Recently, there has been increasing interest in synthesizing data to improve downstream text-to-SQL tasks. In this paper, we first examined the existing synthesized datasets and discovered that state-of-the-art text-to-SQL algorithms did not further improve on popular benchmarks when trained with augmented synthetic data. We observed two shortcomings: illogical synthetic SQL queries from independent column sampling and arbitrary table joins. To address these issues, we propose a novel synthesis framework that incorporates key relationships from schema, imposes strong typing, and conducts schema-distance-weighted column sampling. We also adopt an intermediate representation (IR) for the SQL-to-text task to further improve the quality of the generated natural language questions. When existing powerful semantic parsers are pre-finetuned on our high-quality synthesized data, our experiments show that these models have significant accuracy boosts on popular benchmarks, including new state-of-the-art performance on Spider.

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 security of artificial intelligence (AI) is an important research area towards safe, reliable, and trustworthy AI systems. To accelerate the research on AI security, the Artificial Intelligence Security Competition (AISC) was organized by the Zhongguancun Laboratory, China Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University, and RealAI as part of the Zhongguancun International Frontier Technology Innovation Competition (https://www.zgc-aisc.com/en). The competition consists of three tracks, including Deepfake Security Competition, Autonomous Driving Security Competition, and Face Recognition Security Competition. This report will introduce the competition rules of these three tracks and the solutions of top-ranking teams in each track.

The effective application of contrastive learning technology in natural language processing tasks shows the superiority of contrastive learning in text analysis tasks. How to construct positive and negative samples correctly and reasonably is the core challenge of contrastive learning. Since it is difficult to construct contrastive objects in multi-label multi-classification tasks, there are few contrastive losses for multi-label multi-classification text classification. In this paper, we propose five contrastive losses for multi-label multi-classification tasks. They are Strict Contrastive Loss (SCL), Intra-label Contrastive Loss (ICL), Jaccard Similarity Contrastive Loss (JSCL), and Jaccard Similarity Probability Contrastive Loss (JSPCL) and Stepwise Label Contrastive Loss (SLCL). We explore the effectiveness of contrastive learning for multi-label multi-classification tasks under different strategies, and provide a set of baseline methods for contrastive learning techniques on multi-label classification tasks. We also perform an interpretability analysis of our approach to show how different contrastive learning methods play their roles. The experimental results in this paper demonstrate that our proposed contrastive losses can bring some improvement for multi-label multi-classification tasks. Our work reveal how to "appropriately" change the contrastive way of contrastive learning is the key idea to improve the adaptability of contrastive learning in multi-label multi-classification tasks.

图形神经网络（GNNS）由于其强大的表示能力而广泛用于图形结构化数据处理。通常认为，GNNS可以隐式消除非预测性的噪音。但是，对图神经网络中隐式降解作用的分析仍然开放。在这项工作中，我们进行了一项全面的理论研究，并分析了隐式denoising在GNN中发生的何时以及为什么发生。具体而言，我们研究噪声矩阵的收敛性。我们的理论分析表明，隐式转化很大程度上取决于连接性，图形大小和GNN体系结构。此外，我们通过扩展图形信号降解问题来正式定义并提出对抗图信号denoising（AGSD）问题。通过解决这样的问题，我们得出了一个可靠的图形卷积，可以增强节点表示的平滑度和隐式转化效果。广泛的经验评估验证了我们的理论分析和我们提出的模型的有效性。

时间动作细分（TAS）是迈向长期视频理解的关键一步。最近的研究遵循了一种基于功能而不是原始视频图片信息的模型的模型。但是，我们声称这些模型经过复杂的训练并限制了应用程序场景。他们很难实时细分视频的人类动作，因为它们必须在提取完整的视频功能之后工作。由于实时操作分割任务与TAS任务不同，因此我们将其定义为流视频实时时间动作分割（SVTAS）任务。在本文中，我们为SVTAS任务提出了一个实时的端到端多模式模型。更具体地说，在我们无法获得任何未来信息的情况下，我们将当前的人类实时流式传输视频块的行动进行了分割。此外，我们提出的模型将语言模型提取的最后一个蒸汽视频块功能与图像模型提取的当前图像功能提取，以提高实时时间动作分割的数量。据我们所知，这是第一个多模式的实时时间动作分割模型。在与完整视频时间动作分段的相同评估标准下，我们的模型实时段落的人类行动不到40％的最先进模型计算，并达到了完整视频最新准确性的90％的准确性艺术模型。

