A growing ecosystem of large, open-source foundation models has reduced the labeled data and technical expertise necessary to apply machine learning to many new problems. Yet foundation models pose a clear dual-use risk, indiscriminately reducing the costs of building both harmful and beneficial machine learning systems. To mitigate this risk, we propose the task blocking paradigm, in which foundation models are trained with an additional mechanism to impede adaptation to harmful tasks while retaining good performance on desired tasks. We call the resulting models self-destructing models, inspired by mechanisms that prevent adversaries from using tools for harmful purposes. We present an algorithm for training self-destructing models leveraging techniques from meta-learning and adversarial learning, showing that it can largely prevent a BERT-based model from learning to perform gender identification without harming the model's ability to perform profession classification. We conclude with a discussion of future directions.

A recent family of techniques, dubbed lightweight fine-tuning methods, facilitates parameter-efficient transfer learning by updating only a small set of additional parameters while keeping the parameters of the pretrained language model frozen. While proven to be an effective method, there are no existing studies on if and how such knowledge of the downstream fine-tuning approach should affect the pretraining stage. In this work, we show that taking the ultimate choice of fine-tuning method into consideration boosts the performance of parameter-efficient fine-tuning. By relying on optimization-based meta-learning using MAML with certain modifications for our distinct purpose, we prime the pretrained model specifically for parameter-efficient fine-tuning, resulting in gains of up to 1.7 points on cross-lingual NER fine-tuning. Our ablation settings and analyses further reveal that the tweaks we introduce in MAML are crucial for the attained gains.

我们介绍了SubGD，这是一种新颖的几声学习方法，基于最近的发现，即随机梯度下降更新往往生活在低维参数子空间中。在实验和理论分析中，我们表明模型局限于合适的预定义子空间，可以很好地推广用于几次学习。合适的子空间符合给定任务的三个标准：IT（a）允许通过梯度流量减少训练误差，（b）导致模型良好的模型，并且（c）可以通过随机梯度下降来识别。 SUBGD从不同任务的更新说明的自动相关矩阵的特征组合中标识了这些子空间。明确的是，我们可以识别出低维合适的子空间，用于对动态系统的几次学习，而动态系统具有不同的属性，这些属性由分析系统描述的一个或几个参数描述。这种系统在科学和工程领域的现实应用程序中无处不在。我们在实验中证实了SubGD在三个不同的动态系统问题设置上的优势，在样本效率和性能方面，均超过了流行的几次学习方法。

模型不合时宜的元学习（MAML）可以说是当今最流行的元学习算法之一。然而，它在几次分类上的性能远远远远远远远远远远远远远远落在许多致力于该问题的算法。在本文中，我们指出了如何训练MAML以进行几次分类的几个关键方面。首先，我们发现MAML在其内部循环更新中需要大量的梯度步骤，这与其常见的用法相矛盾。其次，我们发现MAML对元测试过程中的类标签分配敏感。具体而言，MAML Meta-Trains $ n$道分类器的初始化。这些$ n $方式，在元测试期间，然后具有“ $ n！$”的“ $ n！$”排列，并与$ n $新颖的课程配对。我们发现这些排列会导致巨大的准确性差异，从而使MAML不稳定。第三，我们研究了几种使MAML置换不变的方法，其中元训练单个向量以初始化分类头中的所有$ n $重量矢量的初始化。在Miniimagenet和Tieredimagenet等基准数据集上，我们命名Unicorn-MAML的方法在不牺牲MAML的简单性的情况下以与许多最近的几杆分类算法相同甚至优于许多近期的几个次数分类算法。

