The rapid development and application of natural language generation (NLG) techniques has revolutionized the field of automatic text production. However, these techniques are still limited in their ability to produce human-like text that is truly reasonable and informative. In this paper, we explore the importance of NLG being guided by knowledge, in order to convey human-like reasoning through language generation. We propose ten goals for intelligent NLG systems to pursue, and briefly review the achievement of NLG techniques guided by knowledge and reasoning. We also conclude by envisioning future directions and challenges in the pursuit of these goals.

Given a possibly false claim sentence, how can we automatically correct it with minimal editing? Existing methods either require a large number of pairs of false and corrected claims for supervised training or do not handle well errors spanning over multiple tokens within an utterance. In this paper, we propose VENCE, a novel method for factual error correction (FEC) with minimal edits. VENCE formulates the FEC problem as iterative sampling editing actions with respect to a target density function. We carefully design the target function with predicted truthfulness scores from an offline trained fact verification model. VENCE samples the most probable editing positions based on back-calculated gradients of the truthfulness score concerning input tokens and the editing actions using a distantly-supervised language model (T5). Experiments on a public dataset show that VENCE improves the well-adopted SARI metric by 5.3 (or a relative improvement of 11.8%) over the previous best distantly-supervised methods.

纵向胎儿脑图集是理解和表征胎儿脑发育过程的复杂过程的强大工具。现有的胎儿脑图通常由离散时间点上的平均大脑图像构建，随着时间的流逝。由于样品在不同时间点的样品之间的遗传趋势差异，因此所得的地图遇到了时间不一致，这可能导致估计时间轴脑发育特征参数的误差。为此，我们提出了一个多阶段深度学习框架，以解决时间不一致问题作为4D（3D大脑体积 + 1D年龄）图像数据剥夺任务。使用隐式神经表示，我们构建了一个连续无噪声的纵向胎儿脑图集，这是4D时空坐标的函数。对两个公共胎儿脑图集（CRL和FBA-中心地图酶）的实验结果表明，所提出的方法可以显着提高Atlas时间一致性，同时保持良好的胎儿脑结构表示。另外，连续的纵向胎儿大脑图石也可以广泛应用于在空间和时间分辨率中生成更精细的4D图谱。

创建什么故事需要推理关于先前陈述以及变更条件的可能结果。人们可以在新条件下轻松生成连贯的结局，但目前系统会对原始故事进行最小的变化来挑战。因此，一个主要挑战是生成逻辑故事和用最小编辑重写之间的权衡。在本文中，我们提出了教育，这是一种基于编辑的无预测方法，用于反复重写。教育包括基于估计在线条件的因果效果的目标位置检测策略，这使故事的因果不变部分。 Bowat然后在流畅，一致性和最小编辑约束下生成故事。我们还提出了一种新的指标来缓解当前自动指标的缺点，更好地评估权衡。我们评估公共反事故事重写基准的教育。实验表明，教育根据自动和人类评估，达到了无监督的SOTA方法的最佳权衡。教育资源可用于：https：//github.com/jiangjiechen/educat。

鉴于自然语言陈述，如何验证其对维基百科这样的大型文本知识来源的准确性吗？大多数现有的神经模型在不提供关于哪一部分错误的情况下出现问题的情况下会进行预测。在本文中，我们提出了Loren，一种可解释的事实验证的方法。我们分解了在短语级别的整个索赔的验证，其中短语的真实性用作解释，可以根据逻辑规则汇总到最终判决中。 Loren的关键洞察力是将索赔词如三值潜变量代表如下，由聚合逻辑规则规范化。最终索赔验证基于所有潜在的变量。因此，Loren享有可解释性的额外好处 - 很容易解释它如何通过索赔词来达到某些结果。关于公共事实验证基准的实验表明，Loren对以前的方法具有竞争力，同时享有忠实和准确的可解释性的优点。 Loren的资源可用于：https://github.com/jiangjiechen/loren。

