The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

在过去的十年中，AI AID毒品发现（AIDD）的计算方法和数据集策划的繁荣发展。但是，现实世界中的药物数据集经常表现出高度不平衡的分布，这在很大程度上被当前的文献忽略了，但可能会严重损害机器学习应用程序的公平性和概括。在这一观察结果的激励下，我们介绍了Imdrug，这是一个全面的基准标准，其开源python库由4个不平衡设置，11个AI-Ready数据集，54个学习任务和16种为不平衡学习量身定制的基线算法。它为涵盖广泛的药物发现管道（例如分子建模，药物靶标相互作用和逆合合成）的问题和解决方案提供了可访问且可定制的测试床。我们通过新的评估指标进行广泛的实证研究，以证明现有算法在数据不平衡情况下无法解决药物和药物挑战。我们认为，Imdrug为未来的研究和发展开辟了途径，在AIDD和深度不平衡学习的交集中对现实世界中的挑战开辟了道路。

玻璃在现实世界中非常普遍。受玻璃区域的不确定性以及玻璃背后的各种复杂场景的影响，玻璃的存在对许多计算机视觉任务构成了严重的挑战，从而使玻璃分割成为重要的计算机视觉任务。玻璃没有自己的视觉外观，而只能传输/反映其周围环境的外观，从而与其他常见对象根本不同。为了解决此类具有挑战性的任务，现有方法通常会探索并结合深网络中不同特征级别的有用线索。由于存在级别不同的特征之间的特征差距，即，深层特征嵌入了更多高级语义，并且更好地定位目标对象，而浅层特征具有更大的空间尺寸，并保持更丰富，更详细的低级信息，因此，将这些特征融合到天真的融合将导致亚最佳溶液。在本文中，我们将有效的特征融合到两个步骤中，以朝着精确的玻璃分割。首先，我们试图通过开发可区分性增强（DE）模块来弥合不同级别特征之间的特征差距，该模块使特定于级别的特征成为更具歧视性的表示，从而减轻了融合不兼容的特征。其次，我们设计了一个基于焦点和探索的融合（FEBF）模块，以通过突出显示常见并探索级别差异特征之间的差异，从而在融合过程中丰富挖掘有用的信息。

在大多数现实世界中的推荐方案中，多种行为（例如，单击，添加到购物车，采购等）的多类型，这对于学习用户的多方面偏好是有益的。由于多种类型的行为明确表现出依赖性，因此有效地对复杂行为依赖性建模对于多行为预测至关重要。最先进的多行为模型以所有历史互动为输入都没有区别地学习行为依赖性。但是，不同的行为可能反映了用户偏好的不同方面，这意味着某些无关的互动可能会像预测目标行为的声音一样发挥作用。为了解决上述局限性，我们向多行为建议介绍了多功能学习。更具体地说，我们提出了一种新颖的粗到五个知识增强的多功能学习（CKML）框架，以学习不同行为的共享和特定于行为的利益。 CKML引入了两个高级模块，即粗粒兴趣提取（CIE）和细粒度的行为相关性（FBC），它们共同起作用以捕获细粒度的行为依赖性。 CIE使用知识感知信息来提取每个兴趣的初始表示。 FBC结合了动态路由方案，以在兴趣之间进一步分配每个行为。此外，我们使用自我注意机制在兴趣水平上将不同的行为信息相关联。三个现实世界数据集的经验结果验证了我们模型在利用多行为数据方面的有效性和效率。进一步的实验证明了每个模块的有效性以及多行为数据共享和特定建模范式的鲁棒性和优越性。

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.

Given the increasingly intricate forms of partial differential equations (PDEs) in physics and related fields, computationally solving PDEs without analytic solutions inevitably suffers from the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency. Recent advances in neural operators, a kind of mesh-independent neural-network-based PDE solvers, have suggested the dawn of overcoming this challenge. In this emerging direction, Koopman neural operator (KNO) is a representative demonstration and outperforms other state-of-the-art alternatives in terms of accuracy and efficiency. Here we present KoopmanLab, a self-contained and user-friendly PyTorch module of the Koopman neural operator family for solving partial differential equations. Beyond the original version of KNO, we develop multiple new variants of KNO based on different neural network architectures to improve the general applicability of our module. These variants are validated by mesh-independent and long-term prediction experiments implemented on representative PDEs (e.g., the Navier-Stokes equation and the Bateman-Burgers equation) and ERA5 (i.e., one of the largest high-resolution data sets of global-scale climate fields). These demonstrations suggest the potential of KoopmanLab to be considered in diverse applications of partial differential equations.

In this chapter, we review and discuss the transformation of AI technology in HCI/UX work and assess how AI technology will change how we do the work. We first discuss how AI can be used to enhance the result of user research and design evaluation. We then discuss how AI technology can be used to enhance HCI/UX design. Finally, we discuss how AI-enabled capabilities can improve UX when users interact with computing systems, applications, and services.

Adversarial robustness assessment for video recognition models has raised concerns owing to their wide applications on safety-critical tasks. Compared with images, videos have much high dimension, which brings huge computational costs when generating adversarial videos. This is especially serious for the query-based black-box attacks where gradient estimation for the threat models is usually utilized, and high dimensions will lead to a large number of queries. To mitigate this issue, we propose to simultaneously eliminate the temporal and spatial redundancy within the video to achieve an effective and efficient gradient estimation on the reduced searching space, and thus query number could decrease. To implement this idea, we design the novel Adversarial spatial-temporal Focus (AstFocus) attack on videos, which performs attacks on the simultaneously focused key frames and key regions from the inter-frames and intra-frames in the video. AstFocus attack is based on the cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) framework. One agent is responsible for selecting key frames, and another agent is responsible for selecting key regions. These two agents are jointly trained by the common rewards received from the black-box threat models to perform a cooperative prediction. By continuously querying, the reduced searching space composed of key frames and key regions is becoming precise, and the whole query number becomes less than that on the original video. Extensive experiments on four mainstream video recognition models and three widely used action recognition datasets demonstrate that the proposed AstFocus attack outperforms the SOTA methods, which is prevenient in fooling rate, query number, time, and perturbation magnitude at the same.

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.

Rankings are widely collected in various real-life scenarios, leading to the leakage of personal information such as users' preferences on videos or news. To protect rankings, existing works mainly develop privacy protection on a single ranking within a set of ranking or pairwise comparisons of a ranking under the $\epsilon$-differential privacy. This paper proposes a novel notion called $\epsilon$-ranking differential privacy for protecting ranks. We establish the connection between the Mallows model (Mallows, 1957) and the proposed $\epsilon$-ranking differential privacy. This allows us to develop a multistage ranking algorithm to generate synthetic rankings while satisfying the developed $\epsilon$-ranking differential privacy. Theoretical results regarding the utility of synthetic rankings in the downstream tasks, including the inference attack and the personalized ranking tasks, are established. For the inference attack, we quantify how $\epsilon$ affects the estimation of the true ranking based on synthetic rankings. For the personalized ranking task, we consider varying privacy preferences among users and quantify how their privacy preferences affect the consistency in estimating the optimal ranking function. Extensive numerical experiments are carried out to verify the theoretical results and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed synthetic ranking algorithm.