Query-focused summarization has been considered as an important extension for text summarization. It aims to generate a concise highlight for a given query. Different from text summarization, query-focused summarization has long been plagued by the problem of lacking high-quality large-scale datasets. In this paper, we investigate the idea that whether we can integrate and transfer the knowledge of text summarization and question answering to assist the few-shot learning in query-focused summarization. Here, we propose prefix-merging, a prefix-based pretraining strategy for few-shot learning in query-focused summarization. Drawn inspiration from prefix-tuning, we are allowed to integrate the task knowledge from text summarization and question answering into a properly designed prefix and apply the merged prefix to query-focused summarization. With only a small amount of trainable parameters, prefix-merging outperforms fine-tuning on query-focused summarization. We further discuss the influence of different prefix designs and propose a visualized explanation for how prefix-merging works.

随着视频数量的越来越多，对技术的需求很大，可以帮助人们迅速导航到他们感兴趣的视频片段。但是，当前的视频理解主要理解主要是视频内容摘要，而几乎没有努力，而对探索视频的结构。受文本轮廓生成的启发，我们介绍了一项新颖的视频理解任务，即视频大纲生成（VOG）。该任务定义为包含两个子任务：（1）首先根据内容结构对视频进行分割，然后（2）为每个段生成一个标题。要学习和评估VOG，我们注释了一个10K+数据集，称为Duvog。具体来说，我们使用OCR工具来识别视频的字幕。然后，要求注释者将字幕分为章节，并将每个章节分为标题。在视频中，突出显示的文本往往是标题，因为它更有可能引起人们的注意。因此，我们提出了一个视觉字幕功能增强的视频大纲生成模型（VSENET），该模型将文本字幕及其视觉字体大小和位置作为输入。我们将VOG任务视为一个序列标记问题，该问题提取了跨标题的位置，然后将其重写以形成最终大纲。此外，基于视频概述和文本概述之间的相似性，我们使用大量文章带有章节标题来预先我们的模型。 Duvog上的实验表明，我们的模型在很大程度上胜过其他基线方法，对于视频分割水平达到了77.1的F1得分，对于标题生成级别的Rouge-L_F0.5的85.0。

出色的图像文本检索模型取决于高质量标记的数据。尽管现有图像文本检索数据集的构建者努力确保标题与链接的图像匹配，但它们无法阻止字幕拟合其他图像。我们观察到，如此多的匹配现象在广泛使用的检索数据集中非常普遍，其中一个标题可以描述多达178张图像。这些较大的匹配失误数据不仅使训练中的模型混淆，而且还会削弱评估精度。受视觉和文本核心任务的启发，我们提出了一个多模式的核心分类器，以确定句子是否由图像和其链接的字幕所带来。随后，我们通过将这些需要的字幕添加为图像的附加标签来修改图像文本检索数据集，并制定通用可变率策略，以教授检索模型以区分所需的字幕和其他负样本。在实验中，我们手动注释了一个需要校正的图像文本检索数据集进行评估。结果表明，所提出的元素分类器可实现约78％的精度，并始终提高图像文本检索基线的性能。

每时每刻都生产出许多不同质量的物品，因此将这些数据筛选为质量文章并将其投入到社交媒体上是一项非常紧迫的任务。值得注意的是，高质量的文章具有许多特征，例如相关性，文本质量，直接，多面，背景，新颖性和情感。因此，纯粹使用文章的内容来识别其质量是不够的。因此，我们计划使用外部知识互动来完善性能，并根据百度百科全书提出知识图增强文章质量标识数据集（KGEA）。我们通过7个维度量化了这些文章，并使用文章和百度百科全书之间实体的同时出现，以构建每篇文章的知识图。我们还比较了一些文本分类基线，发现外部知识可以将文章引导到与图神经网络更具竞争力的分类。

The lack of label data is one of the significant bottlenecks for Chinese Spelling Check (CSC). Existing researches use the method of automatic generation by exploiting unlabeled data to expand the supervised corpus. However, there is a big gap between the real input scenario and automatic generated corpus. Thus, we develop a competitive general speller ECSpell which adopts the Error Consistent masking strategy to create data for pretraining. This error consistency masking strategy is used to specify the error types of automatically generated sentences which is consistent with real scene. The experimental result indicates our model outperforms previous state-of-the-art models on the general benchmark. Moreover, spellers often work within a particular domain in real life. Due to lots of uncommon domain terms, experiments on our built domain specific datasets show that general models perform terribly. Inspired by the common practice of input methods, we propose to add an alterable user dictionary to handle the zero-shot domain adaption problem. Specifically, we attach a User Dictionary guided inference module (UD) to a general token classification based speller. Our experiments demonstrate that ECSpell$^{UD}$, namely ECSpell combined with UD, surpasses all the other baselines largely, even approaching the performance on the general benchmark.

