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.

The ability to associate touch with sight is essential for tasks that require physically interacting with objects in the world. We propose a dataset with paired visual and tactile data called Touch and Go, in which human data collectors probe objects in natural environments using tactile sensors, while simultaneously recording egocentric video. In contrast to previous efforts, which have largely been confined to lab settings or simulated environments, our dataset spans a large number of "in the wild" objects and scenes. To demonstrate our dataset's effectiveness, we successfully apply it to a variety of tasks: 1) self-supervised visuo-tactile feature learning, 2) tactile-driven image stylization, i.e., making the visual appearance of an object more consistent with a given tactile signal, and 3) predicting future frames of a tactile signal from visuo-tactile inputs.

对应用深神网络自动解释和分析12铅心电图（ECG）的兴趣增加了。机器学习方法的当前范例通常受到标记数据量的限制。对于临床上的数据，这种现象尤其有问题，在该数据中，根据所需的专业知识和人类努力，规模标签可能是耗时且昂贵的。此外，深度学习分类器可能容易受到对抗性例子和扰动的影响，例如在医疗，临床试验或保险索赔的背景下应用时，可能会带来灾难性的后果。在本文中，我们提出了一种受生理启发的数据增强方法，以提高性能并根据ECG信号提高心脏病检测的鲁棒性。我们通过将数据分布驱动到瓦斯坦斯坦空间中的大地测量中的其他类别来获得增强样品。为了更好地利用领域特定的知识，我们设计了一个基础指标，该指标识别基于生理确定的特征的ECG信号之间的差异。从12铅ECG信号中学习，我们的模型能够区分五种心脏条件。我们的结果表明，准确性和鲁棒性的提高，反映了我们数据增强方法的有效性。

有效的骨干网络对于基于深度学习的可变形医学图像注册（DMIR）很重要，因为它可以提取和匹配两个图像之间的特征，以发现互联网的相互对应。但是，现有的深网关注单图像，并且在配对图像上执行的注册任务有限。因此，我们推进了一个新型的骨干网络Xmorpher，用于DMIR中有效的相应特征表示。 1）它提出了一种新颖的完整变压器体系结构，包括双重平行特征提取网络，通过交叉注意交换信息，从而在逐渐提取相应的特征以逐渐提取最终有效注册时发现了多层次的语义对应。 2）它推进了交叉注意变压器（CAT）块，以建立图像之间的注意机制，该图像能够自动找到对应关系并提示特征在网络中有效融合。 3）它限制了基本窗口和搜索不同尺寸的窗口之间的注意力计算，因此着重于可变形注册的局部转换，并同时提高了计算效率。我们的Xmorpher没有任何铃铛和哨子，可在DSC上提高2.8％的素孔，以证明其对DMIR中配对图像的特征的有效表示。我们认为，我们的Xmorpher在更多配对的医学图像中具有巨大的应用潜力。我们的Xmorpher在https://github.com/solemoon/xmorpher上开放

语言模型既展示了定量的改进，又展示了新的定性功能，随着规模的增加。尽管它们具有潜在的变革性影响，但这些新能力的特征却很差。为了为未来的研究提供信息，为破坏性的新模型能力做准备，并改善社会有害的效果，至关重要的是，我们必须了解目前和近乎未来的能力和语言模型的局限性。为了应对这一挑战，我们介绍了超越模仿游戏基准（Big Bench）。 Big Bench目前由204个任务组成，由132家机构的442位作者贡献。任务主题是多样的，从语言学，儿童发展，数学，常识性推理，生物学，物理学，社会偏见，软件开发等等。 Big-Bench专注于被认为超出当前语言模型的功能的任务。我们评估了OpenAI的GPT型号，Google内部密集变压器体系结构和大型基础上的开关稀疏变压器的行为，跨越了数百万到数十亿个参数。此外，一个人类专家评估者团队执行了所有任务，以提供强大的基准。研究结果包括：模型性能和校准都随规模改善，但绝对的术语（以及与评估者的性能相比）；在模型类中的性能非常相似，尽管带有稀疏性。逐渐和预测的任务通常涉及大量知识或记忆成分，而在临界规模上表现出“突破性”行为的任务通常涉及多个步骤或组成部分或脆性指标；社交偏见通常会随着含糊不清的环境而随着规模而增加，但这可以通过提示来改善。

