字符不传达意义，但字符序列会。我们提出了一种无监督的分布方法，以便在一系列字符中学习抽象意义的单元。该模型而不是分割序列，而不是分割序列中的“对象”的连续表示，使用最近提出的架构在称为插槽注意中的图像中的对象发现。我们在不同语言中培训我们的模型，并用探测分类评估所获得的表示的质量。我们的实验表明，我们的单位在更高的抽象层面捕捉意义的能力。

Learning object-centric representations of complex scenes is a promising step towards enabling efficient abstract reasoning from low-level perceptual features. Yet, most deep learning approaches learn distributed representations that do not capture the compositional properties of natural scenes. In this paper, we present the Slot Attention module, an architectural component that interfaces with perceptual representations such as the output of a convolutional neural network and produces a set of task-dependent abstract representations which we call slots. These slots are exchangeable and can bind to any object in the input by specializing through a competitive procedure over multiple rounds of attention. We empirically demonstrate that Slot Attention can extract object-centric representations that enable generalization to unseen compositions when trained on unsupervised object discovery and supervised property prediction tasks.

在本文中，我们试图通过引入深度学习模型的句法归纳偏见来建立两所学校之间的联系。我们提出了两个归纳偏见的家族，一个家庭用于选区结构，另一个用于依赖性结构。选区归纳偏见鼓励深度学习模型使用不同的单位（或神经元）分别处理长期和短期信息。这种分离为深度学习模型提供了一种方法，可以从顺序输入中构建潜在的层次表示形式，即更高级别的表示由高级表示形式组成，并且可以分解为一系列低级表示。例如，在不了解地面实际结构的情况下，我们提出的模型学会通过根据其句法结构组成变量和运算符的表示来处理逻辑表达。另一方面，依赖归纳偏置鼓励模型在输入序列中找到实体之间的潜在关系。对于自然语言，潜在关系通常被建模为一个定向依赖图，其中一个单词恰好具有一个父节点和零或几个孩子的节点。将此约束应用于类似变压器的模型之后，我们发现该模型能够诱导接近人类专家注释的有向图，并且在不同任务上也优于标准变压器模型。我们认为，这些实验结果为深度学习模型的未来发展展示了一个有趣的选择。

以对象为中心的表示是通过提供柔性抽象可以在可以建立的灵活性抽象来实现更系统的推广的有希望的途径。最近的简单2D和3D数据集的工作表明，具有对象的归纳偏差的模型可以学习段，并代表单独的数据的统计结构中的有意义对象，而无需任何监督。然而，尽管使用越来越复杂的感应偏差（例如，用于场景的尺寸或3D几何形状），但这种完全无监督的方法仍然无法扩展到不同的现实数据。在本文中，我们采取了弱监督的方法，并专注于如何使用光流的形式的视频数据的时间动态，2）调节在简单的对象位置上的模型可以用于启用分段和跟踪对象在明显更现实的合成数据中。我们介绍了一个顺序扩展，以便引入我们训练的推出，我们训练用于预测现实看的合成场景的光流，并显示调节该模型的初始状态在一小组提示，例如第一帧中的物体的质量中心，是足以显着改善实例分割。这些福利超出了新型对象，新颖背景和更长的视频序列的培训分配。我们还发现，在推论期间可以使用这种初始状态调节作为对特定物体或物体部分的型号查询模型，这可能会为一系列弱监管方法铺平，并允许更有效的互动训练有素的型号。

我们想要模型的文本单位是什么？从字节到多字表达式，可以在许多粒度下分析和生成文本。直到最近，大多数自然语言处理（NLP）模型通过单词操作，将那些作为离散和原子令牌处理，但从字节对编码（BPE）开始，基于次字的方法在许多领域都变得占主导地位，使得仍然存在小词汇表允许快速推断。是道路字符级模型的结束或字节级处理吗？在这项调查中，我们通过展示和评估基于学习分割的词语和字符以及基于子字的方法的混合方法以及基于学习的分割的杂交方法，连接多行工作。我们得出结论，对于所有应用来说，并且可能永远不会成为所有应用的银子弹奇异解决方案，并且严重思考令牌化对许多应用仍然很重要。

