Unpaired image-to-image translation aims to translate an input image to another domain such that the output image looks like an image from another domain while important semantic information are preserved. Inferring the optimal mapping with unpaired data is impossible without making any assumptions. In this paper, we make a density changing assumption where image patches of high probability density should be mapped to patches of high probability density in another domain. Then we propose an efficient way to enforce this assumption: we train the flows as density estimators and penalize the variance of density changes. Despite its simplicity, our method achieves the best performance on benchmark datasets and needs only 56 86% of training time of the existing state-of-the-art method. The training and evaluation code are avaliable at https://github.com/Mid-Push/

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In this work, we observe that model trained on vast general images via masking strategy, has been naturally embedded with their distribution knowledge, thus spontaneously attains the underlying potential for strong image denoising. Based on this observation, we propose a novel zero-shot denoising paradigm, i.e., Masked Pre-train then Iterative fill (MPI). MPI first trains model via masking and then employs pre-trained weight for high-quality zero-shot image denoising on a single noisy image. Concretely, MPI comprises two key procedures: 1) Masked Pre-training involves training model to reconstruct massive natural images with random masking for generalizable representations, gathering the potential for valid zero-shot denoising on images with varying noise degradation and even in distinct image types.

Standard video models expect frame dimensions with the same height and width, so we crop a square region around the actor and resize it to the network specific dimensions (112 112). We present some examples of AVA video frames with their annotations as well as the generated crops in Figure 1. This square crop can cause multiple actors to appear within one clip, as seen in the second example, but it ensures the aspect ratio of the person is not altered, which is necessary as this is the manner in which the video model is trained. Figure 1: Example of original ground-truth bounding boxes (left) in the AVA dataset, with the cropped actors on the right. For PS-ZSAR prediction confidences are obtained from the softmax probabilities output by our pair-wise similarity function.

Recent action recognition models have achieved impressive results by integrating objects, their locations and interactions. However, obtaining dense structured annotations for each frame is tedious and time-consuming, making these methods expensive to train and less scalable. On the other hand, one does often have access to a small set of annotated images, either within or outside the domain of interest. Here we ask how such images can be leveraged for downstream video understanding tasks. We propose a learning framework StructureViT (SViT for short), which demonstrates how utilizing the structure of a small number of images only available during training can improve a video model.

Rationale extraction can be considered as a straightforward method of improving the model explainability, where rationales are a subsequence of the original inputs, and can be extracted to support the prediction results. Existing methods are mainly cascaded with the selector which extracts the rationale tokens, and the predictor which makes the prediction based on selected tokens. Since previous works fail to fully exploit the original input, where the information of non-selected tokens is ignored, in this paper, we propose a Disentanglement-Augmented Rationale Extraction (DARE) method, which encapsulates more information from the input to extract rationales. Specifically, it first disentangles the input into the rationale representations and the non-rationale ones, and then learns more comprehensive rationale representations for extracting by minimizing the mutual information (MI) between the two disentangled representations. Besides, to improve the performance of MI minimization, we develop a new MI estimator by exploring existing MI estimation methods. Extensive experimental results on three real-world datasets and simulation studies clearly validate the effectiveness of our proposed method. Code is released at https://github.com/yuelinan/DARE.

The performance of a large language model (LLM) depends heavily on the quality and size of its pretraining dataset. However, the pretraining datasets for state-ofthe-art open LLMs like Llama 3 and Mixtral are not publicly available and very little is known about how they were created. In this work, we introduce FineWeb, a 15-trillion token dataset derived from 96 Common Crawl snapshots that produces better-performing LLMs than other open pretraining datasets. To advance the understanding of how best to curate high-quality pretraining datasets, we carefully document and ablate all of the design choices used in FineWeb, including indepth investigations of deduplication and filtering strategies. In addition, we introduce FineWeb-Edu, a 1.3-trillion token collection of educational text filtered from FineWeb.

For all authors... (a) Do the main claims made in the abstract and introduction accurately reflect the paper's contributions and scope? If you ran experiments... (a) Did you include the code, data, and instructions needed to reproduce the main experimental results (either in the supplemental material or as a URL)? [Yes] (b) Did you specify all the training details (e.g., data splits, hyperparameters, how they were chosen)? If you used crowdsourcing or conducted research with human subjects... (a) Did you include the full text of instructions given to participants and screenshots, if applicable? [N/A] (b) Did you describe any potential participant risks, with links to Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvals, if applicable? [N/A] (c) Did you include the estimated hourly wage paid to participants and the total amount spent on participant compensation? Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) could be crucial tools for a broad range of applications, including social networks, computer vision, natural language processing, traffic prediction, chemistry, protein design, recommendation system and so on [64, 58]. Any of these applications may have a different social effect. The use of GCNs could improve protein design efficiency and lead to the development of new medicines, but it could also result in job losses.

Table 6 provides summary statistics of domain coverage. Overall, the benchmark covers 8,637 biology images and 8,678 pathology images across 12 subdomains. Similarly, Table 7 shows summary statistics of microscopy modalities covered by Micro-Bench perception, including 10,864 images for light microscopy, 5,618 for fluorescence microscopy, and 833 images for electron microscopy across 8 microscopy imaging submodalities and 25 unique microscopy staining techniques (see Table 8). Micro-Bench Perception (Coarse-grained): Hierarchical metadata for each of the 17,235 perception images and task-specific templates (shown in Table 23) are used to create 5 coarse-grained questions and captions regarding microscopy modality, submodality, domain, subdomain, and staining technique. The use of hierarchical metadata enables the generation of options within each hierarchical level.

Social media platforms were conceived to act as online'town squares' where people could get together, share information and communicate with each other peacefully. However, harmful content borne out of bad actors are constantly plaguing these platforms slowly converting them into'mosh pits' where the bad actors take the liberty to extensively abuse various marginalised groups. Accurate and timely detection of abusive content on social media platforms is therefore very important for facilitating safe interactions between users. However, due to the small scale and sparse linguistic coverage of Indic abusive speech datasets, development of such algorithms for Indic social media users (one-sixth of global population) is severely impeded.