知识蒸馏是将知识从强大的教师转移到有效的学生模型的有效方法。理想情况下，我们希望老师越好，学生越好。但是，这种期望并不总是成真。通常，由于教师和学生之间的不可忽略的差距，更好的教师模型通过蒸馏导致不良学生。为了弥合差距，我们提出了一种渐进式蒸馏方法，以进行致密检索。产品由教师渐进式蒸馏和数据进行渐进的蒸馏组成，以逐步改善学生。我们对五个广泛使用的基准，MARCO通道，TREC Passage 19，TREC文档19，MARCO文档和自然问题进行了广泛的实验，其中POD在蒸馏方法中实现了密集检索的最新方法。代码和模型将发布。

在过去的几年中，用于计算机视觉的深度学习技术的快速发展极大地促进了医学图像细分的性能（Mediseg）。但是，最近的梅赛格出版物通常集中于主要贡献的演示（例如，网络体系结构，培训策略和损失功能），同时不知不觉地忽略了一些边缘实施细节（也称为“技巧”），导致了潜在的问题，导致了潜在的问题。不公平的实验结果比较。在本文中，我们为不同的模型实施阶段（即，预培训模型，数据预处理，数据增强，模型实施，模型推断和结果后处理）收集了一系列Mediseg技巧，并在实验中探索了有效性这些技巧在一致的基线模型上。与仅关注分割模型的优点和限制分析的纸驱动调查相比，我们的工作提供了大量的可靠实验，并且在技术上更可操作。通过对代表性2D和3D医疗图像数据集的广泛实验结果，我们明确阐明了这些技巧的效果。此外，根据调查的技巧，我们还开源了一个强大的梅德西格存储库，其每个组件都具有插件的优势。我们认为，这项里程碑的工作不仅完成了对最先进的Mediseg方法的全面和互补的调查，而且还提供了解决未来医学图像处理挑战的实用指南，包括但不限于小型数据集学习，课程不平衡学习，多模式学习和领域适应。该代码已在以下网址发布：https：//github.com/hust-linyi/mediseg

对于工业规模的广告系统，对广告点击率（CTR）的预测是一个核心问题。广告点击构成了一类重要的用户参与，通常用作广告对用户有用的主要信号。此外，在每次点击收费的广告系统中，单击费用期望值直接输入价值估计。因此，对于大多数互联网广告公司而言，CTR模型开发是一项重大投资。此类问题的工程需要许多适合在线学习的机器学习（ML）技术，这些技术远远超出了传统的准确性改进，尤其是有关效率，可重复性，校准，信用归因。我们介绍了Google搜索广告CTR模型中部署的实用技术的案例研究。本文提供了一项行业案例研究，该研究强调了当前的ML研究的重要领域，并说明了如何评估有影响力的新ML方法并在大型工业环境中有用。

如今，基础模型已成为人工智能中的基本基础设施之一，铺平了通往通用情报的方式。但是，现实提出了两个紧急挑战：现有的基础模型由英语社区主导；用户通常会获得有限的资源，因此不能总是使用基础模型。为了支持中文社区的发展，我们介绍了一个名为Fengshenbang的开源项目，该项目由认知计算与自然语言研究中心（CCNL）领导。我们的项目具有全面的功能，包括大型预培训模型，用户友好的API，基准，数据集等。我们将所有这些都包装在三个子项目中：风水次模型，风水框架和狂热基准。 Fengshenbang的开源路线图旨在重新评估中国预培训的大型大型模型的开源社区，促使整个中国大型模型社区的发展。我们还希望构建一个以用户为中心的开源生态系统，以允许个人访问所需的模型以匹配其计算资源。此外，我们邀请公司，大学和研究机构与我们合作建立大型开源模型的生态系统。我们希望这个项目将成为中国认知情报的基础。