从物体及其在3D空间中的几何形状方面对世界的组成理解被认为是人类认知的基石。促进神经网络中这种表示形式的学习有望实质上提高标记的数据效率。作为朝着这个方向发展的关键步骤，我们在学习3D一致的复杂场景分解的问题上取得了进展，以无监督的方式将复杂场景分解为单个对象。我们介绍对象场景表示变压器（OSRT），这是一个以3D为中心的模型，其中各个对象表示通过新颖的视图合成自然出现。 OSRT比现有方法更为复杂，具有更大的对象和背景的复杂场景。同时，由于其光场参数化和新型的插槽混合器解码器，它在组成渲染时的多个数量级更快。我们认为，这项工作不仅将加速未来的建筑探索和扩展工作，而且还将成为以对象为中心和神经场景表示社区的有用工具。

Static subword tokenization algorithms have been an essential component of recent works on language modeling. However, their static nature results in important flaws that degrade the models' downstream performance and robustness. In this work, we propose MANTa, a Module for Adaptive Neural TokenizAtion. MANTa is a differentiable tokenizer trained end-to-end with the language model. The resulting system offers a trade-off between the expressiveness of byte-level models and the speed of models trained using subword tokenization. In addition, our tokenizer is highly explainable since it produces an explicit segmentation of sequences into blocks. We evaluate our pre-trained model on several English datasets from different domains as well as on synthetic noise. We find that MANTa improves robustness to character perturbations and out-of-domain data. We then show that MANTa performs comparably to other models on the general-domain GLUE benchmark. Finally, we show that it is considerably faster than strictly byte-level models.

The word alignment task, despite its prominence in the era of statistical machine translation (SMT), is niche and under-explored today. In this two-part tutorial, we argue for the continued relevance for word alignment. The first part provides a historical background to word alignment as a core component of the traditional SMT pipeline. We zero-in on GIZA++, an unsupervised, statistical word aligner with surprising longevity. Jumping forward to the era of neural machine translation (NMT), we show how insights from word alignment inspired the attention mechanism fundamental to present-day NMT. The second part shifts to a survey approach. We cover neural word aligners, showing the slow but steady progress towards surpassing GIZA++ performance. Finally, we cover the present-day applications of word alignment, from cross-lingual annotation projection, to improving translation.

为了帮助代理在其构建块方面的场景的原因，我们希望提取任何给定场景的组成结构（特别是包括场景的对象的配置和特征）。当需要推断出现在代理的位置/观点的同时需要推断场景结构时，这个问题特别困难，因为两个变量共同引起代理人的观察。我们提出了一个无监督的变分方法来解决这个问题。利用不同场景存在的共享结构，我们的模型学会从RGB视频输入推断出两组潜在表示：一组“对象”潜伏，对应于场景的时间不变，对象级内容，如以及一组“帧”潜伏，对应于全局时变元素，例如视点。这种潜水所的分解允许我们的模型Simone，以单独的方式表示对象属性，其不依赖于视点。此外，它允许我们解解对象动态，并将其轨迹总结为时间抽象的，查看 - 不变，每个对象属性。我们在三个程序生成的视频数据集中展示了这些功能，以及在查看合成和实例分段方面的模型的性能。

了解哪些归纳偏见可能有助于无监督的自然场景中以对象为中心的表示是具有挑战性的。在本文中，我们系统地研究了两个模型在数据集上的性能，其中使用神经样式转移来获取具有复杂纹理的对象，同时仍保留地面真相注释。我们发现，通过使用单个模块重建每个对象的形状和视觉外观，该模型可以学习更多有用的表示形式，并实现更好的对象分离。此外，我们观察到，调整潜在空间尺寸不足以提高分割性能。最后，与分割质量相比，代表性的下游有用性与分割质量的相关性明显更大。