几乎没有射击的内在学习（ICL）使预训练的语言模型能够通过为输入的一部分提供少量的培训示例来执行以前的任务，而无需任何基于梯度的培训。 ICL会产生大量的计算，内存和存储成本，因为它每次进行预测时都涉及处理所有培训示例。参数有效的微调（PEFT）（例如，适配器模块，提示调谐，稀疏更新方法等）提供了替代范式，其中训练了一组少量参数以启用模型来执行新任务。在本文中，我们严格地比较了几个ICL和PEFT，并证明后者提供了更好的准确性，并大大降低了计算成本。在此过程中，我们引入了一种称为（IA）$^3 $的新PEFT方法，该方法通过学习的向量来扩展激活，从而获得更强的性能，同时仅引入相对少量的新参数。我们还提出了一个基于称为T-FEW的T0模型的简单食谱，可以将其应用于新任务，而无需特定于任务的调整或修改。我们通过将T-FEW应用于木筏基准，首次实现超人性能，并以6％的绝对性能优于最先进的方法来验证T-FEW对完全看不见的任务的有效性。我们实验中使用的所有代码均可公开使用。

Few-shot learning (FSL) is a central problem in meta-learning, where learners must efficiently learn from few labeled examples. Within FSL, feature pre-training has recently become an increasingly popular strategy to significantly improve generalization performance. However, the contribution of pre-training is often overlooked and understudied, with limited theoretical understanding of its impact on meta-learning performance. Further, pre-training requires a consistent set of global labels shared across training tasks, which may be unavailable in practice. In this work, we address the above issues by first showing the connection between pre-training and meta-learning. We discuss why pre-training yields more robust meta-representation and connect the theoretical analysis to existing works and empirical results. Secondly, we introduce Meta Label Learning (MeLa), a novel meta-learning algorithm that learns task relations by inferring global labels across tasks. This allows us to exploit pre-training for FSL even when global labels are unavailable or ill-defined. Lastly, we introduce an augmented pre-training procedure that further improves the learned meta-representation. Empirically, MeLa outperforms existing methods across a diverse range of benchmarks, in particular under a more challenging setting where the number of training tasks is limited and labels are task-specific. We also provide extensive ablation study to highlight its key properties.

深入学习的强化学习（RL）的结合导致了一系列令人印象深刻的壮举，许多相信（深）RL提供了一般能力的代理。然而，RL代理商的成功往往对培训过程中的设计选择非常敏感，这可能需要繁琐和易于易于的手动调整。这使得利用RL对新问题充满挑战，同时也限制了其全部潜力。在许多其他机器学习领域，AutomL已经示出了可以自动化这样的设计选择，并且在应用于RL时也会产生有希望的初始结果。然而，自动化强化学习（AutorL）不仅涉及Automl的标准应用，而且还包括RL独特的额外挑战，其自然地产生了不同的方法。因此，Autorl已成为RL中的一个重要研究领域，提供来自RNA设计的各种应用中的承诺，以便玩游戏等游戏。鉴于RL中考虑的方法和环境的多样性，在不同的子领域进行了大部分研究，从Meta学习到进化。在这项调查中，我们寻求统一自动的领域，我们提供常见的分类法，详细讨论每个区域并对研究人员来说是一个兴趣的开放问题。

We demonstrate that scaling up language models greatly improves task-agnostic, few-shot performance, sometimes even becoming competitive with prior state-ofthe-art fine-tuning approaches. Specifically, we train GPT-3, an autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters, 10x more than any previous nonsparse language model, and test its performance in the few-shot setting. For all tasks, GPT-3 is applied without any gradient updates or fine-tuning, with tasks and few-shot demonstrations specified purely via text interaction with the model. GPT-3 achieves strong performance on many NLP datasets, including translation, question-answering, and cloze tasks. We also identify some datasets where GPT-3's few-shot learning still struggles, as well as some datasets where GPT-3 faces methodological issues related to training on large web corpora.

最近，已经观察到，转移学习解决方案可能是我们解决许多少量学习基准的全部 - 因此提出了有关何时以及如何部署元学习算法的重要问题。在本文中，我们试图通过1.提出一个新颖的指标（多样性系数）来阐明这些问题，以测量几次学习基准和2.的任务多样性。 ）并在公平条件下进行学习（相同的体系结构，相同的优化器和所有经过培训的模型）。使用多样性系数，我们表明流行的迷你胶原和Cifar-fs几乎没有学习基准的多样性低。这种新颖的洞察力将转移学习解决方案比在公平比较的低多样性方面的元学习解决方案更好。具体而言，我们从经验上发现，低多样性系数与转移学习和MAML学习解决方案之间的高相似性在元测试时间和分类层相似性方面（使用基于特征的距离指标，例如SVCCA，PWCCA，CKA和OPD） ）。为了进一步支持我们的主张，我们发现这种元测试的准确性仍然存在，即使模型大小变化也是如此。因此，我们得出的结论是，在低多样性制度中，MAML和转移学习在公平比较时具有等效的元检验性能。我们也希望我们的工作激发了对元学习基准测试基准的更周到的结构和定量评估。