Context-aware decision support in the operating room can foster surgical safety and efficiency by leveraging real-time feedback from surgical workflow analysis. Most existing works recognize surgical activities at a coarse-grained level, such as phases, steps or events, leaving out fine-grained interaction details about the surgical activity; yet those are needed for more helpful AI assistance in the operating room. Recognizing surgical actions as triplets of <instrument, verb, target> combination delivers comprehensive details about the activities taking place in surgical videos. This paper presents CholecTriplet2021: an endoscopic vision challenge organized at MICCAI 2021 for the recognition of surgical action triplets in laparoscopic videos. The challenge granted private access to the large-scale CholecT50 dataset, which is annotated with action triplet information. In this paper, we present the challenge setup and assessment of the state-of-the-art deep learning methods proposed by the participants during the challenge. A total of 4 baseline methods from the challenge organizers and 19 new deep learning algorithms by competing teams are presented to recognize surgical action triplets directly from surgical videos, achieving mean average precision (mAP) ranging from 4.2% to 38.1%. This study also analyzes the significance of the results obtained by the presented approaches, performs a thorough methodological comparison between them, in-depth result analysis, and proposes a novel ensemble method for enhanced recognition. Our analysis shows that surgical workflow analysis is not yet solved, and also highlights interesting directions for future research on fine-grained surgical activity recognition which is of utmost importance for the development of AI in surgery.

来自结构数据的自然语言生成主要侧重于表面级描述，患有无法控制的内容选择和低保真度。以前的作品利用逻辑表格来促进逻辑知识条件文本生成。虽然取得了显着的进步，但它们是数据饥饿的，这使得通过有限的数据充分利用现实应用程序。为此，本文提出了几次拍摄设置中的逻辑知识条件文本生成的统一框架。只有少量种子逻辑形式（例如，20/100拍摄），我们的方法利用自我训练和样本伪逻辑形式，基于内容和结构一致性。实验结果表明，我们的方法可以比基线获得更好的少量表现。

GPT-2和BERT展示了在各种自然语言处理任务上使用预训练的语言模型（LMS）的有效性。但是，在应用于资源丰富的任务时，LM微调通常会遭受灾难性的遗忘。在这项工作中，我们引入了一个协同的培训框架（CTNMT），该框架是将预训练的LMS集成到神经机器翻译（NMT）的关键。我们提出的CTNMT包括三种技术：a）渐近蒸馏，以确保NMT模型可以保留先前的预训练知识； b）动态的开关门，以避免灾难性忘记预训练的知识； c）根据计划的政策调整学习步伐的策略。我们在机器翻译中的实验表明，WMT14英语 - 德语对的CTNMT获得了最高3个BLEU得分，甚至超过了先前的最先进的预培训辅助NMT NMT的NMT。尽管对于大型WMT14英语法国任务，有400万句话，但我们的基本模型仍然可以显着改善最先进的变压器大型模型，超过1个BLEU得分。代码和模型可以从https://github.com/bytedance/neurst/tree/Master/Master/examples/ctnmt下载。

Learning effective motion features is an essential pursuit of video representation learning. This paper presents a simple yet effective sample construction strategy to boost the learning of motion features in video contrastive learning. The proposed method, dubbed Motion-focused Quadruple Construction (MoQuad), augments the instance discrimination by meticulously disturbing the appearance and motion of both the positive and negative samples to create a quadruple for each video instance, such that the model is encouraged to exploit motion information. Unlike recent approaches that create extra auxiliary tasks for learning motion features or apply explicit temporal modelling, our method keeps the simple and clean contrastive learning paradigm (i.e.,SimCLR) without multi-task learning or extra modelling. In addition, we design two extra training strategies by analyzing initial MoQuad experiments. By simply applying MoQuad to SimCLR, extensive experiments show that we achieve superior performance on downstream tasks compared to the state of the arts. Notably, on the UCF-101 action recognition task, we achieve 93.7% accuracy after pre-training the model on Kinetics-400 for only 200 epochs, surpassing various previous methods

Despite the surprising few-shot performance of in-context learning (ICL), it is still a common practice to randomly sample examples to serve as context. This paper advocates a new principle for ICL: self-adaptive in-context learning. The self-adaption mechanism is introduced to help each sample find an in-context example permutation (i.e., selection and ordering) that can derive the correct prediction, thus maximizing performance. To validate the effectiveness of self-adaptive ICL, we propose a general select-then-rank framework and instantiate it with new selection and ranking algorithms. Upon extensive evaluation on eight different NLP datasets, our self-adaptive ICL method achieves a 40% relative improvement over the common practice setting. Further analysis reveals the enormous potential of self-adaptive ICL that it might be able to close the gap between ICL and finetuning given more advanced algorithms. Our code is released to facilitate future research in this area: https://github.com/Shark-NLP/self-adaptive-ICL