github.com/winycg/mcl上公开获取。

现有作品通常集中于减少架构冗余以加速图像分类，但忽略输入图像的空间冗余。本文提出了有效的图像分类管道来解决此问题。我们首先通过称为Anchornet的轻量级补丁提案网络在输入图像上查明任务感知区域。然后，我们将这些局部语义斑块的空间冗余量喂入一般分类网络。与Deep CNN的流行设计不同，我们旨在仔细设计无中间卷积桨的锚固板的接收场。这样可以确保从高级空间位置到特定输入图像补丁的确切映射。每个补丁的贡献是可以解释的。此外，AnchOrnet与任何下游架构兼容。 Imagenet上的实验结果表明，我们的方法优于SOTA动态推理方法，其推理成本较少。我们的代码可在https://github.com/winycg/anchornet上找到。

知识蒸馏（KD）是一个有效的框架，旨在将有意义的信息从大型老师转移到较小的学生。通常，KD通常涉及如何定义和转移知识。以前的KD方法通常着重于挖掘各种形式的知识，例如功能地图和精致信息。但是，知识源自主要监督任务，因此是高度特定于任务的。在自我监督的代表学习的最新成功中，我们提出了一项辅助自我实施的增强任务，以指导网络学习更多有意义的功能。因此，我们可以从KD的这项任务中得出软性自我实施的增强分布作为更丰富的黑暗知识。与以前的知识不同，此分布编码从监督和自我监督的特征学习中编码联合知识。除了知识探索之外，我们建议在各个隐藏层上附加几个辅助分支，以充分利用分层特征图。每个辅助分支都被指导学习自学的增强任务，并将这种分布从教师到学生提炼。总体而言，我们称我们的KD方法为等级自我实施的增强知识蒸馏（HSSAKD）。标准图像分类的实验表明，离线和在线HSSAKD都在KD领域达到了最先进的表现。对象检测的进一步转移实验进一步验证了HSSAKD可以指导网络学习更好的功能。该代码可在https://github.com/winycg/hsakd上找到。

知识蒸馏通常涉及如何有效地定义和转移知识从教师到学生。尽管最近的自我监督的对比知识取得了最佳表现，但迫使网络学习此类知识可能会损害对原始班级识别任务的表示。因此，我们采用替代性的自我监督的增强任务来指导网络学习原始识别任务和自我监督的辅助任务的共同分布。它被证明是一种更丰富的知识，可以提高表示能力而不会失去正常的分类能力。此外，以前的方法仅在最终层之间传递概率知识是不完整的。我们建议将几个辅助分类器附加到层次中间特征图中，以生成多样化的自我监督知识，并执行一对一的转移以彻底教授学生网络。我们的方法显着超过了先前的SOTA SSKD，CIFAR-100的平均改善为2.56 \％，并且在广泛使用的网络对上的Imagenet上有0.77 \％的提高。代码可在https://github.com/winycg/hsakd上找到。

Masked image modeling (MIM) performs strongly in pre-training large vision Transformers (ViTs). However, small models that are critical for real-world applications cannot or only marginally benefit from this pre-training approach. In this paper, we explore distillation techniques to transfer the success of large MIM-based pre-trained models to smaller ones. We systematically study different options in the distillation framework, including distilling targets, losses, input, network regularization, sequential distillation, etc, revealing that: 1) Distilling token relations is more effective than CLS token- and feature-based distillation; 2) An intermediate layer of the teacher network as target perform better than that using the last layer when the depth of the student mismatches that of the teacher; 3) Weak regularization is preferred; etc. With these findings, we achieve significant fine-tuning accuracy improvements over the scratch MIM pre-training on ImageNet-1K classification, using all the ViT-Tiny, ViT-Small, and ViT-base models, with +4.2%/+2.4%/+1.4% gains, respectively. Our TinyMIM model of base size achieves 52.2 mIoU in AE20K semantic segmentation, which is +4.1 higher than the MAE baseline. Our TinyMIM model of tiny size achieves 79.6% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1K image classification, which sets a new record for small vision models of the same size and computation budget. This strong performance suggests an alternative way for developing small vision Transformer models, that is, by exploring better training methods rather than introducing inductive biases into architectures as in most previous works. Code is available at https://github.com/OliverRensu/TinyMIM.

Existing automated techniques for software documentation typically attempt to reason between two main sources of information: code and natural language. However, this reasoning process is often complicated by the lexical gap between more abstract natural language and more structured programming languages. One potential bridge for this gap is the Graphical User Interface (GUI), as GUIs inherently encode salient information about underlying program functionality into rich, pixel-based data representations. This paper offers one of the first comprehensive empirical investigations into the connection between GUIs and functional, natural language descriptions of software. First, we collect, analyze, and open source a large dataset of functional GUI descriptions consisting of 45,998 descriptions for 10,204 screenshots from popular Android applications. The descriptions were obtained from human labelers and underwent several quality control mechanisms. To gain insight into the representational potential of GUIs, we investigate the ability of four Neural Image Captioning models to predict natural language descriptions of varying granularity when provided a screenshot as input. We evaluate these models quantitatively, using common machine translation metrics, and qualitatively through a large-scale user study. Finally, we offer learned lessons and a discussion of the potential shown by multimodal models to enhance future techniques for automated software documentation.

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.

Cognitive Computing (COC) aims to build highly cognitive machines with low computational resources that respond in real-time. However, scholarly literature shows varying research areas and various interpretations of COC. This calls for a cohesive architecture that delineates the nature of COC. We argue that if Herbert Simon considered the design science is the science of artificial, cognitive systems are the products of cognitive science or 'the newest science of the artificial'. Therefore, building a conceptual basis for COC is an essential step into prospective cognitive computing-based systems. This paper proposes an architecture of COC through analyzing the literature on COC using a myriad of statistical analysis methods. Then, we compare the statistical analysis results with previous qualitative analysis results to confirm our findings. The study also comprehensively surveys the recent research on COC to identify the state of the art and connect the advances in varied research disciplines in COC. The study found that there are three underlaying computing paradigms, Von-Neuman, Neuromorphic Engineering and Quantum Computing, that comprehensively complement the structure of cognitive computation. The research discuss possible applications and open research directions under the COC umbrella.

Reading comprehension of legal text can be a particularly challenging task due to the length and complexity of legal clauses and a shortage of expert-annotated datasets. To address this challenge, we introduce the Merger Agreement Understanding Dataset (MAUD), an expert-annotated reading comprehension dataset based on the American Bar Association's 2021 Public Target Deal Points Study, with over 39,000 examples and over 47,000 total annotations. Our fine-tuned Transformer baselines show promising results, with models performing well above random on most questions. However, on a large subset of questions, there is still room for significant improvement. As the only expert-annotated merger agreement dataset, MAUD is valuable as a benchmark for both the legal profession and the NLP community.