We propose an algorithm for meta-learning that is model-agnostic, in the sense that it is compatible with any model trained with gradient descent and applicable to a variety of different learning problems, including classification, regression, and reinforcement learning. The goal of meta-learning is to train a model on a variety of learning tasks, such that it can solve new learning tasks using only a small number of training samples. In our approach, the parameters of the model are explicitly trained such that a small number of gradient steps with a small amount of training data from a new task will produce good generalization performance on that task. In effect, our method trains the model to be easy to fine-tune. We demonstrate that this approach leads to state-of-the-art performance on two fewshot image classification benchmarks, produces good results on few-shot regression, and accelerates fine-tuning for policy gradient reinforcement learning with neural network policies.

从自然语言监督中学习视觉表示，最近在许多开创性的作品中表现出了巨大的希望。通常，这些具有语言的视觉模型表现出对各种数据集和任务的强大可传递性。但是，由于缺乏易于使用的评估工具包和公共基准，评估这些模型的可转让性仍然很具有挑战性。为了解决这个问题，我们构建了高级版（评估语言的视觉任务级传输），这是用于评估（预训练）语言增强视觉模型的第一个基准和工具包。升华由三个组成部分组成。 （i）数据集。作为下游评估套件，它由20个图像分类数据集和35个对象检测数据集组成，每个数据集都用外部知识来增强。 （ii）工具包。开发了自动高参数调谐工具包，以促进下游任务的模型评估。 （iii）指标。多种评估指标用于测量样品效率（零射击和少量）和参数效率（线性探测和完整模型微调）。我们在https://computer-vision-in-the-wild.github.io/elevater/上公开发布leverater

State-of-the-art computer vision systems are trained to predict a fixed set of predetermined object categories. This restricted form of supervision limits their generality and usability since additional labeled data is needed to specify any other visual concept. Learning directly from raw text about images is a promising alternative which leverages a much broader source of supervision. We demonstrate that the simple pre-training task of predicting which caption goes with which image is an efficient and scalable way to learn SOTA image representations from scratch on a dataset of 400 million (image, text) pairs collected from the internet. After pre-training, natural language is used to reference learned visual concepts (or describe new ones) enabling zero-shot transfer of the model to downstream tasks. We study the performance of this approach by benchmarking on over 30 different existing computer vision datasets, spanning tasks such as OCR, action recognition in videos, geo-localization, and many types of fine-grained object classification. The model transfers non-trivially to most tasks and is often competitive with a fully supervised baseline without the need for any dataset specific training. For instance, we match the accuracy of the original ResNet-50 on ImageNet zero-shot without needing to use any of the 1.28 million training examples it was trained on. We release our code and pre-trained model weights at https://github.com/OpenAI/CLIP.

A central capability of intelligent systems is the ability to continuously build upon previous experiences to speed up and enhance learning of new tasks. Two distinct research paradigms have studied this question. Meta-learning views this problem as learning a prior over model parameters that is amenable for fast adaptation on a new task, but typically assumes the tasks are available together as a batch. In contrast, online (regret based) learning considers a setting where tasks are revealed one after the other, but conventionally trains a single model without task-specific adaptation. This work introduces an online meta-learning setting, which merges ideas from both paradigms to better capture the spirit and practice of continual lifelong learning. We propose the follow the meta leader (FTML) algorithm which extends the MAML algorithm to this setting. Theoretically, this work provides an O(log T ) regret guarantee with one additional higher order smoothness assumption (in comparison to the standard online setting). Our experimental evaluation on three different largescale problems suggest that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms alternatives based on traditional online learning approaches.

