Recognizing handwriting images is challenging due to the vast variation in writing style across many people and distinct linguistic aspects of writing languages. In Vietnamese, besides the modern Latin characters, there are accent and letter marks together with characters that draw confusion to state-of-the-art handwriting recognition methods. Moreover, as a low-resource language, there are not many datasets for researching handwriting recognition in Vietnamese, which makes handwriting recognition in this language have a barrier for researchers to approach. Recent works evaluated offline handwriting recognition methods in Vietnamese using images from an online handwriting dataset constructed by connecting pen stroke coordinates without further processing. This approach obviously can not measure the ability of recognition methods effectively, as it is trivial and may be lack of features that are essential in offline handwriting images. Therefore, in this paper, we propose the Transferring method to construct a handwriting image dataset that associates crucial natural attributes required for offline handwriting images. Using our method, we provide a first high-quality synthetic dataset which is complex and natural for efficiently evaluating handwriting recognition methods. In addition, we conduct experiments with various state-of-the-art methods to figure out the challenge to reach the solution for handwriting recognition in Vietnamese.

文本分类是具有各种有趣应用程序的典型自然语言处理或计算语言学任务。随着社交媒体平台上的用户数量的增加，数据加速促进了有关社交媒体文本分类（SMTC）或社交媒体文本挖掘的新兴研究。与英语相比，越南人是低资源语言之一，仍然没有集中精力并彻底利用。受胶水成功的启发，我们介绍了社交媒体文本分类评估（SMTCE）基准，作为各种SMTC任务的数据集和模型的集合。借助拟议的基准，我们实施和分析了各种基于BERT的模型（Mbert，XLM-R和Distilmbert）和基于单语的BERT模型（Phobert，Vibert，Vibert，Velectra和Vibert4news）的有效性SMTCE基准。单语模型优于多语言模型，并实现所有文本分类任务的最新结果。它提供了基于基准的多语言和单语言模型的客观评估，该模型将使越南语言中有关贝尔特兰的未来研究有利。

本文报道的研究通过应用计算机视觉技术将普通的垃圾桶转化为更聪明的垃圾箱。在传感器和执行器设备的支持下，垃圾桶可以自动对垃圾进行分类。特别是，垃圾箱上的摄像头拍摄垃圾的照片，然后进行中央处理单元分析，并决定将垃圾桶放入哪个垃圾箱中。我们的垃圾箱系统的准确性达到90％。此外，我们的模型已连接到Internet，以更新垃圾箱状态以进行进一步管理。开发了用于管理垃圾箱的移动应用程序。

近年来，问题回答（QA）系统引起了爆炸性的关注。但是，越南语中的质量检查任务没有很多数据集。值得注意的是，医疗域中大多没有数据集。因此，我们为回答数据集（VIHealthQA）建立了一个越南医疗保健问题，其中包括10,015个问题 - 答案段落对，以实现这项任务，其中在享有盛名的健康网站上问了来自健康利益的用户的问题，并在享有资格的专家中得到了答案。本文提出了一个基于句子 - 伯特（Sbert）的两阶段质量检查系统，使用多个负损失（MNR）损失与BM25结合在一起。然后，我们使用许多单词范围的模型进行多种实验，以评估系统的性能。通过获得的结果，该系统的性能比传统方法更好。

问题回答（QA）是信息检索和信息提取领域内的一项自然理解任务，由于基于机器阅读理解的模型的强劲发展，近年来，近年来，近年来的计算语言学和人工智能研究社区引起了很多关注。基于读者的质量检查系统是一种高级搜索引擎，可以使用机器阅读理解（MRC）技术在开放域或特定领域特定文本中找到正确的查询或问题的答案。 MRC和QA系统中的数据资源和机器学习方法的大多数进步尤其是在两种资源丰富的语言中显着开发的，例如英语和中文。像越南人这样的低资源语言见证了关于质量检查系统的稀缺研究。本文介绍了XLMRQA，这是第一个在基于Wikipedia的文本知识源（使用UIT-Viquad语料库）上使用基于变压器的读取器的越南质量检查系统，使用深​​层神经网络模型优于DRQA和BERTSERINI，优于两个可靠的QA系统分别为24.46％和6.28％。从三个系统获得的结果中，我们分析了问题类型对质量检查系统性能的影响。

