随着机器学习系统的计算要求以及机器学习框架的规模和复杂性的增加，基本框架创新变得具有挑战性。尽管计算需求驱动了最近的编译器，网络和硬件的进步，但通过机器学习工具对这些进步的利用却以较慢的速度发生。这部分是由于与现有框架原型制作新的计算范式有关的困难。大型框架将机器学习研究人员和从业人员作为最终用户的优先级优先，并且很少关注能够向前推动框架的系统研究人员 - 我们认为两者都是同等重要的利益相关者。我们介绍了手电筒，这是一个开源库，旨在通过优先考虑开放式，模块化，可定制的内部设备以及最新的，可用于研究的模型和培训设置，以刺激机器学习工具和系统的创新。手电筒使系统研究人员能够快速原型并尝试机器学习计算中的新思想，并且开销低，与其他流行的机器学习框架竞争并经常超过其他流行的机器学习框架。我们将手电筒视为一种工具，可以使可以使广泛使用的图书馆受益，并使机器学习和系统研究人员更加紧密地结合在一起。手电筒可从https://github.com/flashlight/flashlight获得。

本文介绍了基于Wav2VEC 2.0的跨语言语音表示学习的大规模模型。我们在128种语言中培训最多2B个公共讲话音频的近半小时的型号的模型，比公共数据的数量级比最大的已知事先工作。我们的评估涵盖了广泛的任务，域，数据制度和语言，都是高低资源。在Covost-2语音翻译基准测试中，我们将先前的最先进的状态平均为7.4 BLEU超过21个翻译方向进入英语。对于语音识别，XLS-R在Babel，MLS，CommonVoice以及Voxpopuli上的最佳已知工作中提高，降低了相对的误差率14-34％。 XLS-R还在Voxlingua107语言识别上设置了新的技术状态。此外，我们表明，具有足够的模型规模，交叉思维预先预测可以在将英语演讲翻译成其他语言时才能优于英语撇印，这是一个有利于单晶的预借预制的设置。我们希望XLS-R可以帮助改善世界上更多语言的语音处理任务。

没有位置信息，基于关注的变压器神经网络是置换不变的。绝对或相对位置嵌入是使用位置信息提供变压器模型的最流行的方式。绝对位置嵌入式易于实施，但是当在比训练时间更长的序列进行评估时遭受泛化问题。对于输入长度变化，相对位置更加稳健，但由于额外的计算和内存成本，实现和产生较差的模型吞吐量更复杂。在本文中，我们提出了一种基于增强的方法（CAPE），用于绝对位置嵌入物，其保持绝对（简单和速度）和相对位置嵌入（更好的泛化）的优点。此外，我们对机器翻译，图像和语音识别的最先进模型的实证评估表明，CAPE导致更好的泛化性能以及对培训超参数的稳定性增加。

近年来，目睹了互联网上的科学阴谋视频，科学认识论和公众对科学的认识。学者们已经开始研究阴谋消息中使用的说服技术，例如不确定和恐惧，尤其是视觉叙述，特别是视觉叙述在视频中如何与传播阴谋传播的人相差。本文通过使用计算方法分析数百万帧，通过分析数百万帧来了解阴谋视频中的视觉框架，解决了这种差距。我们发现阴谋视频倾向于使用较低的颜色方差和亮度，尤其是在视频的缩略图和早期部分。本文还展示了研究人员如何在机器学习模型中集成文本和视觉特征，以研究社交媒体的阴谋，并探讨有兴趣在数字时代进行视觉操纵的学者计算建模的影响。本文呈现的视觉和文本特征的分析对于未来的研究专注于设计系统来识别互联网上的阴谋内容。

Few Shot Instance Segmentation (FSIS) requires models to detect and segment novel classes with limited several support examples. In this work, we explore a simple yet unified solution for FSIS as well as its incremental variants, and introduce a new framework named Reference Twice (RefT) to fully explore the relationship between support/query features based on a Transformer-like framework. Our key insights are two folds: Firstly, with the aid of support masks, we can generate dynamic class centers more appropriately to re-weight query features. Secondly, we find that support object queries have already encoded key factors after base training. In this way, the query features can be enhanced twice from two aspects, i.e., feature-level and instance-level. In particular, we firstly design a mask-based dynamic weighting module to enhance support features and then propose to link object queries for better calibration via cross-attention. After the above steps, the novel classes can be improved significantly over our strong baseline. Additionally, our new framework can be easily extended to incremental FSIS with minor modification. When benchmarking results on the COCO dataset for FSIS, gFSIS, and iFSIS settings, our method achieves a competitive performance compared to existing approaches across different shots, e.g., we boost nAP by noticeable +8.2/+9.4 over the current state-of-the-art FSIS method for 10/30-shot. We further demonstrate the superiority of our approach on Few Shot Object Detection. Code and model will be available.

In this chapter, we review and discuss the transformation of AI technology in HCI/UX work and assess how AI technology will change how we do the work. We first discuss how AI can be used to enhance the result of user research and design evaluation. We then discuss how AI technology can be used to enhance HCI/UX design. Finally, we discuss how AI-enabled capabilities can improve UX when users interact with computing systems, applications, and services.