尽管大型预训练的模型已在各种下游任务上取得了令人印象深刻的结果，但最大的现有模型仍然会犯错，甚至准确的预测可能会随着时间的流逝而过时。因为在训练时间检测所有此类故障是不可能的，因此可以使此类模型的开发人员和最终用户能够纠正不准确的输出，同时希望将模型保持完整。但是，大型神经网络学到的表示形式的分布式黑盒性质使得产生这种目标编辑困难。如果仅出现单个有问题的输入和新的所需输出，则微调方法往往过于fit。当应用于非常大的模型时，其他编辑算法在计算上是不可行的，要么简单地无效。为了启用大规模的简单事后编辑，我们建议使用梯度分解（MEND）提出模型编辑器网络，该网络是一个小型辅助编辑网络的集合，该网络使用单个所需的输入输出对将快速的本地编辑对预先训练的模型进行快速的本地编辑。行为。 MEND学习使用标准微调获得的梯度，使用梯度的低排放分解来使该转换可牵引的参数化。即使在100亿+参数模型中，也可以在不到一天的时间内对单个GPU进行修订；经过训练的修补后，可以将新编辑快速应用于预训练的模型。我们对T5，GPT，BERT和BART模型的实验表明，MEND是模型编辑的唯一方法，该方法有效地编辑了具有超过100亿参数的模型的行为。代码和数据可在https://sites.google.com/view/mend-editing。

最近的工作表明，我们需要解决许多射门学习基准的所有嵌入。此外，其他工作强烈建议，模型不可知的元学习（MAML）也通过这种相同的方法工作 - 通过学习良好的嵌入方式。这些观察结果突出了我们对Meta学习算法正在做的事情和工作时缺乏了解。在这项工作中，我们提供了对META学习的MAML表示函数的函数的一些实证结果。特别是，我们确定三个有趣的属性：1）与之前的工作相比，我们表明可以定义一系列导致低特征重复使用的合成基准组合 - 表明当前几次拍摄的学习基准可能没有元学习算法的成功所需的属性; 2）当课程（或概念）的数量是有限的时，发生了元过度装箱，并且在任务中有一个无限数量的概念（例如，在线学习），这个问题消失了; 3）使用MAML的META测试时间的更多适应性不一定导致显着的表示变化甚至可以提高META-TEST性能 - 即使在我们提出的合成基准测试中培训。最后，我们建议要更好地了解元学习算法，我们必须超越追踪绝对性能，另外，正式量化元学习的程度并将两个指标一起追踪。以后的工作报告结果，这种方式将帮助我们更准确地确定元过度装箱的来源，并帮助我们设计更灵活的元学习算法，这些算法学习超出固定功能重复使用。最后，我们猜测重新思考元学习的核心挑战是在设计少量学习数据集和基准中的设计中 - 而不是在算法中，如以前的工作所示。

我们开发了一种新的持续元学习方法，以解决连续多任务学习中的挑战。在此设置中，代理商的目标是快速通过任何任务序列实现高奖励。先前的Meta-Creenifiltive学习算法已经表现出有希望加速收购新任务的结果。但是，他们需要在培训期间访问所有任务。除了简单地将过去的经验转移到新任务，我们的目标是设计学习学习的持续加强学习算法，使用他们以前任务的经验更快地学习新任务。我们介绍了一种新的方法，连续的元策略搜索（Comps），通过以增量方式，在序列中的每个任务上，通过序列的每个任务来消除此限制，而无需重新访问先前的任务。 Comps持续重复两个子程序：使用RL学习新任务，并使用RL的经验完全离线Meta学习，为后续任务学习做好准备。我们发现，在若干挑战性连续控制任务的旧序列上，Comps优于持续的持续学习和非政策元增强方法。

