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Summary and Contributions: This manuscript addresses the problem of continual learning in RNN. The authors propose a new learning rule that allows to organize the dynamics for different tasks into orthogonal subspaces. Using a set of neuroscience tasks, they show how this learning rule allows to avoid catastrophic interferences between tasks. By analyzing the dynamics of trained networks they provide evidence for why their learning rule is successful, it also allows them to discuss the problem of transfer learning. Strengths: - propose a new original solution to the problem of continual learning, which also allows them to address and understand under which conditions learning in one task can be transfered to learning off another task.

Summary and Contributions: Summary & Contributions: Authors study the scopes of adversarial attacks in linear contextual bandit algorithms which have applications in a wide range of domains. The authors consider adversarial attacks on both reward and the context and analyze the robustness (or lack of it) of various contextual linear bandit algorithms including LinUCB, LinTS, epsilon-greedy etc. Empirical evaluations are presented on various synthetic and two real datasets to examine the effect of attacks on these algorithms. Strengths: The problem of analyzing the effect of adversarial attacks on bandit algorithms are indeed interesting and well motivated, and present work is supposedly the first one to analyze this for stochastic contextual linear bandits. Authors also analyze some popularly studied bandit algorithms, like LinUCB, LinTS, epsilon-greedy, and showed the attacking strategies (as optimization problems) to fool above algorithms for playing some targeted suboptimal arm majority number of times. Experiments are fairly detailed and reported on a large set of datasets showing the effect on learning rate of existing techniques on different degree+type of attacks.

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is often described as the world's first drone war. It has led to a continuing huge growth in the production of military drones, both within and outside Ukraine. Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine Kseniia Kalmus was a floral artist. Now, she makes drones for use against the Russians. It was just an obvious decision for me, she tells the BBC from the Ukrainian capital.

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