Deep learning models can achieve high accuracy when trained on large amounts of labeled data. However, real-world scenarios often involve several challenges: Training data may become available in installments, may originate from multiple different domains, and may not contain labels for training. Certain settings, for instance medical applications, often involve further restrictions that prohibit retention of previously seen data due to privacy regulations. In this work, to address such challenges, we study unsupervised segmentation in continual learning scenarios that involve domain shift. To that end, we introduce GarDA (Generative Appearance Replay for continual Domain Adaptation), a generative-replay based approach that can adapt a segmentation model sequentially to new domains with unlabeled data. In contrast to single-step unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), continual adaptation to a sequence of domains enables leveraging and consolidation of information from multiple domains. Unlike previous approaches in incremental UDA, our method does not require access to previously seen data, making it applicable in many practical scenarios. We evaluate GarDA on two datasets with different organs and modalities, where it substantially outperforms existing techniques.

The development of social media user stance detection and bot detection methods rely heavily on large-scale and high-quality benchmarks. However, in addition to low annotation quality, existing benchmarks generally have incomplete user relationships, suppressing graph-based account detection research. To address these issues, we propose a Multi-Relational Graph-Based Twitter Account Detection Benchmark (MGTAB), the first standardized graph-based benchmark for account detection. To our knowledge, MGTAB was built based on the largest original data in the field, with over 1.55 million users and 130 million tweets. MGTAB contains 10,199 expert-annotated users and 7 types of relationships, ensuring high-quality annotation and diversified relations. In MGTAB, we extracted the 20 user property features with the greatest information gain and user tweet features as the user features. In addition, we performed a thorough evaluation of MGTAB and other public datasets. Our experiments found that graph-based approaches are generally more effective than feature-based approaches and perform better when introducing multiple relations. By analyzing experiment results, we identify effective approaches for account detection and provide potential future research directions in this field. Our benchmark and standardized evaluation procedures are freely available at: https://github.com/GraphDetec/MGTAB.

As one of the prevalent methods to achieve automation systems, Imitation Learning (IL) presents a promising performance in a wide range of domains. However, despite the considerable improvement in policy performance, the corresponding research on the explainability of IL models is still limited. Inspired by the recent approaches in explainable artificial intelligence methods, we proposed a model-agnostic explaining framework for IL models called R2RISE. R2RISE aims to explain the overall policy performance with respect to the frames in demonstrations. It iteratively retrains the black-box IL model from the randomized masked demonstrations and uses the conventional evaluation outcome environment returns as the coefficient to build an importance map. We also conducted experiments to investigate three major questions concerning frames' importance equality, the effectiveness of the importance map, and connections between importance maps from different IL models. The result shows that R2RISE successfully distinguishes important frames from the demonstrations.

Compressed videos often exhibit visually annoying artifacts, known as Perceivable Encoding Artifacts (PEAs), which dramatically degrade video visual quality. Subjective and objective measures capable of identifying and quantifying various types of PEAs are critical in improving visual quality. In this paper, we investigate the influence of four spatial PEAs (i.e. blurring, blocking, bleeding, and ringing) and two temporal PEAs (i.e. flickering and floating) on video quality. For spatial artifacts, we propose a visual saliency model with a low computational cost and higher consistency with human visual perception. In terms of temporal artifacts, self-attention based TimeSFormer is improved to detect temporal artifacts. Based on the six types of PEAs, a quality metric called Saliency-Aware Spatio-Temporal Artifacts Measurement (SSTAM) is proposed. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art metrics. We believe that SSTAM will be beneficial for optimizing video coding techniques.

We propose a distributionally robust return-risk model for Markov decision processes (MDPs) under risk and reward ambiguity. The proposed model optimizes the weighted average of mean and percentile performances, and it covers the distributionally robust MDPs and the distributionally robust chance-constrained MDPs (both under reward ambiguity) as special cases. By considering that the unknown reward distribution lies in a Wasserstein ambiguity set, we derive the tractable reformulation for our model. In particular, we show that that the return-risk model can also account for risk from uncertain transition kernel when one only seeks deterministic policies, and that a distributionally robust MDP under the percentile criterion can be reformulated as its nominal counterpart at an adjusted risk level. A scalable first-order algorithm is designed to solve large-scale problems, and we demonstrate the advantages of our proposed model and algorithm through numerical experiments.