在计算语言学和自然语言处理的应用方面，中文字分割和语音标记是必要的任务。许多重新搜索者仍然辩论对深度学习时代中汉语词组和演讲的一部分。尽管如此，解决歧义并检测到未知词是挑战这一领域的问题。以前关于联合中文分割和语音标记的研究主要遵循关注的基于角色的标记模型，专注于模拟n-gram功能。与以前的作品不同，我们提出了一个名为SpanseGtag的神经模型，用于联合中文字分割和跨度标记之后的语音标记，其中每个n克是单词和词语标签的概率是主要的问题。我们在连续字符的左边和右边界表示的左边和右边界表示中使用双重边界表示来模拟n-gram。我们的实验表明，我们的BERT基模型SPANSEGTAG在CTB5，CTB6和UD上实现了竞争性能，或者使用BERT或ZEN编码器的当前最先进的方法对CTB7和CTB9基准数据集进行了显着改进。

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.

In heterogeneous networks (HetNets), the overlap of small cells and the macro cell causes severe cross-tier interference. Although there exist some approaches to address this problem, they usually require global channel state information, which is hard to obtain in practice, and get the sub-optimal power allocation policy with high computational complexity. To overcome these limitations, we propose a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) based power control scheme for the HetNet, where each access point makes power control decisions independently based on local information. To promote cooperation among agents, we develop a penalty-based Q learning (PQL) algorithm for MADRL systems. By introducing regularization terms in the loss function, each agent tends to choose an experienced action with high reward when revisiting a state, and thus the policy updating speed slows down. In this way, an agent's policy can be learned by other agents more easily, resulting in a more efficient collaboration process. We then implement the proposed PQL in the considered HetNet and compare it with other distributed-training-and-execution (DTE) algorithms. Simulation results show that our proposed PQL can learn the desired power control policy from a dynamic environment where the locations of users change episodically and outperform existing DTE MADRL algorithms.

Classical differential private DP-SGD implements individual clipping with random subsampling, which forces a mini-batch SGD approach. We provide a general differential private algorithmic framework that goes beyond DP-SGD and allows any possible first order optimizers (e.g., classical SGD and momentum based SGD approaches) in combination with batch clipping, which clips an aggregate of computed gradients rather than summing clipped gradients (as is done in individual clipping). The framework also admits sampling techniques beyond random subsampling such as shuffling. Our DP analysis follows the $f$-DP approach and introduces a new proof technique which allows us to also analyse group privacy. In particular, for $E$ epochs work and groups of size $g$, we show a $\sqrt{g E}$ DP dependency for batch clipping with shuffling. This is much better than the previously anticipated linear dependency in $g$ and is much better than the previously expected square root dependency on the total number of rounds within $E$ epochs which is generally much more than $\sqrt{E}$.

Event Detection (ED) is the task of identifying and classifying trigger words of event mentions in text. Despite considerable research efforts in recent years for English text, the task of ED in other languages has been significantly less explored. Switching to non-English languages, important research questions for ED include how well existing ED models perform on different languages, how challenging ED is in other languages, and how well ED knowledge and annotation can be transferred across languages. To answer those questions, it is crucial to obtain multilingual ED datasets that provide consistent event annotation for multiple languages. There exist some multilingual ED datasets; however, they tend to cover a handful of languages and mainly focus on popular ones. Many languages are not covered in existing multilingual ED datasets. In addition, the current datasets are often small and not accessible to the public. To overcome those shortcomings, we introduce a new large-scale multilingual dataset for ED (called MINION) that consistently annotates events for 8 different languages; 5 of them have not been supported by existing multilingual datasets. We also perform extensive experiments and analysis to demonstrate the challenges and transferability of ED across languages in MINION that in all call for more research effort in this area.