Current supervised visual detectors, though impressive within their training distribution, often fail to segment out-of-distribution scenes into their constituent entities. Recent test-time adaptation methods use auxiliary self-supervised losses to adapt the network parameters to each test example independently and have shown promising results towards generalization outside the training distribution for the task of image classification. In our work, we find evidence that these losses can be insufficient for instance segmentation tasks, without also considering architectural inductive biases. For image segmentation, recent slot-centric generative models break such dependence on supervision by attempting to segment scenes into entities in a self-supervised manner by reconstructing pixels. Drawing upon these two lines of work, we propose Slot-TTA, a semi-supervised instance segmentation model equipped with a slot-centric inductive bias, that is adapted per scene at test time through gradient descent on reconstruction or novel view synthesis objectives. We show that test-time adaptation in Slot-TTA greatly improves instance segmentation in out-of-distribution scenes. We evaluate Slot-TTA in several 3D and 2D scene instance segmentation benchmarks and show substantial out-of-distribution performance improvements against state-of-the-art supervised feed-forward detectors and self-supervised test-time adaptation methods.

Multi-head self-attention is a key component of the Transformer, a state-of-the-art architecture for neural machine translation. In this work we evaluate the contribution made by individual attention heads in the encoder to the overall performance of the model and analyze the roles played by them. We find that the most important and confident heads play consistent and often linguistically-interpretable roles. When pruning heads using a method based on stochastic gates and a differentiable relaxation of the L 0 penalty, we observe that specialized heads are last to be pruned. Our novel pruning method removes the vast majority of heads without seriously affecting performance. For example, on the English-Russian WMT dataset, pruning 38 out of 48 encoder heads results in a drop of only 0.15 BLEU. 1

以对象表示的学习背后的想法是，自然场景可以更好地建模为对象的组成及其关系，而不是分布式表示形式。可以将这种归纳偏置注入神经网络中，以可能改善具有多个对象的场景中下游任务的系统概括和性能。在本文中，我们在五个常见的多对象数据集上训练最先进的无监督模型，并评估细分指标和下游对象属性预测。此外，我们通过调查单个对象不超出分布的设置（例如，具有看不见的颜色，质地或形状或场景的全局属性）来研究概括和鲁棒性，例如，通过闭塞来改变，裁剪或增加对象的数量。从我们的实验研究中，我们发现以对象为中心的表示对下游任务很有用，并且通常对影响对象的大多数分布转移有用。但是，当分布转移以较低结构化的方式影响输入时，在模型和分布转移的情况下，分割和下游任务性能的鲁棒性可能会有很大差异。

视觉世界可以以稀疏相互作用的不同实体来嘲笑。在动态视觉场景中发现这种组合结构已被证明对端到端的计算机视觉方法有挑战，除非提供明确的实例级别的监督。利用运动提示的基于老虎机的模型最近在学习代表，细分和跟踪对象的情况下没有直接监督显示了巨大的希望，但是它们仍然无法扩展到复杂的现实世界多对象视频。为了弥合这一差距，我们从人类发展中汲取灵感，并假设以深度信号形式的场景几何形状的信息可以促进以对象为中心的学习。我们介绍了一种以对象为中心的视频模型SAVI ++，该模型经过训练，可以预测基于插槽的视频表示的深度信号。通过进一步利用模型缩放的最佳实践，我们能够训练SAVI ++以细分使用移动摄像机记录的复杂动态场景，其中包含在自然主义背景上具有不同外观的静态和移动对象，而无需进行分割监督。最后，我们证明，通过使用从LIDAR获得的稀疏深度信号，Savi ++能够从真实World Waymo Open DataSet中的视频中学习新兴对象细分和跟踪。

Large pre-trained neural networks such as BERT have had great recent success in NLP, motivating a growing body of research investigating what aspects of language they are able to learn from unlabeled data. Most recent analysis has focused on model outputs (e.g., language model surprisal) or internal vector representations (e.g., probing classifiers). Complementary to these works, we propose methods for analyzing the attention mechanisms of pre-trained models and apply them to BERT. BERT's attention heads exhibit patterns such as attending to delimiter tokens, specific positional offsets, or broadly attending over the whole sentence, with heads in the same layer often exhibiting similar behaviors. We further show that certain attention heads correspond well to linguistic notions of syntax and coreference. For example, we find heads that attend to the direct objects of verbs, determiners of nouns, objects of prepositions, and coreferent mentions with remarkably high accuracy. Lastly, we propose an attention-based probing classifier and use it to further demonstrate that substantial syntactic information is captured in BERT's attention. 1 Code will be released at https://github.com/ clarkkev/attention-analysis.2 We use the English base-sized model.

