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Gmail Is Killing POP and Gmailify Access. Here's What It Means for You
Gmail Is Killing POP and Gmailify Access. If you have multiple email accounts, your Gmail setup may soon need some reorganizing. Google giveth, and Google taketh away. Two long-standing features are being removed from Gmail, and they both relate to how you access messages from other, non-Google email accounts through the Gmail interface. The features we're talking about are Gmailify and POP access, and if you rely on them to consolidate multiple email accounts into your Gmail inbox, you're going to have to find a different approach.
A Multi-Level Superoptimizer for Tensor Programs
Wu, Mengdi, Cheng, Xinhao, Padon, Oded, Jia, Zhihao
For We introduce Mirage, the first multi-level superoptimizer for a given algorithm, these optimizers automatically generate tensor programs. A key idea in Mirage is Graphs, a uniform performant kernels by searching over possible strategies for representation of tensor programs at the kernel, thread block, executing the kernel on the target hardware. However, due and thread levels of the GPU compute hierarchy. Graphs to the linear algebra nature of DNNs, a tensor program can enable Mirage to discover novel optimizations that combine be represented by a wide spectrum of mathematically equivalent algebraic transformations, schedule transformations, and algorithms, and existing schedule-based optimizers only generation of new custom kernels. To navigate the large consider kernels whose algorithms are manually specified search space, Mirage introduces a pruning technique based by users, resulting in missed optimization opportunities.
Implicit Maximum a Posteriori Filtering via Adaptive Optimization
Bencomo, Gianluca M., Snell, Jake C., Griffiths, Thomas L.
Bayesian filtering approximates the true underlying behavior of a time-varying system by inverting an explicit generative model to convert noisy measurements into state estimates. This process typically requires either storage, inversion, and multiplication of large matrices or Monte Carlo estimation, neither of which are practical in high-dimensional state spaces such as the weight spaces of artificial neural networks. Instead of maintaining matrices for the filtering equations or simulating particles, we specify an optimizer that defines the Bayesian filter implicitly. In the linear-Gaussian setting, we show that every Kalman filter has an equivalent formulation using K steps of gradient descent. In the nonlinear setting, our experiments demonstrate that our framework results in filters that are effective, robust, and scalable to high-dimensional systems, comparing well against the standard toolbox of Bayesian filtering solutions. We suggest that it is easier to fine-tune an optimizer than it is to specify the correct filtering equations, making our framework an attractive option for high-dimensional filtering problems. Time-varying systems are ubiquitous in science, engineering, and machine learning. Consider a multielectrode array receiving raw voltage signals from thousands of neurons during a visual perception task. The goal is to infer some underlying neural state that is not directly observable, such that we can draw connections between neural activity and visual perception, but raw voltage signals are a sparse representation of neural activity that is shrouded in noise. To confound the problem further, the underlying neural state changes throughout time in both expected and unexpected ways. This problem, and most time-varying prediction problems, can be formalized as a probablistic state space model where latent variables evolve over time and emit observations (Simon, 2006). One solution to such a problem is to apply a Bayesian filter, a type of probabilistic model that can infer the values of latent variables from observations.
IMAP: Intrinsically Motivated Adversarial Policy
Zheng, Xiang, Ma, Xingjun, Wang, Shengjie, Wang, Xinyu, Shen, Chao, Wang, Cong
Reinforcement learning agents are susceptible to evasion attacks during deployment. In single-agent environments, these attacks can occur through imperceptible perturbations injected into the inputs of the victim policy network. In multi-agent environments, an attacker can manipulate an adversarial opponent to influence the victim policy's observations indirectly. While adversarial policies offer a promising technique to craft such attacks, current methods are either sample-inefficient due to poor exploration strategies or require extra surrogate model training under the black-box assumption. To address these challenges, in this paper, we propose Intrinsically Motivated Adversarial Policy (IMAP) for efficient black-box adversarial policy learning in both single- and multi-agent environments. We formulate four types of adversarial intrinsic regularizers -- maximizing the adversarial state coverage, policy coverage, risk, or divergence -- to discover potential vulnerabilities of the victim policy in a principled way. We also present a novel Bias-Reduction (BR) method to boost IMAP further. Our experiments validate the effectiveness of the four types of adversarial intrinsic regularizers and BR in enhancing black-box adversarial policy learning across a variety of environments. Our IMAP successfully evades two types of defense methods, adversarial training and robust regularizer, decreasing the performance of the state-of-the-art robust WocaR-PPO agents by 34%-54% across four single-agent tasks. IMAP also achieves a state-of-the-art attacking success rate of 83.91% in the multi-agent game YouShallNotPass.