As one of the most important psychic stress reactions, micro-expressions (MEs), are spontaneous and transient facial expressions that can reveal the genuine emotions of human beings. Thus, recognizing MEs (MER) automatically is becoming increasingly crucial in the field of affective computing, and provides essential technical support in lie detection, psychological analysis and other areas. However, the lack of abundant ME data seriously restricts the development of cutting-edge data-driven MER models. Despite the recent efforts of several spontaneous ME datasets to alleviate this problem, it is still a tiny amount of work. To solve the problem of ME data hunger, we construct a dynamic spontaneous ME dataset with the largest current ME data scale, called DFME (Dynamic Facial Micro-expressions), which includes 7,526 well-labeled ME videos induced by 671 participants and annotated by more than 20 annotators throughout three years. Afterwards, we adopt four classical spatiotemporal feature learning models on DFME to perform MER experiments to objectively verify the validity of DFME dataset. In addition, we explore different solutions to the class imbalance and key-frame sequence sampling problems in dynamic MER respectively on DFME, so as to provide a valuable reference for future research. The comprehensive experimental results show that our DFME dataset can facilitate the research of automatic MER, and provide a new benchmark for MER. DFME will be published via https://mea-lab-421.github.io.

Face Anti-spoofing (FAS) is essential to secure face recognition systems from various physical attacks. However, recent research generally focuses on short-distance applications (i.e., phone unlocking) while lacking consideration of long-distance scenes (i.e., surveillance security checks). In order to promote relevant research and fill this gap in the community, we collect a large-scale Surveillance High-Fidelity Mask (SuHiFiMask) dataset captured under 40 surveillance scenes, which has 101 subjects from different age groups with 232 3D attacks (high-fidelity masks), 200 2D attacks (posters, portraits, and screens), and 2 adversarial attacks. In this scene, low image resolution and noise interference are new challenges faced in surveillance FAS. Together with the SuHiFiMask dataset, we propose a Contrastive Quality-Invariance Learning (CQIL) network to alleviate the performance degradation caused by image quality from three aspects: (1) An Image Quality Variable module (IQV) is introduced to recover image information associated with discrimination by combining the super-resolution network. (2) Using generated sample pairs to simulate quality variance distributions to help contrastive learning strategies obtain robust feature representation under quality variation. (3) A Separate Quality Network (SQN) is designed to learn discriminative features independent of image quality. Finally, a large number of experiments verify the quality of the SuHiFiMask dataset and the superiority of the proposed CQIL.

When using LiDAR semantic segmentation models for safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving, it is essential to understand and improve their robustness with respect to a large range of LiDAR corruptions. In this paper, we aim to comprehensively analyze the robustness of LiDAR semantic segmentation models under various corruptions. To rigorously evaluate the robustness and generalizability of current approaches, we propose a new benchmark called SemanticKITTI-C, which features 16 out-of-domain LiDAR corruptions in three groups, namely adverse weather, measurement noise and cross-device discrepancy. Then, we systematically investigate 11 LiDAR semantic segmentation models, especially spanning different input representations (e.g., point clouds, voxels, projected images, and etc.), network architectures and training schemes. Through this study, we obtain two insights: 1) We find out that the input representation plays a crucial role in robustness. Specifically, under specific corruptions, different representations perform variously. 2) Although state-of-the-art methods on LiDAR semantic segmentation achieve promising results on clean data, they are less robust when dealing with noisy data. Finally, based on the above observations, we design a robust LiDAR segmentation model (RLSeg) which greatly boosts the robustness with simple but effective modifications. It is promising that our benchmark, comprehensive analysis, and observations can boost future research in robust LiDAR semantic segmentation for safety-critical applications.

Panoptic Part Segmentation (PPS) unifies panoptic segmentation and part segmentation into one task. Previous works utilize separated approaches to handle thing, stuff, and part predictions without shared computation and task association. We aim to unify these tasks at the architectural level, designing the first end-to-end unified framework named Panoptic-PartFormer. Moreover, we find the previous metric PartPQ biases to PQ. To handle both issues, we make the following contributions: Firstly, we design a meta-architecture that decouples part feature and things/stuff feature, respectively. We model things, stuff, and parts as object queries and directly learn to optimize all three forms of prediction as a unified mask prediction and classification problem. We term our model as Panoptic-PartFormer. Secondly, we propose a new metric Part-Whole Quality (PWQ) to better measure such task from both pixel-region and part-whole perspectives. It can also decouple the error for part segmentation and panoptic segmentation. Thirdly, inspired by Mask2Former, based on our meta-architecture, we propose Panoptic-PartFormer++ and design a new part-whole cross attention scheme to further boost part segmentation qualities. We design a new part-whole interaction method using masked cross attention. Finally, the extensive ablation studies and analysis demonstrate the effectiveness of both Panoptic-PartFormer and Panoptic-PartFormer++. Compared with previous Panoptic-PartFormer, our Panoptic-PartFormer++ achieves 2% PartPQ and 3% PWQ improvements on the Cityscapes PPS dataset and 5% PartPQ on the Pascal Context PPS dataset. On both datasets, Panoptic-PartFormer++ achieves new state-of-the-art results with a significant cost drop of 70% on GFlops and 50% on parameters. Our models can serve as a strong baseline and aid future research in PPS. Code will be available.