Subword-level models have been the dominant paradigm in NLP. However, character-level models have the benefit of seeing each character individually, providing the model with more detailed information that ultimately could lead to better models. Recent works have shown character-level models to be competitive with subword models, but costly in terms of time and computation. Character-level models with a downsampling component alleviate this, but at the cost of quality, particularly for machine translation. This work analyzes the problems of previous downsampling methods and introduces a novel downsampling method which is informed by subwords. This new downsampling method not only outperforms existing downsampling methods, showing that downsampling characters can be done without sacrificing quality, but also leads to promising performance compared to subword models for translation.

在NLP社区中有一个正在进行的辩论，无论现代语言模型是否包含语言知识，通过所谓的探针恢复。在本文中，我们研究了语言知识是否是现代语言模型良好表现的必要条件，我们称之为\ Texit {重新发现假设}。首先，我们展示了语言模型，这是显着压缩的，但在预先磨普目标上表现良好，以便在语言结构探讨时保持良好的分数。这一结果支持重新发现的假设，并导致我们的论文的第二款贡献：一个信息 - 理论框架，与语言建模目标相关。该框架还提供了测量语言信息对字词预测任务的影响的度量标准。我们通过英语综合和真正的NLP任务加固我们的分析结果。

Scene text spotting is of great importance to the computer vision community due to its wide variety of applications. Recent methods attempt to introduce linguistic knowledge for challenging recognition rather than pure visual classification. However, how to effectively model the linguistic rules in end-to-end deep networks remains a research challenge. In this paper, we argue that the limited capacity of language models comes from 1) implicit language modeling; 2) unidirectional feature representation; and 3) language model with noise input. Correspondingly, we propose an autonomous, bidirectional and iterative ABINet++ for scene text spotting. Firstly, the autonomous suggests enforcing explicitly language modeling by decoupling the recognizer into vision model and language model and blocking gradient flow between both models. Secondly, a novel bidirectional cloze network (BCN) as the language model is proposed based on bidirectional feature representation. Thirdly, we propose an execution manner of iterative correction for the language model which can effectively alleviate the impact of noise input. Finally, to polish ABINet++ in long text recognition, we propose to aggregate horizontal features by embedding Transformer units inside a U-Net, and design a position and content attention module which integrates character order and content to attend to character features precisely. ABINet++ achieves state-of-the-art performance on both scene text recognition and scene text spotting benchmarks, which consistently demonstrates the superiority of our method in various environments especially on low-quality images. Besides, extensive experiments including in English and Chinese also prove that, a text spotter that incorporates our language modeling method can significantly improve its performance both in accuracy and speed compared with commonly used attention-based recognizers.

Transformer-based models have pushed state of the art in many areas of NLP, but our understanding of what is behind their success is still limited. This paper is the first survey of over 150 studies of the popular BERT model. We review the current state of knowledge about how BERT works, what kind of information it learns and how it is represented, common modifications to its training objectives and architecture, the overparameterization issue and approaches to compression. We then outline directions for future research.

我用Hunglish2语料库训练神经电脑翻译任务的模型。这项工作的主要贡献在培训NMT模型期间评估不同的数据增强方法。我提出了5种不同的增强方法，这些方法是结构感知的，这意味着而不是随机选择用于消隐或替换的单词，句子的依赖树用作增强的基础。我首先关于神经网络的详细文献综述，顺序建模，神经机翻译，依赖解析和数据增强。经过详细的探索性数据分析和Hunglish2语料库的预处理之后，我使用所提出的数据增强技术进行实验。匈牙利语的最佳型号达到了33.9的BLEU得分，而英国匈牙利最好的模型达到了28.6的BLEU得分。