Automated Program Repair (APR) is defined as the process of fixing a bug/defect in the source code, by an automated tool. APR tools have recently experienced promising results by leveraging state-of-the-art Neural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. APR tools such as TFix and CodeXGLUE combine text-to-text transformers with software-specific techniques are outperforming alternatives, these days. However, in most APR studies the train and test sets are chosen from the same set of projects. In reality, however, APR models are meant to be generalizable to new and different projects. Therefore, there is a potential threat that reported APR models with high effectiveness perform poorly when the characteristics of the new project or its bugs are different than the training set's(Domain Shift). In this study, we first define and measure the domain shift problem in automated program repair. Then, we then propose a domain adaptation framework that can adapt an APR model for a given target project. We conduct an empirical study with three domain adaptation methods FullFineTuning, TuningWithLightWeightAdapterLayers, and CurriculumLearning using two state-of-the-art domain adaptation tools (TFix and CodeXGLUE) and two APR models on 611 bugs from 19 projects. The results show that our proposed framework can improve the effectiveness of TFix by 13.05% and CodeXGLUE by 23.4%. Another contribution of this study is the proposal of a data synthesis method to address the lack of labelled data in APR. We leverage transformers to create a bug generator model. We use the generated synthetic data to domain adapt TFix and CodeXGLUE on the projects with no data (Zero-shot learning), which results in an average improvement of 5.76% and 24.42% for TFix and CodeXGLUE, respectively.

在推荐系统中，一个普遍的挑战是冷门问题，在系统中，相互作用非常有限。为了应对这一挑战，最近，许多作品将元优化的想法介绍到建议方案中，即学习仅通过过去的几个交互项目来学习用户偏好。核心想法是为所有用户学习全局共享的元启动参数，并分别为每个用户迅速调整其本地参数。他们的目的是在各种用户的偏好学习中得出一般知识，以便通过博学的先验和少量培训数据迅速适应未来的新用户。但是，以前的作品表明，推荐系统通常容易受到偏见和不公平的影响。尽管元学习成功地通过冷启动提高了推荐性能，但公平性问题在很大程度上被忽略了。在本文中，我们提出了一个名为Clover的全面的公平元学习框架，以确保元学习的推荐模型的公平性。我们系统地研究了三种公平性 - 个人公平，反事实公平和推荐系统中的群体公平，并建议通过多任务对抗学习方案满足所有三种类型。我们的框架提供了一种通用的培训范式，适用于不同的元学习推荐系统。我们证明了三叶草对三个现实世界数据集的代表性元学习用户偏好估计器的有效性。经验结果表明，三叶草可以实现全面的公平性，而不会恶化整体的冷淡建议性能。

Few-shot learning aims to fast adapt a deep model from a few examples. While pre-training and meta-training can create deep models powerful for few-shot generalization, we find that pre-training and meta-training focuses respectively on cross-domain transferability and cross-task transferability, which restricts their data efficiency in the entangled settings of domain shift and task shift. We thus propose the Omni-Training framework to seamlessly bridge pre-training and meta-training for data-efficient few-shot learning. Our first contribution is a tri-flow Omni-Net architecture. Besides the joint representation flow, Omni-Net introduces two parallel flows for pre-training and meta-training, responsible for improving domain transferability and task transferability respectively. Omni-Net further coordinates the parallel flows by routing their representations via the joint-flow, enabling knowledge transfer across flows. Our second contribution is the Omni-Loss, which introduces a self-distillation strategy separately on the pre-training and meta-training objectives for boosting knowledge transfer throughout different training stages. Omni-Training is a general framework to accommodate many existing algorithms. Evaluations justify that our single framework consistently and clearly outperforms the individual state-of-the-art methods on both cross-task and cross-domain settings in a variety of classification, regression and reinforcement learning problems.

Despite being responsible for state-of-the-art results in several computer vision and natural language processing tasks, neural networks have faced harsh criticism due to some of their current shortcomings. One of them is that neural networks are correlation machines prone to model biases within the data instead of focusing on actual useful causal relationships. This problem is particularly serious in application domains affected by aspects such as race, gender, and age. To prevent models from incurring on unfair decision-making, the AI community has concentrated efforts in correcting algorithmic biases, giving rise to the research area now widely known as fairness in AI. In this survey paper, we provide an in-depth overview of the main debiasing methods for fairness-aware neural networks in the context of vision and language research. We propose a novel taxonomy to better organize the literature on debiasing methods for fairness, and we discuss the current challenges, trends, and important future work directions for the interested researcher and practitioner.