We develop a high-quality multi-turn dialog dataset, DailyDialog, which is intriguing in several aspects. The language is human-written and less noisy. The dialogues in the dataset reflect our daily communication way and cover various topics about our daily life. We also manually label the developed dataset with communication intention and emotion information. Then, we evaluate existing approaches on DailyDialog dataset and hope it benefit the research field of dialog systems 1 .

Decompilation aims to transform a low-level program language (LPL) (eg., binary file) into its functionally-equivalent high-level program language (HPL) (e.g., C/C++). It is a core technology in software security, especially in vulnerability discovery and malware analysis. In recent years, with the successful application of neural machine translation (NMT) models in natural language processing (NLP), researchers have tried to build neural decompilers by borrowing the idea of NMT. They formulate the decompilation process as a translation problem between LPL and HPL, aiming to reduce the human cost required to develop decompilation tools and improve their generalizability. However, state-of-the-art learning-based decompilers do not cope well with compiler-optimized binaries. Since real-world binaries are mostly compiler-optimized, decompilers that do not consider optimized binaries have limited practical significance. In this paper, we propose a novel learning-based approach named NeurDP, that targets compiler-optimized binaries. NeurDP uses a graph neural network (GNN) model to convert LPL to an intermediate representation (IR), which bridges the gap between source code and optimized binary. We also design an Optimized Translation Unit (OTU) to split functions into smaller code fragments for better translation performance. Evaluation results on datasets containing various types of statements show that NeurDP can decompile optimized binaries with 45.21% higher accuracy than state-of-the-art neural decompilation frameworks.

Nearest-Neighbor (NN) classification has been proven as a simple and effective approach for few-shot learning. The query data can be classified efficiently by finding the nearest support class based on features extracted by pretrained deep models. However, NN-based methods are sensitive to the data distribution and may produce false prediction if the samples in the support set happen to lie around the distribution boundary of different classes. To solve this issue, we present P3DC-Shot, an improved nearest-neighbor based few-shot classification method empowered by prior-driven data calibration. Inspired by the distribution calibration technique which utilizes the distribution or statistics of the base classes to calibrate the data for few-shot tasks, we propose a novel discrete data calibration operation which is more suitable for NN-based few-shot classification. Specifically, we treat the prototypes representing each base class as priors and calibrate each support data based on its similarity to different base prototypes. Then, we perform NN classification using these discretely calibrated support data. Results from extensive experiments on various datasets show our efficient non-learning based method can outperform or at least comparable to SOTA methods which need additional learning steps.

In recent years, arbitrary image style transfer has attracted more and more attention. Given a pair of content and style images, a stylized one is hoped that retains the content from the former while catching style patterns from the latter. However, it is difficult to simultaneously keep well the trade-off between the content details and the style features. To stylize the image with sufficient style patterns, the content details may be damaged and sometimes the objects of images can not be distinguished clearly. For this reason, we present a new transformer-based method named STT for image style transfer and an edge loss which can enhance the content details apparently to avoid generating blurred results for excessive rendering on style features. Qualitative and quantitative experiments demonstrate that STT achieves comparable performance to state-of-the-art image style transfer methods while alleviating the content leak problem.

In contrast to the control-theoretic methods, the lack of stability guarantee remains a significant problem for model-free reinforcement learning (RL) methods. Jointly learning a policy and a Lyapunov function has recently become a promising approach to ensuring the whole system with a stability guarantee. However, the classical Lyapunov constraints researchers introduced cannot stabilize the system during the sampling-based optimization. Therefore, we propose the Adaptive Stability Certification (ASC), making the system reach sampling-based stability. Because the ASC condition can search for the optimal policy heuristically, we design the Adaptive Lyapunov-based Actor-Critic (ALAC) algorithm based on the ASC condition. Meanwhile, our algorithm avoids the optimization problem that a variety of constraints are coupled into the objective in current approaches. When evaluated on ten robotic tasks, our method achieves lower accumulated cost and fewer stability constraint violations than previous studies.